Tracking Your Macros To Stay In Ketosis

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What is Ketosis?

Ketosis is a process that the body does every day, regardless of the number of carbs you eat. Your body processes different types of nutrients into the fuels that it needs. Proteins, fats, and carbs are all processed for use. The ketogenic diet ramps up this process.
This process, ketosis, is a metabolic state where most of the body’s energy comes from ketone bodies in the blood. Ketone bodies are molecules that occur when your body burns fat as an energy source.

What Are Macros?

Macronutrients are the largest class of nutrients the body requires for energy. They include protein, carbohydrates, and fats. When we refer to “macros,” we are referring to these major nutrients. Since “macros” means large, macronutrients are those nutrients we need in large amounts.

There are three major macronutrients important to health and energy:

• Carbohydrates
• Healthy Fats
• Protein

On a low carb diet, the point is to limit the carbohydrate intake to force the body to burn fat for energy instead of carbs or sugar. This is done by limiting your carbs to achieve a state of ketosis.

How to Track Macros

On a low-carb diet, it is important to track the net carbs with a limit of 20 net carbs per day as a maximum number. It is also important to track the healthy fats, protein, and fiber because on the keto diet the goal is to maintain ketosis, the state of burning fat as energy. To do this, the fat is to be 70% of the daily intake and protein is to be 25% and the net carb intake is to be 5%
An excellent free Macro Calculator is MyFitnessPal. It is a fun app that gives you free access to the world’s largest nutrition and calorie database with over 5 million foods listed. It is a great way to keep up with your progress. It also allows you track exercise and calories burned, water intake, and determine accurate nutrition facts for your recipes.

How easy is it to track? Simply download the app, enter the food group you will be eating from, the serving size, and how it will be prepared. Not only will it save that information, it will give you information about calories, and a space to track your exercise. By the end of the first day of meals, you will see how well you were able to stay on track with your keto diet plan. And, you will see at a glance if you were able to maintain ketosis by eating the right amounts of fat, protein, and carbs.

Staying on track with your new way of life is really not as hard as most think. Just doing some simple things can make all the difference.

I have a wonderful section called My Keto Panty where you will find recipes, supplement, keto and low carb foods, meal plans and info on many keto friendly things. I also have many posts on Keto. See below for a quick list of my posts.

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