My Fitness Pal Keto Diet Settings

My Fitness Pal is a great way to track your daily food intake.

My only complaint about MFP is that you can't use the exact percentages you get from your Keto Calculations.

They only allow you to use 5% increments (which isn't a big deal if you write down your actual numbers for Carbs, Fat, and Protein because you will know whether you are over or under).

So with that in mind, let's use My Fitness Pal Keto to quickly and efficiently track your foods while remembering that the totals will be a little off.

My Fitness Pal is excellent because they have thousands of food listed in their food catalog with most brands listed as well.

This takes the guess work out of eating out or eating foods you may have trashed the packaging for.

It also makes it easy to plan meals out before hand to meet your daily needs. You can do this once a week or every morning.

This helps you pack lunches and know exactly what meals you need to prepare daily.

My Fitness Pal Keto Diet Settings:

1) To get started, go to My Fitness Pal and set up your account. If you already have an account, sign in and make the necessary changes below.

2) Choose your username and password.

3) Enter your stats. If you need help figuring out a goal weight, head to the My Fitness Pal BMI calculator (in a new window) and look at the weights listed to choose a healthy weight.

This is also where you can decide how much you will work out.

I started this diet with no workouts (other than what I did naturally during the week), so I could experience the side effects (if any) without adding stress from workouts to the mix.

I also prefer to give my body a chance to slim down before packing on muscle, which can make you both gain weight and look bigger.

4) MFP will give you their recommendations based on your provided information.

You can disregard this as your weight loss will likely not work like this.

These numbers are based on the typical American food pyramid standards, and you, my friend, are about to embark on a different kind of journey!

Expect to lose more... that's basically what I'm saying.

Everyone loses weight differently, and there may be weeks when you lose no weight and only inches (but never fear, losing inches is incredible).

5) Now for the fun part! If you haven't already done so, head to the Personal Keto Macro Calculator post and figure out how many grams of carbs, fat, and protein you need each day.

Now that you have your numbers, it's time to enter them into your personal calculations.

Under Home ---> Choose Goals ----> Then select Change Goals

6) Now select Custom ---> Continue

7) Using the percentages you got in Step 5, the only changes you need to make are Carbohydrates ---> Protein ----> Fat ---> and Sugar which you should put at 0.

Note: You will go over 0 with natural sugars from fruits and dairy, but you always want to be as close to 0 as possible.

Never use products with added sugar (read your labels).

As I mentioned, you will not be able to use exact numbers, but these percentages have to equal 100%, so get as close as possible. No other numbers have to change.

8) Once you've changed those goals, you will want to go to Settings ---> Dairy Settings

9) The only thing I want you to change here is Sodium.

You don't need to worry about this number; instead, change it to Fiber.

You will need to know your daily fiber count to keep track of your net carbs.

Don't know what this means?

 You can change any of the other settings to your liking.

10) Don't forget to download the My Fitness Pal app to track your food everywhere you go!

CONGRATS!

You have officially set up your account to give you the best tracking system for your daily food intake and food planing for the Keto Diet Plan.

Now you can go under food and start adding foods by searching in the box.

Once you have added foods, you will notice that they come up as recent and frequent, making logging your food intake even faster.

Using the recipes button, you can also create your own recipes and easily add them to your food diary.

Take some time to look around the site and get a better feel.

You will be a pro in no time!

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and found it helpful!

* I am not a doctor or a scientist! I only share what has worked for me and many others. If you have questions related to your health, you should speak with your doctor or favorite scientist if you have one.