I find Cronometer easiest to use when I’m eating whole foods. If you tend to eat more complicated meals, like stir-fries, salads, sandwiches and soups, you’ll need to input all the ingredients in your meals into your food diary.If you don’t have a scale, you can input your foods based on their size. I prefer to weigh my food using a wee food scale.I tend to choose the ‘raw’ or ‘fresh’ options since I’m eating plain, unsalted, no fat added steamed broccoli. If you search for ‘broccoli,’ you will have multiple options to choose from. Add food: search the Cronometer database for the food item.Here are some tips for getting started with Cronometer. Please leave a comment if you have any tips to share.

Not only do you input the foods you eat, but you have the option to input daily exercise, your weight, and even notes if you deem them necessary. I like Cronometer because it takes everything into account. Hopefully, my food diary will serve as evidence that we vegans never need to worry about a protein deficiency. Vegan naysayers don’t believe fruits and veggies contain protein. Also, I get lots of questions regarding protein. I feel this information would be useful to those interested in the HCLF lifestyle as it will serve as a guide. Now I can be bothered since I’m interested in seeing how nutritionally complete this lifestyle is, and how I can improve my eating habits if I am lacking specific micronutrients. I used it previously (a few years ago) when I first started eating the high carb low fat way, but stopped tracking everything because I couldn’t be bothered. Yesterday I started tracking my food intake using Cronometer. If you are new to the high carb low fat lifestyle, I recommend you track your food intake in Cronometer to make sure you are eating enough and to learn where your diet is lacking, since most people (vegans and non-vegans included) lack vitamins and minerals. Photo by VeselovaElena / Getty Images ProĬronometer is a website and phone app for tracking calorie and nutritional information.