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The food tracking app we now recommend is MyNetDiary. Please review below and let us know if you need help. It’s really VERY EASY! If I can do it, you can, too.

In ZReboot, we recommend you keep a food log for the first few weeks. This is the only part of the diet where we ask you to count calories and keep track of what you eat. You don’t have to actually count the calories. The program will do that for you when you use a calorie counting app. What we really want you to learn is to count your macros (your carbs/fats and proteins) as a percentage of your total intake.

We now recommend MyNetDiary.

What we recommend is going to your favorite app store and downloading it to your phone.

We have never found any calorie counting app or site to be perfect, but this one is not bad.

The calculator will show you how many calories you’ve eaten and will chart your macros too. I love the fact that your progress throughout your day will be shown right on the front screen and give you not only your calories but your percentage of fat/protein and carbs that you’ve eaten. This will make it really easy to learn what 20% or less carbs look like on your plate each day.

The macros line on the page is the most important element. You can even check it after each meal, so you know what “room” you have left before you’d hit 20%.

Below is a demo of MyNetDiary. This was done by a guy in the UK so his food measurements are in grams (metric system) instead of US measurements, but don’t let that scare you. When you download the app, it will be the US version 🙂

I don’t currently recommend doing this on a computer. I found the computer version to be difficult to get registered and it feels like they want half your life story. Just stick to the phone version. You won’t regret it. You’ll want your phone handy to record what you are eating throughout the day, anyway.

When you begin ZReboot, your fat/protein/carbohydrate ratio should be approximately 50/35/15. Use the food input feature and it will calculate that for you. Once you have been in ZReboot for three and a half weeks, this ratio will move to 40/40/20. Ultimately the info you want is the percentage of carbs you eat in a day. You want to keep it below 20%. The rest can vary more.

We all learned to count calories. Now you need to learn to count carbs.

Cheers,