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Hello - I have needed help for some time

Trish Graham said:
I am a great one for making my home made soups and now doing my chia/oats with berries for breakfast, I think I need to work harder at lowering the carbohydrates, but it's counting the calories and getting portions size better, do you have anywhere that I can get some guides for that.
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The best guide for me was Cronometer (free version), an app which monitors your carbs, protein and fat and over other 80 other nutrients.

All I have do is to select Chicken Breast and enter 95 grams, Onion 101 g, Celery 53 g and so on from a huge list of foods. Cronometer works everything out after each entry and displays running totals. That means I can plan recipes and meals.

At the end of the day (and the end of the week) I can see if I've had enough fibre or too much iron; whether I need a glass of milk to top up calcium; and keep an eye on vitamins.
 
+1 for cronometer. Here's a couple of screenshots to give you an idea of what information it can give you.
 

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Inka said:
The Contour Blue and Spirit Tee 2 meters are often recommended here @Trish Graham because they’re accurate and the test strips aren’t too expensive. Why not have a look and see if they’re in your price range?
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JITR said:
The best guide for me was Cronometer (free version), an app which monitors your carbs, protein and fat and over other 80 other nutrients.

All I have do is to select Chicken Breast and enter 95 grams, Onion 101 g, Celery 53 g and so on from a huge list of foods. Cronometer works everything out after each entry and displays running totals. That means I can plan recipes and meals.

At the end of the day (and the end of the week) I can see if I've had enough fibre or too much iron; whether I need a glass of milk to top up calcium; and keep an eye on vitamins.
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I will have a look at that - I can't get on the site at the moment
Thanks
 
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