What I do know is this: This diet requires a ton of calculation. When my sister told me of the tedious calculations to even prepare one simple meal... I told her that a computer would be ideal to assist her in this task.
So, she bought an old Toshiba 8086 operating at a whooping 7.16 MHz, I wrote a simple DOS program (Macintosh users click here), and she now tells me that life is a wee bit easier while her son continues on this KETO diet.
This program has this following features:
- Easy menu interface
- Up to 10 different foods per meal
- Easy to pick the foods in 6 different categories by number
- Ability to add new foods and values to each category
- Allows you to change the number of grams for any chosen food countless times until you finally achieve the ending fat, carbos, protein, and calories you need for that particular meal.
- Ability to save the final meal to a text file on the disk.
*** Please note:This program doesn't calculate the *ratios* for you... You will need have an ending value in mind for the various categories (fat, protein, carbs, calories). It will adjust the final tally each time you change one food though... so with trial & error, you should be able to design a meal in a matter of minutes (or seconds if you are good!) If there is an additional calculation that would be helpful for this program to have, please let me know, and I will implement it in the next release.
Requirements:
- IBM Compatible Computer (Any speed or processor should work)
- DOS 3.2 or greater
- 100K of free disk space (will run fine from a floppy)
- Minimal RAM free (I'm guessing less than 250K needed)
- The food values you will use (John Hopkins values, in per gram measurements)
This program does not come with the food values. This means that before you are able to calculate your first meal, you will need to add the foods you are going to use to the program (follow the simple instructions when the program runs to add your foods & values).
I did not include the food values that I have for 3 reasons: 1) The ones I have probably will not be the ones you need. 2) I am uncertain whether John Hopkins would approve of me sharing their copyrighted values with the entire world. 3) I do not want people to prescribe themselves the KETO diet, and use my included values to avoid being under medical supervision.
If someone can convince me otherwise, future releases will include the food values I have.
To install on your own system:
1) Make a special directory on your hard-drive [c:\keto for example]
2) Copy all files to that directory. The files you need are:
CDATA.TXT {Cheese data}
DIETS.TXT {Saved diets}
FDATA.TXT {Fat data}
KETO.EXE {Executable}
MDATA.TXT {Meat data}
RDATA.TXT {Fruit data}
VDATA.TXT {Veggie data}
ZDATA.TXT {Misc. data}3) If you don't have a hard-drive, this program will work from a floppy. Just make sure that all the above files are included, and that the floppy is *NOT* write-protected.
To use:
1) This program runs fine under Windows
2) Navigate to the directory [or floppy] where you installed this program
3) Type KETO at the DOS prompt, or double-click on KETO.EXE if using
Windows.
4) Follow the on screen instructions to prepare a meal.
The 6 data files [xDATA.TXT], will be read when this program runs, and will be modified if you add foods to a particular category. I wouldn't suggest adding foods manually to the data files, since this program requires exact spacing when it reads from the files, but you can safely delete foods you no longer want listed as long as you leave no extra lines or spaces when you *do* remove them. I would suggest that you make back-ups of these data files if you do decide to manually modify them.
Disclaimer:
I make no warranty that this program will fulfill your specific needs. I also take no responsibility for any errors this program produces. Use at your own risk. Trust these values no farther than you can throw them. If it doesn't seem right, by all means, hand-calculate to verify them. Do not take these program-calculated values at face-value *until* you are convinced that it is calculating things correctly. This program is designed to be a help, not a replacement for common sense. I have yet to find a case where the calculation was wrong, but that does not mean that it is perfect. Please be careful... this KETO diet requires specific values and if those values are off, bad things could happen to the one on this diet... please... be careful.
By clicking on the following link, you agree to abide by the disclaimer above. Click here to download the zipped file. (Only 14.8K)
If you are having trouble downloading and/or opening this compressed file, please visit my other keto page where you can download each file individually.