Cronometer: The Key to Vegan Success? How to Use It.
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- Опубліковано 15 тра 2024
- A detailed walkthrough of the free nutrition tracker cronometer.com.
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Calcium Study:
ajcn.nutrition.org/content/71/...
Omega 3 ratio study:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1...
Example of 2 grams per day ALA recommendation by nutritionists:
www.todaysdietitian.com/newarc...
One really helpful function that I don't think was touched on is the recipe function. This is great for when you're making casseroles or whatever and don't really know how much of each ingredient is going into each serving. You just input the ingredients and the number of servings, and you're all set. It's also great for if you're like me and have a somewhat complicated breakfast (oatmeal with pumpkin, chia seeds, flax, blackstrap molasses, spices, pumpkin seeds, apples) and don't want to add each individual ingredient every day. Great video!
Hey are you still vegan?
I know this isn't the most exciting video topic in the world but I hope it helps someone! If this video was too level 1 vegan for you then feel free to share some video ideas that excite you :D !!
Mic. the Vegan I got a lot of value from this! I use Cronometer infrequently and it was good to get a reminder of how valuable it can be. 👍
Mic. the Vegan
Hey brotha love the vid, i've been using chronometer for a while and its pretty useful
I would recommend informing people of the few faults from the website of which they can correct
1- the amino acid requirement on the website is roughly double what the science shows
that as well as the calcium, and other vitamin and mineral recommendations on the website being higher than the science shows you need
the website does give you the opportunity to put your own recommendation amounts
i think it would be a fantastic follow up video to inform people of the faults of the website and how to correct for it so that they aren't as intimidated by the amount of vitamin, mineral, and macro nutrient intake actually required they need to intake
Top 10 anime fights!
PS: The video was perfect. Just yesterday I was thinking about looking into cronometer again. Didn't know about some of these functions, so it was really helpful!
I actually feel like I need to go and search your channel to see if any of these topics have already been covered or I've missed something.
I know you draw on these topics in you videos.
However, a specific look into/overview of the vegan doctors studies and published research. Dr Neal Barnard's fight with shifting universities from animal testing. The law suit PCRM embarked on. The strength of evidence behind the research on saturated fat or any other interesting studies like the 7 day Adventists study. The rice diet. The dietary recommendations for Vegans from the dietary guidelines that state that "a well planned diet is adequate for all stages of life" Maybe Vegan Keto....da da daaaa.
I had a conversation with a parent of a child with sever epilepsy being treated in hospital with a vegan Keto diet as her parents wouldn't have her eat a meat diet. This girl wasn't having the same adverse side effects the meat eating keto children were having.
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Mic. the Vegan Great and important video, Mic! I saw another video where a vegan (the calisthenics dude) shows his Cronometer and it's just great to prove to people how suuuper easy it is to get enough protein (and whatnot). I'm not sure if this isn't available on the website or if you didn't mention it, but the cool thing is you can (on my iPad) click say iron and it will list where you got your iron from that day, highest to lowest sources, very handy!
I watched this video in 2022. I'd seen Mic's comments recommending cronometer but I was used to "MyFitnessPal" and when I looked at Cronometer it just overwhelmed me. I get it now. That extra complexity brings on a lot of added functionality which is very handy for me as I start to eat Vegan.
Nearly 5 years later and this video still has a lot of value.
Wow! I so relate to this. I decided to give it a try after being with my fitness pal for years.
I like Dr. Greger's Daily Dozen! Super simple way to make sure you're getting important nutrients/a variety, without focusing too much on the numbers.
Can you relay what they are?
Here's a link to his daily dozen list to print and ut on fridge or wherever. veganuary.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Daily-Dozen-Checklist.pdf
Brian B thank you so much 😊
I put my food into Cronometer yesterday and hit all proteins, vitamins and minerals over 100% without even trying 😂 whole foods 👐❤
VeganGamerGirl what exact foods did you put to reach 100% of each? I'm sucking at it, tbh
try fruits : kiwis, clementines, oranges, tomatoes, avocados and nuts : cashews, almonds, walnuts, brazil nuts@@MustafaKhan-fz1go
Mustafa Khan
What nutrients are you struggling to get ?
Géraldine D just the micronutrients. I'm trying to be really consistent in filling them all in an adequate amount/range (not over, as some nutrients that are taken over the recommended amounts can be lethal over time).
That is awesome. I am struggling to reach 80% with a lot of effort. I tracked an average day of eating before I got the app and I was only getting around 23%. Which is terrible. Hopefully I’ll learn to cook better now though.
I used this site (cronometer) to help me finally start to lose weight. (Been vegan for 7 years, actually started consistently losing weight when I started using that site). One thing you pointed out is that it helps you to learn about what is in each food item. This is where I learned that 1 simit (the Turkish equivalent of a bagel) cost 300 calories! So I started eating only half of one when I was in the mood for bread. I also was able to take pictures of the "protein" section to show my concerned friends that I was doing quite OK in regards to protein even though I had no animal products in my food.
I'm glad you put this here- I'll refer people to it if they ask me how to use cronometer. Peace from a sunny, breezy, Istanbul afternoon.
Awesome, B Emerson! Very inspiring!
Are you kidding? Thanks a ton for introducing me to Cronometer. Finally I found out why I gained weight on a vegan diet. And it helps me to be relaxed about my nutrient intake.
I use it for a few days now and I already feel much fitter. Thank you sooooo much!!!
Hey are you still vegan?
Thanks for this; I'm on day three of trying a vegan diet and this is really helpful!
Anne Marie Nolan Good luck! The Daily Dozen app can be helpful too.
Anne Marie Nolan you can do it!!!
Molson Muscle Good luck!
good luck guys! I'm sure you'll love it
Plant based or vegan? It's pretty difficult to try veganism without committing yourself mentally.
I had an eating disorder 3-2 years ago... I was crazy about what I ate because I was always to fat to love myself. I tried to cut a lot of food, and never had the result I wanted. The main part of my time was searching on the internet what could I eat to lost pound. I wasn't really fat, I was 140 pound (I'm 5"5)... anyway. I went vegan at first to lost pounds, and I lost 20 pounds in 6 months! without even trying... I don't know what happen but I discover that veganism was not about myself anymore, it was for the planet and the animals then, slowly, I just stoped being crazy about my freaking fat. I mean, I'm still crazy lol but I stoped strugling!
I used cronometer to help me with my transition, it was so easy :)
Hey there! We want to say many thank yous for your videos and passion! I started a Facebook group for people here in Fresno, CA., and we hope to continue learning from you. Keep up the amazing work. Peace. Jason
I really Love You Mic.
Thanks for the tutorial on Chronometer. I've been using it for a couple of months now and there was definitely a learning curve. I learned a few things today, so that's cool.
Thanks, this was a really useful video!
I love your work, and its good to see a practical vid.
I've signed up for Cronometer but haven't started using it yet. Looks really useful!
I'm just starting my 8th week WFPB. This topic was so helpful. Thanks, Mic. You do such an amazing job with your UA-cam site. I'm binging it like Netfix!!!
Glad I found this video. I downloaded the app and found out I’m not getting anywhere close to how much calcium I needed. I keep craving yogurt and now I know why.
Thank you so much for this,MIC.
Dr. Gregor's Daily Dozen app is pretty bad ass as well.
might have to get on that.
I've recommended this video to more people than I have ever recommended all of the videos in my life! Bcs it's just so practical!!
I love that he mentioned how to accurately measure the food. I struggle with these kind of apps with the measuring aspect unless it's something prepackaged lol.
Cronometer is great, for sure. What I did, and what I would advise is to use this for the first month to two months of being vegan pretty religiously. This is long enough to really learn and know what you need to eat in a day, and in the early stages it's great to make sure you are eating what you need - and understand what that looks like. You can create your own entries as well, for things like multivitamins or food items that you notice are missing or incomplete.
Another thing that I did was record my meal preps. The site allows you to create recipes under the foods tab, so I added all the ingredients I used for a weekend meal prep into a recipe, and whenever I had that lunch or dinner I would just make my serving .1667 or something to indicate that I had split that prep into 6 portions. I showed this site to a friend and she had a child not long ago. She's raising her kid vegetarian (not vegan) and found the site really helpful for making sure he was getting what he needs now that he's switched to solid foods so that can be a whole new use case for a lot of people out there. Especially if you need to discuss things with the child's doctor, having that record of what you've been feeding them is great.
You can add your friends and share with them too which is pretty cool and especially useful if you made some meal for a potluck and they want to get that tracked or even just see what the ingredients are.
You showed the custom targets which is useful for, let's say, ensuring you get over 50g of fiber per day or 100g if you want to challenge yourself to do that for a while.
The trends tab is also good for just figuring out what your overall diet typically looks like (vs any one specific day)
I've never used cronometer. Thanks for the walk through teach.
Hey Suzana are you still vegan?
I am a beginner looking to do this right, of course. Your presentation here is so helpful. Thank you.
these videos are super helpful
glad i found your channel
Your videos always deliver great information. Thank you for uploading Mic !!
Hi are you still vegan?
Great work keep going , love you.
I just started using this a few days ago, and I'm loving it, but there were definitely some things I hadn't quite figured out yet. Thanks for the tutorial!
Hey are you still vegan?
Thank you so much. You seem to be the most helpful as far as getting needs met.
You're the best
I write for a very small nutrition magazine and after trying discovering Cronometer on this channel I decided to write a short feature about it in this month's issue! Such a great tool for tracking nutrients instead of just calories.
Always helpful!! Thanks so much!
Always going for the black beans ;D
Anyways aside from that, I just discovered your channel and it is absolutely fantastic. Keep it up please, I love watching/listening to you!!
Thank you! You work hard! It shows!
Again great video! This will help people a lot who are new to the whole nutrition topic!
Thank you so much for showing this I didn't know you can get it free on the computer and I didn't want to pay for it right now for the mobile. Fairly new vegan and it would be very helpful. Love your videos. 👊
Chanel Chandler I have it for free one my phone... Its the gold version on Android. Its a little glitchy but it was handy to have it on my phone
venusstardustkyojin it's not free in the app store, did you maybe find a apk online?
ah yeah i thought that there was only an app!!!
no its free i downloaded mine from the play store
I LOVE Cronometer! It is also really helpful to me as a diabetic. One thing you didn't touch on was the biometrics function, which allows you to record things like your blood glucose and your weight if you want to track those things.
Another fabulous resourses, thank you.
One of my favorite youtubers!) GOOD JOB!)
Oh yea, I love this site, I've used it for years, great to see the breakdown of proteins, fats, vitamins and minerals.
Chronometer plus nutritionfacts.org have have been super helpful in creating my food plan. Love it.
Thank you I downloaded the app and really didn’t know how to utilize this but this has helped me
I've learned about Cronometer from one of your videos and now I'm slowly shifting towards Cronometer instead of Lose It! because of its many features. This probably would've helped me awhile ago, but it was fun to tweak and explore Cronometer on my own. I've been learning how to add custom foods lately, especially useful for homemade stuff. Here to thank you :)
Wow, this is an awesome tool! Thanks for sharing it with us. It really shows how we can get so much protein from just plant foods.
Thank You. This was very helpful. I made adjustments to my profile page I didn't fill in before.
Thank you so much for showing people this! I helped break a sugar and meat/cheese addiction with cronometer because it eased my irrational fear that I was somehow missing nutrients.
I like using the 'Trends' tab to see how I'm doing. When I'm eating right, it's so encouraging. I'm a big fan of data and charts though
This is absolutely amazing video..thank you!!!
I like to use it for meal planning to make sure I'm making good well rounded meals for my family and to check out what kind of foods we could add to the grocery list. I use this along with the Daily Dozen. Both go together great.
Mike..as always awsome info..thank you! Request: video on how to stop hair loss. Ive been vegan for almost 1 yr. Im going to start using Chronmeter to make sure Im not missing out on nutrients but would love to hear from you on this topic.
Very helpful video! Thank you!!
Love Cronometer! I track macros and micros and calories. I recommend it to anyone concerned about the way food affects diet. I use the iPhone app. I love the recipe function for ease of food input. Makes meals easier to add.
Peace and love ❤️
I use Chronometer and I find it very helpful. It was especially good in the beginning to encourage me to find ways to add calcium and zinc to my diet.
One thing to remember is not all nutrients are included for all foods. As was shown, Iodine is almost never included. I've also noted that sometimes individual amino acids are not included. Sometimes there will be one version of the food that includes more nutrients than another - so you need to do a little checking to see which ones have more nutrients - or you need to do your own research and create your own food adding the missing nutrients.
Hey are you still vegan?
@@Goodthoughtlol Yep. Eight+ years vegan.
Don't forget to turn Choline on as a nutrient in Cronometer. It's off by default. You need that to make the neurotransmitter acetylcholine.
I used cronometer for two months when I first went vegan and that's the number one thing that made the transition SO easy for me! Since I was making sure I'm taking all the calories/vits/nutriens I needed, I was feeling AMAZING after just 2 or 3 days and that's why after two years as a vegan, I can say I will NEVER EVER go back. I didn't even know that I had so much energy in me, that I could feel SO much better!!! I don't know how the transition would end up, without cronometer, so people need to know about this, and thank you so much for this video ;)
Hey Argy are you still vegan?
@@Goodthoughtlol Yeap! Six years and going strong! I stand by what I said on my previous comment.. NEVER going back!!!
@@19MJ58 that's awesome
One super useful feature I love about cronometer is that when you hover over a mineral/vitamin it'll tell you which foods you get those micronutrients from. It's helpful because in the future you'll know that food XYZ will give me such and such vitamins and minerals.
Thank-you for this!
Thank you!! I needed help with this app. I'm a newbie vegan and a lot of vegans were telling me to use Cronometer and I was confused.
PLEASE keep making these videos. Yo have no idea how much hope you've given me to keep pursuing veganism. You've covered a lot of my concerns and what other people throw at me. I feel equipped to be able to respond to those who are against my decisions.
Hey are you still vegan?
Mike, I love this Cron-o-meter website. It helps so much with calories and making sure I'm eating enough. Thank you for the suggestion and tutorial.
Hey Jeanine are you still vegan?
Cronometer is great because you get an idea of what foods matter and what foods don't. You also learn how to adopt practices every single day to boost your health and overall happiness. I love it because now I have so much knowledge on the foods I eat and how good it has affected me in my health... it's just awesome to know that I am what I eat and what I eat is the best fuel there is!
Hey are you still vegan?
Omg I made a comment about this on your video a few days ago!!!
great video, as always!
Thank you for introducing me to this app. In spite of eating mountains of food, my weight has been going downward continuously. I tried calculating the energy in the foods I was eating, one-by-one, tediously...ugh! I wouldn't have heard of this at all without your intro. This will help a lot.
Hey are you still vegan?
@@Goodthoughtlol Yup! I don't bother with Cronometer anymore, but it was very useful from an educational standpoint, and helped with questions along the line of, "Where do you get your...?"
I love using Cronometer! I have been eating plant based for a month and trying to build muscle. This has helped me make sure I’m getting enough calories and protein. I like that it points out so clearly where your micro nutrients may be lacking. My favorite is the recipe feature. I can enter my food combos that I eat all the time to make it easier. Or if I make a big, from scratch recipe (a soup or chili or something), I can add all the ingredients and make up my own serving sizes for that dish and Cronometer does the math!
Hey are you still vegan?
Thank you for introducing me to this tool. It not only helps me but when I talk to a healthcare provider about being vegan I can use it to show how I track healthy habits and it shuts down any resistance or doubts about my lifestyle choice. One doctor said she would use it for her own health.
Hey are you still vegan?
You can now create meals in Cronometer, which makes it very easy to track multiple days if you're one who repeats meals often, like myself.
"Don't eat paint chips" cracked me up something fierce. Great video!
Thank you so much for this. I find cronometer extremely helpful because it helps me make sure that I am eating enough calories, and getting my daily recommened amount of vitamins, lipids, proteins, and so on. Last year, I was vegetarian, and I started documenting my daily calorie intake for health class and on average i got around 800 calories. Some days were 500.
This wasnt because of me being vegetarian but because i simply wasnt eating nearly enough, i skipped breakfast most days and lunch, and my diet consisted of fries, yogurt, occasional blended sugar coffee drinks, barely any vegetables, but oh heaven forbid, i at least ate an orange almost everyday. Obviously, i started going to the doctors a lot for odd health complications.. once i was sure i had anemia even, but it turned out i had more iron than i needed. I was always tired and could barely do anything. Recently, i went vegan. Its been about a week now? Although a couple of times i ate something i thought was vegan but turned out not to be, anyway, I've started really keeping track of how much i eat and i put what i ate down yesterday on cronometer and i was lacking a lot in a few areas. But im so excited to see how my moods, energy levels, and other things will change once i start eating enough :)
Well done. Thanks!
Another useful video from Mic. If you eat something not on the list, feel free to add it. I eat a lot of vegan supplements that I find in powder form and I put those in as needed. I only found out about cronometer from another video Mic made a while back, he mentioned it so I checked it out, yup that's just what I wanted.
Cronometer helps me so much! It made me aware of deficienties and helps me look up how to fix those.
I looked up requirements in documents from the world health organization (WHO). They have pdf's for vitamins, minerals and essential amino acids on their website.
Hey Mimou are you still vegan?
I love how the ad preceding the video was pushing turkey pot pie, wasted dollars. Cronometer helped me go to full vegan. I had those inherent misconceptions and fears about nutrients, but of course now I know I get great nutrition and should have been concerned long ago.
Love this thank you for sharing :)
Cronometer is GREAT! Even though I was eating whole foods plant-based, it showed me that I'm always low on zinc. I take a multivitamin everyday and supplement responsibly and I feel SO much better. Cronometer for the win!
Hey are you still vegan?
There is a free version on mobile, I believe it's called cronometer gold! I got it and it looks just like the regular version, and I didn't have to pay for it 😊
There are adds, but it only takes a small bit of the screen and worth it imo!
thanks, it worked!
D A N I I think cronometer gold might be the paid one rather than the free one, but yeah, you're right: there's a free one as well as one you pay for :)
Hey Dani are you still vegan?
Chronometer, help me through my transition 4 months back. It helps you keep your food top of mind. Great overview of the tool, a few things, the mobile app is free, but you can upgrade to get additional features. (for example exporting your data to get to your doctor)And one thing that is very helpful in Cronometer is making your own recipes, So if you have a complicated beans and rice burrito recipe you can enter it in once and then use it over and over again. Thanks Mic!
Hey Robert are you still vegan?
@@Goodthoughtlol
Yep, 💯 and loving it even more.
I don’t track with crono anymore but it was a good tool for me at the time. I eat way too much junk (vegan) food nowadays. I should get back to crono :)
@@RobertEnglandPhotography thanks for the response
Very good app. I started using it yesterday.
I would recommend to eat mushrooms every day. They have a wild amount of selenium (a nutrient that sometimes it might be hard to get). As well, they provide awesome vitamin B's and their calorie content is really low, so dont be worried to have your mouth stuffed! And they are delicious!
Pumpkin seeds and beans, awesome for zinc. Spinach and almonds, awesome for vitamin E (and shitloads of more stuff).
I love to eat a HUGE bowl of salad (300 grams of raw Spinach) with some fruit (banana and blackberries works awesome) and seeds. 300g of Spinach sounds crazy, but with sweet food and crunchy food it goes all the way down without blinking an eye. Im a lazy guy, so Im sure you can improve the recipe.
Check out the nutricional content of foods in your country. Canned brown beans here in Spain tend to be like 90 kcal every 100 grams, and in Cronometer is more. Put directly the calorie content of your food, as it might give you a more accurate representation of what you're eating.
Get lost into asian markets if you live in a big city to make it interesting and have fun discovering new things. My last discoveries were a ridicously cheap nongmo tofu and natto. This last one, ugh and yummy.
PS: if you eat lots of mushrooms, your semen will smell like mushrooms. Don't say I didn't warn you.
If you're worried about your selenium intake, just eat a brazil nut. One single nut covers your daily need of that nutrient:)
Sure thing! Thanks for pointing it out, as it is a good option! But I prefer to keep space for other fats (almonds, pumpkin seeds, flaxseed, etc.), and at least where I live it is not really the easiest thing to find Brazil nuts. But definitively, a good point!
Joder. Alguien lo verá, ¿no? jajajajaja
I think the average person would get tired eating the same food everyday.
I've been vegan for over a year now and I kept looking for a website like this, how did I not know this existed!?!?! THANK YOU!
Hey Lillyan are you still vegan?
Can you please do a video about "The Vegetarian Myth" where you respond to it?
Also, great video as always!
Have you seen the cached blog, "Myths About 'The Vegetarian Myth'?"
vegetarianmythmyth.wordpress.com/category/the-vegetarian-myth-chapter-1/
I bet this will help many, thank you.
Just signed up. Only half a day in, but I like it. thanks
Great video!
If you have some favorite recipes you can type them in as costum recipes and use them. It ist not the best if you are a throwing-random-vegetables-together-kind of cook but its kinda cool.
Mike, way to go making being a Vegan easy. I will definitely have to send this to a few people.
Hey Andrew are you still vegan?
I love the free app. I believe I use all the functions, create recipes, create food, creating notes, weight gain and loss charting. I kept track of every morsel that went into my mouth and lost 30 pounds. I stopped for several months, gained about five back and now I'm back at it for the last 20 pounds. I was wondering if the "gold" version was significantly better than the free version. I know the history and charting isn't as robust with the free, but I just like to see the weight loss line go down. The nutritional history and data - not so much. It really helped this 70 YO get control of my life. Thanks, Cronometer.
Very useful, thank you.
I also like the feature to be able to save meals that you make a lot. That way let's say if you eat the same breakfast you can add all it once then just click that one meal. That way you are not having to add all the ingredients every single time.
You forgot the fun of plugging in your past omnivore diet to see how bad it was.
Thaddeus Walker great idea! Or you could add the standard paleo diet and compare them....
*THIS*
Modestly Vegan you should use the standard American diet as an example. Paleo people (especially the health cautious and serious ones) don't tend to miss any nutrients. But trust me, the average American diet would be fun to see.
TheObserver
I don't think the issue with both is missing out on nutrients. The main issue with all this is the excess.
Kaweta I want you to explain "excess".
Your videos are amazing. I think it would be helpful to have a video where you talk about what you eat in a week to eat a balanced and nutritious diet :)
Hey ATGC Hey are you still vegan?
Have you done an updated version of the Cronometer for 2020? This video helped so much...I am 100% plant based hard to find a good appl. Thank you. Hope to hear back
Love this! I have an overactive thyroid so I need to eat loads of food to maintain my weight on a vegan diet. Keeping track of all the calories and nutrients can get annoying so I like to eat foods that have the most bang for your buck.
After examining my blood results I need to try raising my HDL cholesterol levels and lower my sodium levels, so it'll be nice to look up a lot of my weekly staple foods to get an idea of where I stand and what needs to be adjusted.
Eventually I'll create the perfect weekly grocery list ;p plus or minus a few things
How much do you guys spend per week on food?
I have a 2200 Cal daily requirement which I can normally fulfill for about $50-$70 per week
Mic, will you do a video on water filtration? More specifically the things we should be filtering out of our drinking water, and the best kinds of filters? What happens when we drink RO water that is devoid of minerals? Should we be drinking fluoride, or is it probably okay in small doses? I know it's not specifically vegan...but I bet a lot of your viewers would appreciate the info.
Cronometer has an app. Ive been using it off and on for a few months now. Its really helpful
so use it at all times sidd
The German version is an app called ffdb Info and it has added the really nice feature that you can scan spread and can know much easilier and faster. I love it, anyone from Germany should try it out!
Scan what? The barcode of the food?
Thanks for this video, man! I am going into vegan diet and i really needed something like this! Greetings from Brazil!
Hey Filipe are you still vegan?
@@Goodthoughtlol yep!! I even cured my IBS with a vegan diet
@@filipelimaferreira3868 that's amazing
Would you ever consider doing a video on what meals you eat in a day or what meals are good to make? And how much it costs/ where to buy get certain things. I'm very bad and sticking for a variety of meals but want to shift from more processed foods I'm sure other ppl wud find it helpful too!
This is fantastic! 🤗
That's really cool! I always worry that I'm eating way too much. My jeans always fit, but still, that feeling is always there. So that app can't hurt. I'd like to see clearly what I'm actually doing.
If you don't see your food in the cronometer it's easy to add your own food under the Food menu option. Just plug in the values from the label.
waltersumofan
But no micronutrients are calculated if you do so. :/
waltersumofan probably a stupid question lol but how do you log water intake?
GREAT VIDEO
Back at it again with those shells