Food Diary Summary

Dear User,

The main Food and Exercise Diary screen.  This is where you enter all your body measurement, food consumption, exercise, medical, and journal data.

In the Bodily Measurements section, you enter your body weight and measurements for your chest, waist, hips, thighs, body fat percentage, and ketosis.   You must enter a value for your weight in order for the program to calculate the amount of calories burned when you enter your exercise data.  All other measurements are optional and are simply used for you to keep track of your progress.
The date that you are entering data for is shown in the upper right hand corner.  On that same line, all the way to the left of the screen, the current user name is displayed.
 
If you have entered any measurements for the previous day, you can simply click on the Copy Yesterday’s Bodily Measurements button.  This is a quick way to enter this data.  It will copy all measurements that were entered for the previous day.  You can then change any of them that are different for this day.

If you keep track of your ketosis level, you can enter a value for that by clicking on the arrow button and choosing the appropriate selection.

When you are ready to enter foods you have consumed for the day, you can enter the time of day that it was consumed (for reference only) by typing the time in the area to the left of the Add Meal button.  Then, click on that Add Meal button and begin choosing the foods you want to add.  The steps to choose specific foods will be discussed later.

After a meal is entered, this screen will display the number of calories, fat, protein, carbs, sodium, and fiber contained in that meal.   Once foods are entered, there is a pie chart that will now be displayed to the right above the center portion of the screen, giving you an approximate idea of the percentage of proteins, fats, and carbs that were consumed for the day.

Once the meals for a full day have been added it might look like this.  At any point along the way while adding foods, you can click on the Show Days’ Complete Nutritional Values button to see a breakdown of all the nutrients, vitamins, minerals, etc that have been consumed that day.  
You can also enter the amount of hours of sleep you had the night before in the area titled Hours Slept.

When finished with this screen, click the Close button.
If you’d like to print this information, click on the Print button.
To see a graph of these values, click on the Graph Daily Values button.

At the bottom of this screen, there are three tabs.  The first tab contains the Consumption Budget information.  It displays the Total Calories Consumed Today, the Calories Left To Consume Today (which is the difference between the Caloric-Intake Budget and the Total Calories Consumed), and the Total Daily Caloric-Intake Budget (which you entered in a different area of the program).

Going back to the upper tabs now, we see the Exercise tab.  Here you can enter any type of exercises that you performed today.  You can enter a time of day that you performed the exercise (for reference only), then click on one of the Add Exercise buttons to begin.

Then either scroll through the list of exercises to find the one you want or type in the first letter of the type of exercise that you performed (ex. Type the letter “j” to get to items in the list that begin with the letter “j” and then scroll to the one you want, jogging).  Once you have found the correct exercise, double click it to choose it.

Now enter the number of minutes that you performed this exercise.  The Diary program will calculate the amount of calories burned based on your body weight.  If you performed more than one type of exercise or exercised more than once during the day, enter each of those separately.  The Total calories expended for the day will be displayed in the bottom portion of the exercise tab area.

The lower tab area has a tab titled Exercise Expenditure Plan. It will display the total Calories Exercised This Week.  This includes all exercises performed for all the days of the current week.  It also shows the Total Weekly Exercise Caloric Expenditure Plan (which you entered into the program elsewhere) and the Total Weekly Exercise Caloric Expenditure Left (i.e. calories you still need to burn to meet your plan’s requirement).

Going back to the upper tabs again, we see the Medical tab.  Here you can enter information about your medications and other medical information.  Click on the New Medical Record button to create a new record.

Here you can enter information about your sugar levels and insulin injections, medications taken, how youre feeling, blood pressure, and miscellaneous comments.

To enter the event that goes with an insulin injection, click on the arrow in the Event box and choose the appropriate selection.

Click on the Add New Medication button to add a medication and type in the name of the medication.  If you’re satisfied with your entry, click OK.  Otherwise click Cancel.

After a medication is entered you may change it by clicking on the Edit Medication button or delete it by clicking the Delete Medication button.

To enter how you feel, click on the Add New Feeling button and enter a description of how you’re feeling. If you’re satisfied with your entry, click OK.  Otherwise click Cancel.

Your completed medical diary might look like this. If you’re satisfied with your entry, click Close.  Otherwise click Cancel.

Back to the main screen, it now looks like this.
To edit an existing medical record, highlight it, then click on the Edit Medical Record button. To delete an existing medical record, highlight it, then click on the Delete Record button.

Going back to the upper tabs again, we see the Journal tab.  Here you can enter any miscellaneous type information about your day that you’d like.  When finished, you can click on the Spell Check button if you want to check your spelling.

The bottom tab section has one final tab, the Comments tab.  Here you can add any type comments you’d like.

There are several buttons at the bottom of this screen.   You can move forward a day at a time by clicking the Next button or move backward a day at a time by clicking the Previous button.  Click on the Calendar View button to go back to the calendar view.  It will look like this now.

Back to the main entry screen now, there are several buttons along the top.  Click on the Graphs button to see a graph of a number of different things like calories, weight, etc.

Choose a date range by picking a From Date and a To Date.  Then choose from the list of items at the bottom to tell the program what to graph.  You can pick one or as many as you like.  Then click on the Graph button.  When finished, click Close.

Sample graph. You can also edit the graph and/or save it by using the items in the menu above the graph.

Click Close when finished.

The next button is the Analysis Reports.  Click on it and you will see this screen.  Click on the arrow under Report Print and choose one of the periods; Daily, Weekly, or Monthly.
Choose a date range by picking a Start Date and an End Date.  Then click on the Generate Report button.  When finished, click Close.

The Report that is generated looks like this.  It shows a breakdown for each reporting period (daily in this example) and it calculates and displays the averages of these items.  Click on Print analysis if you’d like to print it out.  Otherwise, click on Close when finished.

The next button along the top is the Print Reports button. Choose a date range by picking a From Date and a To Date.  As with all of the calendars in the Food and Exercise Diary, you can click on the Today button to set the date to today.  Choose which section(s) you’d like to report on from the Sections To Print area. Then click on the Generate Report button.  When finished, click Close.

The report will look like this.  From the menu items just above the report on the left, you can choose which page to view by clicking on the arrows.  You can click the Printer icon to send the report to the printer.

You can magnify the report by clicking on the magnifying glass and choosing one of the magnifying options listed.

The next button is the Food Contributions button.  This screen may take a few seconds to generate.  Highlight any one of the items in the list on the left to see the total consumption of that item in the list at the lower right. Choose a date range by picking a From Date and a To Date.   Click the Close button when finished.

The next button along the top is the Logout button.  Click this button when you wish to exit the Food and Exercise Diary or log in a different user.

To log in as a different user, highlight that user name. Enter the password if there is one, else leave it blank.  Then click on Login.   If you want the Diary to always login to a particular user, simply click in the check box titled Automatically login to this user.  To exit the Diary program, click on Close.

To add a new user, click on the Add User button.

Then enter the new user name and password, if you want one.  Click Close when finished.

To edit an existing user, first highlight the user name you wish to edit, then click the Edit User button.

Make changes as necessary.  Click Close when finished.

To delete a user, click the Delete User button.

Click Yes to delete the user.  Click No to abort the delete operation.

If you clicked Yes, you will be given one last chance to abort the delete process.  Click No to abort that process.

If you do not want to exit the Diary program and you do not want to log in as a different user, highlight your user name and click Login.  This will put you back into your user at the main screen.

To navigate to different dates you can click and drag the slider at the right up or down to move backward or forward in the calendar.  You can also click on the up and down arrows at the top and bottom of the slider to move one week at a time.   You can click on the Go to Today button at the bottom right hand corner of the screen to jump to today’s date.   The view shown here is the Month View which you can switch to by clicking on the Month View button.

The view shown here is the Week View which you can switch to by clicking on the Week View button.
In either the Week View or the Month View, you can double click on a day to open that day’s diary.  The amount of calories eaten, the amount of calories expended during exercise, and your weight is displayed in the box for each day.

The menu at the top of the screen has the following options to choose:  File, Edit, Goals, Analysis, and Help.  When you click on the word File, you get the drop down menu shown.  You can then Login as a different user.  The Print Diet & Exercise Diary choice gives you the same option as the Toolbar button titled Print Reports.  The Export Report To RTF format allows you to print that same report to your hard drive. The Exit button will close the Food and Exercise Diary.