Food Log

Enter your daily food intake using this option

Summary

Displays a summary, one line per day, of your calorie and nutrient totals.

Foods

Allows editing of the food database

Goals

Enter your goal values for calories, carbohydrate, protein and fat.

Options

Allows several program options to be set.

About/Register

Shows the program version and allows registration

Select

joystick central button (also key 5)

Selects the current line.

In single-select mode (normal mode) selecting a meal will add a food to that meal, selecting a food line will edit that line.

In multi-select mode selecting a meal will select/deselect all lines within that meal, selecting a food line will select/deselect that line.

Cut

Cuts the selected lines to the clipboard

Copy

Copies the selected lines to the clipboard

Paste

Pastes the lines in the clipboard to the selected position. If a day has been copied to the clipboard then the whole day will be pasted, overwriting the current day.

Delete

Deletes the selected lines.

Copy Day

Copies all lines from the current day to the clipboard, in addition the meal breakdown is also copied so that when the lines are pasted back the meals are preserved.

Make Food

Makes a new food definition using the total of the selected food lines as the nutrient values.

Make Menu

Makes a named menu (a list of foods that can be added to the log as a single unit) from the list of selected lines.

Multi-Select Mode

Changes the display from single-select to multi-select mode, in multi-select mode you can select multiple lines to cut, copy and delete, you can also make new food definitions and menus from the list of selected foods. To revert to single-select mode press the back button.

Summary

9

Shows a bar chart summary of the days calories, carbs, protein and fat, plus allows you to select the single nutrient bar to show in the Food Log status bar.

Weight

Shows a screen where you can enter your daily weight

Meal +/-

0

Expands/Contracts the current meal, to show only the meal subtotal line.

All +/-

7

Expands/Contracts all the meals, useful for seeing the daily meal breakdown more clearly.

Next Date

3

Goes to the next date

Prev Date

1

Goes to the previous date

Goto Date

Shows a screen where you can select the date to go to.

1) Select 'Food Log' from the main menu

2) Use the up/down arrows to select the meal

3) Choose a method for finding the required food.

4) Use the category menus to drill down to the food

5) You can use the back button to go back as needed

6) Once you've found the food, press select to continue to the Food Entry screen

7) Enter the quantity and units (fruit yields, g, oz) consumed

8) As you enter the values the calories, carbs, protein and fat are calculated for you. When complete press the OK button (or select it from the menu)

9) The main Food Log screen is shown with the newly added food. The calories and nutrients are totaled by meal and day.

10) Use the left/right arrow keys to (or 4/6) to scroll horizontally to see the nutrient values.

1) To delete multiple foods change to Multi-Select mode

2) Choose the menu option Multi-Select Mode

3) The icon in the top right and the icons at the start of each row indicate Multi-Select Mode

4) Select each of the lines to delete

5) Choose the menu option Delete

6) The lines are deleted and the display refreshed, the display is still in Multi-Select Mode

7) Press Back to revert to normal mode

1) To copy foods from a previous day first navigate to that day by using the Prev Day menu item or the equivalent keypad shortcut (Key 1)

2) Once you have found the day to copy from, change to multi-select mode.

3) Choose the menu option Multi-Select Mode.

4) The screen changes to multi-select mode

5) Select all the lines to copy

6) Choose the menu option Copy

7) Now navigate back to the original day, using the menu option Next Day or the keypad shortcut (Key 3)

8) Select the meal to paste into then choose the menu option Paste

9) The copied lines are pasted into the selected meal.

10) Press the back button to revert to normal (single-select) mode

1) To copy a whole day, including the meal breakdown, use the Copy Day menu item

2) Navigate to the day to copy using the keyboard keys 1 and 3, then select the Copy Day menu option.

3) Navigate to the day to copy to.

4) Select the menu option Paste

5) The food lines are copied to the new day.

1) To make a new food with the nutrient totals from a set of foods first enter the constituent foods into the Food Log.

2) Select Multi-Select mode

3) Multi-Select mode is displayed

4) Select all the constituent foods.

5) Choose the Make Food menu option

6) A new food details screen is opened, with the nutrient values filled in.

7) Enter the food name, the quantity (that the constituents make) etc.

8) The nutrient values are already filled in. When complete press the OK button to write the food to the database.

9) Now you can select the food from the database, here we have found it using a Food Name search on 'jam'

1) A menu is a list of foods that can be added to the food log in a single action.

2) To make a menu first select the Multi-Select Mode.

3) Choose the foods to be included in the menu

4) Choose the Make Menu option

5) Enter a name for the new menu then press OK

6) Now you can use the menu to add foods to the Food Log. Choose a meal and press select.

7) Choose the Menus option

8) Select My Breakfast

9) The menu 'My Breakfast' is added to the Food Log, you can now modify any of the food lines by selecting them individually.

Category Search

Find a food by drilling down through a set of categories.

Name Search

Find a food by typing the first few characters of one or more words

Favorites

Choose a food from your most used foods

User Modified

Choose a food from the list of foods you've entered or modified

Menus

Choose a set of foods, a 'Menu', to add to the food log in a single operation.

This option is only available when adding a food to the Food Log.

Quick Entry

Instead of finding a food in the database, simply enter the name, calories, nutrients etc to log food intake. This is useful for one-off foods that you cannot find in the database (where you do not wish to create a new food definition).

This option is only available when adding a food to the Food Log.

New Food

Create a new food definition in the database, after completing the entry you will have the option to log intake of the newly created food.

1) We wish to add a baked potato to the Food Log, first select the meal and press select

2) Choose the Category Search option

3) Choose Vegetables

4) Choose Vegetables P-S

5) Choose Potatoes

6) Select 'Potatoes, baked, fresh'

7) The Food Entry screen is shown with 'Potatoes, baked, fresh' entered.

1) Use the name search to find banana

2) Enter the first few characters,

and choose Find.

3) All matching foods are displayed, here there is just one. Select the food to log food intake.

4) Here's another example, lets look for peanut butter. We enter the first few characters.

5) There are many matches, scroll down to find peanut butter. Only the first 30 matches are shown, if there are too many in the list go back and refine the search by entering more characters or words.

6) To find 'bran flakes' we could enter the first few characters of each word.

7) All foods with a word beginning with 'br' and a word beginning with 'fl' are shown.

Select

Selects the current line, in single-select node (the default) this shows the Food Log for the selected day.

Delete

Deletes (after confirmation) the selected days(s)

Multi-Select Mode

Changes the screen into multi-select mode where multiple days can be selected to perform the Delete or 'Keep totals only' options.

Refresh Display

Refreshes the display

Keep Totals only

Keeps the totals only (after confirmation) for the selected day(s), i.e. Removes the food lines for those days but retains the totals for use on this screen and in the chart.

Compact Database

If your device does not reclaim space when days are deleted (or detail lines removed), then eventually the database will run out of space. This option reclaims the space by copying the data to a new database and deleting the old one.

Options

Shows the chart options screen

Expand

Shows the chart without the header, legend and vertical axes, useful on small displays to see the trends more clearly.

Use the chart options screen (via the menu) to select the values to plot and the date range

Use the expand option to show the chart more clearly on small displays

1) Enter your goal values for calories and nutrients.

2) Once goals have been entered the % of goal will be shown in the Food Log summary bar.

3) The Food Log Summary screen (key 9 from the Food Log) also shows color coded % bars.

Body Weight Units

Choose the units for body weight, used when logging weight in the Food Log (menu option Weight)

Default Food Units

Choose the default weight units for logging food intake. This default will only be used when there is no portion defined for a food.

Use Small Font

Uses the devices small font on the Food Log display to show more lines.

Show Status Bar

Shows the status summary bar on the Food Log display

Keep Totals only After (days)

Automatically removes the detail lines (food lines) but keeps the totals from days that are older than the specified value. The default 999 keeps all detailed input.

Use this option to automatically keep the database small (saving device memory) whilst maintaining a full history of daily totals.

Note: the actual removal of detail lines takes place the next time the program is launched.

Delete After (days)

Automatically removes days that are older than the value specified. The default keeps all days entered.

Use this option to automatically keep the database small (saving device memory).

Note: the actual removal of days takes place the next time the program is launched.

1) To register your copy of DietOrganizer Mobile goto the About/Register screen via the main menu.

2) Choose the register option to display the Register screen. Make a note of the Device Id shown, you will need this when purchasing your registration code over the internet. Visit the website www.dietorganizer.com and follow the instructions for purchasing a registration code.

3) Once you have received your registration code enter your details on the screen.

Note that your name must be entered exactly as given with your registration details for the Registration code to work.

Once complete press the OK button.

4) Once registration is successful the About screen will show 'Registered to:' your name. The registered version will no longer show the About screen at startup.