User`s guide

MyPersonalDiet for iPhone and iPod Touch User’s Guide 42
10 What To Do Next?
How to use MyPersonalDiet depends on your motivation behind tracking your food
intake. Here are a few suggestions:
• Browse the food database. You will be amazed to find out what nutrients are in
the food you consume.
• Save common food items into dishes, which you can select later on to speed up
entry.
• If your weight is not an issue but you want to make sure you follow a
balanced diet, choose a diet plan and enter any nutrient limit if any, and keep
entering food. You will be able to identify food that may not be not in line with
your diet plan, and track any nutrient that matters to you.
• If the current food database does not suit your diet at all (if you live outside
the U.S., or if you can’t find the food items you consume), then you can create
your own food items. That will require some time at first, but after a few days,
entering meals will be very fast. As mentioned above, grouping food items into
dishes makes it easier.
• After a few days, most of the food you regularly consume will easily be
accessible from the Favorites list, so make sure to use to it for faster data entry.
There are some customization features that can make MyPersonalDiet very well adapted
to your exact needs:
• If you have a way to calculate your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR), and
MyPersonalDiet-calculated BMR is too high or too low, you can instruct
MyPersonalDiet to adjust its calculation via the Health options (section 8.4) by
entering a percentage value next to BMR (%).This value will be used whenever
MyPersonalDiet calculates your BMR.
For instance, if you enter -10 %, MyPersonalDiet will reduce by 10 % the
calculated BMR value. Changing this value takes effect immediately and is
reflected throughout the application.
• If the workout energy expenditure as calculated by MyPersonalDiet does not
match what you think it should be (especially if you use some instruments of your
own), you can instruct MyPersonalDiet to adjusts the calculation of those values
via the Health options (section 8.4) by entering a percentage value next to
Workout (%). This value will be used by MyPersonalDiet when the workout
energy expenditure is calculated.
For instance, if you enter 15%, MyPersonalDiet will increase the calculated