MyPersonalDiet® Windows Mobile Smartphone User’s Guide February 2009 This document applies to MyPersonalDiet® version 4.2.0 and newer for Windows Mobile for Smartphone (non-touch screen) Copyright © 2005-2009, VidaOne™, Inc. All rights reserved.
Table of Contents 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Introduction ................................................................................................................. 4 1.1 What Is MyPersonalDiet®? ................................................................................ 4 1.2 Windows Mobile Compatibility ......................................................................... 5 1.3 How About Exercising? ...................................................................................... 7 1.
8 Options ...................................................................................................................... 39 8.1 General .............................................................................................................. 39 8.2 Profile ................................................................................................................ 39 8.3 Display ..............................................................................................................
1 Introduction 1.
1.2 Windows Mobile Compatibility MyPersonalDiet for Windows Mobile Smartphone is designed and certified1 for Windows Mobile 5.0 for Smartphone and Windows Mobile 6 Standard, in portrait and landscape, in regular or high-resolution. Figure 2: MyPersonalDiet runs at ease in portrait and landscape, at either normal or high resolutions, on smartphones running Windows Mobile 5.0 and Windows Mobile 6 Standard.
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1.3 How About Exercising? Dieting is not only about food and diet tracking, but also exercising. For this reason, VidaOne offers MySportTraining for Windows Mobile Smartphone, currently the bestselling, award-winning, most comprehensive fitness software for Windows Mobile for Pocket PC (see Figure 3). MySportTraining shows the calories from MyPersonalDiet.
You can plan your workouts to eliminate any guesswork about your fitness program and find time for exercising despite your busy schedule, thanks to a seamless integration with Pocket Calendar. MyPersonalDiet and MySportTraining are tightly integrated: Workouts entered in MySportTraining also appear in MyPersonalDiet. MySportTraining shows the daily calories you consume. You can also easily switch from one application to the other.
1.4 VidaOne Diet & Fitness for Windows Vista and XP MyPersonalDiet synchronizes with VidaOne Diet & Fitness for Windows Vista (via Windows Mobile Device Center) and Windows XP (via ActiveSync).
1.5 Installation and Registration Installation Make sure your Smartphone is connected to your PC (desktop or laptop). Download the software on your desktop from http://www.vidaone.com/download/MpdSetup_SP.exe and open the file. This initiates the installation. You can also download a CAB file directly onto your device from http://www.vidaone.com/download/MPD.SP.CAB. Using File Explorer on your device, open the file to initiate the installation.
Running MyPersonalDiet To run MyPersonalDiet, choose Start > MyPersonalDiet. The first time it runs, the Welcome Wizard guides you to enter key information, such as your profile. You can use MyPersonalDiet to establish and follow a weight-loss or weight-gain diet, you can use MyPersonalDiet simply to track the food you consume. You will be prompted during the installation whether you want or not to follow a diet. If you choose to follow a diet, you will be asked to enter your goals (more in section 2).
Registration A registration key must be purchased to continue using the software beyond the trial mode period. To purchase a registration key, visit http://www.vidaone.com/mpd_sp.htm, click on Add to Cart and follow the instructions to complete the purchase. Shortly after purchasing the software, you will receive an email with the registration key. Enter the registration key to re-activate the software. Note Write down the registration key and keep it in a safe location.
2 Setting Your Goals The first time you run MyPersonalDiet, the welcome wizard helps you set your goals, as described in the following sections. If you want to later review or change your goals, go to the Day view and choose Menu > Journal > Diet > Goals button. 2.1 Entering your Profile Your profile is required in order to perform various calculations within MyPersonalDiet. It is important to enter all values to obtain the best results.
2.3 Duration Once your profile and target weight are known, you have to choose how long your diet will take. MyPersonalDiet presents you a period in which you can reach your target weight following a healthy diet (see Figure 7). It is very important to choose a realistic duration (within the proposed range). Not doing so can hurt your health. For instance, it is possible to lose weight faster than the period shown, but this results in muscle mass losses, and other harmful effects.
3 Choosing a Diet Before entering data, you can choose the diet you want to follow and identify nutrients to track and the daily energy. From the Day view, choose Menu > Journal > Diet > Diet button, which shows the Diet window, composed of the Plan, Nutrients, Energy and Schedule pages. Figure 8: The Diet window allows you to choose a diet plan and track specific nutrients and select your daily energetic requirements to calculate the %DV.
3.1 Diet Plan The Plan page allows you to select one of the following predefined diets: USDA Food Pyramid High Carb Low Carb High Protein Low Protein Low Fat As you select them, the energetic percentage from the major nutrients (carbohydrates, proteins and fat) are displayed (see Figure 8, first row, left). In addition, you can choose Custom Plan and select the exact proportion of energy from these nutrients.
3.4 Schedule You can enter the time of day and the amount of energy for each meal you consume on a daily basis. Based on that schedule, MyPersonalDiet can determine the meal type of each meal as you enter it, and you can later see using the Meal Schedule chart (section 5.4) whether you follow this schedule or not, and how much energy you consume on average per meal.
4 Meals, Workouts and Health records To view the information you’ve previously entered, go to the Day view and choose Menu > Journal > Meals, Nutrients, Workouts or Health Figure 9 shows the Meals and Nutrients entries. Figure 9: The meals items and meals nutrients show you what you ate on any given day. To go to another day, select the date area and use the navigation left, center or right buttons to see the previous day, today or the next day respectively. You can cut, copy and paste meals and workouts.
4.1 Entering Meals To enter a meal, choose Menu > New > Meal. This shows the Meal window (Figure 10). Select these tabs to enter general information about the meal, see energy %, enter food items, or enter extra servings. Use the search bar to quickly find food items. Use this button to store the food items into meals. Figure 10: The Meal window allows you to enter food items for a meal. The total calories and a colored bar showing the percentage of energy from carbs, proteins and fats are also shown.
Depending on the time of the day, a type of meal will automatically be selected based on your meal schedule (section 3.4); you can change it if need be. You will later see how food items can be combined in dishes. The Dishes list is initially empty the first time you use MyPersonalDiet, but once dishes are created, you can selected them under Dishes and their food items will be added to the list. When you choose Menu > Add while looking at the food list, the Food Browser is shown (see Figure 11).
Figure 12: The nutrition facts are available for all the food items in the database. Once done, choose the Add button to add the food in the meal. You will hear a beep, and a small window will pop up to confirm that the item was added (Figure 13). Food items that you add are also stored in the Favorites list (more about this shortly). Figure 13: A small window is shown to confirm that the food item was added. Select Don’t show this message again to prevent it from being shown for subsequent items.
Once you’ve added one or more food items and are back to the Meal screen, select the pie chart tab to display a summary of energy for the meals, as show in Figure 14. Figure 14: The Meal screen allows you to see calories, point and macro-nutrients information.
Favorite Food Items Whenever you add a food item into a meal, that food item it added to the favorites list. The favorites food item list is accessible by choosing Menu > Favorites in the Food Browser. This shows the most recent favorite food items; tap on one to select it. Using the Favorites button is a quick way for selecting food items you frequently consume. Select the Action key to expand/collapse the entry.
Searching Food Items You can search the food database by entering a word (or part of a word, or multiple words) in the search bar and choosing the Search button . This shows the Search window (see Figure 16) with the matching food items from the food database and from your own food. Select an entry and choose Select to return to the Food Browser. Select an item and chose Select to close the window Use this scroll bar to see the full item names by using the left and right navigation keys.
Combining Food Items Into Dishes You can save one or more food items as a dish, and use that dish later on to expedite data entry. Figure 10 shows the Meal screen with some food items. Choose the Dish button and select New Dish; the New Dish window is shown (see Figure 18) and allows you to enter its name, serving size and the amount of servings it contains. To use that dish at some other time, select its name from the dish list, choose the Dish button and select Add Dish.
You can choose to enter the nutrients by weight (g or mg), or by percent daily value (%DV) Nutrients are listed in the same order than you find on US food labels. Figure 19: The Custom Food Item window allows you to enter you own food items. You can enter your own category and all the nutrients of the food item.
Figure 20: You can enter extra servings (in addition to the specific food items) when entering a meals. This is especially useful when eating a meal composed of a mix of various foods. 4.2 Entering Workouts To enter a workout, choose Menu > New > Workout. This shows the Workout window (Figure 21). Choose this entry to select a pre-defined workout, and add your own.
and the exertion level, and MyPersonalDiet will calculate the energy expenditure (in calories or kilojoules), along the fat being burnt out during the execution of the workout. You can also enter your average heart rate if you use a heart rate monitor. The duration and the average heart rate can be charted in the Charts view. To create your own activity, select on the Activity entry, and choose Menu > Add. This shows the New Activity window (Figure 22).
Select this entry blood work markers (e.g. cholesterol, glucose, creatinine, etc.) Figure 23:The Health window lets you enter key information about your health, along any blood markers (cholesterol, glucose, creatinine, etc.
5 Monitoring Your Diet MyPersonalDiet provides different methods for monitoring your diet from different perspectives. 5.1 Day view The Day view gives you immediate information about your daily energetic and nutritional consumption, diet progress, meals, workouts and health information Figure 24: The Day view gives you an instant snapshot of your day (Calories, left) and diet (Diet Summary, right).
Figure 25: You can monitor your energetic summary or any nutrient, such as carbohydrates. With this information, you can immediately find out how much energy or how much of a given nutrient you consumed for the day, and how much you are allowed to consume for the remaining of the day. Diet Summary The diet summary (Menu > Journal > Diet) immediately lets you know if you are on track with your diet goal or not. The chart covers the diet period.
If you entered a weight for that day, it is shown in black. Otherwise, the target weight (as calculated based on your diet goal) is shown in blue. The weight is shown in gray for days outside the current month. If the weight in within 5% of the target weight, the day is shown with a white background (pale blue for Saturday, pale red for Sunday). This means that you are on track with the target weight. If the weight in within 10% of the target weight, the day is shown with a yellow background.
5.3 Report View The Report view presents various lists to get a quick snapshot of various aspects of your diet. You can among three types of lists (via Menu > Report). The Calories (or Kilojoules) list presents a summary, by day, of the calories per day, from: o BMR o Workouts o Allowed to stay within your goal (if you are on a diet) o Meals o Net. This value should be around 0 for best results. If it is negative, you didn’t eat enough; if it is positive, you ate too much.
5.4 Charts view The Charts view presents various charts to get a quick snapshot of various aspects of your diet. Figure 28: The Charts view lets you visualize all elements of your diet. You can choose what to display from the list on the top left corner. The list contains the following: Calories Calories (Net) Calories per Hour Meal Schedule Points (if enabled, see section 8.
You can chose the period of the chart being shown by tapping the Period button . You can choose one of the predefined periods (e.g. “Today”, “This week”, “Last week”, etc.) or choose your own period by choosing “Other”. You will then be prompted to enter the start and end dates. Some charts display a dotted horizontal line that represents the average (see section 8.3).
Figure 29: The Results window shows if your actual weight, eating habits and exercises habits are ok based on your goals, and makes some recommendations accordingly.
6 Exporting Meals, Health records and Workouts You can export meals, health records and workouts into a CSV file (readable by Microsoft® Excel. This is useful if your want to show what you eat to a dietician for instance. Choose Menu > Tools > Export to show the Export window (see Figure 30). Then choose a file name, a period, what to export. Finally, choose Export and the data will be written into the file. You can then bring the file back to your PC, and review it via Microsoft® Excel® or any text editor.
7 Making a Backup You can back up the meals, workouts and health information into a file that you can keep in your Pocket PC’s main memory or on a card (e.g. SD card). To make a backup, choose Menu > Tools > Backup, enter a file name (one is provided by default, which includes the current date, but you can specify another) and choose OK. The resulting backup file can then reused for a restore within MyPersonalDiet, if need be.
8 Options Choose Menu > Options to access the various options available in MyPersonalDiet. The options are divided into various pages, each detailed in the following sections. 8.1 General Units: American (lb, oz) or Metric (kg, ml) Energy: Calories or Kilojoules Use 1 decimal for body weight: select Yes to always display a decimal with your weight (if there’s enough space to do so).
o Active (mostly walking) o Intense (manual labor). This is used to adjust your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR). 8.3 Display Adjust BMR based on the time of day: choose Yes to display how much energy you burnt (which is your BMR) as of now, as opposed to the full day. For instance, if your BMR is 2000 for the whole day and this option is selected, the BMR being shown at noon (half-day) would be 1000. This option lets you find out how much food you can consume now given the time of the day.
8.5 Markers Select the blood markers of interest to you. Only those selected will be displayed in the Charts view’s health entry list, considerably reducing the size of that list. 8.6 Password Check off Ask password when opening the application and enter a password twice, along am optional hint. Whenever you open MyPersonalDiet, you will be prompted to enter the password. 8.7 Other Select Points to track points and enter your daily points target (if any), which you can track in the Day view.
9 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 meals, 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.
energy value by 15% when you enter a workout. Changing this value is reflected when adding new or editing existing workouts. Whatever your goals are, MyPersonalDiet is designed to work for you, not the other way around. Remember that the first days of use will demand a little more because you need to find your food from the large food database. But as the favorite food and meal lists grow, entering a meal will be done in seconds after a few days.
