MyPersonalDiet® Windows Mobile Pocket PC User’s Guide June 2007 This document applies to MyPersonalDiet® version 2.5.0 and newer. Copyright © 2005-2007, VidaOne, Inc. All rights reserved.
Table of Contents 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Introduction ................................................................................................................. 4 1.1 What Is MyPersonalDiet®? ................................................................................ 4 1.2 Windows Mobile Compatibility ......................................................................... 5 1.3 How About Exercising? ...................................................................................... 6 1.
8.5 Nutrients ............................................................................................................ 34 8.6 Markers ............................................................................................................. 34 8.7 Password ........................................................................................................... 34 9 What To Do Next? ....................................................................................................
1 Introduction 1.
1.2 Windows Mobile Compatibility MyPersonalDiet for Pocket PC is compatible with Windows Mobile 2003, 2003 Second Edition and Windows Mobile 5.0. Portrait (240x320), landscape (320x240) and square (240x240) resolutions are also fully supported, as shown below. Figure 2: MyPersonalDiet runs at ease in portrait, landscape or square resolutions, on all Pocket PC models, from Windows Mobile 2003 to Windows Mobile 5.0. However, the application is set up differently for some models: • On Windows Mobile 5.
1.3 How About Exercising? Dieting is not only about food & diet tracking, but also exercising. For this reason, VidaOne also offers MySportTraining (see Figure 3), the best-selling, award-winning, most comprehensive fitness software for Windows Mobile. Figure 3: MySportTraining is the premier fitness application for your Windows Mobile device and works hand in hand with 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 also tightly integrated: • • • Workouts you enter in MySportTraining are also listed in MyPersonalDiet. MySportTraining also shows the daily calories you consume. You can also easily switch from one application to the other.
1.6 VidaOne Diet & Fitness for Windows Vista and XP MyPersonalDiet is fully compatible with VidaOne Diet & Fitness for Windows Vista and Windows XP.
1.7 Installation and Registration Installation • Make sure your Pocket PC is connected to your desktop or laptop. • Download the software on your desktop from: http://www.VidaOne.com/download/MpdSetup_PPC.exe. • On your desktop, execute the MpdSetup_PPC. exe program that you downloaded and follow the on-screen instructions. This initiate the installation MyPersonalDiet onto your Pocket PC. • MyPersonalDiet can display some information on the Today screen (more on this in section 8.4).
to follow a diet, you will be asked to enter your goals (more in section 2). Afterwards, you are then ready to use MyPersonalDiet! Figure 6: The Welcome Wizard makes it easy to get started with MyPersonalDiet. To exit MySportTraining, go back to any view, and using the software input panel, enter CTRL Q1. Trial Mode Until registered, MyPersonalDiet runs in trial mode for up to 10 days. All functions are enabled in trial mode.
Upgrades Visit www.VidaOne.com on a regular basis and when a new version is available, download and install it over the registered version already installed on your device. You don’t have to uninstall MyPersonalDiet prior to installing a newer version. You can always install a newer version of MyPersonalDiet and all the data you’ve already entered will still be available. 1.8 Technical Support You can obtain more information about our products, updates, etc.
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 in the menu bar and the Goals button the Day view by choosing the Day view 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 8). 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 the Diet button, which shows the Diet window, composed of the Plan and Nutrients pages. Figure 9: The Diet window allows you to choose a diet plan and track specific nutrients.
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 9, first row, left). In addition, you can choose Custom Plan and select the exact proportion of energy from these nutrients.
4 Entering Meals, Health records and Workouts To enter meal, health and workout data, choose the Day view button in the menu bar, and choose the Meals , Health or Workouts buttons to enter daily data. You will then be shown a window that displays the relevant information for the day (see Figure 10, which shows the meals for a given day). This window has the same format whether it shows meals, health records or workouts. You can go to other days that have some relevant information using these buttons.
4.1 Entering Meals To enter a meal, choose the Day view button in the menu bar, Meals and Add . You can also select a meal (if one is shown) and choose Edit . This shows the Meal window (Figure 11). Use this button to store the food items into meals. Select these tab to enter specific food items for the meal., enter additional servings, or a note. Use this button to clear all listed entries. Figure 11: The Meal window allows you to enter food items for a meal.
To enter a food item, first select a food group, a category and then choose a food item. Upon choosing an item, the energy field, as well as the detailed name (tap to see it) to see it, more about this shortly) are updated. You can and nutrients information (tap use this information to find out exactly what you are consuming. Go ahead, and browse the whole database to learn about what you are really eating! You’ll be surprised! Tap here to add, edit or delete your own food items.
Select Don’t show this message again to prevent it from being shown for subsequent items. You can then select another food item and tap Add to add it, and so on. When you are done, tap OK to close the window (note that closing the window doesn’t add the food in the meal). Food items that you add are also stored in the Favorites list. Nutrients To see the selected item’s nutrients, tap the Nutrients button.
To select an item, tap on it and tap OK to close the window. You can also double-tap an item to select it and close the window at once. Use this scroll bar to see the full item names. Figure 15:The Search Food window allows you to search the food database for a specific keyword. Searching by one word can return too many items (210 in the previous example) To perform a more effective search, enter several words, and only items containing all words will be shown.
meal. You can later select that meal from the meal list and the food items will automatically be inserted into the list. You can update the content of a meal with the food items currently listed. Simply choose the Meal button and select Update. If you want to delete the meal, choosing Delete instead. Deleting a meal does not remove the food items currently listed. To rename the meal, choose Edit Name.
• Extra calories (or kilojoules) for the meal. If all you want is to track is the energetic value of a meal and you happen to know what it is, you can simply enter it there, without providing additional information. Note that the nutrients will remain zero for this meal. • Additional servings for the meal (see Figure 18).
You can enter general health information, such as your weight, body fat percentage, blood pressure, mood and activity level. The weight is very important if you are on a diet for MyPersonalDiet to better monitor your progress. The weight, body fat and blood pressure can be charted in the Graph view. In addition, you can track various blood markers by choosing the Blood Markers tab. This shows a table with 22 blood markers (or substances), which you can track.
Tap here to add, edit or delete custom activities. Based on the duration and exertion, MyPersonalDiet can calculate how many calories you burnt and how much fat you lost! Figure 20: The Workout window lets you enter basic information about your workouts. You can use one of the predefined activities, or create your own. To create you own activity, tap on the My Activities button, and choose Add. This shows the New Activity window (Figure 21).
5 Monitoring Your Diet MyPersonalDiet provides different methods for monitoring your diet from different perspectives. 5.1 Today Plug-in The Today plug-in displays the target and actual energy consumption (in calories or kilojoules) for the day, and lets you know if you can consume more food or not. The target energy value (loss or gain) being displayed is either adjusted for the time of the day or the whole day, based on the BMR adjustment option (see section 8.3 for details).
explained in section 8.5). Figure 23 shows a daily summary of carbs consumption with a 250 g maximum limit, a daily recommend value (DV) of 300 g. Figure 23: 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. You can also review the past 7 days.
Following the red line is misleading because its fluctuations don’t give a long-term perspective of the diet. In Figure 23, there are various ups, which are not relevant as the trend shows that the weight is clearly heading down. 5.3 Month view The Month view shows a snapshot of your diet for a whole month (see Figure 24). Tap the Month view icon in the menu bar to access this view. Each day is shown as follows: • If you entered a weight for that day, it is shown in black.
Each day is also shown with small icons representing meals, health and workouts if such information was entered on that day. Tap on a day to access the Day view for that day. 5.4 Report View The Report view presents various lists to get a quick snapshot of various aspects of your diet. Tap the Report view icon in the menu bar to access this view.
. You can chose the period of the chart being shown by tapping the Period button You can choose one of 7 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. 5.5 Graph view The Graph view presents various charts to get a quick snapshot of various aspects of your diet. Tap the Graph view icon in the menu bar to access this view.
You can chose the period of the chart being shown by tapping the Period button . You can choose one of the 13 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. 5.6 Getting Results You can get immediate results of your efforts by choosing the Results button in the Day view. This shows the Results window (see Figure 27), which is composed of four areas: 1.
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 Tools > Export to show the Export window (see Figure 28). 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 for instance.
7 Making a Backup You can backup 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 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 Tools > 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 • • • • • • Measurement units: lb, mi, in or kg, km, cm. Energy units: Calories or Kilojoules Select the first day of week, which is taken into account throughout the application, most notably on the Month view. Select Use 1 decimal for body weight to enter weight such as 165.5. On Windows Mobile 5.
8.4 Display • • • • • • Select Adjust BMR based on the time of day to display how much energy you burnt (which is your BMR) at this moment, 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. Check off Enhance charts to apply a brightness effect when displaying charts and graphs.
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.
