User`s guide

MyPersonalDiet User’s Guide 17
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).
Figure 11: 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.
Entering Food Items
You can add, edit or delete food items from the meal using the Add , Edit and
Delete buttons respectively (more on this later).
Tip! You can also tap the down arrow
next to the Add button to add one serving of the
following:
1. A food item from your favorite food item list
2. A food item you search for.
Depending on the time of the day, a type of meal will automatically be selected among
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Snack/Drink, Supplement and Other. This is for informational
purposes only; you can change it if need be.
You will later see how food items can be combined in meals. The Meal list is initially
empty the first time you use MyPersonalDiet, but once meals are created, you can
selected them next to Meal and their food items will be added to the list.
When you choose Add
from the Meal window, the Food Browser is shown (see Figure
12). This is the principal window by which you enter the food you consume.
Select these tab to enter
specific food items for
the meal., enter additional
servings, or a note.
Use this button to store
the food items into meals.
Use this button to clear
all listed entries.