Nutrition Log

Tracking meal data is easy with BodyTrans. All of the food you eat will fall under one of the categories in the Nutrition Log. The Nutrition Log is organized with Food category and related foods on the left. On the right is your actual log. The log consists of seven tabs. Six of the tabs will hold all of your food items for each meal. The seventh tab breaks down and totals all of your calories and macronutrients into one convenient screen. Adding food to a meal is as simple as dragging and dropping it from the Food Listbox to the selected meal.

The Nutrition Log

Note: To change food categorization and details you will use Nutrition Maintenance.

Nutrition Log Features

Food Category Combobox - at the top-left of Nutrition Log is the Food Category combo. It contains all of the food categories. As you change the selection in that combo, the contents of the Food Listbox just below it change. Note: Two categories you may find very useful are the Favorites category and the Most Recent category. The Favorites category is the place where you might want to add all of your favorite foods so that they are under one convenient category. The Most Recent category is automatically updated by BodyTrans. It will list all of the foods that you have used in the last 7 days. This feature is very useful for those of us that tend to eat a lot of the same foods each week.
Food Listbox - By dragging and dropping or double-clicking a food in the Food Listbox, it is automatically added to the selected meal (the selected meal is the Meal Tab which is currently depressed).
Meal Tabs - Each meal of the day can be selected by clicking on the tab of the desired meal. For example, clicking on the "Meal 2" tab pulls Meal 2's details into the meal grid. To edit a food amount in the selected meal, simply double-click the food entry in the meal grid. Another way to edit the food amount is to right-click on a food entry in the meal grid and select Edit Food Amount from the pop-up menu.
Search button - The Search button provides a quick and easy way to find a food. You can type in just a part of the food name and click Search. Any foods that contain that search criteria will be displayed in the Food Listbox. Note: This will be the only time that the Food Category Combobox text may not display the proper category for the foods shown in the Food Listbox.
Macronutrient Breakdown - When a meal contains food entries, the macronutrient breakdown for that meal will be conveniently displayed at the bottom of the screen in the status bar.

Import Functionality

This feature is a real time-saver. Notice the Import Meal Data link in the upper right part of the Nutrition Log table. Once you have entered a day's worth of meals, you can later re-use that meal data for another day. You won't have to re-enter all of your foods for each meal. When you click that link, a screen appears that allows you to select a day full of meals to import into the current day in view. After the import, you can simply adjust the amounts and details.

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