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How do I record my foods and meals for the day?
You will do this in the Meals Journal. First, tap the Meals Journal button on the Main Menu.
Tap "New" to add a food or meal to the Journal for the selected day. You'll be able to select from the list of 11,000 foods, along with your custom/favorite food items. Find a food, tap on it, and then tap OK.
The foods are listed alphabetically. To quickly advance the list to a particular starting letter, tap on "A-Z" (at the top of the screen for Palm OS, bottom of the screen for Pocket PCs).
There are three ways to find a food:
1. Looking for it by food group. If you know which food group the food belongs to, you can select the food group from the selection at the top of the screen. Only foods for that group will be displayed.
2. Selecting an item from your Recent Foods list. Weight-By-Date keeps track of the foods that you eat, and you'll find those items in the Recent Foods list. Just select Recent Foods from the selection at the top of the screen.
3. Doing a search on all or part of the food name. Tap the Find button to search for a food item by all or part of the food's name. You can search all food groups or just selected groups.
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Does Weight-By-Date Mobile come with a database of foods and nutritional values?
Weight-By-Date Mobile contains a database of over 11,000 foods, based largely on research from the USDA. Each food contains data for the 10 nutrients that you are tracking.
You can quickly look up food data for hundreds of name brands and more than 25 popular restaurants.
You can also keep a list of your favorite food items, called the "My Foods" list. In addition, if you have Weight-By-Date Pro on your PC, you can create recipes and those will be available on your device for use in your Journal.
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What nutrients can I track for each food?
You can track ten nutrients: Calories, Calories from Fat, Carbs, Cholesterol, Fiber, Protein, Saturated Fat, Sodium, Sugar, and Total Fat. It makes a great calorie counter or carb counter when you're on the go.
If you also have Weight-By-Date Pro on your PC, you can select different nutrients that are specific to your diet. Those nutrient selections will then be sent to your handheld.
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How do I add my own custom foods?
Weight-By-Date Mobile gives you a way to add your own foods for use in the journal and there is no limit to the number of foods that you can add. So, if you have the food label for a particular food that is not already in the list, just add it to the database.
Tap the "Food List" button on the Main Menu to access the foods database, where you can add your own custom items. Once there, tap New to add a new food item and enter the nutritional values.
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How do I look up nutritional information for a food?
Tap the "Food List" button on the Main Menu to look up nutrition information for any of the 11,000 foods. From there, you can tap the Find button to search for a food item by all or part of the food's name.
You can also look for a food by food group. If you know which food group the food belongs to, you can select the food group from the selection at the top of the screen. Only foods for that group will be displayed.
Once you find a food, tap on it and then tap the Details button to see the nutritional information.
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How do I record my daily water intake?
There is a special area in your meals journal where you can enter the number of glasses that you drank each day. On Pocket PC devices, tap on the "Water" button in the middle of the screen above the nutrient totals. A field will pop up where you can enter your water intake.
On Palm OS devices the water intake is listed within your list of foods eaten for that day. Scroll down to the bottom of the foods for that day and tap on "Today's Water Intake". A screen will pop up where you can enter your water intake.
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Can I keep track of the nutritional supplements that I'm taking?
Yes -- these are treated as foods that you log into your food diary. The pre-loaded foods database doesn't come with many supplements, but you can add them to the database yourself very easily.
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Can Weight-By-Date Mobile organize my recipes?
Not yet. Right now recipes can only be created in Weight-By-Date Pro on the PC. But once created, the recipes are sent to your device so you can use them in your Journal.
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