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MyPersonalDiet®

Windows Mobile Pocket PC

User’s Guide

September 2008

This document applies to MyPersonalDiet® version 3.2.1 and newer.

Summary of Contents for MyPersonalDiet

Page 1: ...MyPersonalDiet Windows Mobile Pocket PC User s Guide September 2008 This document applies to MyPersonalDiet version 3 2 1 and newer Copyright 2005 2008 VidaOne Inc All rights reserved...

Page 2: ...2 2 Weight Goal 12 2 3 Duration 13 2 4 Diet Summary 13 3 Choosing a Diet 14 3 1 Diet Plan 15 3 2 Nutrients 15 3 3 Energy 15 4 Meals Workouts and Health records 16 4 1 Entering Meals 17 Quick Meal 17...

Page 3: ...3 6 Exporting Meals Health records and Workouts 33 7 Making a Backup 34 8 Options 35 8 1 General 35 8 2 Profile 35 8 3 Health 36 8 4 Display 36 8 5 Nutrients 36 8 6 Markers 36 8 7 Password 36 8 8 Oth...

Page 4: ...nd workouts track that data and monitor your condition This is an ambitious application that is focused on assisting you reaching your goals Figure 1 MyPersonalDiet Day view presents key information a...

Page 5: ...et runs at ease in portrait landscape square and VGA resolutions on Pocket PC models running Windows Mobile 2003 to Windows Mobile 6 On Windows Mobile 5 0 and 6 the menu bar as shown in the pictures i...

Page 6: ...or create your own You can track workout in details and it even calculates the amount of calories you burn while exercising It s a must at the gym because you can choose from pre defined exercises il...

Page 7: ...rd your workouts duration distance pace ascent right into MySportTraining and see the routes you followed without having to purchase additional sport tracking equipment You can also customize the work...

Page 8: ...ble use multiple profiles users and more Figure 5 VidaOne Diet Fitness for Windows provides the same features than MySportTraining and much more and the data is synchronized via ActiveSync or Windows...

Page 9: ...y choose Yes to continue the installation o When upgrading you will see a message stating that MyPersonalDiet will be removed Choose OK to continue When asked if you want to upgrade choose Yes to cont...

Page 10: ...low a diet you will be asked to enter your goals more in section 2 Afterwards you are then ready to use MyPersonalDiet Figure 7 The Welcome Wizard makes it easy to get started with MyPersonalDiet To e...

Page 11: ...rades 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 MyPe...

Page 12: ...It is important to enter all values to obtain the best results The profile consists of the following Gender Birth year Height Activity level Maximum heart rate You can later change your profile if req...

Page 13: ...alth For instance it is possible to lose weight faster than the period shown but this results in muscle mass losses and other harmful effects Figure 9 MyPersonalDiet presents you a period by which you...

Page 14: ...y nutrients to track and the daily energy From the Day view choose the Diet tab and Diet button which shows the Diet window composed of the Plan Nutrients and Energy pages Figure 10 The Diet window al...

Page 15: ...trictions on specific nutrients The Nutrients page shows you a list of nutrients for which you can optionally assign a daily minimum and or maximum limits see Figure 10 first row right For instance if...

Page 16: ...nutrients for the day The upper area allows you to select a specific date by tapping on the down arrow next to the date which shows a small calendar Days with data with be displayed in bold You can al...

Page 17: ...ne of your Pocket PC s button via Today Settings Buttons allowing you to create a meal and browse food items using a single button Note that if a meal was created in the past 15 minutes Quick Meal wil...

Page 18: ...tion tap to see it more about this shortly are updated You can 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...

Page 19: ...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 tha...

Page 20: ...e of this limit is to discard food items you rarely consume You can pin an item tap and hold the item and select Pin to make sure the item is not automatically removed from the list as new items are a...

Page 21: ...nly items containing all words will be shown What s more prefix a word with an hyphen to exclude food items that contain that word In Figure 17 the search returned entries that contains both milk and...

Page 22: ...t contains You can later recall that meal and specify the amount of servings you actually consumed To update the content of a meal with the food items currently listed choose the Meal button and selec...

Page 23: ...al information Note that the nutrients will remain zero for this meal Additional servings for the meal see Figure 20 This is useful when you eat a meal composed of a variety of food items instead of e...

Page 24: ...a mix of various foods 4 2 Entering Workouts To enter a workout choose Menu New Workout This shows the Workout window Figure 21 Figure 21 The Workout window lets you enter basic information about your...

Page 25: ...th the ability exactly calculate how much energy is burned based on the duration and exertion you enter later on Figure 22 When you create your activities you can enter a measure of the energy your bu...

Page 26: ...ser s Guide 26 Figure 23 The Health window lets you enter key information about your health along any blood markers cholesterol sugar etc Select these tabs to enter personal vital signs blood work mar...

Page 27: ...day 5 2 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 y...

Page 28: ...initial weight to your target weight Your actual weight as entered via health records is shown in red whereas the weight trend is shown in blue The weight trend is what matters the most because it dis...

Page 29: ...lem because fluctuations are normal and expected If the weight is not within 10 of the target weight then a Watch out smiley is shown on a red background This signals that your weight is not in line w...

Page 30: ...n etc The Nutrients Summary present a summary by nutrients of how much of each you consumed daily along the requirements daily recommended values and the percentage of consumed vs recommended A small...

Page 31: ...s Water Macro nutrients the percentage of calories from carbs proteins and fat This is particularly useful to compare with your diet plan see section 3 1 Nutrients You can choose which nutrients to be...

Page 32: ...ow many calories or kilojoules you need to lose or gain to reach you goal and how much on average you lost or gained since the start of your diet 3 About Exercising calculates how often you exercise a...

Page 33: ...ou eat to a dietician for instance Choose 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 t...

Page 34: ...p file can then reused for a restore within MyPersonalDiet if need be To make a restore choose Tools Restore and select a file created by a previous MyPersonalDiet backup If you choose any other file...

Page 35: ...th button shown in this document s pictures Uncheck it to display two soft keys the left key switches from one view to the next and the right key displays the main menu Select the color theme to use t...

Page 36: ...the average in the charts of the Graph view Select Show the diet status on the Today screen to enable the Today plug in Note that you must soft reset your Pocket PC if you change this option Most nut...

Page 37: ...choose to display or not an image when the application starts To display an image select Show image when application starts and select an image file name e g JPEG file Information messages that were t...

Page 38: ...d when adding food items After a few days most of your food will easily be accessible from the Favorites list There are some customization features that can make MyPersonalDiet very well adapted to yo...

Page 39: ...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 data...

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