Life2Go Nutrition Tracker User Guide
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On the Nutrition Tracker page you will see the title Daily Food Intake. If you opted for a personalized meal plan when you filled out your User Profile this is where you will find some suggestions that match your specific needs.
The meals are divided into Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and Snacks. After eating an item on the list, simply click in the box beside that item in the I Ate column. Be sure to account for the quantity consumed or serving size. For instance, if a pancake serving size is one pancake, enter this item twice if you ate two pancakes.
If you are unable to follow the list of suggested items for a given meal, pass the cursor over the item and a box will appear to the right that says Remove Item and Recipe and Details. Drag the cursor over Remove Item and click to delete the item from the list.
To know the nutrition values for a food item, pass the cursor over the item and then drag the cursor over the box that appears to the right. Click on Recipe and Details. This will provide a display of the Calories, Carbs, Protein, Fiber, Sodium and Cholesterol for the item. If the item happens to be one of special dishes provided to Life2Go by Company’s Coming, you will also see a photo of the prepared dish along with recipe instructions. If you want to print the recipe, click Print Preview. On the Print Preview window you can then click the blue box at the top left part of the window to select Print this Page in order to get a hard copy print of the recipe.
To add a food item that you consumed which does not appear on your list, click on the “+ sign” located to the right of the meal selected. A blue box will appear. In that box, enter a word for the food item you consumed such as “sandwich”. A drop down menu will appear with some items that may include a match to the food item you ate. Drag the cursor down over the matching item and click. This item will now appear in the blue box. Click on the “+ sign” to the right of the box to add it to your list. You can then click in the box beside that item in the I Ate column. If you cannot find the exact food item to add to the list for a given meal, choose a reasonable substitute.
Be sure to include condiments such as mustard, mayonnaise, margarine, salad dressings, sauces, etc. on your list of food items consumed.
The instant that you click on a box beside a food item in the I Ate column, the totals for Calories, Fat, Carbs, Proteins, Fiber, Sodium and Cholesterol are calculated and appear on the bar graph on the right side of the Nutrition Tracker page. These figures accumulate with each item added so that by the end of the day the bar graph will display what percent of the daily amount, for each nutrition category, has been consumed.
After entering the food items consumed every day, you can then click on the gray box with the title Week View in the upper right corner of the page, above the bar graph. This action will display the Weekly Food Intake page. On the left of this page under the title Week Average are figures indicating the average Suggested and Actual consumption. To the right side of the page there is a line graph that presents a visual display of these figures for the week. With this line graph you can see if specific days of the week and specific nutrition categories are a problem, such as over consumption of cholesterol on weekends.