The Food Eaten Dialog is used to
enter the foods you have eaten. This is where most of your activity
will be centered. Here are the things you should know:
The first thing you should do is select
Use Defined Food or Manual Entry.
Use Defined Food - most of the time
you will use this option. In this mode, you select a food from your
custom list using the Select Food button. Click on the Amount
spin control (arrows) to set the number of portions and you are done!
Manual Entry - use this when you just
want to enter nutritional information directly. For example, say
you had a protein shake with a known quantity of protein in a water or
other non-nutritional base. You could just enter 40 grams of protein
click OK. Of course, if you drink similar shakes often, you should
probably define them in the Food Item list.
Portions - type in the number of portions
you ate, or click on the spin buttons. Note that the adjustment
increment used for each click is specified on the Settings
dialog.
Hour - this will default to the current
hour but you may wish to adjust it.
Nutritional Values - in
Use Defined Food mode you will rarely adjust these values, but in
Manual Entry mode you will enter them directly.
Note that in Use Defined Food
mode the description of the food is retrieved from the selected food item.
But in Manual Entry mode you will need to enter a description.
Also, note that in Manual Entry mode, the Portions value
is frozen to 1.
There is a
Setting
that will cause the Select Food list to automatically pop up when you enter
this dialog.
The
Food Composition
info is displayed on this dialog.
