The Main Window

Nutrition Planning and Tracking Program

The Main Window

The Main Window contains the daily food eaten list, a way to select the currently viewed date, and buttons to add, update, or remove eaten foods. The items in the list are for the day displayed. Use the Log Controls (listed below) to navigate to the desired date. day. Like all properly constructed Windows programs, you can also Tab to a button and press the Space key to push it. However, I've attempted to make this program mouse-friendly, you should be able to do most of your work without touching the keyboard.

Main Window controls include:

User - select the current user or set up users

Categories - define food categories

My Foods - define food items in your custom list

Master List - view or import from the Master List

Settings - change preferences and goal targets

Print - print your eaten food log

Export - write a daily summary file

Plan - create daily plans

Info - gets you this document

Log Date Controls - the Log Date panel is used to select the displayed day.

date selection combo - used to select a date with existing log data
left arrow button - used to go to the previous date
right arrow button - used to go to the next date
calendar button - used to select the log date from a calendar
today button - click to go to today

Log Food Buttons - these buttons on the Log Date panel are used to add, update and remove eaten foods from the log.

Add Eaten Food - click to add a new eaten food to the log
Update - click to update the highlighted eaten food
Remove - use to remove the highlighted food from the eaten log

Speed Menus
A very useful feature is a Speed Menu that you pop up by right-clicking in the list. The menu lets you add, update, delete eaten records, plus some advanced features.

Since most of us eat a lot of the same foods every day, you can use the Speed Menu to Copy and then Paste an item to another day.

You can also go to a previous day, right click on an item and use the Copy Item to Today command to clone the item in the current (today) day.

Or, if you are working on a day and eat the same things at different times, you can right click the item and use the Add Like Item command to clone the item and add it to the list. This command will show the item in a dialog so you can adjust the portions or hour if desired.

Daily Note
Optionally, you can enter a comment or note in the Daily Note field.

Goal Graphs
If you have set up your daily nutritional goals (using Settings) once you log eaten foods graphs will appear at the bottom of the main window. These graphs will show you how your food intake compares with your daily goals. Hover the mouse pointer over a graph to see your goal setting.
Note, to change the color scheme of the graphs, just click on one of them. Keep clicking until you see colors you want. Be aware that on some systems, some of the color schemes will not work well, if it is a "dithered" color, keep clicking.

Closing the Program
To close the program press Alt-F4 or click the close X at the top right of the window. Note that there is no Save command because all changes are written to disk as they are made.