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Dietician
02/28/18
replied to Dietician
Hi Suziq5555- We also have a great Diabetes tracker. Specifically, you can track your medications and blood glucose values. I really like the alarm you can easily set to remind yourself to check your BG 2 hours after a meal. Here's a link!
http://www.mynetdiary.com/dailyTracking.do
JudithSpendelow
03/27/18
Is there any way to include sleep data, like from FitBit or typing it in for those who don't have a FitBit or similar tracker? Since sleep pays an important part in overall health, and particularly Blood Glucose counts for folks diagnosed with diabetes, it would be wonderful to have this included in my summaries!
Thanks, Judith
jhspendelow@gmail.com
Dietician
03/27/18
replied to JudithSpendelow
Hi JudithSpendelow- You can track sleep in MND by typing it in! On the website simply go to the Details tab and click on that. Next click on the writing at the top of the page (Select Measurements to track). This will then open a vertical drop down menu of various aspects to track. You have the option to track total hours of sleep, REM sleep, etc. Let us know if you have any other questions. Best, Joanna (Dietician)
Micheleen
04/23/18
hello I am new here and a bit confused. I have set my activity level to sedentary. I walk about 1000 calories worth of steps a day about 30k in addtiona to daily cario I try to push for 1000 calories of heavy cardio daily. i dont know what im doing wrong. my question is what exactly does "calories left" Mean in my budget now that is the calories left I am referring to is after I have logged both my exercises and my food intake for the day so my real question is what does that mean for example I typically keep it a 1000 calories or above as far as calories left throughout the day that's again after I've logged my exercise and my food my question is is that the calories that I am at a deficit at daily for example in order to lose 2 pounds per week I would need to cut out a 1000 calories from my diet am I reading this right or does this mean something else what are those extra calories in my budget if I eat them will I maintain my weight or if I don't eat them will I lose weight very confused
Dietician
04/24/18
replied to Micheleen
Greetings Micheleen- I believe I responded to your question on FB, and you were able to see the response. Here is what I said in that response. Please do not hesitate to ask any other questions. Glad to be of assistance! Joanna (Dietician)
11:09AM from FB question: MyNetDiary
Hello Micheleen- Welcome to MND community! Glad you found us- I have a few clarifying questions for you to better understand what might be going on. Are you inputting your gym time under the section: Add weekly exercise To get the best weight loss results We suggest only adding exercise above the usual walking of daily living. To add exercise you go to the PLAN tab and scroll down to Exercise. If this is the case, then the app will give you back the calories you burned via planned exercise. If you want to eat those calories back, you can..... However we find that folks get the best results if they do not eat back the calories burned via exercise. Thanks for clarifying. Joanna (Dietician).
AnnMarie2017
06/22/18
Is there a way to see the macros percentages per meal? This is very important for my meal planning.
Dietician
06/23/18
Hello AnnMarie2017,
If you go into the analysis section, you will find the breakdown of the day's calorie distribution of carb, protein and fat %s. Unfortunately, you cannot look at the % per meal. However, if you go into analysis after breakfast, it will have the % for that meal because the rest of the day has not yet been entered.
Is this for tracking carbs for diabetes? If so, it is common for someone to establish carb gram targets for each meal, for example, for a woman, it might be 30-45 grams carb per meal.
It would be a little cumbersome, but you could calculate the % of each macronutrient for a few days by taking the grams of each per meal and dividing into the total calories per meal.
carbohydrate has 4 calories per gram
protein has 4 calories per gram
fat has 9 calories per gram
Example: 350 calories per meal. 20 grams protein x 4 calories per gram = 80 calories from protein
80/350 = 23%
That may seem cumbersome so you may want to aim for grams of each macronutrient per meal.
Please let me know if this makes sense and if you have additional questions.
Take care, Brenda (Dietitian)
U5147002
10/03/18
is there somewhere to check "Resistance starch"
I have just started to learn about this, it looks very interesting.
I am 84 years old and love this program
Flemming
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