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tamarian Tue, Feb-22-05 13:34

Quote:
Originally Posted by BadgerGirl
I don't think this request counts as a new workout, but would you be willing to add to the walking category 2.5 and 3 mph?


Done.

Notice that you can also add your custom cardio types for your own use.

Wa'il

treefrog Tue, Feb-22-05 14:38

Can we add a condiments category to the food categories?

I added a SF relish as a custom food, and I would have liked to have been able to put it into a condiments category, instead of soups, sauces and gravies.

tamarian Tue, Feb-22-05 14:47

Quote:
Originally Posted by treefrog
Can we add a condiments category to the food categories?

I added a SF relish as a custom food, and I would have liked to have been able to put it into a condiments category, instead of soups, sauces and gravies.


There's a category there for "Spices and Herbs" :)

Wa'il

treefrog Tue, Feb-22-05 14:50

I guess I don't really consider things like mustard, ketchup, mayo (although I put this one under fats) and relish as spices and herbs.

But, I guess if there really aren't too many products to warrant another category, I can get around it.

Thanks.

treefrog Tue, Feb-22-05 14:54

Well, I just looked up some of these items. They list relish and catsup (not ketchup :lol: ) in vegetable/vegetable products. Prepared yellow mustard is listed as a spice/herb.

I guess, sometimes it's hard to categorize things.

tamarian Tue, Feb-22-05 15:17

Quote:
Originally Posted by treefrog
I guess, sometimes it's hard to categorize things.


True.

Phase 2 of MyPLAN will focus on sharing data, such as recipes and custom items. So we'll probably decide on then on categories among other things.

The good news is, you will be able to edit your custom categories and recipes to change their category, when new categories are created.

Wa'il

BadgerGirl Tue, Feb-22-05 17:21

Quote:
Originally Posted by tamarian
Done.

Notice that you can also add your custom cardio types for your own use.

Wa'il

Thank you! It's hard to believe this is all provided free. I hope more members are subscribing! :D

treefrog Tue, Feb-22-05 18:08

Quote:
Originally Posted by tamarian
True.

Phase 2 of MyPLAN will focus on sharing data, such as recipes and custom items. So we'll probably decide on then on categories among other things.

The good news is, you will be able to edit your custom categories and recipes to change their category, when new categories are created.

Wa'il


Oh, that sounds great.

Thanks again, and especially for all your hard work.
Cathy

Archie Wed, Feb-23-05 20:58

Thanks for the tip on the browse feature Tamarian!

diemde Sun, Feb-27-05 09:59

Wa'il, The custom exercises only allow adding to cardio. Can you make it so that we can add custom to resistance? I don't see any pulldowns in the list and wanted to add them. Thanks!

tamarian Sun, Feb-27-05 10:08

Quote:
Originally Posted by diemde
Wa'il, The custom exercises only allow adding to cardio. Can you make it so that we can add custom to resistance? I don't see any pulldowns in the list and wanted to add them. Thanks!


For resistance training, the choices of workout names are limited (in number and variety) compared to cardio, where new ones are coming all the time. So I prefer to complete a full listing of workouts for everyone to use . If you see any specific workouts missing, just let me know, and they will be added (I'll add the missing pulldown's).

Wa'il

diemde Sun, Feb-27-05 10:39

Ok, thanks Wa'il.

selfcare Tue, Mar-01-05 14:32

You know what would be a useful feature (she said, expecting that Wa'il will probably reply and say they already have it ;))...

If the weight tab could tell you your weekly average weight in addition to the day by day chart, as it's important for us CADers.

Anyway -- still lovin My PLAN & thanks again for all the hard work!

tamarian Tue, Mar-01-05 14:52

Quote:
Originally Posted by selfcare
You know what would be a useful feature (she said, expecting that Wa'il will probably reply and say they already have it ;))...

If the weight tab could tell you your weekly average weight in addition to the day by day chart, as it's important for us CADers.


No, we don't have it already :)

It's been a while since I've read the first CAD, so, what is this weekly average, and how is it calculated?

There's quite a few ways do average, such as average loss per week, a 7 day moving average, etc...

Wa'il

selfcare Tue, Mar-01-05 15:02

Thanks for replying...

As for what kind of average? Hm. I only have the 1st CAD book, so if anyone has CALP etc, please chime in. Here's the quote:

"Record your weight every day. Compare only your weekly averages to see if you are losing weight. (To get your average for the week, add up all the weights in that week, and divide by the number of weighings.)"

Currently I am entering each day's weight on an Excel doc and then averaging. It's helpful because my daily number bounces around so much that I thought I wasn't losing at all -- but if I just look at the average I have been losing steadily a lb per week. Hopefully that's true!!! :lol:

Dodger Wed, Mar-02-05 15:43

Mayonnaise?
 
I tried to find real mayonnaise in the data base, but there appear to be only a tofu based one, a low calorie and low sodium one, a no cholesterol one and a reduced-calorie no cholesterol one. There are also lots of mayonnaise like salad dressing listed, but no real mayonnaise.

I realize this is a USDA data base, not yours, but mayonnaise is such a popular item for low-carbers that I feel it should be added to the data base.

I have to admit I am shocked that the UDSA would test 17 items that are all forms of fake mayonnaise, but not real mayonnaise.

tamarian Wed, Mar-02-05 16:07

Quote:
Originally Posted by Dodger
I tried to find real mayonnaise in the data base, but there appear to be only a tofu based one, a low calorie and low sodium one, a no cholesterol one and a reduced-calorie no cholesterol one. There are also lots of mayonnaise like salad dressing listed, but no real mayonnaise.

I realize this is a USDA data base, not yours, but mayonnaise is such a popular item for low-carbers that I feel it should be added to the data base.

I have to admit I am shocked that the UDSA would test 17 items that are all forms of fake mayonnaise, but not real mayonnaise.


You can add it as a custom entry.

In the next phase of this project, we will provide sharing tools for custom items and recipes, where we can make many of the custom items and recipes available to all, provided they have sufficient nutritionaldata.

Wa'il

LC-Laur Thu, Mar-03-05 14:31

How about on the Health Stats page we have the option of entering Triglycerides as well. :)

tamarian Thu, Mar-03-05 14:33

Quote:
Originally Posted by LC-Laur
How about on the Health Stats page we have the option of entering Triglycerides as well. :)


Yes, it should have been there.

Wa'il

diemde Sat, Mar-05-05 17:19

Wa'il, from the main Summary page, if you click on add/edit note, it brings up the notes summary page, which shows from Feb 27th through today. Would it be better if you just showed today's date and then we could use the jump to command if we wanted to enter a different date? Or, alternatively, go ahead and jump right to entering a note for today's date.

Should it still be showing February on the notes summary page? It also has two "jump to" drop downs shown, the one for February and the one for March.

tamarian Sat, Mar-05-05 17:31

Quote:
Originally Posted by diemde
Wa'il, from the main Summary page, if you click on add/edit note, it brings up the notes summary page, which shows from Feb 27th through today. Would it be better if you just showed today's date and then we could use the jump to command if we wanted to enter a different date? Or, alternatively, go ahead and jump right to entering a note for today's date.

Should it still be showing February on the notes summary page? It also has two "jump to" drop downs shown, the one for February and the one for March.


The notes page shows a full week. This is because most notes are a sentence or two, and it's easier to read a week's worth, rather than navigate for each day's comment.

The jump dates, are to select the week to jump to.

This week happens to be in February and March, so you get to jump to a week in either month, or alternatively, click on the next/previous week.

It was intended to have the look and feel of vBulletin's weekly calendar mode.

What we can do though, it let it scroll by default to today's date within the week, if this make it easier...

Wa'il

diemde Sat, Mar-05-05 19:49

Oh, this makes sense then. I hadn't worked with it before, so was thinking it was monthly. Duh!

Quote:
Originally Posted by tamarian
What we can do though, it let it scroll by default to today's date within the week, if this make it easier...


I like this idea.

diemde Sat, Mar-05-05 20:03

One more request, a tricky one...

Can you come up with a way to show calorie deficit? This would be calories in minus calories burned. I know the calories burned would be the hard part, but if you can calculate it from the combination of BMR and exercises entered that would be ideal.

I know a problem I have on entering the resistance training is that I don't enter duration. I don't really know how to enter that so it's accurate. What I'd really love is a way to show calories burned simply based on sets, reps and weights. That's probably too hard, though.

Thanks.

tamarian Sat, Mar-05-05 21:13

Quote:
Originally Posted by diemde
One more request, a tricky one...

Can you come up with a way to show calorie deficit? This would be calories in minus calories burned. I know the calories burned would be the hard part, but if you can calculate it from the combination of BMR and exercises entered that would be ideal.

I know a problem I have on entering the resistance training is that I don't enter duration. I don't really know how to enter that so it's accurate. What I'd really love is a way to show calories burned simply based on sets, reps and weights. That's probably too hard, though.

Thanks.


I'll add caloric deficit to my to-do list. The development work for it isn't that hard, it's finding a formula that makes sense that's tricky, and may require a lot of feedback to fine tune.

As to reps and set expenditure, I think the easiest way to guestimate it is by entering it as cardio weight-lifting, or cistomizing a cardio entry for a specific level of intensity.

Wa'il

diemde Sun, Mar-06-05 15:41

Wa'il, the order in which you do resistance exercise can make a difference. Especially if you are decreasing weights or reps. Is there any way to let us depict the order when we enter the exercise for the day? It appears to be storing it in a predefined order.

tamarian Sun, Mar-06-05 16:05

Quote:
Originally Posted by diemde
Wa'il, the order in which you do resistance exercise can make a difference. Especially if you are decreasing weights or reps. Is there any way to let us depict the order when we enter the exercise for the day? It appears to be storing it in a predefined order.


The way it currently orders the wrokouts within a day is as follows:

1. Order by body part (back, upper arms, etc), then
2. order the workout of each body part by the each specific exercise.

We can change it to:

1. Order by body part (back, upper arms, etc), then
2. order the workout of each body part by the each specific exercise (like bench press), then
3. order by entry sequence (i.e. maintain the order of entry, set 1, set 2 etc.)

That would be an easy change, and sounds like what you're talking about?

Wa'il

diemde Sun, Mar-06-05 21:27

Quote:
Originally Posted by tamarian
We can change it to:

1. Order by body part (back, upper arms, etc), then
2. order the workout of each body part by the each specific exercise (like bench press), then
3. order by entry sequence (i.e. maintain the order of entry, set 1, set 2 etc.)


This would be a step in the right direction, but I'd really like to see it ordered by entry sequence, regardless of body part, reps, etc. In an ideal world, I would do all of one body part together, but sometimes the equipment is in use and I'm jumping around. The couple of times I worked with a personal trainer in a group setting, he had us do one set on one machine, then do one set on a different machine, then come back to the first machine for the next set. To get the best workout, you don't want to wait more than 30 seconds or so betwen sets, so I'd like be able to look back and see if the order I do things is hindering my progress. If you don't think this is worthwhile, or if others want to keep it this way, then I can just log the order in my gym log and use that as my reference.

Thanks. :D

tamarian Mon, Mar-07-05 09:57

Quote:
Originally Posted by diemde
This would be a step in the right direction, but I'd really like to see it ordered by entry sequence, regardless of body part, reps, etc.


Beware what you whish for :) Making it in the sequence of entry is very easy to implement. But it may have undesirable effects. Say you entered 3 sets for a bench press, 3 sets of curls, and then you forgot a 4th set of bench-press that you didn't enter. If we do it by sequence of entry, you will need to delete the 3 sets of curls, add the 4th set of bench press, and then re-enter the 3 sets of curls, so that the order would be correct. Sorting by body part, then exercise, then by order of entry, eliminates this problem.

I'm not saying it's not worthwhile, I'm just anticipating the complainst we'll get if it's done by sequence of entry :)

We can add a box where members can explicitly state the sequence they want to record each set, but it would clutter things a bit, and if there are 4 exercises, 3 sets each, you will need to update 12 boxes to change the sequence. So I'm not sure if this is desirable

Wa'il

tamarian Tue, Mar-08-05 09:46

Quote:
Originally Posted by LC-Laur
How about on the Health Stats page we have the option of entering Triglycerides as well. :)


Now available :thup:

Wa'il

Elihnig Wed, Mar-16-05 16:09

One thing I wish we had is for when you don't know exactly how the food you are eating is prepared or what cut of meat it is, for example:

Quote:
Steak, NS as to type of meat, cooked, NS as to fat eaten 12 oz, boneless, cooked 862 51 0 95



Beth


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