Last week we released two major updates. First was the public release of OH Groups where any ObesityHelp member can now create their own Group. Second was the addition of Activity Tracking to Health Tracker, which provides a robust and easy to use tool to track and monitor your exercise and activity. Today we have added My Meals and an Activity vs. Weight Loss Report to Health Tracker. 

My Meals My Meals allows you to group and store multiple food and beverage items as a custom meal that can be used over and over again. If you have meals that you eat on a regular basis, you will no longer need to log each food item individually.

To access My Meals, go to your Health Tracker in My OH and click on the Nutrition tab. You will see My Meals listed under Nutrition.

Creating a new meal works similar to your Food Log. You can search for food items on the right and add the foods to the meal on the left. A Calorie Breakdown chart and Nutrient Summary Label are also available for each meal.

Once a meal is created you can add that meal to your Food Log from My Meals by clicking "i had this" or you can search for the meal from your Food Log.

When searching for a meal to add to your Food Log, all meals will be returned when "My Foods" is selected in search. So, to "drill down" on meals that you have created, select to only show "My Foods." When a new meal is created it may require up to 30 minutes for that meal to be indexed and become searchable.

Activity vs. Weight Loss Report Adding to the Macronutrient and Export Reports previously available, there is now an Activity vs. Weight Loss Report. This report will allow to compare Average Time in Activity vs Weight over time, providing you with further insight into what impact physical activity as on weight loss and weight loss maintenance. In Health Tracker, click Reports and then select Activity vs. Weight Loss.

We hope these additions to Health Track reduce the time required to log your daily food intake and makes it easier to view how physical activity impacts your weight.   Create your first meal now! If you have any questions, comments or concerns about this release, please post them here.

The ability to save meals and see nutritional totals by meal are a big help in planning and analyzing my day.  It brings OH up to the level of some of the better diet management sites out there. 

Thanks a lot for your feedback. We have a really great team working on Health Tracker.....excellent developers and great people testing and providing feedback. We have some big plans for Health Tracker that I hope will not only bring it up to par with other diet management sites but make us hands down the number one choice.

I also wanted to touch on the previous post you and I had talked back and forth on. One of the things that will make it easier for you to log your exercise program is "Workouts". Similar to meals, Workouts will allow you to store a series of exercises and use them over and over again. I am hoping this feature is available soon but this should make it much easier for you to log the type of exercise program you participate in.  

Thanks again and please continue to let us know what you think of Health Tracker and how we can improve.

Can't get it to "create a meal".  I keep going in circles, nothing sticks.  I've tried 5 times.  I'm happy to see the reports work now.

Hello,
Could you please provide a little more detail about the problems you are having so we can check it out? Thanks.

You can also check out the tutorial to see if it helps at all.

http://www.obesityhelp.com/content/cmsID,15506/mode,content/ a,cms/#mymeals

I clicked "create a meal", filled out the title and description, clicked "continue" - nothing happens.  I checked "my meals", nothing was there.  I've done it 6 times now.  

My Meals

Create a New Meal

 

Name: *

Description: cot cheese, milk, fresh fruit

* required field

My Meals

Create a New Meal

 

Name: *

Description: cot cheese, milk, fresh fruit

For some reason, I can't copy to show you there is something typed in the title box

Are you seeing the following screen after clicking Continue?



If not, could you please let me know what browser and version of the browser you are using? Thanks. 

I don't see that screen on my home or work computers, I have IE #8 on XP.  And the tracker is back at August 29, instead of the last entry date.