VidaOne MyPersonalDiet User manual

MyPersonalDiet®
Windows Mobile Pocket PC
User’s Guide
September 2008
This document applies to MyPersonalDiet® version 3.2.1 and newer.
Copyright © 2005-2008, VidaOne™, Inc. All rights reserved.

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Table of Contents
1Introduction................................................................................................................. 4
1.1What Is MyPersonalDiet®?................................................................................ 4
1.2Windows Mobile Compatibility ......................................................................... 5
1.3How About Exercising?...................................................................................... 6
1.4VidaOne GPS...................................................................................................... 7
1.5VidaOne Polar..................................................................................................... 7
1.6VidaOne Diet & Fitness for Windows Vista and XP ......................................... 8
1.7Installation and Registration............................................................................... 9
Installation................................................................................................................... 9
Running MyPersonalDiet ......................................................................................... 10
Trial Mode ................................................................................................................ 10
Registration............................................................................................................... 11
Upgrades................................................................................................................... 11
1.8Technical Support............................................................................................. 11
2Setting Your Goals.................................................................................................... 12
2.1Entering your Profile......................................................................................... 12
2.2Weight Goal...................................................................................................... 12
2.3Duration ............................................................................................................ 13
2.4Diet Summary................................................................................................... 13
3Choosing a Diet......................................................................................................... 14
3.1Diet Plan............................................................................................................ 15
3.2Nutrients............................................................................................................ 15
3.3Energy............................................................................................................... 15
4Meals, Workouts and Health records........................................................................ 16
4.1Entering Meals.................................................................................................. 17
Quick Meal................................................................................................................ 17
Entering Food Items.................................................................................................. 17
Nutrients.................................................................................................................... 19
Favorite Food Items.................................................................................................. 20
Searching Food Items ............................................................................................... 21
Combining Food Items Into Meals........................................................................... 22
Enter Your Own Food Items..................................................................................... 22
Enter Additional Servings......................................................................................... 23
4.2Entering Workouts............................................................................................ 24
4.3Entering Health Records................................................................................... 25
5Monitoring Your Diet............................................................................................... 27
5.1Today Plug-in.................................................................................................... 27
5.2Day view........................................................................................................... 27
Daily Summary......................................................................................................... 27
Diet Summary........................................................................................................... 28
Meals, Workouts and Health Journal........................................................................ 28
5.3Month view....................................................................................................... 29
5.4Report View...................................................................................................... 30
5.5Graph view........................................................................................................ 31
5.6Getting Results.................................................................................................. 32

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6Exporting Meals, Health records and Workouts....................................................... 33
7Making a Backup...................................................................................................... 34
8Options...................................................................................................................... 35
8.1General.............................................................................................................. 35
8.2Profile................................................................................................................ 35
8.3Health................................................................................................................ 36
8.4Display.............................................................................................................. 36
8.5Nutrients............................................................................................................ 36
8.6Markers............................................................................................................. 36
8.7Password........................................................................................................... 36
8.8Other ................................................................................................................. 37
9What To Do Next?.................................................................................................... 38

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1Introduction
1.1 What Is MyPersonalDiet®?
Most if not all health-conscious people spend a considerable amount of time and energy
tracking the food they consume, and for various reasons, such as:
To maintain, lose or gain weight
To consume enough of some nutrients
To limit their consumption of some nutrients
To follow a balanced diet
MyPersonalDiet is designed to help you establish a diet and weight goals, enter the data
that matters to you (food, health and workouts), track that data and monitor your
condition. This is an ambitious application that is focused on assisting you reaching your
goals.
Figure 1: MyPersonalDiet Day view presents key information about your diet,
such as daily energy summary (left) and diet summary (right).
MyPersonalDiet consists of four views, described later in this manual:
The Day view shows relevant information for the day, and allows you to enter
meals, health data, workouts, revisit your goals, set your diet and get results.
The Month view shows a calendar that displays if your weight is on target or not
for each day.
The Report view presents various summary lists.
The Graph view allows you to see various charts.

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1.2 Windows Mobile Compatibility
MyPersonalDiet is compatible with Windows Mobile 2003, 2003 Second Edition, 5.0 and
6, in portrait (240x320), landscape (320x240), square (240x240), as well as high-
resolution VGA (portrait & landscape).
Figure 2: MyPersonalDiet runs at ease in portrait, landscape, square and VGA resolutions, on
Pocket PC models running Windows Mobile 2003 to Windows Mobile 6.
On Windows Mobile 5.0 and 6, the menu bar (as shown in the pictures in this document)
displays 2 soft keys. However, an option allows you to display a traditional toolbar (see
section 8.1 for details), as shown below, to quickly navigate from one view to another.
Figure 3: An option allows you to display a traditional toolbar on Windows 5.0 and 6.

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1.3 How About Exercising?
Dieting is not only about food and diet tracking, but also exercising. For this reason,
VidaOne also offers MySportTraining (see Figure 4), the best-selling, award-winning,
most comprehensive fitness software for Windows Mobile.
Figure 4: MySportTraining is the premier fitness application for your
Windows Mobile device and works hand in hand with MyPersonalDiet.
MySportTraining offers a variety of features that complement MyPersonalDiet:
You can track aerobic (cardio-vascular) and strength training workouts. You can
use one of the predefined activities or create your own.
You can track workout in details, and it even calculates the amount of calories
you burn while exercising.
It’s a must at the gym, because you can choose from pre-defined exercises
(illustrated), purchase additional exercise series (also illustrated) or add your own
exercises (and optionally attach pictures to them).
It features a body chart that highlights the various muscle groups. You can tap-
and-hold any muscle group to get a list of exercises to add variety.
The month view shows all your workouts at-a-glance to appreciate your
accomplishments.
The month view shows all your workouts at-a-glance to appreciate your
accomplishments.
The report view presents key information and rewarding summaries.
The chart view shows a variety of motivating charts to see your improvement
over time.

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You can plan your workouts to eliminate any guesswork about your fitness
program and find time for exercising despite your busy schedule, thanks to a
seamless integration with Pocket Calendar.
MyPersonalDiet and MySportTraining are also tightly integrated:
Workouts you enter in MySportTraining are also listed in MyPersonalDiet.
MySportTraining also shows the daily calories you consume.
You can also easily switch from one application to the other.
If you are serious about exercising, you ought to try MySportTraining as the ideal
complement to MyPersonalDiet.
1.4 VidaOne GPS
If your Pocket PC is equipped with a GPS receiver (either internal or external), VidaOne
GPS allows you to record your workouts (duration, distance, pace, ascent) right into
MySportTraining, and see the routes you followed without having to purchase additional
sport tracking equipment. You can also customize the workout maps by entering
pushpins (points of interests), such as convenient stores, restaurants, hospitals, malls, etc.
Ideal for casual or competitive walking, hiking, running, road cycling, mountain biking,
kayaking, golfing, skiing, etc. You can find more information, including a user’s guide, at
http://www.vidaone.com/mstgps_ppc.htm.
1.5 VidaOne Polar
Many active or sport-oriented people have discovered the benefit of using a Polar® heart
rate monitor. VidaOne Polar is an extension allows you to download your workout data
via infrared from a the Polar heart rate monitor S series right into your Pocket PC and to
chart it in a snap. You can find more information, including a user’s guide, at
http://www.VidaOne.com/mstpolar_ppc.htm.

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1.6 VidaOne Diet & Fitness for Windows Vista and XP
MyPersonalDiet is fully compatible with VidaOne Diet & Fitness for Windows Vista
and Windows XP. It not only provides the same features than MyPersonalDiet, but also
allows you to customize the food database (such as removing items you never consume),
import and export food items, add custom data fields, enter all the details about your
workouts, download Polar® heart rate monitor information, view a variety of reports and
graphs (all printable), use multiple profiles (users), and more.
Figure 5: VidaOne Diet & Fitness for Windows provides the same features than MySportTraining
and much more, and the data is synchronized via ActiveSync or Windows Mobile Device Center.
MyPersonalDiet and VidaOne Diet & Fitness use Microsoft® Windows Mobile Device
Center (on Windows Vista) or ActiveSync (on Windows XP) to synchronize with the
data entered on your Pocket PC and desktop, in exactly the same way your appointments,
contacts, etc. are synchronized. This allows you to use either version to enter data and
make sure they always remain in sync.
More information about VidaOne Diet & Fitness, including a user’s guide such as this
one, is available at www.VidaOne.com/vodf_win.htm.

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1.7 Installation and Registration
Installation
Make sure your Pocket PC is connected to your desktop or laptop.
Download the software on your desktop from:
http://www.VidaOne.com/download/MpdSetup_PPC.exe.
On your desktop, execute the MpdSetup_PPC. exe program that you
downloaded and follow the on-screen instructions. This initiate the installation
MyPersonalDiet onto your Pocket PC.
On Windows Mobile 5.0 and 6, you will see various messages based on how
ActiveSync tries to install any 3rd-party software:
oWhen the message “the program is from an unknown publisher…” is
shown, simply choose Yes to continue the installation.
oWhen upgrading, you will see a message stating that MyPersonalDiet will
be removed. Choose OK to continue. When asked if you want to upgrade,
choose Yes to continue. On Windows Mobile 5.0, a message stating the
MyPersonalDiet could not be removed will also be displayed. Choose OK
to continue. All these messages are normal
MyPersonalDiet can display some information on the Today screen (more on this
in section 8.4). You will be prompted to display that information or not (you can
change this setting later), as shown below. Choose Yes or No, and then choose
OK to complete the installation.
Figure 6: MyPersonalDiet prompted you to install the Today plug-in or not.
Once the installation is completed, perform a soft-reset (in order to load/unload
the new Today screen plug-in).

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Running MyPersonalDiet
To run MyPersonalDiet, tap Start > Programs > MyPersonalDiet. The first time it runs,
the Welcome Wizard guides you to enter key information, such as your profile.
You can use MyPersonalDiet to establish and follow a weight-loss or weight-gain diet,
you can use MyPersonalDiet simply to track the food you consume. You will be
prompted during the installation whether you want or not to follow a diet. If you choose
to follow a diet, you will be asked to enter your goals (more in section 2). Afterwards,
you are then ready to use MyPersonalDiet!
Figure 7: The Welcome Wizard makes it easy to get started with MyPersonalDiet.
To exit MySportTraining, go back to any view, and using the software input panel, enter
CTRL Q1.
Trial Mode
Until registered, MyPersonalDiet runs in trial mode for up to 10 days. All functions are
enabled in trial mode. Once expired, you will be required to enter a registration key in
order to continue to add data.
1The Microsoft® Pocket PC Application Guidelines discourage providing a Exit menu item, but select
CTRL Q (via the keyboard) to exit the application from any views.

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Registration
A registration key must be purchased to continue using the software beyond the trial
mode period. To purchase a registration key, visit http://www.vidaone.com/products.htm.
Shortly after purchasing the software, you will receive an email with the registration key.
Enter the registration key to re-activate the software.
Note
Write down the registration key and keep it in a safe location. Should your device’s
memory content be accidentally erased (due to battery drain, for instance), you must
install MySportTraining and enter the registration key again.
Upgrades
Visit www.VidaOne.com on a regular basis and when a new version is available,
download and install it over the registered version already installed on your device.
You don’t have to uninstall MyPersonalDiet prior to installing a newer version. You can
always install a newer version of MyPersonalDiet and all the data you’ve already entered
will still be available.
1.8 Technical Support
You can obtain more information about our products, updates, etc. by visiting our
Frequently-Asked Questions (FAQ) page at: http://www.VidaOne.com/faq.htm. If you
have a question, want to provide some feedback, or want to report a problem, please send
us an email at: [email protected]. You can also contact us by mail at the following
address:
VidaOne, Inc.
2501 W. William Cannon Dr
Bldg 2, Suite 205
Austin, TX 78745

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2Setting Your Goals
The first time you run MyPersonalDiet, the welcome wizard helps you set your goals, as
described in the following sections. If you want to later review or change your goals, go
to the Day view, select the Diet tab and choose the Goals button.
2.1 Entering your Profile
Your profile is required in order to perform various calculations within MyPersonalDiet.
It is important to enter all values to obtain the best results. The profile consists of the
following:
Gender
Birth year
Height
Activity level
Maximum heart rate.
You can later change your profile if required via Tools > Options > Profile page.
2.2 Weight Goal
Based on your profile, MyPersonalDiet calculates your Body Mass Index (BMI) and
presents you with a chart showing your weight vs. various weight ranges (see Figure 8).
You can then quickly find out and enter your target weight and as a result, set a realistic
weight goal.
Figure 8: Based on your profile, MyPersonalDiet helps you identifying your target weight.

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2.3 Duration
Once your profile and target weight are known, you have to choose how long your diet
will take. MyPersonalDiet presents you a period in which you can reach your target
weight following a healthy diet (see Figure 9). It is very important to choose a realistic
duration (within the proposed range). Not doing so can hurt your health. For instance, it is
possible to lose weight faster than the period shown, but this results in muscle mass
losses, and other harmful effects.
Figure 9: MyPersonalDiet presents you a period by which you
can reach your target weight in a healthy manner.
2.4 Diet Summary
With your profile, target weight and diet duration entered, MyPersonalDiet summarizes
your diet and shows you how many calories (or kilojoules) you need to lose (or gain)
every day in order to reach your target weight. This gives you a solid daily guideline to
establish your food and exercises habits.

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3Choosing a Diet
Before entering data, you can choose the diet you want to follow and identify nutrients to
track and the daily energy. From the Day view, choose the Diet tab and Diet
button, which shows the Diet window, composed of the Plan, Nutrients and Energy
pages.
Figure 10: The Diet window allows you to choose a diet plan and track specific nutrients and select
your daily energetic requirements to calculate the %DV.

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3.1 Diet Plan
The Plan page allows you to select one of the following predefined diets:
USDA Food Pyramid
High Carb
Low Carb
High Protein
Low Protein
Low Fat
As you select them, the energetic percentage from the major nutrients (carbohydrates,
proteins and fat) are displayed (see Figure 10, first row, left).
In addition, you can choose Custom Plan and select the exact proportion of energy from
these nutrients.
Later on, as you enter food, you will be warned when food do not match these
requirements (see section 4.1 for more details). This allows you to avoid food that may
possible not be a good fit for your diet.
3.2 Nutrients
You can track specific nutrients to make sure that you consume enough of them and/or do
not consume too much of them. This is of prime important for those who have a medical
condition that imposes some restrictions on specific nutrients.
The Nutrients page shows you a list of nutrients for which you can optionally assign a
daily minimum and/or maximum limits (see Figure 10, first row, right). For instance, if
you need to follow a low sodium diet that does not exceed 1800 mg of sodium per day,
enter 1800 under Maximum next to Sodium. If you need to consume at least 1000 mg of
calcium daily, then enter 1000 under Minimum, next to Calcium.
You can later chart these nutrients in the Daily and Chart views respectively for more
information) to see where you stand with regards to the limits you chose. For instance,
from the Day view, you can see a chart of your daily sodium consumption and be
informed whether you can consume more of it for the day (and how much) or if you’ve
exceeded the limit (and by how much).
This gives you the ability to precisely control your diet and make sure you are following
your own guidelines.
3.3 Energy
You can set a limit of the energy you want to consume daily (e.g. 2000 calories). This is
used when calculating the daily dietary intake (%DV).

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4Meals, Workouts and Health records
To view the information you’ve previously entered, go to the Day view and tap on the
Meals, Workout or Health tabs. Figure 11shows the daily meals tab.
Figure 11: The Meals, Health and Workouts windows show you the relevant information for a day.
The figures above show the Meals window, which can show meals or nutrients for the day.
The upper area allows you to select a specific date by tapping on the down arrow next to
the date, which shows a small calendar. Days with data with be displayed in bold. You
can also see the data for today or the previous or next day that has some information of
the same type (e.g. Meals) by using the navigation buttons respectively.
You can cut, copy and paste meals and workouts. To cut or copy an item, tap and hold on
any meal or workout entry, and choose Cut or Copy. To paste, tap and hold on the screen
(even on days with no information) and choose Paste.

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4.1 Entering Meals
To enter a meal, choose Menu > New > Meal. This shows the Meal window (Figure 12).
Figure 12: The Meal window allows you to enter food items for a meal. The total calories and a
colored bar showing the percentage of energy from carbs, proteins and fats are also shown.
Quick Meal
As an alternative, choose Today > Programs > Quick Meal. This will open
MyPersonalDiet if it’s not already running, create a meal and immediately open the Food
Browser.
Since Quick Meal is a separate application, you can associate it with one of your Pocket
PC’s button via Today > Settings > Buttons, allowing you to create a meal and browse
food items using a single button.
Note that if a meal was created in the past 15 minutes, Quick Meal will edit that meal
instead of creating another.
Entering Food Items
You can add, edit or delete food items from the meal using the Add, Edit and Delete
buttons respectively (more on this later).
Tip! You can also tap the down arrow next to the Add button to add one serving of the
following:
1. A food item from your favorite food item list
2. A food item you search for.
Select these tab to enter
specific food items for
the meal., enter additional
servings, or a note.
Use this button to store
the food items into meals.
Use this button to clear
all listed entries.

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Depending on the time of the day, a type of meal will automatically be selected among
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Snack/Drink, Supplement and Other. This is for informational
purposes only; you can change it if need be.
You will later see how food items can be combined in meals. The Meal list is initially
empty the first time you use MyPersonalDiet, but once meals are created, you can
selected them next to Meal and their food items will be added to the list.
When you choose Add from the Meal window, the Food Browser is shown (see Figure
13). This is the principal window by which you enter the food you consume.
To enter a food item, first select a food group, a category and then choose a food item.
Upon choosing an item, the energy field, as well as the detailed name (tap to see it)
and nutrients information (tap to see it, more about this shortly) are updated. You can
use this information to find out exactly what you are consuming. Go ahead, and browse
the whole database to learn about what you are really eating! You’ll be surprised!
Figure 13: The Food Browser window allows you to browse the entire food database and enter the
amount you consumed of the selected food item.
Tap these buttons to
search the food database
or select from your
favorites food items.
Select the amount using
the drop-down list or by
entering a value using the
input panel (keyboard).
The calories and nutrients
are then updated below.
You can toggle between
the item’s detailed name
or nutrients (which you
can select in the O
p
tions
)
.
An option allows you to
see points (see section
368.3)
You are notified if the
food is not a good fit for
your diet (e.g a high carb
food for a low carb diet).
See where the calories are
from (carbs, proteins, fat)
at a glance.
Tap here to add, edit or
delete your own food
items.
Tap the Add button to
add the food item to the
meal.

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Then choose the amount (or quantity) you consumed. In most cases, it is preferable to
choose “1 serving” (i.e. one default serving), which corresponds to one usual serving of
the related food item. The calories (or kilojoules) field, along the nutrients data, are
updated to reflect the amount you are consuming. This information allows you to
precisely decide whether you should eat the whole portion you had in mind (or perhaps
only half of it).
Once done, tap the Add button to add the food in the meal. You will hear a beep, and
a small window will pop up to confirm that the item was added (Figure 14). Food items
that you add are also stored in the Favorites list (more about this shortly).
Figure 14: A small window is shown to confirm that the meal was added.
Select Don’t show this message again to prevent it from being shown for subsequent
items. You can then select another food item and tap Add to add it, and so on. When you
are done, tap OK to close the window (note that closing the window doesn’t add the food
in the meal).
Nutrients
To see the selected item’s nutrients, tap the Nutrients button. You will see some
nutrients (you can select which ones via Tools > Options > Nutrients), along a colored
bar that indicates the source of the calories: blue is calories from carbohydrates, green is
from proteins, and red is from fat. This is useful to determine if the food item is rich in
some specific macro-nutrients. For instance, in Figure 13, nearly all calories are coming
from carbohydrates. If you follow a low-carb diet, you may want to consume food items
displayed with a small blue bar (i.e. low-carb food). In this example, because a low-carb
diet is selected (see section 3.1), “High carb!” is shown to let you know that this food is
possibly not suited for your diet.

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Favorite Food Items
Whenever you add a food item into a meal, that food item it added to the favorites list.
The favorites food item list is accessible by tapping the Favorites button in the Food
Browser. This shows the most recent favorite food items; tap on one to select it. Using
the Favorites button is a quick way for selecting food items you frequently consume.
Figure 15:The Favorite Food Items window lists all your favorite food, grouped by categories.
The list items contains a limit of items that can be added. The purpose of this limit is to
discard food items you rarely consume. You can “pin” an item (tap-and-hold the item and
select Pin to make sure the item is not automatically removed from the list as new items
are added. To “unpin” an item, tap-and-hold the pinned item and select Unpin.
When you select a food item, it is added to the meal using an amount of “1 serving”. If
you prefer to be prompted every time you select the item, tap-and-hold the item and
uncheck Use 1 serving.
Tap these buttons to
expand or collapse the list
entries.
Tap-and-hold any item
and choose Delete to
remove any entry.
Use this button to set the
maximum number of
food items in the list.
You can “pin” items to
make sure they are not
removed from the list as
items are added and older
items are removed.