Agenda. MyFitnessPal.com Introduction Finding the Site & Signing Up Navigating the Site Tracking Foods & Exercise Printing Information

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2 Agenda MyFitnessPal.com Introduction Finding the Site & Signing Up Navigating the Site Tracking Foods & Exercise Printing Information Slide 2

3 Introduction MyFitnessPal.com is a diet and fitness community built with one purpose in mind: providing you with the tools and support you need to achieve your weight loss goals. We will use MyFitnessPal.com as a tool to track your daily food intake and exercise. The following slides will serve as a walkthrough in getting set-up and working with MyFitnessPal.com. MyFitnessPal is also available as an App on your mobile phone and tablet Slide 3

4 Agenda MyFitnessPal.com Introduction Finding the Site & Signing Up Navigating the Site Tracking Foods & Exercise Printing Information Slide 4

5 Finding the Site & Signing Up Finding the site is as simple as pointing your browser to Once you ve navigated to the website the next step is to initiate the sign up process. In the upper right hand corner of the website we are going to click Sign Up Slide 5

6 Finding the Site & Signing Up Once you ve initiated the Sign Up process you ll select: Username Enter Your Password You ll be asked to enter some basic information including but not limited to: Age Weight Desired Weight Gender Etc. Slide 6

7 Finding the Site & Signing Up MyFitnessPal will present you with suggested fitness & nutrition goals. For now we can disregard this and simply hit Get Started Now. After you ve clicked this button you are signed up and now you should be looking at the MyFitnessPal.com User Interface. Slide 7

8 Agenda MyFitnessPal.com Introduction Finding the Site & Signing Up Navigating the Site Tracking Foods & Exercise Printing Information Slide 8

9 Navigating the Site From here we can access the entire site. For our purposes we will focus on My Home, Food and Exercise. Slide 9

10 Navigating the Site (My Home) In the Home tab we are able to change our dietary goals (this will be discussed at your initial consultation) and track food and exercise. Things like Mail, Profile, My Blog, Friends and Settings are not needed for our purposes. Slide 10

11 Navigating the Site (Food) Food Diary Database My Foods Add a custom food My Meals Create a custom meal Recipes Create a custom recipe Settings Slide 11

12 Navigating the Site (Exercise) Exercise Diary Database My Exercises Add a custom exercise Settings Slide 12

13 Agenda MyFitnessPal.com Introduction Finding the Site & Signing Up Navigating the Site Tracking Foods & Exercise Printing Information Slide 13

14 Tracking Foods & Exercise We now are signed up and familiar with the layout and what we need to focus on. The next step is learning how to track our food & beverages. We must first navigate to the Food tab. Once we are at the Food tab we are going to want to select Food Diary (by default this will be selected) Slide 14

15 Tracking Foods & Exercise We select a meal (we re using breakfast as an example) and click Add Food. Once we ve searched for a food we can select an option from what is presented, enter servings & serving size and select Add Food To Diary. Slide 15

16 Tracking Foods & Exercise Now we see that our Salad has been added and the totals are reflected. Slide 16

17 Tracking Foods & Exercise Beverages are added using the exact same method. The ONLY exception is when adding water. Directly below our Food Diary we have an input for adding water. It s as simple as selecting a number of cups consumed. Slide 17

18 Tracking Foods & Exercise To track exercise we will navigate to the exercise tab. By default our exercise diary will be shown. This system works the same way as food tracking. We simply select Add Exercise for either cardiovascular or weight training. Slide 18

19 Tracking Foods & Exercise Now we search for an exercise and select the one that best corresponds to our search. We enter an amount of time exercised and we add the exercise. Our exercise is now reflected in the diary. Slide 19

20 Agenda MyFitnessPal.com Introduction Finding the Site & Signing Up Navigating the Site Tracking Foods & Exercise Printing Information Slide 20

21 Printing Information Printing out your information is important. This is how you will communicate your diet and exercise journal with your Dietitian. Thankfully it couldn t be easier. At the bottom of both the Food & Exercise Diary pages there is an orange button labeled View Full Report (Printable). We are going to click this button (for both Food & Exercise). Slide 21

22 Printing Information Select a range Select what we want to report on (for our purposes, Food & Exercise Diary). Select Change Report & it will update and refresh. Print the page through your browser. That s it! Slide 22