How do you have your food diary set up?
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I haven’t deviated too far from the defaults, except I have added a section:
Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner
Treats\Booze0 -
Mine is pretty simple
Meal #1
Meal #2
Anytime0 -
Hi,
I have
Breakfast
Morning Snack
Lunch
Afternoon Snack
Dinner
After Dinner
Almost never used "After Dinner".
I always eat 6 meals a day
Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper0 -
I just learned that you can go into the settings and rename your meal categories. A lot of times I have a hard time deciding what meal category I should log something into (Especially on days where I work at 4 AM and have "lunch" at like 9 AM and then a second lunch or heavy snack later in the afternoon), so I decided to delete all meals and just sort by time.
I have:
Wakeup - 10 AM
10 AM - 2 PM
2PM - 6 PM
6 PM - Bedtime
I might try changing it around some more after a while to see what I prefer.
How do you guys have your diaries set up, and why do you have it set the way you do?
OMG! I didn't know you could do this!! Awesome! Thanks for the info!0 -
I don't have set meal times so I just numbered mine:
1
2
3
4
5
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Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner
Snacks
Protein Shake
It's not set up in the order I eat them. Snacks includes my pre-workout snack (MWF) and afternoon snack. The timing of my protein shake varies depending on what day it is.0 -
Meals
Snacks
Beverages
(Beverages should really just be titled "beer")0 -
Breakfast
Morning Snack
Lunch
Afternoon Snack
Dinner
Evening Snack0 -
I have Breakast - AM Snack - Lunch - PM Snack - Dinner - Evening Snack. But, I don't get all stressed out if sometimes (weekends especially) I eat and log something that could fall into another category. Breakfast is usually just coffee and vitamins anyway . I could probably simplify it, but that's more trouble than it's worth since it's also fine as-is.0
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When I first got to mfp, I set mine to time periods instead of meals for the most part -
8AM-12PM
12PM-5PM
5PM-9PM
snacks
dessert0 -
I have the following diary labels:
Breakfast (6am To 7am)
Morning Snack (9am To 10am)
Lunch (12pm To 1pm)
Afternoon Snack (3pm To 4pm)
Dinner (5:30pm To 6:30pm)
Evening Snack (8:30pm To 9pm)
They work best for me right now because I have gestational diabetes and have to log everything for the dietitian/doctor, so I log it here, track my blood sugars times and #'s in notes, then I can just print and bring with me for check ins.0 -
cool info, I did not know you could do that0
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I have it this way:
4:00am - 12:00pm
12:00pm - 4:00pm
4:00pm - 8:00pm
8:00pm-10:00pm
Nightmare Fuel
Supplements
I tend to have horrible nightmares if I eat too much or things that are too spicy or flavorful after 10PM, so I set that as the name for a reminder!0 -
Breakfast
Work Snack
Work Meal
Morning Snack
Dinner
Extra Snacks
Tho I don't know why I bother to separate them sometimes... I wish Recent would come up in all "meals"
I hate having to search for something under snacks when I've had it for dinner for example...
Mine isn't always logged under the correct "meal" so to speak, but the amount is logged accurately.0 -
I did Weight Watchers before MFP so I kept the same setup... Morning, midday, evening, and anytime categories. My morning is typically wakeup to my work lunchtime (1100ish), midday is lunchtime until work would be over (1600ish), evening is anything from then until bedtime, and anytime is sort of a random place for me to plan.0
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Breakfast, morning snack, lunch, dinner, snacks.
Honestly I feel like I don't even need the morning snack category.0 -
Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner
Planned Snacks
Drinks
Unplanned Snacks
I only changed it to the unplanned snacks yesterday so I can monitor more closely what snacks im eating. Im really good when it comes to meals and portions but im a terrible snacker.0 -
Breakfast, Lunch, Supper, Snack0
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Breakfast
Morning Snack
Lunch
Afternoon Snack
Dinner
Evening Snack0 -
I have
Breakfast
snack
lunch
snack
dinner
snack
Works best for me, I love my snacks0 -
I just keep the default settings because if you change it on here (the website) it doesn't reflect the change/addition of new categories on the mobile app. So if you add a category, it doesn't appear on the app (or at least from the last time I did that about a year ago, things may have changed since then). Essentially I just have a Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner. Anything in between goes into 'Snack'.0
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I work at a summer camp and the kids take snack 2x a day and I tend to eat with them. However, I don't always take snack so this is how mine looks:
Breakfast
Small Lunch
Dinner
Post-workout
Morning snack
Afternoon snack
It reminds me to eat meals, gives me space to log the snacks when I eat them with the kids, and gives me a place for a post-workout protein shake too.0 -
I have:
Pre-workout
Breakfast
Lunch
Afternoon Snack
Dinner
Evening Snack0 -
I work swing shift and graveyard during my work week and switch to days on my weekends, sometimes being awake for 24 hours or more, so logging has been historically difficult. So for me I have my categories set as:
12am - 4am
4am - 8am
8am - 12pm
12pm - 4pm
4pm - 8pm
8pm - 12am
It has worked quite nicely since no matter what I'm doing I don't have to decide whether to call the meal I eat when I get off work in the morning breakfast, because that's what day walkers call it, or dinner, because that's what it feels like to me.0 -
I just keep the default settings because if you change it on here (the website) it doesn't reflect the change/addition of new categories on the mobile app. So if you add a category, it doesn't appear on the app (or at least from the last time I did that about a year ago, things may have changed since then). Essentially I just have a Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner. Anything in between goes into 'Snack'.0
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I just keep the default settings because if you change it on here (the website) it doesn't reflect the change/addition of new categories on the mobile app. So if you add a category, it doesn't appear on the app (or at least from the last time I did that about a year ago, things may have changed since then). Essentially I just have a Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner. Anything in between goes into 'Snack'.
Mine show on my app just fine. Maybe you might want to get in touch with MFP support? (Note - they won't show on the app on the diary unless you've added something to the category, but they should be available if you want to add an entry.)0 -
I have
Meal 1
Meal 2
Meal 3
Meal 4
Meal 5
Meal 6
I log snacks as meals. I log meals as meals. It helps me see what I ate when and how it affected me later on in the day in the remaining "meals."0 -
I just learned that you can go into the settings and rename your meal categories. A lot of times I have a hard time deciding what meal category I should log something into (Especially on days where I work at 4 AM and have "lunch" at like 9 AM and then a second lunch or heavy snack later in the afternoon), so I decided to delete all meals and just sort by time.
I have:
Wakeup - 10 AM
10 AM - 2 PM
2PM - 6 PM
6 PM - Bedtime
I might try changing it around some more after a while to see what I prefer.
Bless you....didn't even know this was an option. Fixed mine!
Preworkout
Breakfast
Snack
Lunch
Snack
Dinner
Thanks a million
How do you guys have your diaries set up, and why do you have it set the way you do?0 -
AM Drinks
Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner
Snacks and/or Wish I Never Ate!
Supplements0 -
Wakey Wakey 6am-9am
Morning Pick-Me-Up 9am-12pm
Lunchy Munch 12pm-3pm
Afternoon Delight 3pm-6pm
Evening Boost 6pm - 9pm
Wind Down Zone 9pm-12am
'Wakey Wakey' is normally for supplements & early morning cuppa (plus protein bar for Saturday morning when I have an early workout). Wind Down Zone eats are dependent on a) how active I've been and b) how many calories i have left.0
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