cant work out amounts - help! im a newbie!

Select the portion size as 1g and set the servings box as 40.

When this item appears in your diary it will then show a 40g portion.

Don't worry if you mess anything up you can delete items from your diary easily (just click the little red icon to the right of the item you want to delete.

If you enter something into your diary and you want to change the amount click on the name of the item (from your diary page) and a box opens where you can change to portion, potion size and which meal the food was for.

Best wishes

Do the 100g and post .4 servings.

Either 100g and 0.4 in the servings or 1g and 40 in the servings you will also find for fruits etc will give you 100g or if you click on the other choices at the side per fruit ,per piece etc hope this helps. you can always go back and delete just by pressing the edit food button if it dosent come out at the right value. Hope that helps takes a while to grt used to but its great once you get in the swing of things.
You can also copy previous meals etc if you have the same food regularly using the tools.

lauragrell200 - unfortunately that gave me about 1900 calories!! lol! Gypsysbloodro, that seemed to work and gave me 194 calories, which seems to be really high for breakfast! looks like i may need to find a new breakfast totally - any suggestions? I was having granola with plain low fat yogurt.

Hi Hacky4. 190cals for breakfast is pretty good. But, if you need it to be lower (to give you more later in the day for example, I find eggs brilliant. 2 large eggs are 155cals and I find boiled they keep me full for ages (I eat three but I work out early morning so i'm often famished by breakfast time).

All the best.

Planning helps big time. As you learn which are your hungry times you can plan in a snack or meal for that time. Also some people find high protein staves of hunger for longer (I know I do) and others swear by high carbohydrate. Experiment and see what works best for you:

Hint you can set you diary to show the protein/fat/carbohydrate values for your day by: Selecting Settings from the Food tab and using the Nutrients Tracked drop down boxes to show protein/fat/carbohydrate.

Have a play around you can't break anything.

Don't be frightened of fat. Fat doesn't make you fat, eating too much food in general makes you fat. Healthy fats are good and should be incorporated into your diet.

this is the NHS guidance on fat http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/Goodfood/Pages/Fat.aspx

Eating with children around is a nightmare, we often don't want to restrict what they eat because of our eating plans, and that often means lots of food around that can be a temptation. I'd say meet the kids half way... tweak their diet to slightly more healthy stuff (and so reduce some of the treats in the house) but also plan yourself a snack (even if it's just a cup of tea and some fruit or some carrot sticks) to eat during their tea time. This way you are less tempted to pick at their leftovers and they get to see mum eating something sensible and healthy.

1200 cals is tough and if you struggle consider upping the cals slightly to help you out. it's better to eat a little more and take longer to get to goal than attack it head on but crash and burn after a couple of weeks.

Best wishes