Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Before You Start

Yes. Keeping track of your calories with a food diary is simple and effective. It has been proven in multiple scientific studies.

Moreover, it has been proven by millions of our members - read some of their success stories. Calories are the bottom line, and MyNetDiary is the best way to track them, help you eat better, balance what you eat, drink and do.

Please check our Getting Started video in case you are a new user.

The in-app discounts

On iOS and Android, sometimes, we offer our Premium as an in-app purchase with a discount. The promotional program is working automatically.

Unfortunately, we do not have a technical possibility to tweak discounts for Premium manually for the particular account. The promo appearance depends on many factors (it varies by country, on upcoming holidays of this county, by frequency of using the app, and so on). The offer can show up often, or it may never appear for you.

The website discounts

If you do not wish to wait for the promo to appear in the app, as a workaround, you can purchase a few Gift Card codes via this page. The discount depends on the chosen membership length and the number of Gift Cards for purchase. Use the obtained codes via the mynetdiary.com website, as the mobile app does not have the option to apply them. The user can apply multiple Gift Card codes to the same account; (every time, it will increase the membership length accordingly.) Or he/she may present each Gift Card to friends, family members, coworkers, or clients so that each code will upgrade different accounts to the Premium level.

A 50% discount is available while purchasing:

  • twelve 1-months codes for USD 54 one-time payment,
  • eight 3-months codes for USD 96 one-time payment,
  • seven 6-months codes for USD 147 one-time payment,
  • three 12-month codes for USD 90 one-time payment; (the best possible option.)
  • Applying multiple codes to the same account one by one will increase the membership length to the appropriate number of months according to each applied code. Such Premium will automatically downgrade to the Free level at the end of the membership.

    To apply the Gift Card code, the user has to:

    1. Sign-In to the www.mynetdiary.com website with the same credentials as email id and password in the Me section of the mobile app and go to the Settings > Get Premium Membership webpage
    2. enter (copy-paste) the code into the "Have a Gift Card?" field and click the Apply button. The user will immediately get access to Premium-level features on the mobile app and website. The applied code will adjust the membership length according to the value of the purchase.

    Please note we have a special offer available for Healthcare Professionals.

    Feel free to reach us at support@mynetdiary.com to discuss other discount opportunities.

    The regular price for Premium membership is:

    - USD 8.99 on the App Store and Google Play ($9 on the MyNetDiary website) when the user chooses a monthly payment plan,

    - USD 59.99 for a 12-months subscription on the App Store and Google Play ($60 on the MyNetDiary website.)

    *** Premium prices may vary depending on the region

    Mobile Payments

    However, App Store and Google Play convert these regular prices in US dollars to local currencies for many countries, using special currency conversion rates that they change periodically. In either case, the user should see the exact price he is paying on App Store or Google Play on the payment confirmation screen when the user approves a subscription purchase, whether it is in USD or the local currency.

    For any further questions regarding the prices or if you believe you were charged a higher price than what had been displayed, please contact Customer Support of the respective vendor (Apple or Google). All charges are done by the vendor, not by MyNetDiary.

    MyNetDiary Website Payments

    For any issues regarding payments made via the MyNetDiary.com website, please contact our customer support at support@mynetdiary.com. We will be glad to help.

    MyNetDiary has a team of qualified and professional support agents. Tech Support Engineers are ready to assist you in getting to know the application or help you to resolve the issues you may encounter.

    There are currently two ways to reach support:

    - Using the Support tab in your application or mynetdiary.com website.

    - Writing to support@mynetdiary.com directly.

    Here is how to send a request via the online version:

    via the iPhone app:

    via the Android app:

    and via the iPad app:

    It is not required but highly recommended to provide your UserID (a numerical value located under the aforementioned Support tab) when writing an email directly. The userid number will provide immediate insight into the issue and subsequently, help us to fix it more quickly.

    Please note that we currently do not provide phone support due to the volume of user requests. We will not answer or give callbacks to phone messages. We reply to all our user's requests within a reasonable timeframe. Rest assured, our agents will assist you as soon as possible and to the best of their ability.

    At MyNetDiary, we strive to provide our users with the most accurate health and diet tracking and assist them in their journey by giving advice.

    We have an active and supportive community ready to listen and share their experience. You can post your questions on the appropriate forum page. In the app, it is available under the Community tab. You can check our RDs blogs or ask for diet advice at dietitians@mynetdiary.com.

    However, receiving advice from our community does not eliminate your need to consult a doctor/physician. Make sure to seek professional medical advice in case of any health concerns.

    The information provided by MyNetDiary, including information provided by Registered Dietitians, does not constitute medical advice. Please visit your healthcare provider or medical professional if you seek medical advice.

    MyNetDiary is a dieting service to track your way to better health.

    We created it in 2007 to help people keep an eye on what they eat. MyNetDiary monitors the current body weight and analyzes daily energy balance, nutrient, and nutrition intake. Many try to track their food and exercises by writing them down and only manage for a few days or weeks before giving up. MyNetDiary helps to regain control over every diet aspect while simultaneously making it fun.

    MyNetDiary is the highest-rated weight-loss and nutrition app available on iOS, Android, and the web. The reader may think that we are biased. Of course. But we strive to provide accurate and objective information because we value our clients' experience above all else. Anyone can determine if the app fits by reviewing its ratings on Google Play and the App Store. By following the "customer-first" philosophy, we've led the creation of an easy, ad-free, and at the same time, extensive functionality product. Sixteen million users love our feature-packed service and prefer it over our competitors.

    MyNetDiary Food Database is the best, most accurate, and most comprehensive worldwide. The MyNetDiary Food Data Research team continuously verifies all 1.3M+ items via the MyNetDiary Photofood service.

    MyNetDiary is an evidence-based service. We use recommendations and guidelines from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, American Diabetes Association, American Heart Association, and Institute of Medicine. With MyNetDiary, dietitians and coaches can get Professional Connect with their patients and clients to review their food and other data logs. Health Professionals can provide feedback and guidance on nutrition, exercise, and other metrics important for weight loss or gain or maintaining a healthy weight.

    MyNetDiary has been featured in "Today's Dietitian," "Kaizer Permanente," "Good Housekeeping," "Diabetes Forecast," "Women's Health," "Healthline," and many other magazines. Nutrition professionals and other people who focus on a healthy lifestyle are fond of MyNetDiary because of the following:

  • quick food logging,
  • the smooth work of the free barcode scanner,
  • excellent tools to plan and analyze different diets, including the possibility of preparing the menus according to specific dietary preferences,
  • option to get an intelligent forecast and an in-depth view of statistics of a particular vitamin, mineral, micro- or macronutrient intake and its related trends,
  • comprehensive recipe-builder, recipe-import, recipe databases,
  • Shopping List,
  • Diet Library with many educational materials written by dietitians,
  • integrations with third-party apps and smartwatches,
  • and other valuable features like diabetes management and so on.
  • MyNetDiary is a nonjudgmental, intuitive, and body-positive journaling tool that can transform your relationship with food and life so that, with MyNetDiary, you can enjoy eating again!

    It's comprehensive, easy to use, and quick.

    Whether you decide to join or not, the MyNetDiary team wishes you to achieve your diet goals! We hope you will enjoy this adventure with us!

    Are you in?

    MyNetDiary uses BMI as the screening tool for calculating healthy weight ranges. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), BMI can be used as a screening tool, but it requires an assessment by a healthcare provider to determine if BMI is a health risk. This equally applies to situations with BMI in the overweight and underweight ranges.

    BMI is not a perfect screening tool; some people may be healthy and not underweight even with BMI less than 18.5. Unfortunately, an app is not a doctor and cannot reliably assess an individual's situation based on the limited information it has. Thus, the app has to stay on the safe side and support only weight targets that are not considered underweight based on BMI.

    If your healthcare provider assessed your situation and provided you with personalised guidance for body weight and daily food calories, you can override MyNetDiary's calculations and set your daily food calorie budget on the My Weight Plan screen in the app. The customized food calorie budget will help you achieve your weight loss goals with MyNetDiary.

    No. You can rely on our active and friendly Online Community for support and motivation from the comfort of your home. You can participate in our forums, supported by a Registered Dietitian, or join one or more groups according to your interests or location.

    You can participate in the community online or straight from the iPhone and iPad apps. The Android app does not support Community features yet. It is on our roadmap as a future improvement. For users with Android devices, we recommend using the Community page on the website. The Community page on the web is even more advanced than the one on iOS.

    Permitted Age

    MyNetDiary Terms of Use allow use by children over 13 years old with parents' or guardians' permission only. MyNetDiary does not allow use by children younger than 13 years old due to privacy laws.

    Content Rating

    In addition to MyNetDiary's Terms of Use, all mobile apps are assigned Content Rating on iOS App Store and Google Play. The Content Rating is assigned by each store based on the contents of the app. As the MyNetDiary app does not contain references to nudity, violence, and such, and only references alcohol in the food database, it is assigned a 12+ rating on the App Store and a 3+ rating on Google Play.

    These content ratings are set not by MyNetDiary but by the app stores. These ratings allow MyNetDiary app download by persons younger than the minimum age of 13 years allowed by MyNetDiary.

    Conflicting Differences

    The differences in content ratings and MyNetDiary Terms of Use may result in situations when an App Store permits app download, for example, by a 12-year-old child, yet the app does not allow its use. We are sorry about the inconvenience of downloading a free app to find out that it cannot be used. Still, unfortunately, this matter is out of our hands, and there is nothing we can do about this.

    A MyNetDiary account is required to sync the data between your MyNetDiary mobile or tablet app and online tracking at the www.mynetdiary.com website.

    The MyNetDiary app can be downloaded from Google Play or the iOS App Store, like any other mobile app. Downloading and installing an iOS app on your iPhone or iPad device requires you to sign in with your Apple ID, and downloading Android apps on your Android phone or tablet requires you to sign in with your Google Account to the Google Play store.

    Once you've downloaded the app, you have to set it up with your diet info.

    The installed MyNetDiary mobile app can be used with or without creating an account. If you haven't created an account, you can lose your logged data if you lose access to your phone. To save your mobile app records, create a MyNetDiary account as soon as possible. You can create an account at any other time in the Me tab.

    iOS:

    Android:

    Website:

    Having a MyNetDiary account means your records entered on the iPhone, iPad, or Android apps are safely stored in the cloud (on www.mynetdiary.com servers) and could be restored on another device after app installation.

    Please note that your MyNetDiary account is not the same as your Apple ID or Google account. You may use the same email as your Apple ID or Google account, but they will not be linked.

    Furthermore, if you use social login to create an account, you have to use the same social login method every time you sign in to MyNetDiary.

    To sync between the apps and the website, you have to sign in with the same MyNetDiary credentials on both platforms and have a working internet connection.

    Please note that if you go to www.mynetdiary.com on the web browser on your phone, the phone's web browser will not know about the MyNetDiary app, and you will be offered to sign up for MyNetDiary online and create a new account. If you create a new MyNetDiary account, it does not automatically link to your account in the app. To access your existing data, you have to create an account in the app first and then sign in on the web using the same sign-in method (MyNetDiary or social sign-in).

    For more guidance, please check our Creating MyNetDiary Account video.

    MyNetDiary diet service was developed following proven, scientific, evidence-based guidelines and best practices for dieting and weight loss. MyNetDiary is popular with dietitians, nutritionists, and trainers working with their clients using MyNetDiary.

    We provide free professional packs for dietitians, nutritionists, and trainers. Please see Food Diary for Healthcare Professionals for more information. If you start regular work with your clients using MyNetDiary, you can purchase discounted memberships for them, which could be enabled for automatic information sharing with you.

    There are several ways you can work with your client/professional using our service (they are absolutely free and available to all users):

    1. To fulfill our clients' needs, we have created an exclusive Professional Connect feature that allows sharing the diary, personal messages, provides analytical tools to see trends, and helps to review goals and suggest changes. Professionals can see food logs, weigh-ins, notes of the client, and all the other data from their accounts. Please see How to activate Professional Connect.

    2. If ongoing online access to the food diary is not needed, a patient/client can e-mail PDF reports and charts generated on the website or iOS app. There are reports for foods, activities, measurements, diet plans, summary reports, and more.

    3. Also, a patient/client can enable weekly summary e-mails and forward them to their dietitian or trainer. This is the simplest option.

    Finally, there is a directory of dietitians and trainers working with MyNetDiary. If you are a professional working with MyNetDiary, you can ask to be included in the directory when you send your credentials for getting the Professional Pack.

    Of course, you can keep communicating with your client via e-mail or text messaging, sending additional instructions, links, and so on. If you would like to provide some instructional videos, we recommend using specialized video services, such as YouTube or Vimeo.

    No! MyNetDiary does something much better and more accurate than WW points. MyNetDiary keeps track of calories and individual nutrients from food and calories from exercise to help you consistently lose weight, eat healthfully and ensure your body gets the nutrients it needs.

    WW points roll everything together - calories (needed to lose weight) and nutrients (to ensure healthfulness of your diet) and thus providing not quite accurate guidance on weight loss and diet guidance. We have many users who came from WW after not being able to lose weight for months only to start consistently lose weight with MyNetDiary; they believe this was happening because of "zero-point" foods that still provide calories.

    Our idea is that since you find and log foods whether you use WW or MyNetDiary, using WW points makes no sense, you don't need any simplifications or made-up "points." Once you find food in our database (super easy with MyNetDiary!), the rest is taken care of for you automatically without any effort on your part - you will see, count, and get feedback and guidance for both calories and nutrients. With MyNetDiary, you can easily get the whole picture of your nutrition and health!

    In MyNetDiary, you will see

    • Accurate calories and practical, actionable guidance for food and exercise to ensure you are losing weight successfully.
    • Detailed feedback and analysis of key nutrients, such as carbs, saturated fat, cholesterol, sodium, potassium, and more, helping you improve your diet and eat more healthfully.
    • To help you select most healthful foods, MyNetDiary calculates Food Grade, to see at a glance which foods are healthier.

    With the best food database and easy food tracking in MyNetDiary, you will have the best of all worlds.

    It's possible by comparing a particular app with others. Please see the video describing the way how you can perform such comparison and choose a great diet (or any other) app.

    Weight Maintenance Calories (WMC) are daily food calories needed to consume to maintain your current body weight. To lose weight, set your Calorie Budget lower than the maintenance level.

    MyNetDiary uses EER (Estimated Energy Requirements) method to calculate the default WMC value. However, MyNetDiary Premium allows to switch to RMR (Resting Metabolic Rate,) BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate) calculated from Body Fat %, or BMR calculated with Mifflin St. Jeor Equation. Prelmium-level clients can choose to enter the custom WMC value.

    The default WMC value calculated by the EER method includes the following parameters: age, biological sex, physical activity level, current body weight, and height.

    The RMR method requires your input of measured value. It's the rate at which your body burns energy at complete rest (calories your body needs to perform basic functions like breathing and circulation.) Using calculators is not recommended, as it will be less accurate than Estimated Energy Requirement Calculation. This method uses an "Activity Factor" - multiplier to calculate estimated Weight Maintenance Calories and requires direct measurement of RMR input:

    People with iPhones can track Resting Energy in the Apple Health app. However, the customers who linked our app with Apple Health cannot automatically get Resting Energy data in MyNetDiary. Resting Energy tracker is not in the list of trackers available in sync between Apple Health and MyNetDiary.

    BMR can be calculated by the Katch-McArdle formula if you've measured your body fat percentage and by the Mifflin-St. Jeor formula if you don't know it.

    Various other methods exist. Yet dietitians have concerns about their accuracy by comparing with the ones mentioned above. If our standard EER and three additional methods of WMC calculation do not fit, alternatively, you can input your custom value.

    The Android app doesn't support Weight Maintenance Calories customization. In the meantime, the customers who use our Android app and decide to adjust WMC as a workaround can do it via the online version:

    General Questions

    If you have achieved your goals with MyNetDiary or just changed your mind, you need to cancel your subscription to stop auto-renewal after the current billing cycle.

    MyNetDiary Premium Subscription

    If you purchased the MyNetDiary Premium subscription on the App Store, you have to cancel your subscription in your settings:

    cancel sub

    Please see Apple's view, change, or cancel your subscription support article for more information.

    If Apple has charged you by mistake, please contact iTunes Customer Support for a refund. All refunds are handled by Apple. Please see iOS App Store Refunds for detailed information. You can also see Apple's support article regarding the refund process and how to identify Apple ID used for this purchase.

    See also:
    Managing Website Subscriptions
    Managing Android Subscriptions

    When you purchase MyNetDiary Premium membership from the Android app, you pay a recurring subscription fee rather than a one-time price on Google Play. Google Play renews your membership automatically, and you'll be charged at the beginning of the next subscription term.

    If you want to cancel the subscription, please open the Google Play app, open the left-side navigation menu, choose Subscriptions, find the MyNetDiary app, and tap the "Cancel" button.

    Read more about managing your Google Play subscription.

    See also:
    Managing Website Subscriptions
    Managing iOS Subscriptions

    When you purchase MyNetDiary Premium from the MyNetDiary.com website, you pay a recurring subscription fee rather than a one-time price.

    MyNetDiary renews your membership automatically, and you'll be charged at the beginning of the next subscription term.

    If you want to cancel your subscription, please click here.

    MyNetDiary does not store your credit card information. Instead, it uses PayPal as a well-known and trusted payment processor responsible for securely storing your information.

    Please note that if you paid for a MyNetDiary Premium subscription on MyNetDiary's website, we provide a 14-day money-back guarantee with a full refund, no questions asked for new users. Our support team will issue a full refund within 24 hours of your cancellation request if you are eligible for a refund. It may take up to 3 business days to receive your refund.

    See also:
    Managing iOS Subscriptions
    Managing Android Subscriptions

    The cancellation procedure depends on where you purchased the subscription.

    Subscriptions Purchased on the MyNetDiary Website

    If you purchased a MyNetDiary Premium Subscription on MyNetDiary website, you could cancel your subscription via the Settings > Premium Membership webpage.

    Refunds

    For new Premium subscriptions purchased online on the MyNetDiary.com, we provide a 14-day money-back guarantee and a full refund. MyNetDiary support team processes requests and sends refunds within two business days.

    Please send us a support request from your MyNetDiary website account or the MyNetDiary app to initiate a refund.

    Subscriptions Purchased on the App Store

    The only person who can cancel a subscription purchased on the App Store is you, the user. App developers like MyNetDiary don't have access to the App Store billing system and thus cannot cancel any subscriptions. You have to cancel your subscription yourself in your iPhone Settings app:

    cancel sub

    Please see Apple's support article for additional information and instructions.

    Refunds

    Everything about App Store subscriptions is entirely managed by Apple - including charging, charging for trials, renewals, and refunds.

    This may look inconvenient, but this is Apple's decision - they want to own the billing experience and don't let app developers anywhere near it. The bright side is that no dishonest app developer can ever charge, overcharge or double charge on the App Store - Apple keep its customers safe.

    Please see Apple's support article iOS App Store Refunds for detailed information on getting a refund.

    Please notice the Apple's refund policies vary country-by-country, see policies specific to your country. To identify your Apple ID used for the purchase of iOS App or iOS Subscription, see the related article provided by Apple.

    Subscriptions Purchased on Google Play

    Premium subscriptions purchased on Google Play can be canceled by you or us. To cancel:

    1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google Play Store.
    2. Check if you are signed in to the correct Google Account.
    3. Tap Menu and then Subscriptions.
    4. Select the subscription you want to cancel.
    5. Tap Cancel subscription.
    6. Follow the instructions.

    Refunds of Google Play Subscriptions

    For recent purchases on Google Play, we might be able to process a refund if requested. Please forward us the email with order receipt that was sent to you by Google Play.

    The refund procedure depends on where you purchased the subscription.

    Subscriptions Purchased on the MyNetDiary Website

    For new Premium subscriptions purchased online on MyNetDiary.com, we provide a 14-day money-back guarantee and a full refund. MyNetDiary support team processes requests and sends refunds within two business days.

    Please send us a support request from your website account or the app to initiate a refund.

    Subscriptions Purchased on the App Store

    Everything about App Store subscriptions is entirely managed by Apple, including charging for trials, renewals, and refunds.

    This may look inconvenient, but this is Apple's decision - they want to own the billing experience and don't let app developers anywhere near it. The bright side is that no dishonest app developer can ever charge, overcharge or double charge on the App Store - Apple keep its customers safe.

    Please see Apple's support article iOS App Store Refunds for detailed information on getting a refund.

    Please notice the Apple's refund policies vary country-by-country, see policies specific to your country. To identify your Apple ID used for the purchase of iOS App or iOS Subscription, see the related article provided by Apple.

    Subscriptions Purchased on Google Play

    Depending on subscription payment terms and purchase date, we might be able to process a refund if requested. Please send us a support request, and we will be glad to help.

    In case you made the purchase in the app or via the website and the Premium didn't appear on your account, please do the following things:

    • contact us directly at support@mynetdiary.com
    • attach the receipt of the purchase to your request
    Our support team will check the receipt and provide further assistance.

    MyNetDiary offers customers several ways to experience the application in their journey toward health. Here is a summary of its different versions. Please note each app can be upgraded to Premium, and subsequently, Premium is not a separate version of the app.

    Calorie Counter - MyNetDiary, Food Diary Tracker

    The Free app is available on both iOS and Android. It requires no payment or subscription and is the perfect version for people curious about the app's capabilities. It is equipped with basic tracking tools and access to our extensive Food Database. Pick this version if you are looking for an accessible, free and simple diet tracker.

    MyNetDiary Premium

    Premium membership unlocks all the content available within the app and the www.mynetdiary.com website. Among such features, it allows the users to access the Premium Diet plans, over 400 Premium Recipes, and a database with 370.000+ recipes. In addition, MyNetDiary Premium vastly expands the customization options of your app, allowing for truly personalized diet tracking. The Premium Membership, a subscription-based service, is designed and perfect for people who wish to experience all the benefits MyNetDiary offers for health and diet tracking.

    MyNetDiary PRO Calorie Counter

    The Pro app is available on iOS. A one-time payment is required to download the app on AppStore. It functions as a direct upgrade to the free application. It offers users the following features not available on the free version: customizing macros, viewing more charts for different periods, selection of up to 50 nutrients for tracking on the Nutrition Facts, All Meals screen, and the Day Totals Report screen, recording daily food and exercise with timestamps, enabling more Measurements for tracking, etc. This version best suits people looking for a more specialized but subscription-free version of the application.

    Diabetes & Diet Tracker

    The Diabetes Tracker by MyNetDiary ("D" app) is available on iOS and Android. As the name suggests - this app is equipped for Diabetes tracking. It has all the functionality of the Pro app. It helps to organize your carb intake, medication, exercise, blood glucose, and other physical parameters all in one place, providing charts, overviews, and reports based on the information you track. This version is perfect for informative, organized, simple, and subscription-free diabetes tracking for people who prefer a mobile app over computer use.

    Keto Diet App - Carb Genius

    Carb Genius is the easiest and most comprehensive low-carb and keto diet app (available for iOS.) The app includes everything you need for your low-carb lifestyle: planning tools, a carb counter, a food log with a huge verified food database, a macros tracker, and effective diet plans!

    We are happy to get your feedback, suggestions, and ideas to improve the app and make the app more helpful to our users. Rest assured, our developers carefully review all feature requests by our customers, and many of them are already on their way to being added to our future releases.

    Our support team accepts Feature requests at support@mynetdiary.com and via the Support screen in your application or mynetdiary.com website. It is not required, but highly appreciated to receive the following information from you regarding your request:

  • How critical is this feature for you? (whether it is a deciding factor between using/not using the app)
  • How do you see this feature working within the current app screens?
  • Do you know any examples of how this feature might work?
  • Our support team will do their best to communicate your wishes to the developers. The ETA is not always available, but great ideas that might help many people, described in detail as possible, usually get a priority.

    We thank you for helping us make MyNetDiary better for all users!

    User ID is a unique numerical code associated with your account. Every account has its own UserID.

    1) iOS device. If you use the app on your iPhone, open the Support & FAQs screen available on the Me tab. Scroll to the very bottom of the screen. You will see your user ID as on the screenshot below:

    If you use the iPad version, you need to open a left-side menu and choose Support & FAQs. Scroll down. You will find the user ID at the bottom.

    2) Android. If you use the app on your Android phone, open the Support screen available on the Me tab. Scroll to the very bottom of the screen. You will see your user ID as on the screenshot below:

    3) Desktop. If you use our website version, proceed to the Settings and choose Support. Scroll to the very bottom of the screen. You will see your user ID as on the screenshots below:

    The standard glass (cup) of water in MyNetDiary is 8 fl oz.

    There are many benefits of drinking plenty of water and staying well-hydrated! Please see Water Needs article for a comprehensive discussion of hydration topics.

    MyNetDiary provides a powerful and flexible Water Tracker - with goals, statistics, and reminders because many people want to track water to ensure they drink enough fluids. Please notice that water glasses do not affect any weight loss calculations in MyNetDiary, as water consumption does not seem to affect weight loss directly.

    In Water Tracker settings, you can adjust the glass size, connect to iOS Health, Android Google Fit, and Samsung Health, change units. (Logging water info on the website and iOS apps support input of numeric values with decimals. The Android apps are only input with integers.)

    MyNetDiary Premium provides even more comprehensive water tracking. You can create several other sizes of water glasses and bottles. You can set a water goal and set reminders to drink water. Use the Settings of the Water screen of the MyNetDiary mobile app or your online account web page. The charts will be based on the logged daily records.

    Nutrient percentages from Nutrition Facts help us understand if the food is rich or poor in nutrients. FDA defines nutrient amounts used as 100% of Daily Value on a food label:

    Nutrient Daily Value Daily Value
    before 2016
    Macronutrients
    Total fat 78 g↑ 65 g
    Total carbohydrate 275 g↓ 300 g
    Protein 50 g 50 g
    Common Nutrients
    Saturated fat 20 g 20 g
    Cholesterol 300 mg 300 mg
    Sodium 2300 mg↓ 2400 mg
    Dietary fiber 28 g↑ 25 g
    Vitamins
    Vitamin A 3000 IU (900 mcg)↓ 5000 IU (1500 mcg)
    Vitamin C 90 mg↑ 60 mg
    Vitamin D 800 IU (20 mcg)↑ 400 IU (10 mcg)
    Vitamin E 22.4 IU (15 mg)↓ 30 IU (20 mg)
    Vitamin K 120 mcg↑ 80 mcg
    Thiamin 1.2 mg↓ 1.5 mg
    Riboflavin 1.3 mg↓ 1.7 mg
    Niacin 16 mg↓ 20 mg
    Vitamin B6 1.7 mg↓ 2 mg
    Biotin 30 mcg↓ 300 mcg
    Folate 400 mcg 400 mcg
    Vitamin B12 2.4 mcg↓ 6 mcg
    Pantothenic Acid 5 mg↓ 10 mg
    Minerals
    Calcium 1300 mg↑ 1000 mg
    Iron 18 mg 18 mg
    Potassium 4,700 mg↑ 3500 mg
    Phosphorus 1250 mg↑ 1000 mg
    Iodine 150 mcg 150 mcg
    Magnesium 420 mg↑ 400 mg
    Zinc 11 mg↓ 15 mg
    Selenium 55 mcg↓ 70 mcg
    Copper 0.9 mg↓ 2 mg
    Manganese 2.3 mg↑ 2 mg
    Chromium 35 mcg↓ 120 mcg
    Molybdenum 45 mcg↓ 75 mcg
    Other Nutrients
    Added Sugars 50 g -
    Choline 550 mg -

    MyNetDiary uses Activity Level for estimating your calorie needs while creating your weight plan.

    Your maintenance calorie needs are calculated based on your RMR/BMR and an "activity factor" that accounts for your usual level of activity.

    If you choose to log exercise, set your Activity Level as "Sedentary" to avoid double-counting exercise calories.

    Use the Personal Info section to adjust the Activity Level. Accessing this section on the iPhone app is possible via the Me tab and on the iPad app via the App Settings. On the Android app, you can open this section from the My Weight Plan, App Settings, or Me screens.

    activity level

    Available Activity Levels

    Sedentary

    A person engages in typical daily activities (shopping, cooking, laundry, walking a few minutes to and from car/bus/train) but sits for much of the day. Sample occupations: computer programmers, office and phone jobs.

    Low Active

    Sedentary activities above PLUS 30-60 minutes of MODERATE daily activities (e.g. walks 2 miles at 3-4 mph). Sample occupations: school teachers, cashiers, retail workers, and stay-at-home parents with active children.

    Active

    Sedentary activities above PLUS 60-120 minutes of MODERATE activities (e.g. walks more than 7 miles daily). Sample occupations: restaurant servers, light construction workers, cleaning professionals, and nursing.

    Very Active

    Sedentary activities above PLUS 60 minutes or more of moderate activities PLUS 60 minutes of vigorous activity (or 120 minutes or more of moderate activity). Occupations: lumberjacks, heavy construction workers, and professional athletes (during competitive and training seasons).

    The Personal Activity Level of the average person can be estimated by any pedometer. Your level is 'Sedentary' if you make less than 7500 steps per day, the 'Low Active' if you make less than 10,000 steps per day, the 'Active' if you make less than 12,500 steps per day.

    MyNetDiary has many options for integration with other services and apps.

    Wearable Fitness Trackers

    MyNetDiary provides syncing with Fitbit, Garmin, and Withings. When you link a fitness tracker, all your health and fitness data will be imported from there into MyNetDiary, and your logged food data from MyNetDiary will be shared with linked apps and trackers. Fitbit and other trackers can be linked in the Me tab, under Apps & Devices:

    Please note that linking to third-party fitness trackers is included with MyNetDiary Premium membership, along with many other premium tools to help you lose weight faster. You can upgrade to premium in App Settings.

    iPhone Walking, Running, Cycling, Hiking

    If you have an iPhone and you don't use another fitness app already for walking, running, cycling, and hiking, MyNetDiary recommends the built-in GPS tracker found in the Exercise screen. It is simple and straightforward, helping you keep track of your activities.

    Health App Sync

    MyNetDiary also provides very comprehensive integration with the iPhone Health App. The Health app gathers health data from your iPhone, Apple Watch, and apps you already use. The data can be synced with the MyNetDiary iPhone app through the Apps & Devices item in the Me tab. The records logged to MyNetDiary can be synced with the Health App as well.

    Apple Watch

    MyNetDiary can also import workouts logged with Apple Watch's Activity app. This is done through the Health App - the Activity app from the watch sends workouts into the iPhone Health App, similar to other fitness apps.

    Android Sync

    MyNetDiary Android app can be synced with third-party apps via the Android Google Fit app and Android Samsung Health App.

    If you've had history using the Cronometer app, please be aware you can migrate your data into MyNetDiary using the Apple Health link.

    To start, access the settings on Cronometer in the lower right corner and choose Apple Health under Connect Apps and Devices section.

    Make sure you allow Cronometer to write data into Apple Health. Allowing Cronometer to read data is not necessary and we recommend not turning it ON as it might complicate things down the road.

    Then, if you have a link set up between MyNetDiary and Apple Health - the data should be automatically imported.

    For any further questions regarding Cronometer functionality and it's sync with Apple Health App, please reach out to Cronometer Support.

    If you don't know how to link MyNetDiary with Apple Health App, please watch the following tutorial video.

    If you've had history using the MyFitnessPal app, please be aware you can migrate your Weight and other data into MyNetDiary using the Apple Health link.

    To start, access More section in the lower right corner and choose Apps and Devices - Health App.

    Make sure you allow MyFitnessPal to write data into Apple Health. Allowing MyFitnessPal to read data is not necessary and we recommend not turning it ON as it might complicate things down the road.

    You data from MyFitnessPal should first export into Apple Health app.

    Then, if you have a link set up between MyNetDiary and Apple Health - the data should be automatically imported. Here is an example of activity imported from MyFitnessPal into MyNetDiary:

    For any further questions regarding MyFitnessPal functionality and it's sync with Apple Health App, please reach out to MyFitnessPal Support.

    If you don't know how to link MyNetDiary with Apple Health App, please watch the following tutorial video.

    If you've had history using the Lose It! app, please be aware you can migrate your Workout and Weight data into MyNetDiary using the Apple Health link.

    To start, access your profile on Lose It! in the upper right corner and choose Apple Health under Automatic Tracking section.

    Make sure you allow Lose It! to write data into Apple Health. Allowing Lose It! to read data is not necessary and we recommend not turning it ON as it might complicate things down the road.

    Then, if you have a link set up between MyNetDiary and Apple Health - the data should be automatically imported. Here is an example of activity imported from Lose It! into MyNetDiary:

    For any further questions regarding Lose It! functionality and it's sync with Apple Health App, please reach out to Lose It! Support.

    If you don't know how to link MyNetDiary with Apple Health App, please watch the following tutorial video.

    The Fresh Start feature allows you to change your starting date and starting weight, moving it forwards or backwards. You also have the option of deleting your weight data prior to the new starting date and weight.

    The Fresh Start option is available with a premium subscription and can be found in the My Weight Plan section in the Dashboard (if you use iOS/Android) and in the Plan tab (if you use Website).

    Fresh Start provides two options:

    • Change start date while keeping your weight history.
    • Change start date and delete weight history. This option is useful if you want to start from a blank slate.

    With either option, all previously logged foods, exercises, daily notes, and other records remain.

    If you want to start a completely new diary, you can delete your MyNetDiary app, then reinstall it and create a new account. Alternatively, you can create a new account online. Optionally, terminate the "old" account via the website.

    Generally, we would recommend against deleting and reinstalling the app. You can use Fresh Start and then adjust your diet plan, including your target date, target weight, target calories and continue your existing diary.

    MyNetDiary is designed from the ground up to make food entry as fast and easy as possible.

    To search for food, click on the food name cell in the food table and start typing. MyNetDiary will display suggested foods as you type. The search is instantaneous, and you don't need to go to any other pages. Once you see the food you're looking for in the dropdown, you can use the up and down arrow keys to select it.

    Then hit the Tab key to go to the amount cell, enter the amount (any format is supported, e.g., 2, 1.5, or 2/3), and similarly select a serving size with the arrow keys from another dropdown. Hit Tab again, which will take you to the next food row.

    Check out our Searching Foods video for additional assistance.

    You might notice that many Coffee products are lacking a core coffee nutrient in our database - caffeine. This is because a lot of vendors do not indicate the amount of caffeine in their nutrition facts. Thus, the caffeine amount appears as N/A for these products. We at MyNetDiary respect the integrity of nutrition facts provided by vendors and do not change or interfere with them in any way.

    That does not mean that you cannot consistently track caffeine, however. Users can use their own discretion and add the caffeine amount to the coffee you want to use in your food log with Copy & Customize Food tool. A new custom food will be created based on the selected food, which you can subsequently edit to enter the caffeine amount you've estimated for this type of coffee. This tool is available at the bottom of the Food Entry screen in the iOS app and on the Food Label screen in the Android app (named Customize).

    You can use this great and informative Mayo Clinic article as reference when adding caffeine amount.

    Sometimes, we get asked: "Why don't you provide feature XYZ for free? It seems to be basic! And your competitor ABC does!"

    The problem is that different people are interested in different features and thus consider very different features as being "basic." For some people, micronutrient planning is basic and should be free; for other people - Fitbit syncing should be free; for other people, some reports or charts have to be free. Yet, for others syncing with Garmin should be free.

    Here is a funny thing.

    There is no Premium feature in MyNetDiary that someone hasn't requested to be free because they consider it "basic"!

    Free Features in MyNetDiary

    MyNetDiary's free mobile apps and the website provide many tracking, planning, and analysis tools for free, covering all the basics for healthy weight loss.

    It's widely recognized that MyNetDiary provides more tools and features for free than other diet apps and services - just check user reviews of MyNetDiary. Here is a typical one:

    Awesome App
    I used the free version for a week. Easy to use and navigate. I just upgraded to the premium version to see what else I can use to help me in my weight loss venture. The free version was plenty and I was really impressed. I think the free version would be great for most people.

    Moreover, MyNetDiary does not have any ads, sponsored, or promoted stories - neither in the mobile apps nor on the website. We don't sell our user information to anyone. We want our users to stay focused on their diet, lose weight, be healthy, use the best science available without distracting and frequently misleading ads or promoted stories trying to sell you something questionable.

    Finally, MyNetDiary provides the best privacy features among diet apps - no user information is sold or shared, even account creation is optional in MyNetDiary.

    Why Does MyNetDiary Have Premium

    MyNetDiary provides a good, honest service, we spend a lot of time and effort continuously improving the apps and the website, adding new cool features, and providing customer support to you, but we also have to pay our bills! Thus, we offer MyNeDiary Premium to our users who want to go beyond the free basics.

    With MyNetDiary Premium, we provide many advanced and personalized tools and features for those who want to improve faster, track and analyze more insights, improve health, or get more personalized advice, guidance, and support.

    We came up with a very reasonable, balanced set of features in free and paid tiers. We don't show ads or promoted stories. We believe our Premium subscription provides a lot of value; it's very helpful.

    Even though today you are interested in just one "basic" feature and feel that the cost of MyNetDiary for this single feature is too high, you are getting much more than just this feature with MyNetDiary Premium.

    Once you start using MyNetDiary Premium, you'll find yourself using many more of its features than this one "basic" feature that you are looking for today. MyNetDiary Premium makes you more successful in the long run.

    One Size Does Not Fit All

    Different apps offer different features for free and in their premium upgrades. Something available for free in one app may be a premium feature in another app, and vice versa.

    Once again, it's widely recognized that MyNetDiary provides more tools and features for free than other diet apps and services.

    But, if you find that the particular feature you are looking for is available for free in some other diet app and the rest of the app's features and privacy policy work well for you, this other app might be indeed a better option for you. It is completely expected - one size doesn't fit all.

    iOS Family Sharing of Subscriptions

    Recently, Apple App Store started to support family sharing of in-app purchases. The third-party subscriptions are shareable now in the same way as Apple Music, Apple TV, and Apple News. Please see Apple's support article What types of content can I share with my family using purchase sharing?

    Family sharing of in-app subscriptions is available starting with iOS 14.3 release.

    1. Setup your family in iCloud. If you have set up your family sharing on iOS, then it becomes available to other family members once you purchase a subscription in MyNetDiary's iOS apps.

    2. Please make sure that you allow sharing of your subscriptions with family members in iPhone's Settings app under iCloud subscriptions. If you have sharing turned "off" for the MyNetDiary subscription, you need to turn it "on".

    3. Next, make sure that your family member(-s) can see the subscription in their iCloud subscriptions list (also displayed by the App Store app.) If they don't see the subscription, please verify that both phones are upgraded to iOS 14.3 or later and all the steps above.

    4. After that, they can install the MyNetDiary app, go to the "Upgrade to Premium" (or, if you already used Premium before - go to "Renew Premium" screen), and tap Restore Subscription at the bottom of the screen. This should apply to the purchased subscription and upgrade their app.

    Note: make sure that both family members' phones or iPads have the same MyNetDiary app installed - either MyNetDiary Free, Pro, or Diabetes. Any subscription is specific to the app installed and can be shared only if the same MyNetDiary app type is installed on the second phone or iPad.

    Discounted Memberships

    Please note that you can purchase discounted gift cards for your family members, co-workers, or friends on MyNetDiary website and apply them to your existing MyNetDiary accounts.

    Currently, MyNetDiary does not offer a ranking system for low/moderate/high FODMAP foods.

    Since the FODMAP diet is so individualized (after following the elimination phase, high FODMAP foods are slowly added back in and symptoms tracked), we are not able to offer that type of individual customization at this time.

    We will keep FODMAP in mind for future developments.

    Required Deficit for a day is calculated as the total number of "deficit" calories left to lose to reach your target weight divided by the number of days remaining until the target date.

    The total number of "deficit" calories left to lose is calculated assuming you need to lose 3,500 calories to lose a pound of weight. If your goal is to lose 50 lb, for example, then the total calorie deficit is 3,500 * 50 = 175,000 calories.

    The 175,000 number is subsequently divided by the number of days left until your Target Date. So, let's say you set up to lose 50 lb by the end of the year - you will have 365 days left at Jan 1. So 175,000 divided by 365 will be approximately 480 Required Deficit calories for the day.

    In case your weight does not change at all - the Required Deficit number will increase the closer you are to the Target Date, thus pushing you to lose weight faster to reach your goal.

    MyNetDiary has a very strict Privacy Policy. We never sell or share user information. We don't display any ads and don't participate in any ad networks. Account creation is entirely optional in MyNetDiary.

    Your information is private with MyNetDiary.

    Backup Copies

    Although MyNetDiary apps do not require creating an account with MyNetDiary, the apps store a backup copy of data on MyNetDiary servers. This is a necessary safety measure preventing data loss in case a mobile phone is lost, or data on the phone gets corrupted somehow.

    It's not a privacy issue since the app does not have access to and does not require any personally identifiable information. As long as you don't create an account with email and don't enter personally identifiable information into MyNetDiary (for example, you don't enter your name and home address somewhere in notes), there is no way to identify you by your data in the backup copy. It's just a bunch of data for some anonymous person.

    We take user privacy very seriously. Besides account creation being entirely optional in MyNetDiary, MyNetDiary does not participate in any ad networks and does not display ads (often a privacy intrusion sending back to the ad network information about the user).

    iOS - iPhone and iPad

    On iOS, you can change your subscription plan in the iOS Settings app by going to the Subscriptions screen. There, you need to tap the MyNetDiary subscription that you want to change and then select "MyNetDiary Premium (1 Year)" subscription.

    Please see Apple's support article for more detailed steps: Change your subscription plan.

    Google Play

    To change the subscription plan from monthly to annual for subscriptions purchased on Google Play, you have to cancel your monthly subscription and then purchase annual once the monthly expires.

    • Go to the Google Play Store app on your phone.
    • Click on the Menu Options button (three horizontal lines).
    • Select Account and then select Subscriptions.
    • From there, you will cancel your monthly subscription and purchase a yearly subscription when your monthly subscription expires.

    Please see Google's support article Cancel, pause, or change a subscription on Google Play for more details.

    MyNetDiary.com subscriptions purchased on the website

    To change your subscription plan for subscriptions purchased on the MyNetDiary.com website, you need to cancel your current plan and subscribe to the new subscription plan.

    You can see and manage your online subscription at the Account Settings page online after signing in with your MyNetDiary account.

    If you did not have a chance to review the latest changes after downloading the latest app update, you can find it at the Coach tab - App Guide.

    In the iPhone app, the App Guide is located under the Coach tab. On iPad, Android, and web app, the App Guide is located on the Dashboard.

    Some users may need to Edit their community post after publishing. This is possible within 60 minutes after posting by accessing your community profile.

    To do this, open up the Community tab and tap on 3 dots button in the upper right corner, choose My Profile. Scroll your screen to the bottom and find My Wall section where all your published posts are located. Tap on 3 green dots next to the post you wish to edit and choose Edit.

    Please note that after 60 minutes have passed it is impossible to edit your post anymore. This is done to keep the community stable and prevent sudden changes of the information. In case you've missed the 60 minute window to edit the post we recommend deleting it and writing a new one with correct information.

    If you want to modify your calorie budget or your weight goal, you can do this in "My Weight Plan", which is located in the Dashboard tab:

    Once you're in the "My Weight Plan" screen, you can tap on "Target Weight" to edit your weight goal.

    To change your calorie budget, you can change your Target Date or Weekly Rate, which automatically recalculates your Calorie Budget.

    If necessary, you can override the recommended Calorie Budget by changing the actual budget.

    You can also change your calorie budget on certain days of the week in the "Cycling" tab. Calorie Cycling is often used to slightly reduce your weekday calorie budget and allocate the "saved" calories to your weekends.

    This feature provides you the flexibility to vary calorie budgets in an organized, planned fashion while making sure you stay on track overall.

    Please note you can also cycle your Macros by switching Cycle Macros when changing the Calorie Budget for the chosen day of the week.

    If you edit your calorie cycling, your "Food Calories Budget" item will show up as "Food Calories", as seen below.

    If you want to modify your calorie budget or your weight goal, you can do this in "Weight Plan", which is located in the Dashboard tab:

    Once you're in the "Weight Plan" screen, you can tap on "Target Weight" to edit your weight goal.

    To change your calorie budget, you can change your Target Date or Weekly Rate, which automatically recalculates your Calorie Budget.

    If necessary, you can override the recommended Calorie Budget by changing the actual budget.

    You can also change your calorie budget on certain days of the week in the "Calorie Cycling" tab. Calorie Cycling is often used to slightly reduce your weekday calorie budget and allocate the "saved" calories to your weekends.

    This feature provides you the flexibility to vary calorie budgets in an organized, planned fashion while making sure you stay on track overall.

    If you edit your calorie cycling, your "Food Calories Budget" item will show up as "Average Food Calories Budget", as seen below.

    MyNetDiary offers free mobile apps, paid mobile apps, and a paid subscription (MyNetDiary Premium.) MyNetDiary Premium has the most effective tools to help you lose weight faster and get healthier; this is the most comprehensive diet service you can find.

    You can purchase MyNetDiary Premium online on MyNetDiary.com or as an in-app purchase from our mobile apps.

    Online Purchase

    Please go to Settings > Get Premium Membership page on the MyNetDiary website. You will need to Sign-In to MyNetDiary with the same Email-Id and password as in your mobile app. You can find your Email-Id to the right of the Switch Account field at the bottom of the App Settings screen. Accessing the App Settings screen from the iPhone or Android app is possible via the Me tab; on the iPad via the left-side menu. If you didn't create an account, please create one. After purchasing Premium online, it will automatically enable all Premium features in your mobile app.

    In-App Purchase

    You can also purchase Premium from MyNetDiary's mobile apps for iPhone and Android. It's possible via the Me tab. Buying Premium from a mobile app enables all Premium features on the MyNetDiary website.

    Yes, you can. If you'd like to keep track of two food diaries on the same phone, for example, for yourself and your significant one, or your child, you can do this on the phone, tablet, or iPad.

    Please install two apps, e.g., Free and Diabetes and create or sign in to different MyNetDiary accounts. The apps will be completely independent of each other. This way, you won't need to switch between accounts every day.

    Or, you can install one app, create an account, reinstall the app and, then create the second account. After that, switch between accounts in the Settings screen of the mobile app.

    Tap the "+" button at the bottom of the Dashboard screen, then choose your meal.

    You can search for your food or scan the barcode on the package. Once you found your item, tap on it and enter the serving amount that you ate.

    Scroll through the tabs to choose from your Favorites, enter a specific calorie amount, find Staple Foods and ingredients, create a Custom Food or Custom Meal, search Premium Recipes, create a New Recipe or import a recipe from the web, and pick from your Recent Foods.

    Learn how to add foods to Favorites here.

    If you go to a specific meal, you can also press and hold the green "+" button to go straight to the food search category that you need.

    Changing Multiple Food Entries

    You can Copy, Move, Timestamp, or Delete some or all food entries in a meal.

    If you go to a certain meal, swipe left on one of the food entries, and tap the green Select button, as such,

    You'll be able to select some or all of the food entries in that meal and choose what to do with them from the options at the bottom of the screen.

    You can Copy the entries, Move them to another meal, change the Time of the meal (see this FAQ about enabling Timestamping) or Delete the entries. In the Android app, you can do the same if you press and hold the food entry instead of swiping it.

    Tips on Search Tabs

    If you are a premium member, you can also edit the food search tabs by rearranging or customizing them in App Setting, under "Customize Search Tabs".

    You can also select multiple foods, even foods from different tabs, and log them all at once. If necessary, tap on the food name to edit the amount before logging.

    If you turn on Multi-Entry logging in App Settings, you'll be able to search and select multiple foods before logging them all at once, as opposed to having to log each food search separately.

    Check out our Advanced Food Logging video for additional assistance.

    The 4-4-9 Rule

    Typically, a gram of carbs and protein is considered to be 4 calories, while a gram of fat is 9 calories. Using these numbers, a food with 15 grams of carbs, 10 grams of protein, and 5 grams of fat should provide 145 calories, calculated as 15 * 4 + 10 * 4 + 5 * 9. For many foods, these "calculated" calories are the same or close to the actual calories printed at the top of the food's Nutrition Facts.

    Why Calories Calculated From Macros Differ From Published Calories?

    For some foods, though, the "calculated" calories value may be quite different. There are several reasons for that. Most importantly, calories-per-gram for carbs, proteins, and fat (4, 4, and 9 respectively) are approximate, average values, and vary for different kinds of fats, different kinds of carbs, and different proteins. For example, a more accurate "average" calories per gram of fat value is 8.9 calories. For carbs, calories vary from 3.692 calories per gram for glucose to 4.116 calories for starch. Proteins from meat and vegetable sources are metabolized differently, with greater portion lost as nitrogenous substances in urine and feces for meat proteins, thus the caloric effect of one gram of protein is different for them, i.e. it is not precisely 4 calories in all cases.

    Thus, the "4-4-9" rule, while working well for many foods, may calculate calories different from calories printed in Nutrition Facts. Differences by a few percent are quite regular. Still, if you see values differing by more than 20%, it is worthy of double-checking Nutrition Facts, to make sure all numbers are correct.

    Logged Daily Totals of Calories and Macros Not Matching Planned

    These variations of calculated and actual calories may also result in your daily totals of calories and macronutrients not matching planned values.

    When calculating your diet plan, MyNetDiary distributes total calories planned among macronutrients based on the "4-4-9" rule - that's the best rule available. For example, a 2,000 calories plan with 50% of calories coming from carbs, 25% from proteins, and 25% of calories coming from fat means that 1,000 calories should come from carbs, 500 - from proteins, and 500 calories should come from fat. These calories are re-calculated into 250 grams of carbs (that is 1,000 / 4), 125 grams of proteins (that is 500 / 4), and 56 grams of fat (that is 500 / 9)

    If all foods had perfect 4-4-9 calories match, then when you consume during a day 250 grams of carbs, 125 grams of proteins, and 56 grams of fat and your total daily calories would be precisely 2,000 calories. BUT, as we now know, calories may not match for some foods, resulting in a discrepancy - you consume carbs, proteins, and fat as planned, but you miss your daily calories! Or, it could be the other way - you hit your calorie targets, but you may miss on some macronutrients!

    This is a normal situation, caused by one or several foods that have "calculated" calories different from actual, thus causing differences in your planned and actual calories and macronutrients.

    It is very easy to create a diet plan with MyNetDiary web app or mobile apps. My Weight Plan screen and the Plan web page provide all the tools to create a sensible plan.

    For more guidance, please review in-depth articles from MyNetDiary Library Calorie Planning Guide and Nutrient Planning Guide.

    If you want to modify a recipe or "my meal" you created or imported, one way to do this is by going to the "Manage My Foods" item, located in the Me tab.

    This allows you to review and edit all your foods and recipes.

    In "Manage My Foods", go to the "Recipes" tab, click on the recipe you want to modify, and tap "Edit Recipe"

    You can now modify any ingredient in the recipe.

    Modifying Premium Recipes

    One way to modify a premium recipe is by going to "Manage My Foods" in the Me tab, and then to the "Premium" tab. Tap on the recipe you want to use, go to the bottom of the recipe screen, and tap "Copy & Customize".

    You'll have to give the recipe copy a unique name, and then edit any of the ingredients in the recipe.

    For more guidance, please check our Recipe Editor video.

    On the website it is possible through Sending Friend Invitation page:

    After your friend accepted the invitation, you can see that his/her nickname appeared under the Community > Friends tab.

    The public nickname can be different from the Account name. Your Account name allows you to sign in to the app/website. The public nickname is needed to find you via Community search:

    To accept your friend's request, you need to search him/her through public name, open profile, and change the attitude from Neutral to Friendly:

    Open the Community tab, choose the Friends tab, and an option that suits you:

    Once you send the invite through the appropriate method, your friend will see it like that:

    Once a friend accepts your invitation, you will be notified. The declined invitation does not have a notification. If friend accidentally declines, please send new invitation to him. This is how friend's page looks like:

    MyNetDiary allows tracking of a variety of data like bone weight, lean body mass, etc. These are optional, but they can be measured and obtained from a special scale, such as a Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis (BIA) device, which is used by gyms and doctors' offices. For instance, some Tanita scales provide weight, body fat %, muscle mass, physique rating, and bone mass. Other weight scales can measure resting heart rate, etc. Some of these measurements can be automatically synced with MyNetDiary through direct integration with Fitbit and Withings. You can also link third-party apps through indirect integration with Android Google Fit App, iPhone HealthKit, or with the Android Samsung Health App.

    If you have a MyNetDiary Premium Gift Card, you have to apply its code on the mynetdiary.com website since mobile apps are not allowed to use non-Apple gift cards as a payment. You can apply multiple Gift Cards - they all will extend your Premium membership.

    1) First of all, make sure you have created a MyNetDiary account.

    Note: When you start with MyNetDiary using one of our mobile apps, you are not required to create a MyNetDiary account and can use the app without an account. As gift cards are applied on the website, you must create an account in MyNetDiary mobile app and then sign in to mynetdiary.com with this account to upgrade it. Please check the following article or video for more details:

    2) Sign in to the www.mynetdiary.com website with your credentials and go to the Settings > Get Premium Membership webpage; enter (or paste) the gift card code into the "Have a Gift Card?" field and click the Apply button. Your account will be upgraded to Premium on the website and in the mobile app the next time you open it.

    Along with calories, the MyNetDiary Free version supports tracking eight following nutrients:

  • Total Fat
  • Total Carbs
  • Protein
  • Saturated Fat
  • Trans Fat
  • Sodium
  • Dietary Fiber
  • Calcium.
  • Customization of targets by the above nutrients and other nutrients requires Premium membership. Also, the user without Premium cannot enable the nutrient totals (other than the macros) on the Dashboard .

    Sometimes the user needs to change the email and/or password associated with their account. This is possible if the user has an account registered on mynetdiary.com.

    Please note that it is highly recommended to register an account regardless of wanting to change the email or password data. For more information about this, please check the following article.

    After accessing your website account you can navigate to Settings - My Account and change your email and password.

    Click on either Password or Email Address field once and the system will allow you apply changes.

    You can do the same via the mobile app. Me tab - App Settings - MyNetDiary Account - Email.

    After applying changes, please access your mobile app and navigate to Me (on iOS) or Settings (on Android), and choose Switch Account. Enter the data you've changed on the web to complete the sync on mobile and web version.

    If you forgot your password, please check the following article.

    If you have not created a MyNetDiary account and only used a mobile app without an account, you can delete the mobile app and your anonymous backup stored in the cloud will no longer be accessible.

    If you created a MyNetDiary account, you can delete your account via MyNetDiary mobile apps or MyNetDiary web app.

    Deleting account from Web app
    Go to Settings > My Account on the MyNetDiary website:

    Deleting account from MyNetDiary iOS app
    Open iOS app, go to Me --> App Settings --> MyNetDiary Account screen:

    Deleting account from MyNetDiary Android app
    Open Android app, go to Me --> App Settings --> MyNetDiary Account screen:

    When you terminate your account, all of your private data will be deleted in accordance with our Privacy Policy. If you change your mind, you might not be able to recover a deleted account.

    All Data Will be Permanently Deleted

    All the data and content in that account, such as food, exercise, daily steps info, body weight, blood glucose readings, insulin doses, medications, and custom trackers. You won't be able to access your charts, generate reports, or look at your analysis. The data of the closed account cannot be retrieved, and you will lose access to purchased subscriptions.

    Refund for Subscription

    Online Subscriptions

    If you purchased a subscription on the www.mynetdiary.com website, you may be eligible for a refund. MyNetDiary provides a 14-days money-back guarantee with full refunds for subscriptions purchased on the www.MyNetDiary.com website. Refunds may take up to 3 business days to show up on your bank account.

    In-App Mobile Subscriptions

    Please note that terminating your MyNetDiary account does not cancel an in-app subscription purchased via the MyNetDiary iPhone or iPad app. To cancel your subscription, please see Cancel Premium Subscription. Please see Refunds of iOS Subscriptions for information about refunds of iOS in-app subscriptions.

    If you purchased your subscription through Google Play, auto-billing will be canceled automatically when you delete your account.

    In the app version 8.20, we've added an option to mark a day as "complete:"

    If you ate a little or not at all due to fasting, you can mark the day as complete anyway, so that analysis will include the data you logged on such days. Calculating the daily and weekly analysis is impossible for days with total calories less than 400 and not marked as complete.

    MyNetDiary's core version is free. The free tier includes the basic functionalities on the MyNetDiary Free iPhone app, MyNetDiary Free iPad app, MyNetDiary Free Apple Watch app, MyNetDiary Free Android app, and www.mynetdiary.com website. Essential features of the free iOS/Android apps and website are everything needed for healthy weight loss.

    The basic features of the free iOS apps:
    barcode scanning, create an account, use without creating an account, no-ads, create and edit the recipe, shopping list, share recipe, share meal, print recipe, print Food Report, print Daily Food Totals, print Exercise & Activities, print Measurements, print Weekly Summary, My Analysis, My Weight Plan, My Advice history, App Guide, MyNetDiary Library, How-To Videos, Tips & Tricks, Grocery Check, Before & After photos, Voice Input, App PIN Code, Multi - Entry Logging, Professional Connect, Show Fractions in Macros, use Current Time for Timestamps, Spellcheck Food Searches, My Plan, Exercise Tracker, Steps Tracker, Free direct integrations with Apple Health and Apple Watch, Free indirect integrations with third-party apps (e.g., to read Heart rate, exercises, steps, body weight, etc.,) Daily Notes, Vitamins & Supplements, Add Exercise to Calorie Budget, My Analysis, Weigh-In tracker, My Weight Plan, Community, Invite Friends, Coach (Analysys & Insights, Learning,) Dietitian Blog, Social, Manage My Food (Favorites, Frequent, Custom Foods, Custom Meals Custom Recipes, Staple Foods, Photofoods,) Reports & Summary & Emails, Personal Info, Macros & Nutrients in Meals& Foods tracking, Show Food Grade, Show Salt, Nutrient tracking (Total Fat, Total Carbs, Protein, Saturated Fat,Trans Fat, Sodium, Dietary Fiber, Calcium,) Voice Input, The week Starts on Monday, Customize Food Search Tabs, Allow All Dashboard Items, use standard water containers (1/2 glass, glass, and bottle,) switching between volume units (ml/fl oz,) Smooth Weight Chart, Show Weight Goal Line, Planned Weight Trajectory Line, Show Weight Achievements, Weight Units (lb/kg/st&lb,) Length Units (ft/m,) Volume Units (ml/fl oz,) Energy Units (Calories/kJ,) Appearance mode (Automatic/Light/Dark,) Use High-Contrast Theme, Use Fixed Fonts, Use Haptic Feedback, Siri, Meal Reminders (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Snacks,) Weigh-In Reminder, Notify About PhotoFoods, Show App Tips, Show Diet Advice, My Name, Delete Account, Support & FAQs, Built-In GPS Tracker.

    The essential functions of the free Android apps:
    Create account, use the app without creating an account, barcode scanning, no-ads, create recipe, edit recipe, shopping list, share recipe, share meal, print recipe, Professional Connect, My Plan, Exercise Tracker, Steps Tracker, Add Exercise To Calorie Budget, Free direct integrations (with Google Fit, Samsung Health Free indirect integrations with third-party apps and smartwatches - e.g., to read Heart rate, exercises, steps, body weight, etc.,) My Analysis, Weight-In, My Weight Plan, Diet Library, App Guide, Dietitian Blog, Daily Analysis, My Advice history, My Foods (Staple Foods, My Favorites, Frequent Foods, Recent Meals, Custom Foods, Custom Meals, Custom Recipes, Photofoods) Nutrient tracking (Total Fat, Total Carbs, Protein, Saturated Fat, Trans Fat, Sodium, Dietary Fiber, Calcium,) Personal Info, Before & After Photos, My Health, Heart Rate, Voice Input, Multi-Entry Food Logging, Spellcheck Food Searches, Water Tracker with standard containers use (1/2 glass, glass, bottle,) Meal Reminders, Weigh-In Reminder, Show Food Pictures, Macros Pie Chart on the Dashboard and in Food Log, Show or hide your weight, Use Kilojoules, Use Metric Units, Diet Advice, Show App Tips, Support & FAQs.

    The basis functionalities of the free www.mynetdiary.com website:
    Food tracking, Professional Connect, Create Account, no-ads, My Plan (Target Date, Target Weight, Weekly Rate, Calorie Budget,) Personal Info, Community (forums/sharing,) Dietitians Forum(Dietitians' advice,) Data Export (Save the consolidated report for the Year to Excel/Printing it from Excel,) Nutrient tracking (Total Fat, Total Carbs, Protein, Saturated Fat, Trans Fat, Sodium, Dietary Fiber, Calcium,) Exercises Tracker, Add Exercise to Calorie Budget, Water Tracker, Daily Notes, Vitamins & Supplements Tracker, Steps Tracker, My Health, Sharing custom foods and recipes via Community, Community Groups, Before & After Photos, Spellcheck Food Searches, Support, FAQ, My Foods (Favorites, Frequent Foods, Recent Meals, Custom Foods, Custom Recipes, Custom Meals, Staple Foods,) Use Metric Units, Show Diet Advice, Show or Hide Body Weight, Show Fractions in Macros, Planned Food Indicator, Calendar Starts on Monday or Sunday, Date Format, Timezone.

    Our Premium tier provides more tools and guidance with diets and recipes, analysis, and feedback features. Most of our new clients start with the Free version and then decide to upgrade. But whether our customers use the free or Premium, they admit that MyNetDiary is the best app for dieting.

    You can email the reports from different places of the iPhone app. For example, you can do it from the Me section; just tap the Reports & Summary Emails item, prepare the report for the particular period, then share the file with someone via AirDrop, iMessage, Mail, WhatsApp, or so on.

    Alternatively, you can Email Food Report for seven days via the top-right menu of the meal screen.

    In the iOS version, users who enabled the BG & Diabetes Tracking feature can email the Weekly Timeline Report from the same menu as well as Diabetes Weekly Timeline Email.

    In the Android version, you can do it from the Coach tab; tap the PDF Reports item, prepare the report for the particular period, then share the file with someone via iMessage, Mail, WhatsApp, or so on:

    Two conditions required for synching/syncing/synchronization:

    1. same user-id number
    2. working Internet connection

    "The trigger for synchronization"/"To force the app to sync":

  • go to another day
  • or make a new food entry

  • We understand the importance of being informed about subscription renewals. However, as subscriptions for MyNetDiary are managed through Apple/Google Play/PayPal, we do not have direct access to their billing system or your personal contact information. This makes it impossible for us to send notifications regarding upcoming renewals.

    For assistance with billing inquiries and to request notifications about subscription renewals, we kindly advise you to contact Apple/Google Play/PayPal Customer Service. They will be able to provide the necessary support and information regarding your subscription.

    We appreciate your understanding and are here to help with any MyNetDiary-related queries you may have.

    Weight Loss and Diets

    No, there is not a set time at night to stop eating for weight loss. The bottom line is calories. You should be fine as long as you meet your total daily calorie target. But having said that, anyone who suffers from reflux (GERD) or heartburn should avoid eating heavy snacks (e.g., high in fat/protein) before bedtime or lying down.

    Shift workers have a challenge if the majority of their calories are consumed in the middle of the night. Generally, they do better with smaller, more frequent meals, and movement to help them stay alert.

    Yes! To maintain your current weight, set your Target Weight the same as your Current Weight.

    You will consume your DRI calories (your Weight Maintenance Calories). Log your daily foods into MyNetDiary to keep track of your total calories.

    Eating more than your DRI will lead to weight gain. Eating less than your DRI will lead to weight loss. Please review our blog post about the Weight Maintenance.

    This manual is suitable for iOS, Android and web users.

    Step 1: Calculating Weight Maintenance Calories

    MyNetDiary uses the official formulas for Estimated Energy Requirements provided by the Food and Nutrition Board of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.

    Adult man: EER = 662 - 9.53 x age (y) + PA x (15.91 x wt [kg] + 539.6 x ht [m])

    Adult woman: EER = 354 - 6.91 x age (y) + PA x (9.36 x wt [kg] + 726 x ht [m])

    The formulas are explained in "Energy" chapter of DRI book.

    PA indicates activity level, and is equal to 1.0 for sedentary, 1.12 for low active, 1.27 for active, and 1.45 for very active. See more details about MyNetDiary activity levels. We recommend selecting activity level in MyNetDiary as "sedentary" and accurately accounting for any extra energy-burning activities and exercises that are outside of typical "sedentary" lifestyle. This will be much more accurate than the generic "active" activity level, which is of course a very rough guess. You can adjust your activity level in the Me tab - Personal Info.

    The resulting number, "Estimated Energy Requirements," in MyNetDiary is called Weight Maintenance Calories. This is the number of calories your body needs to maintain its current weight.

    Step 2: Calculating Required Daily Calorie Deficit

    Required Daily Calorie Deficit is the number of calories you need to "lose" daily. It is calculated based on the number of pounds left to lose and the number of days left until your target date.

    To lose a pound of fat, you need to lose 3,500 calories. So, Required Daily Calorie Deficit is calculated as the number of pounds to lose multiplied by 3,500 calories and divided by the number of days left until your target date.

    Step 3: Calculating Calorie Budget

    The final step is to subtract from Weight Maintenance Calories your Required Daily Calorie Deficit. This is the number of calories your need to consume to reach your weight goal on the target date. This is the number set as your Daily Calorie Budget.

    Body Fat Percentage and BMI

    MyNetDiary does not consider body fat percentage or BMI for calculating Calorie Budget, as the formulas above are more accurate. You may want to look if your BMI is in a healthy range when you decide what your desired target weight is.

    The most prominent item on your Dashboard in MyNetDiary is your daily budget - either an apple (if the primary nutrient you track is calories, which is the default in MyNetDiary) or a circle (if you changed the primary nutrient to carbs, protein, or something else.) If you are meeting your budget goals, the apple/circle will be green; otherwise - red or orange.

    If your goal is losing weight

    Green apple/circle means you are under your budget. All is well :).

    If you are over your budget, but you consumed fewer calories than your Weight Maintenance Calories, the color would be orange. It's a warning that while you are still losing weight, it's not as fast as you planned.

    If you are over your budget and your consumed calories are also over your weight maintenance calories, you are gaining weight. The color would be red.

    If your goal is weight maintenance

    If your target weight is the same as your current weight, you are maintaining. Since most folks use MyNetDiary to lose weight, weight maintenance for most of our users means maintaining their weight loss. Thus, MyNetDiary uses the same color system as for weight loss. If you are under your budget, the apple/circle would be green. If you are over budget but under "weight maintenance calories," it will be orange; otherwise - red.

    If your goal is gaining weight

    Generally, to gain weight, you need to consume more calories. For the current "today" day, MyNetDiary avoids using the red color even if you are under budget. Seeing red the entire day starting in the morning after eating breakfast is unpleasant and de-motivating (and you can always eat a bit more!) So, if your goal is gaining weight, the apple/circle is always green for the current day.

    For days in the past, the apple/circle will be green if the budget is exceeded and red if that day is under budget.

    If your goal is changed

    MyNetDiary calculates your goal by comparing your current weight with your target weight. If your target weight is less than the current weight, then your goal is weight loss. If greater - it's weight gain. If the target weight is the same as the current weight - it's weight maintenance.

    If one day you weigh in and find that you exceeded your weight loss target by one pound (congratulations!), then, from MyNetDiary's perspective, your weight goal becomes "gaining weight" - after all, your current weight is one pound less than your (old) weight target. Weight gain color rules will apply on that day - see above. So, upon reaching your weight target, make sure to review and update your plan using the My Weight Plan menu on your Dashboard, setting a new weight target if you wish so.

    Please notice that if you enter a weigh-in for a day in the past and it changes your goal from weight loss to weight gain, then the apple/circle for that day may change its color. Suppose your weight goal for yesterday was weight loss, and the apple was green - you were under budget. Now you enter weigh-in for yesterday, and it overshoots your weight target by one pound. From MyNetDiary's perspective, your yesterday's goal was gaining weight, and as you were under budget, you did not eat enough to gain, and so the apple/circle for yesterday will change its color from green to red. Even updating your plan will not affect yesterday's color, as all plan updates are effective starting today. This is normal, so make sure to log your weigh-ins on the same day and always keep My Weight Plan current!

    A gluten-free diet is essential for managing signs and symptoms of celiac disease and other medical conditions associated with gluten. A gluten-free diet is also popular among people who haven't been diagnosed with a gluten-related medical condition.

    MyNetDiary offers tasty and healthy gluten-free Premium recipes in the app. Simply look for the chef's hat icon and filter your search under "Diet Type" for gluten-free. To learn more about these Premium recipes check out this article.

    You will also find gluten-free recipes available through the Recipe Database feature. Simply go to the "Me" tab and tap on "Recipe Database". From there you will be able to filter for gluten-free recipes. In addition, you can enter and import your own recipes. This video walks you through the steps.

    If your goal is weight loss, you may also find this article helpful.

    For more medical information on gluten-free dieting, please check this helpful Mayo Clinic article.

    Have the best gluten-free experience with MyNetDiary!

    To calculate a calorie budget to maintain a stable weight, MyNetDiary uses Estimated Energy Requirements equations, provided by the Institute of Medicine.

    If you've seen a different number in another app or website, please note that different apps, websites, and devices may use different equations for estimating calorie expenditure. Also, please notice that MyNetDiary's estimate includes typical daily activities, while some apps and websites calculate Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) - the number of calories your body needs to maintain weight that does not include any other activities (basically, it's calories needed by the body if lie in the bed all day.) For example, 1500 calories for estimation of BMR would still be significantly lower than calories for MyNetDiary sedentary activity level because they are not the same or equivalent measures.

    Calculation of Calorie Budget

    MyNetDiary prepares an initial calorie budget for you during mobile app or online account setup. Please use My Weight Plan screen (Dashboard) in mobile apps or My Plan webpage to review and update your plan and calorie budget.

    MyNetDiary calculates Weight Maintenance Calories based on your age, personal activity level, body weight, and body height.

    Assuming that to lose a pound, you needed to consume 3,500 fewer calories per week, MyNetDiary calculates daily calorie deficit needed and subtracts it from your current "maintenance" calories.

    Please see How is Calorie Budget Calculated for more details on these calculations.

    Limitations

    MyNetDiary can calculate calories up to a 2 lb/week rate. The reason for the 2 lb/week limit is that if you create a more significant calorie deficit, then your body metabolism changes, and the rule "3,500 calories = 1 lb of fat" stops working. But, while MyNetDiary won't be able to calculate your Calorie Budget for over 2 lb/week rate, if you have a doctor's recommendation, you can adjust Calorie Budget manually, overriding MyNetDiary's calculation. It's possible to do via the My Weight Plan screen of the mobile app or the Plan web page.

    Other Factors and Adjustments

    My Weight Plan allows changing your Target Weight, Target Date, and Weekly Rate. Under the Personal Info section (Me tab), it's possible to adjust your height, date of birth, activity level and other information.

    In My Weight Plan, you can also adjust fats, carbs, and protein targets . Some people prefer to reduce fats; some prefer fewer carbs, some reduce fats and carbs proportionally. MyNetDiary will help you to make sure that the sum of calories from macros would be giving the same value as Calorie Budget value. Remember: one gram of fat provides nine calories, one gram of carbs or protein gives four calories.

    You can also use Calorie Cycling option and set different calorie targets for different days of a week.

    More details are in our planning guidelines on setting calorie goals and nutrient goals.

    You can create or update a weight gain plan using the My Weight Plan screen, available on the Dashboard. To create a weight gain plan, enter your target weight greater than your current weight and select either the target date or weekly gain rate. The app will calculate calorie budget and macros for you.

    Our Premium subscription provides access to a High Protein Premium diet set-up. This will also unlock our extensive Recipe Database (under Me - Recipe Database), where you can search and find all the High Protein recipes you will need on your journey.

    To learn more about gaining weight, please take a look at the related articles:

  • Trying to Gain Weight?
  • Weight gain: for many people it's not as easy as it sounds
  • High Protein Diet Library
  • Please review Planning Your Nutrient Needs article explaining how to set up your nutrient targets and track them in MyNetDiary.

    For Macronutrients, please check this article: Setting Specific Macronutrient Targets

    Keeping track of your diet can be tricky when you consider all the mundane activities you have to do throughout the day, each burning a fraction of the consumed calories. However, with MyNetDiary, you do not have to worry about it!

    The app includes all your daily activities, such as showering, toothbrushing, cooking, sleeping, sexual activity, washing dishes, etc., under Weight Maintenance Calories.

    Also, the Physical Activity Level you've set in your Personal Info section includes your daily lifestyle and job responsibilities. (Such level starts with "Sedentary.")

    For the above reasons, tracking such daily activities in the MyNetDiary Exercise section is unnecessary. In this section, you can enter activities as exercises only if you perform the workouts beyond your Activity Level. MyNetDiary will take the Exercise records into your daily energy balance calculations.

    Suppose your daily physical activity outside of exercise (during work, leisure time, etc.) involves a lot of movement. In that case, you may want to account for that by setting up a higher activity level than Sedentary.

    If you are always hungry on the caloric target, you could try a few things:

    1. Lower your rate of weight loss so that the calorie deficit you need to achieve is lower. That will provide a more reasonable calories intake target.

    2. Enter an exercise plan so that the system increases the target calories by the expected daily exercise calories burned. Entering actual exercise each day will update the calories target in Daily Analysis.

    3. Learn the tricks for feeling more full on fewer calories.

    Binge eating disorder is a real thing, and many people suffer from it. If this is something you do regularly, and you feel out of control, then look for a binge eating support group run by a professional. Therapy counseling is the primary treatment for binge eating. The roots go deep in terms of why we binge.

    If you think that food tracking could be making the binge eating worse, then stop using MyNetDiary (or any tracker).

    If you want to try losing weight without tracking then you could focus on healthy meals, no skipping, with a simple balance.

    Body Mass Index (BMI) tells if your target weight or your current weight is in a healthy range when you are planning your diet.

    MyNetDiary calculates BMI using BMI formula published by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. By definition, there is only one way to calculate BMI. Any "improved" BMI formulas, for example, taking into account muscle mass, are not BMI. They may provide better or worse quantification of your weight and body composition, but they are not BMI.

    Thus, there is no way to override BMI calculation in MyNetDiary. On the other hand, MyNetDiary does not use BMI for planning and analysis calculations at all. BMI is calculated and displayed for your information only and does not affect anything.

    There may be several possible reasons for not losing weight, you just need to figure out which one is most likely in your case and make an appropriate adjustment.

    If you create a calorie deficit, then you WILL lose weight. There is a lot of misinformation about this idea that if you don't eat your calorie budget, you'll starve and the body will hang onto calories and prevent weight loss. Make sure you are capturing your actual calories. Focus on tightening up tracking. Measure/weigh all foods/drinks you consume. Log basic foods.

    Calorie counting and MyNetDiary are time-tested and proven!

    Please see Weight Plateau article from MyNetDiary's library for detailed discussion and more information.

    Few More Ideas

    1. Water weight is suspected if you gained while eating a reduced-calorie diet. Weighing oneself first thing in the morning is a good idea to avoid variation due to hydration/time of day.

    2. Track sodium - higher sodium the night before often means water retention and a higher water weight the next morning.

    3. Track accurately. There might be an error while logging foods or/and exercises.

    4. Understand your caloric goals. Learn about helpful tips if you are a new member.

    5. Double-check again that you are logging foods and recipes accurately.

    6. Send a question in the "Ask a Registered Dietitian/Diabetes Educator" Community forum.

    MyNetDiary does not require following some specific diet or eliminating some foods, but you can do that if you want to. This is up to your dietary preferences. Some people try to reduce carbs, some try to cut fats. Generally, you want to eat healthily and stay within your nutrition plan set up by you in MyNetDiary to meet your weight goals. You can keep eating your favorite foods, but you may need to do this in moderation, to make sure your nutrition is balanced (see the USDA Food Pyramid guide for additional information about food groups.) MyNetDiary Food Grade helps quickly estimate healthfulness of each food. Premium Recipes allow to filter out the system recipes matched your diet.

    To discover more about different diet types and how to set up the diet you decided to follow, see our article about Premium Diets.

    To get personal diet advice, send a question in the "Ask a Registered Dietitian/Diabetes Educator" forum - the first row in Community.

    We recommend weighing yourself first thing in the morning after you use the restroom. This time of day will give you the most consistent weight, whereas your weight later in the day will be more affected by recent foods/beverages and what you are wearing.

    MyNetDiary recommendations for calories and nutrients are based on the "Institute of Medicine Dietary Reference Intakes (2005)" book available online and in print ISBN 0-309-08525-X.

    For nutrient recommendations see DRI tables with Recommended Dietary Allowances, Adequate Intakes, and Upper Levels.

    For calories, recommendations see EER formula.

    Recommendations for some nutrients like Vitamin D were updated by the scientists after the book was released. MyNetDiary uses the latest DRI tables obtained from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

    Potassium AI and Sodium CDDR are recommended since March 2020.

    Every time you weigh in, AutoPilot adjusts Daily Calorie Budget to help you reach your weight goal on the target date. If you lose too slowly, AutoPilot may increase weekly weight loss rate. If you are losing too fast, AutoPilot may decrease weekly weight loss rate.

    Autopilot updates your plan and sets your Daily Calorie Budget to your current Weight Maintenance Calories minus Required Daily Calorie Deficit.

    Calculation

    Weight Maintenance Calories are just that - the number of calories your body needs to maintain your current weight as-is. Please see How is Calorie Budget Calculated? for more details and formulas.

    Required Daily Calorie Deficit is the number of calories you need to "lose" daily. It is calculated based on the number of pounds left to lose and the number of days left until your target date. To lose a pound of fat, you need to lose 3,500 calories. So, Required Daily Calorie Deficit is calculated as the number of pounds to lose multiplied by 3,500 calories and divided by the number of days left until your target date.

    Every time you weigh in, AutoPilot calculates your current Weight Maintenance Calories and Required Daily Calorie Deficit, then subtracts from Weight Maintenance Calories your Required Daily Calorie Deficit and sets the resulting number as your new Daily Calorie Budget.

    AutoPilot May Increase Calorie Budget!

    AutoPilot guides you to your target date. If your goal is losing weight and you are losing faster than required to reach your weight goal on the target date, AutoPilot may slightly increase your calorie budget.

    Additional Information

    Please notice that AutoPilot may switch to a safe 1 lb/week strategy. This happens when the target date is too close and weight loss required by the current plan is too great.

    AutoPilot feature is available with a Premium membership.

    Basal Metabolic Rate, or BMR, is the number of calories your body burns while at rest, to maintain normal body functions, such as temperature, heart beat, digestion, and breathing. This is the minimum of calories your body needs if you lie all day in a bed. Please see Weight Planning article for more details.

    MyNetDiary uses Mifflin formula for estimating Basal Metabolic Rate. MyNetDiary does not support customization of BMR as this not included in daily and weekly energy balance calculation. See also how Weight Maintenance Calories are calculated.

    MyNetDiary follows the guidelines of the National Institute of Health to estimate weight loss. MyNetDiary recalculates calories lost into weight loss by dividing the calories by 3500, which gives weight loss in pounds.

    It is crucial to understand that the weight loss projection based on estimated calorie loss - calories you consumed compared to what your body needs. MyNetDiary calculates the most accurate forecast based on the information provided, but several factors may cause deviations from the projections:

      1) Accuracy of food entry - make sure all foods entered, and the amounts are estimated accurately. Ideally, you may want to use a food scale, at least initially, to get a better sense of how much your typical portions weigh.
      2) Food nutritional contents may vary due to varying growth, storage, and preparation conditions. Even if you enter precise amounts, consumed calories may differ from the food labels.
      3) Variations in human body metabolism. Due to different body types and differences in muscle mass (lean muscle mass needs more calories than healthy body tissues), your actual "weight maintenance" calorie level may differ from the calculated estimate.
      4) Variations in daily activities and energy expenditures - the recommended "sedentary" activity level setting represents a statistically average "desk job" activity level. Still, your day, your job may vary from the average, and even for you, not every day is the same.

    Due to these variations and to the fact that when you lose weight, your calorie needs reduced as well, we recommend periodically analyzing your diet and plan on the Plan page. If your progress is slower or faster than MyNetDiary predictions, one or more factors listed above might be at work. In such cases, please assume that the projections calculated by MyNetDiary fit for you.

      If you don't see Food Grade display, please check the Premium Diet Plan you chose. If it is Mediterranean Diet, Food Grade is purposely hidden by default. The Mediterranean diet is richer in healthy oils and fats than other diet plans. Therefore, common Mediterranean foods with a higher total fat content will show a lower grade. The Food Grade calculated for the basic calorie counting plan could be misleading when applied to the Mediterranean diet.

    Nevertheless, if you prefer to see the Food Grade, you can still turn Food Grade ON even after you switch to the Mediterranean diet. Enabling it is possible via the settings of the app and website. If you are an IOS app user, you can do it via the Me - App Settings - Diet Logging section. If you are using an Android device, tap the three vertical dots on the top-right corner of the food label screen, select Food Grade Settings, and adjust the option to Show Food Grade in Food Log, analysis screen, and reports. On the website, you can tap the gear icon on the top-right corner of the Food page and choose the Food Grade item from the list that appears on clicking the Show Nutrients in Food Log option from the popup menu.

    In addition to energy tracking in Calories or kilojoules units, MyNetDiary allows tracking the following 108 macronutrients, vitamins, minerals, and other micronutrients:

    Nutrient Unit also known as
    Total Fat g
    Carbsg
    Protein g
    Common Nutrients
    Sat Fat g
    trans Fayg
    polyunsaturated Fatg
    monounsaturated Fatsg
    Omega-3mg
    Omega-3 ALAmg
    Omega-3 DHAmg
    Omega-3 EPAmg
    Omega-6mg
    Omega-6 LAmg
    Cholesterolmg
    Sodiummg can be substituted by Salt
    Dietary Fiberg
    soluble Fiberg
    total Sugarsg
    added Sugars g
    sugar Alcoholsg
    Net Carbsg
    Diabetes Carb Countg
    alcoholg or %vol units
    caffeinemg
    Vitamins
    Vitamin A%DV, IU, RE, mcg
    Vitamin C%DV, mg or IU
    Vitamin D%DV, IU or mcg
    Vitamin E%DV, IU or mg
    Vitamin K%DV or mcg
    Thiamin%DV or mg aka Vitamin B1
    Riboflavin%DV or mg aka Vitamin B2
    Niacin%DV or mg aka Vitamin B3
    Vitamin B6 %DV or mg
    Folate%DV or mcg aka VitaminB9
    Vitamin B12%DV or mcg
    Pantothenic Acid%DV or mg aka Vitamin B5
    Biotin%DV or mcg
    Choline%DV or mg
    Minerals
    Calcium%DV or mg
    Iron%DV or mg
    Potassiummg
    Phosphorus%DV or mg
    Magnesium%DV or mg
    Zinc%DV or mg
    Selenium%DV or mcg
    Copper%DV or mg
    Manganese%DV or mg
    Chromium%DV or mcg
    Iodine%DV or mcg
    Molybdenum%DV or mcg

    There are too few food labels with starch, sucrose, glucose (dextrose,) fructose, lactose, maltose, carotene Beta, carotene Alpha and water information. So, we no longer track them.

    The logging foods to your meals do not duplicate "water" consumption to the MyNetDiary Water Tracker.

    While all beverages except for alcohol count as fluid (particularly, one cup of milk, juice, tea, diet soda, and coffee count as 1 cup of water,) dietitians discovered that more and more people wanted to track water. Of course, the beverages logged to the meal section could be duplicated into the Water Tracker section. Still, the dietitians consulting with MyNetDiary recommended leaving the water feature alone. Most people do not drink enough water and the water glass tracking feature is a neat way to encourage drinking more water.

    With MyNetDiary Premium, you can follow one of the eight diets:

  • Calorie Counting
  • Low-Carb
  • Keto
  • High-Protein
  • Low-Fat
  • Mediterranean
  • Vegetarian
  • Vegan
  • Whereas, www.mynetdiary.com website does not support setting up the particular diet type, you can easily do this on the Coach screen of your mobile app. On the same screen, you can also switch from one diet to another.

    To turn off a diet, tap the top banner on the Coach screen and return to the default Premium Calorie Counting diet.

    Check out our Premium Diets video for additional assistance.

    Depending on your diet type, while logging the food, you may notice the Keto (or Low-Carb) Grade, the assigned letter that describes if the chosen food fits your diet type. Particularly, each of these letters mean the following:

  • A - Best foods
  • B - Good choices
  • C - Ok in moderation
  • D - Limit.
  • The main difference between Keto and Low-Carb diets is carbohydrate intake.

    Whereas both are focused on low-carb intake, the Low-Carb diet typically is less restrictive toward carbohydrate intake than the Keto diet. The person would eat more carbs on a Low-Carb diet than on a Keto diet. In addition to total carbs, both diets consider trans fat and saturated fat as negative factors. Dietary fiber, sugar alcohols, protein, and total fat, emphasizing unsaturated fats, positively impact both diets. Along with the mentioned nutrients, Keto and Low-Carb grades calculations take into account iron, cholesterol, calcium, potassium, vitamin C, and a few other minerals and vitamins. The impact of most of the used nutrients on the grade is more significant in the Keto- than in the Low-Carb-grade calculation.

    The described above explains the score/grade/letter change of a particular food when the customer switches between a Keto and a Low-Carb diet. Whereas the same nutrients are used in calculations of both grades, the nutrient coefficients are different for each type. Thus, while choosing the same food with the same portion size, the client may notice that Keto Grade shows the letter different from what appears for this food while the Low-Carb diet tracking.

    Unfortunately, there is no way to retrieve the previous date. MyNetDiary changes it when your plan becomes unrealistic. For example, it happens when MyNetDiary cannot calculate the projected weight loss because you reached your Target Date or because the expected weight loss became unrealistic (e.g., to lose a dozen lbs per few days) or when you passed your Target Weight or so on. So, MyNetDiary shows such message about target date change and adjusts it when your plan requires an update.

    Unfortunately, MyNetDiary is not a subject to HIPAA because MyNetDiary does not store protected health information from healthcare providers. All information in MyNetDiary is user-entered. While a healthcare provide can access it, a healthcare provider cannot enter any medical records into MyNetDiary

    Yes, the MyNetDiary iOS/Android apps and website are suitable for tracking intermittent fasting. You can enable Fasting Tracking in the app using one of the following methods:

    1. While reconfiguring the Home/Dashboard screen (iOS only):
      • Select the Standard 'Intermittent Fasting' Dashboard type.
      • Customize the Dashboard and add the 'Intermittent Fasting' item to the Home screen.
    2. Turn it ON from the 'Coach' > 'Intermittent Fasting' section.
    3. Configure it via App Settings.

    Before enabling Fasting Tracking, you need to choose a fasting protocol, which defines how many hours you intend to fast and how many hours you plan to eat. The default plan is '16:8' (16 hours of fasting and 8 hours of eating). You can also set up a custom fasting protocol, but it must be at least 1 hour and no longer than 168 hours. Please note that custom protocols cannot overlap with the existing standard protocols.

    You can adjust the Fasting Tracking settings, including fasting and eating window lengths, fasting reminders, and more, in the 'App Settings' section. You can also choose whether to represent fasting time as 'Elapsed' or 'Remaining' on the Dashboard.

    To start or stop a fasting session, you will receive reminder notifications during your chosen fasting hours. If Fasting Reminder is ON, one notification will appear an hour before fasting starts and another one at the moment when it's supposed to finish. The system does not start or stop fasting tracking automatically; you need to confirm it manually.

    If you choose to log food during an active fasting period, the app will ask for confirmation to ensure you want to log food during the fasting period. You can log different foods to different meal sections, future entries in advance, or log past meals that you may have forgotten earlier.

    The Fasting period covering the default times of the main three meals impacts the 'Complete Day' functionality. The Calorie and Nutrient Analyzes 'consider' the day 'completed' by default, even if you haven't logged any foods to these three main meals.

    If you wish to modify the fasting protocol while an active fasting session is ongoing, you'll need to confirm your decision. During an active fasting session, you have the flexibility to adjust the start time to an earlier or later time. However, when making changes to the current fasting window length during an active fasting session, please be aware that you cannot set the start time to a future time, i.e., a time that has not occurred yet:

    The Fasting Calendar accessed from the 'Coach' section provides a visual representation of your fasting history, showing completed and uncompleted fasting windows. It also displays statistics such as the number of fasted days, total fasting time, average fasting duration, number of fasts, and the longest fast. You can view a table with historical records of your fasts, including start and end times, lengths, and notes:

    Along with adding the missing previous fasting times (if you forgot to track them in the past), it's also possible to delete the unwanted records:

    Additionally, you can use widgets to display fasting timers on your iPhone Home screen, Lock screen, and MyNetDiary Apple Watch. The Apple Watch app allows you to start/stop fasting sessions and change protocol types.

    Please note that the Fasting Tracker feature requires a Premium membership and is currently not available for Android and the website.

    The Fasting Tracker helps MyNetDiary better understand whether you intentionally fasted or simply forgot to log your food, leading to improved analysis and trend projections in the Coach section. Disabling 'Fasting Tracker' during an active fast session will automatically stop the session.

    Please keep in mind that Fasting Tracking is not available on Android app at this time.

    Performing the same workout daily (e.g., “swimming,” "bicycling," "running," or "walking" the same distance at the same pace) does not mean you have to burn the same calories every day.

    The reason is metabolism. The term stands for the processes in the body that break down nutrients for energy and fuel growth. “There is a constant ebb and flow of reactions that build or repair our body (anabolism) and reactions that break down food and energy stores for fuel (catabolism),” says Anya Rosen, RD. "Various factors influence how fast or slow calories burn at any given time." Here are a few that experts say have the most significant impact on how many calories you burn while performing a particular workout:

  • Body Weight
  • Muscle Mass
  • Birth Sex
  • Age
  • Activity Level
  • Workout Intensity
  • As Body Weight changes daily, the number of calories burned during the same workout also changes.

    In MyNetDiary, calculating the calories burned for a particular selected workout is mainly based on the current Body Weight, MET (Metabolic Equivalent) of the chosen activity, and timeframe of this specific workout. The rough formula to estimate it is below:

    Exercise burned calories = timeframe, in minutes * (MET * 3.5 * Body Weight, in kg) / 200

    MyNetDiary standard exercises and their METs are taken from the Compendium Physical Activities. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise conducted this data with the research outcomes for common use.

    Suppose the MET (an index of the specific workout which shows how fast the person spends energy while performing this particular activity) is the same every day; let's assume the person runs or walks the same distance during the same period of time, at the same speed and with the same workout intensity.

    But if the person loses weight, MyNetDiary will calculate fewer calories; in the formula, "minutes" and MET parameters remain constant, whereas "kilograms" change.)

    In addition, MyNetDiary slightly amends the result by taking into account the BMR calories the person spends during the period while performing this workout. It's necessary to prevent double counting caloric expenditure. (BMR calories are the daily calories the body burns at rest to maintain normal body functions, "rock bottom" calories; no matter if the person exercises or lies on the bed - the body will spend BMR calories anyway.) And we reduce such an amount because the MyNetDiary Exercise section shows just the extra burnt calories, not the total calories.

    So, while performing the same workout daily, the person will burn fewer calories if he/she loses his/her weight.

    On the other hand, if the person gains weight, the same workout will cause a higher caloric expenditure.

    The Minimum Calorie Budget is the lowest allowed daily intake, and MyNetDiary Planning won't accept any values below this number. The default Minimum Calorie Budget is "400." However, dietitians recommend not dropping Calorie Budget below BMR (daily calories the body burns at rest to maintain normal body functions, your "rock bottom" Food Calories for weight planning.)

    On the website and iOS apps, the MyNetDiary Plan section allows setting up the Minimum Calorie Budget. It's possible on the Plan > Weight & Calories webpage or by clicking the Food Calorie Budget from the Plan > Weight & Calories screen of the iOS apps. (For Android apps, this setting is yet to be implemented.)

    Calorie Budget changes due to many factors: enabled AutoPilot, Calorie Cycling use, the Exercise added into the Calorie Budget, change of Weekly Rate, Target Date, or Target Weight. Also, the person may sometimes decide to enter a lower Calorie Budget to lose weight faster (lose more weight for a shorter period.) So, Planning may calculate Calorie Budget below BMR. Lowering your Calorie Budget below BMR may be dangerous to your health; it has to be done only under the guidance of a medical professional.

    If you need to adjust the Minimum Calorie Budget, please consult a health professional and get approval that such a setting is appropriate for your medically supervised diet. While customizing your Calorie Budget, ensure it's above BMR. Otherwise, a lack of food energy intake may result in nutrient deficiencies; also, it could cause excessive loss of lean body mass.

    If you do not have time to log each food of your daily meals but know the consumed calories approximately, log just one daily (or meal) entry using Quick Calories. Such simple calorie entry does not require finding food by typing in the name or scanning the barcode. Many people lose weight by planning and tracking calories only. Please be advised that logging Quick Calories disables nutrient planning and analysis required for a healthy diet. Tap/click the "flame" icon (or the word "Quick") to log Quick Calories. Our apps also allow adding Quick Macros and assigning the name to Quick Cals entry. Each gram of carbohydrates gives four calories, each gram of protein contributes four calories, and each gram of fat provides nine calories. The Quick Cals feature allows you to calculate calories if you know the weights of macronutrients.

  • iPhone:
  • Android:
  • Website:
  • MyNetDiary supports body weight tracking. Below are its settings available on different platforms.

    Website

    weight settings on the website

    iOS

    weight settings on the iPhone

    Android

    weight settings on the Android

    Foods and Recipes

    MyNetDiary typically has several kinds of the same food, both cooked and uncooked. If the food name does not include words "cooked" or "uncooked" or "raw," then Nutrition Facts are for the most common form of consumption of this food. For meats and grains - cooked, for fruits and vegetables - raw or uncooked.

    If you are in doubt, please try adding "raw," or "fresh," or "cooked" to your food search, to find more matching foods.

    Some foods simply don't have a cooked version, and you are stuck with entering the raw amount. In that case, do the best that you can in terms of logging the raw or uncooked portion that eventually makes the cooked amount you consumed.

    Some rules of thumb:
    2 oz dry pasta generally makes about 1 cup cooked
    1/4 cup dry white rice makes about 1/2 cup cooked
    1/4 cup dry brown rice makes about 3/4 cup cooked
    Most meats and fish will shrink about 25% with cooking (e.g. 4 oz raw hamburger is about 3 oz cooked)

    You can learn more about tips for food logging in this post.

    When using a food search, you can try adding "fresh" or "raw" to your food searches. For more tips, please take a look at 4 Tips for Searching Basic Foods article.

    Another alternative is using Staple Foods Catalog, available as an option for food logging and in Recipe Editor.

    The Staple Foods Catalog lists over 900 most popular, staple foods used in cooking and recipes, carefully selected by dietitians and chefs, and organized by categories.

    You can browse the catalog or use the search within the catalog to quickly find the food you need.

    Premium Recipes include recipes suitable for low-carb, keto, gluten-free, paleo, and other diets. They require Premium Memebership.

    MyNetDiary's Premium Recipes are created by our team of Registered Dietitians - they are healthy, easy to make, and packed with flavor. The Premium Recipes screen can be accessed via the following:

    While Logging Foods

    After you tap the green plus button on any meal screen, you will see Premium Recipes as one of the tabs at the top of the screen, represented as the chef's hat.

    From Manage My Foods

    Another option is to open the Manage My Foods screen, either from the Dashboard menu or from any meal's menu (three--dots button at the top-right corner.)

    From Coach Tab

    Premium Recipes are available on the Coach tab right under your Diet.

    Searching for the Recipe

    To quickly locate the needed recipe - use the Categories button during premium recipe search.

    The Categories screen provides many ways to filter recipes, including filtering by ingredients and diet preferences.

    Generally, low-carb recipes have less than 15g of carbs per serving, and very low-carb recipes have less than 5g of carbs per serving, making them especially suitable for keto diets.

    Recipe Database with more than 370,000 recipes is located on the Me screen of the mobile app.

    Meal Planner is a tool located under Coach tab, designed to help you plan your meals in advance and simplify you diet building even further. On top of planning your meals for 7 days of the week, Meal Planner also provides you with a useful nutrient and macros analysis both located on the Week part of the screen.

    You can create your Meal Plan from your Favourite, Custom, Premium, Staple food, as well as using a Search. At any point you can also use the Premium Menus right inside the Meal Planner by tapping Add from Premium Menus on the Week screen, or Premium Menus button next to a + on the Day screen. Please know there is nothing preventing you from mixing the above options, creating your own personal preferred plan.

    Once you've added your planned meals you have two options: either log them directly by using the Log Meal button or wait before the day comes and find them under Search. All planned meals will be offered first.

    You can Create and Save several meal plans under the Menu button, located in the upper right corner. Moving forward, you will be able to switch between the plans, simplifying the planning process.

    Lastly, button View Week's/Day's Food and Ingredients located on every screen of the Meal Planner, will allow you to automatically add the planned food to the Shopping List.

    Check out the Meal Planner tutorial video for a more visual guidance.

    Make sure to use the Meal Planner to enrich your experience with MyNetDiary and plan your diet in a simple, yet organized way!

    You can use Grocery Check tool. If this is a packaged product, you can scan its barcode. Or, you can use search in Grocery Check.

    If you need access to the full Nutrition Facts, you can use regular food each from e.g. breakfast meal and lookup the food, then open its Nutrition Facts. You can exit food entry afterwards without saving.

    You can locate the Grocery Check on the Me screen of your mobile app.

    You can use Manage My Foods screen, available on the Me tab.

    There, you can select the tab corresponding to the kind of food you want to update - either Custom, Recipes, or Meals, and locate the food in the list displayed.

    Tap the food, and then, in the displayed popup menu, tap one of the actions. You can edit or update foods and recipes.

    MyNetDiary does not delete foods completely as they might be used in a food log already. Still, you can "delete" a food, hiding it from future food searches (On the Android, the option is named Retire). Only custom foods or recipes can be deleted/retired:

    What is Search history? Аfter you search for food and log it, this food will be displayed in future search results with these words, e.g., if you enter search "whole milk" and select "Milk whole 3.25% fat", in future search results, you'll see "whole milk" for food "Milk whole 3.25% fat". You can remove system food searches from history, so they do not appear instantly with the attached short names of your previous logs (you can find them anyway with their original names).

    For more guidance, please check our Recipe Editor video.

    MyNetDiary allows users to create their own food, recipes, and meals. This article will explain how to access them on 3 different platforms, as well as provide some useful guidelines.

    Managing your Food on iOS

    Your custom created food, recipes, and meals are located under Manage My Foods screen which can be accessed by clicking Me in the lower right corner.

    The upper bar with the tabs Favs and Frequent can be scrolled right and left to reveal more sections. Each of the three tabs (Custom, Meals, Recipes) will allow you to Create, Edit or Retire the entries.

    You can also manage the entries on iOS while you are logging food. Scroll the bar with tabs Search and Scan to the left. You will be able to locate the three tabs (Custom, Meals, Recipes). To Edit the entry instead of logging it - tap it once. The resulting screen will contain the option to edit the entry. For recipes you would have to click View Recipe first.

    Managing your Food on Android

    Your custom created food, recipes, and meals are located under My Foods section which can be accessed by swiping the left edge of your screen to the right. Also, you can find it in Manage My Foods menu under the Me tab:

    The upper bar with the tabs My Favorites and Frequent Foods can be scrolled right and left to reveal more tabs. Each of the three tabs (Custom Foods, My Meals, My Recipes) has an option to Create located in the lower right corner. To Edit or Retire the entries - click on the "3 dots" button next to a desired entry.

    You can also manage the entires on Android while you are logging food. Click on the "3 dots" button in the upper right corner. An option to access My Foods will be displayed.

    Managing your Food on the website

    Your custom created food, recipes, and meals are located under My Foods page which can be accessed multiple ways. You can either click on the Search (magnifying glass) or Favorites (star). Clicking Add or More when you are typing food will also contain an option to access My Foods.

    The resulting My Foods page will contain all three sections (Custom Foods, My Meals, My Recipes) and an option to Create a new entry. To Edit or Retire an entry, click on the "3 dots" button next to a desired entry.

    For more guidance, please check our Recipe Editor video.

    Suppose you often eat the same foods together. In that case, you can simplify food logging and save time by creating either a custom recipe or a "My Meal."

    Recipe

    If you consider these foods being ingredients in a recipe, if you cook it or make it and then eat a portion of it (although you can eat the whole), you create a recipe in MyNetDiary. Once created, you can log this new food into your breakfast or dinner, and only one record for this recipe will be added to breakfast or dinner.

    My Meal

    If you don't cook but simply eat several foods together (for example, strawberries, a bagel, and coffee) and you want to see them logged separately, then you can create "My Meal" with them. Once created, you can select this "my meal" in food search or add from My Meals and all of its foods will be added to your breakfast or dinner separately. Then, if needed, you can adjust the amounts of each food.

    Creating a Recipe or My Meal

    There are many ways to create a recipe or "my meal." You can build them from ingredients in My Foods. You can convert your breakfast or lunch into a recipe or "my meal". In MyNetDiary, you can import a recipe from a website or another app. You can import a recipe from the 370,000+ food database. You can copy and customize (if you want to!) some of MyNetDiary's Premium Recipes.

    All food labels in MyNetDiary Food Catalog are verified by our Data Team striving for 100% accuracy. When needed, users create custom foods and submit PhotoFood requests. The Data Team uses PhotoFood requests to extend and verify the Food Catalog.

    Prior to July 2020, the food catalog contained user-contributed foods from year 2010. These foods gradually became outdated and were superseded by verified system foods. They are retired now. If you used these foods in your diary, they still show up for your old records as "retired" foods.

    In MyNetDiary, there are a few ways to keep track of vitamins and supplements:

    1. Custom Trackers: Create a custom tracker specifically for your vitamins and supplements using the Trackers feature. This feature is accessible in both the "MyNetDiary Free" version and the "Keto Diet - Carb Genius" apps with a Premium membership or in the "MyNetDiary - Diabetes Tracker" app.
    2. Text Notes: Another convenient method is to maintain text notes within the "Vitamins & Supplements" item, which can be seamlessly added to the Dashboard of the iPhone app. Or, it's possible to access this feature by taping or clicking the 'paper clip' icon to the left of the big apple contour of the Dashboard. This approach offers simplicity and informality, enabling you to jot down supplement details as needed.
    3. Logging as Regular Food: For the utmost precision in tracking daily vitamin and micronutrient intake, log your vitamins and supplements as regular food items. To do this, either locate your specific brand of vitamins in our extensive food database or create custom food entries for them. Once added, you can log them just like any other food item.
    4. Create a Supplement 'Meal:' If you typically consume multiple vitamins and supplements together, such as a daily regimen of multi-vitamins and calcium, consider creating a custom "meal" that includes these items. This streamlines the logging process, as you'll only need to log one 'meal' food entry to account for your daily supplement routine.

    For additional guidance and tips, you can explore these support articles:

  • Copying vitamins and supplements from previous day
  • Vitamins and Supplements tracking on Android
  • MyNetDiary food database has many popular home-made recipes, but it could be difficult to identify them. If you are not looking for the best possible accuracy, it's OK to select from search food that sounds like what you are making, even if it is prepared food. Don't eat much and keep tracking, don't let this stop you!

    If you are looking for the most accurate tracking, we recommend entering your own recipes.

    The reason is that there is a great variety of cooking instructions and ingredients for every kind of meal, with greatly varying portion sizes, calories, and so on. For example, there are so many "Chicken Stew" recipes! It may be difficult to figure out if the recipe found in MyNetDiary is the same as you are making.

    You can create your own recipe very easily in MyNetDiary, it's a one-time investment that you'll use again and again.

    • Enter all ingredients in some meal (e.g. dinner) in full quantities - the amount you use for the entire meal.
    • Tap or click "Recipe" button, enter your personal recipe name, e.g. "Susan's Chicken Stew"
    • Enter the number of servings that you enter ingredients for, e.g. "4 servings".
    • Select Food Group and save the recipe.
    • The new recipe will replace the ingredient foods in your meal. You may need to adjust the number of servings you ate (for example, if you entered ingredients for 4, but ate only 1.5 serving).

    The next time you cook this recipe, simply search by name and enter the number of servings!

    If you need to edit the recipe, simply log this food in your diary as the usual, then on the Food Entry screen (in mobile apps) tap the Edit button.

    Premium Menus are located under Coach tab in the app. They are a collection of meals composed and verified by our dietician team to help you on your diet journey. Feel free to use them as reference to jumpstart your diet or mix and match them with your personal meals.

    Each Premium Menu has 7-days worth of meals. You do not have to follow them to the letter and eat specific meals on specific days. In fact, we recommend you choose the ones you like and incorporate them into your diet whenever you feel comfortable.

    You can add each meal individually or bulk add the meals for a specific day by using Add Day's Meal button.

    The meals themselves can be logged immediately or added to the Meal Planner tool (which will offer them as the suggested food during the Search for that specific day). Please know there is nothing preventing you from just logging the meals to future days and then adjusting them when the day comes.

    Use the Categories button on the main screen of Premium Menus to filter and search the meals according to your current preferences instead of browsing each menu.

    Please know the meals from Premium Menus are available at all times during the Search under the Premium tab. The Categories button is there as well, allowing you to filter.

    Lastly, ingredients for the meals can be automatically added to your Shopping List by using the Review Day's/All Foods and Ingredients, located at the bottom of each day.

    Check out the Premium Menus tutorial video for a more visual guidance.

    We hope Premium Menus will become your trusted diet assistant as you progress towards health!

    The recipe-builder function has a Total Servings field. What you enter here depends on the ingredient foods you have in this recipe.

    If you entered foods for one serving, you should enter "serving" or whatever the serving is, e.g., "cup" or "2 cups".

    If you entered foods for many servings, i.e., you cook a recipe for the whole family, you have to describe the Total Servings. For example, put "6 servings" or "12 cups". Do not enter just the number "6" or "12" there. Put the word "serving," "cup," or so on next to the number. Also, you can fill out both fields, the Total Servings (e.g., "6 servings") and the Alternative Servings (e.g., "12 cups"). if you add the Alternative Servings for your recipe, you will have more options while logging this recipe to your meal.

    When you log this recipe food in your diary, e.g., in dinner, you can enter the portion size you ate, e.g., "1.5 servings" or "2 cups". MyNetDiary will calculate calories and nutrients based on recipe's Total Servings description.

    While creating a new recipe, you can find a Recipe Weight field. MyNetDiary calculates it automatically if all the ingredients have the weight information. Some vendors do not provide the weight info. We cannot estimate it ourselves in such cases, and we show only the servings available (e.g., in 'volume' measurements.) When MyNetDiary could not calculate the Recipe Weight, you can enter the approximate value yourself. You will have "grams" and "ounces" measurement units in the serving suggestions while logging this recipe to your meal.

    For more guidance, please check our Recipe Editor video.

    MyNetDiary Food Catalog changes over time, which reflects changes in food industry: vendors buy and sell food brands, companies change name while growing the business and introduce new product flavors. While improving Food Catalog, MyNetDiary research team removes obsolete foods from database and marks these foods as retired. If you want to enter the same food again, use the same words to search for the new food replacing the retired one.

    When you delete a custom food, MyNetDiary retires this custom food similarly to system foods.

    As vendors introduce new foods and modify the composition of existing foods, some foods might be missing from the food database or become out of date. With MyNetDiary on Android, iPhones, iPod Touches, iPads, you can send us food name and nutrition label photos directly from the app. We will add or update the food and enter all nutrients for you! We promise to process requests in 24 hours. Typically, it's much faster, about seven or eight hours.

    To initiate an update of the existing food is possible in a few ways. If the scanner finds food, the user can log the food or send photos to request its update. If the user searches by name and finds the food, it's possible to check its nutrition facts by tapping the full food name from the food entry screen. The opened Food Label screen will show the Update button in the top-right corner. Tap this button and submit a photofood request in case of the wrong nutrition facts.

    The Photofood Service is enabled by default when the user creates new Custom Food. (To enter nutrition facts yourself, turn the photofood option off.)

    While creating new custom food, switch from the Send Photos to the Type-In Nutrients to enter nutrition facts manually if you prefer to do it yourself.

    PhotoFood feature is available for USA, Canada, UK, New Zealand, and Australia at the moment. Enabling it is possible by changing the location in the device settings.

    See also PhotoFood help page and the demo video tutorial.

    There are two options to copy a previous food entry to another day or meal.

    Copying from the Currently Open Meal

    If you are in the food log, looking at the meal or food entry you want to copy, you can use Group Copy/Edit Food Entries button at the bottom of the screen or Copy/Edit Food Entries menu item from the top-right menu. Select all the food you want to copy and tap the Copy or Move button at the bottom of the screen. Select the day and meal you want to copy or move to.

    You can also use this Group Copy/Edit Food Entries tool to copy, delete, or change timestamps of many food entries at once.

    Copying to the Current Meal or Day

    Another option is to tap on any meal, use the "+" button, then go to the Recent tab in food search, scroll to the day you want to copy from. On that day, tap on the meals you want to copy from to expand them, then select the food entries or entire meal you want to copy. Click Log.

    With this option, you can copy multiple food entries or even all meals from a recent day to the current day you are logging.

    Copying and moving food on Android

    Tap and hold the food entry under any meal (Breakfast, Dinner, etc.). You should see the grey menu opening above with options Copy and Move:

    Check out this particular functionality in this brief demo video and more about advanced food logging in this tutorial video.

    One way to import web recipes is going to the Me tab in MyNetDiary mobile apps and using the Recipe Import tool, which has a built-in web browser and a list of popular recipe websites.

    Another option, especially useful if you already found the recipe you want to import to MyNetDiary, is using "share" functionality built into iOS. You will be using the Share button in Safari or your recipe app (such as Paprika or AllRecipes apps.) Please see Importing Recipes from iOS Web Browser and Recipe Apps article for detailed, step-by-step instructions.

    Paprika Note: MyNetDiary can import a recipe only if the recipe has a URL, i.e. can be shared by Paprika. Paprika app does not support sharing links to custom recipes. Technically, recipe import works by reading web pages and the Paprika app provides links to web pages for any imported recipe but not for custom recipes. Custom recipes in Paprika are shared as texts, not as links, and thus cannot be imported. In this case we advice to ask Paprika developers to implement sharing of custom recipes via links to web pages and then recipe import would work.

  • Tutorial video
  • Related blog post: Import recipes to your MyNetDiary account for easy and accurate tracking
  • A cup is traditionally equal to half a liquid pint in US customary units, or an amount between 200 ml and 250 ml (1/5 and 1/4 of a litre) in the metric system, which may vary due to location.

    MyNetDiary uses the US Nutrition Labeling guidelines for its apps and the website, to calculate consistent numbers. For nutrition labeling purposes, the Nutrition Labeling guidelines define one cup as 240ml. Please see Wikipedia article for more details.

    Currently, MyNetDiary does not support tracking chloride. This was recommended by MyNetDiary's dietitians after careful consideration.

    While chloride is technically a nutrient, there is not much practical value in tracking it because it's closely related to sodium. From the Institute of Medicine's Recommended Daily Allowances document: "Under normal circumstances, dietary deficiency of chloride does not occur. The only known instance of diet-related chloride depletion occurred in healthy infants inadvertently fed diets containing 1 to 2 mEq/liter (Grossman et al., 1980; Rodriguez-Soriano et al., 1983; Roy and Arant, 1981) rather than the minimum of 10.4 mEq/liter now recommended (AAP, 1985). Chloride loss tends to parallel losses of sodium; hence, conditions associated with sodium depletion (e.g., heavy, persistent sweating, chronic diarrhea or vomiting, trauma, or renal disease) will also cause chloride loss, resulting in hypochloremic metabolic alkalosis."

    While chloride is available in iOS Health, MyNetDiary does not track it and thus won't export chloride to iOS Health.

    If you logged some food into one of your daily meals (for example, into breakfast) by mistake and want to delete it, there are several ways to do that.

    You can swipe from the right all the way to the left on the food entry you don't want and it will be deleted. You can also make a short swipe from right, so that action buttons will be displayed for this food entry, including Delete.

    Another way is to tap on the food entry, to open the editing screen, then tap "Delete Food Entry" at the bottom of the screen.

    Finally, if you want to delete or move several food entries, you may want to use button "Copy/Edit Food Entries." The meals screen will switch into the editing mode and you will be able to select several food entries and delete or move them as a group.

    The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends limiting sugar consumption and using the term "free sugars." WHO defines free sugars as "monosaccharides and disaccharides added to foods and beverages and sugars naturally present in honey, syrups, fruit juices, and fruit juice concentrates." Please see Guideline: sugars intake for adults and children for more information.

    "Free sugars", as defined, corresponds to MyNetDiary's "Sugar" nutrient.

    Please note that MyNetDiary has an additional nutrient, "Added Sugars," that tracks only the sugars added to food and not occurring in the food naturally.

    Food Grade indicates a food's relative healthfulness compared to other similar foods. It is intended to help you make healthier selections within categories of foods (e.g., pick the healthier breakfast cereal).

    Food Grade is calculated based only on nutrients found on the Nutrition Facts panel. It is not assigned to foods individually by a human nutrition expert. Thus, foods high in other important nutrients (e.g., omega-3 fats, zinc, polyphenols, etc.) may or may not have a high Food Grade. Also, if the particular food you are checking does not have the full Nutrition Facts panel, this may affect its grade.

    Also, please note that while Food Grade does not include calories, it depends on the quantity of the food consumed. Larger amounts of not so healthy food will receive lower Food Grades and vice versa. When comparing two foods, make sure to use approximately the same quantities of these foods.

    Please see Food Grade article for more details.

    If you've chosen Keto or Low-Carb diet in MyNetDiary, then a special, Keto Food Grade or Low-Carb Food Grade will be used, which make more emphasis on carbs and fats.

    Food grade settings can be found in the following way:

    Android

    Me tab - App Settings - Nutrient settings - Common - Food grade.

    iPhone

    App Settings - Diet Logging - Show Food Grade.

    First of all, you can find and use a similar food. It's OK to log a similar food, the most important thing is to keep tracking, eating better, and you will be losing weight!

    But, if you are looking for most accurate tracking, read on, there are many options in MyNetDiary!

    When you don't find the food you need in the catalog, you can create your own Custom Food. Enter food serving and calories, so you will be able to find and log this food whenever you eat it in the future.

    Please take a look at the related article which in detail describe Everything You Should Know About Custom Food.

    You can also create a new custom food as a recipe based on existing foods as ingredients or simply create a new custom food from scratch while performing food entry. Custom foods and recipes can be created from phone, from iPad or the website.

    It is also possible to create a custom food by copying an existing food at the web site: select the food in food table, click "Food Details" button, then click "Copy and customize" link.

    Finally, you can find and copy other users' custom foods via Community Search.

    If you are using a mobile app, the another option is to send us PhotoFood request - a photo of packaging with food name and a photo of its Nutrition Facts. We typically process PhotoFoods within 24 hours, entering all nutrients for you. Please use the Custom Food screen with PhotoFoods option ON.

    Check out our If a Food is not Found video for additional assistance.

    MyNetDiary shows the exact serving provided by the food vendor and all conversions possible.

    If the vendor provided serving in weight units, enter portion size in grams (g) or ounces (oz). Use a food scale when possible, as this will be the most accurate.

    If the vendor provided a serving volume, e.g., tbsp, MyNetDiary will list all other standard volume measurement units: ml, cup, fl oz, and tsp.

    Notice that oz and fl oz are different measurement units. Eight ounces of table salt are in many times heavier than eight fluid ounces of popcorn.

    If you don't see a particular serving size, that means MyNetDiary cannot figure this out. Estimate amount in another measurement unit. It's OK to enter approximate portion size. Just keep tracking your foods!

    Please check our How big is the Serving article in case you need more information on serving sizes.

    You can share custom foods you've created in MyNetDiary with your family members and other people, so that they don't need to re-enter full food labels of these foods.

    Custom food sharing is available online on the MyNetDiary website. Please sign in with your MyNetDiary account name and go to Community Profile page. Then, take note of your community name or update it, if needed, and make sure custom food and exercise sharing is enabled, as on the screenshot:

    After enabling food sharing, other community members (including your family members) will be able to search by your community name online at Community Search page, go to your Personal page and copy your custom foods to their food catalogs.

    Custom activities can be shared similarly to custom foods.

    For more guidance, please check our Sharing Your Data with Another Person video.

    The new Shopping List tool in MyNetDiary apps will let you organize all of your supermarket shopping.

    Please note that currently, shopping lists do not sync between different devices used under the same account. We plan to improve this feature in future app updates.

    Where is the Shopping List?

    The Shopping List screen is located on the Me tab in the iPhone app, and in the left-side menu in the iPad app.

    On Android app the Shopping List is also located under the Me tab.

    Our website does not have a Shopping List feature.

    Adding Items to the Shopping List

    There are several options to add items to the list:

    • Using "+" button in the Shopping List screen
    • Using the "Add to Shopping List" menu item on your meal screens, for example, on the Breakfast or Dinner screens. You'll be able to add either the current meal's foods or all planned meals.
    • You can use Siri - try saying, "Add milk and honey to my shopping list in MyNetDiary."

    If you add a recipe to the shopping list, this will add all of its ingredients, scaled for the number of servings you specify.

    With our new feature Meal Planner on iOS app, you can automatically add all the planned meals to your shopping list. For more information on this feature, please check this article or this tutorial video.

    Adding from the Shopping List screen

    You can add items directly to the list - use the green "+" button. You can search and select foods and recipes to add to your shopping list.

    You can also type and add anything else you want to the shopping list. You can type and add "milk" - if you don't care about selecting a specific brand of milk in search results. You can also type and add "dishwasher" even though it is not a food item.

    Adding from Meals screens

    You can add to the shopping list foods you have logged in one of your meals (for example, in breakfast) - either for today, in a past day, or logged (for planning purposes) for tomorrow or some future day. Use the menu button located in the top right corner of meals screens and select the "Add to Shopping List" option, then confirm that you want to add the current meal. You'll be able to select specific foods from your meal that you want to add.

    If you log your future meals for planning purposes, either for a day or a few days in advance, you can add all of them to the shopping list. Again, use the "Add to Shopping List" menu item and select the "All Planned Meals" option. You can further edit the shopping list afterward.

    Editing the Shopping List

    On the Shopping List screen, you can further edit the list. You can add amounts and notes to any item, change item icons, and change category assignments - use the "Edit" button on the item's right. You can delete items by swiping them from the right or using the "Select and Edit" menu option to select and delete multiple items.

    You can also edit the list of categories to match how your supermarket is organized. Suppose your supermarket has a produce department at the entrance, with the seafood department next. In that case, you may want to use the "Manage Categories" menu option to re-arrange (or add) categories, drag "Produce" to the top of the categories list, then drag the "Seafood" category to make it the second one in the categories list, and so on.

    Shopping with the Shopping List

    In a food store, you can tap an item to cross it off from your list. Tap a crossed item if you want to undo this. You can use the "eye" button at the top of the screen to automatically hide crossed-off items from the list, leaving only the items you still need to purchase.

    If you have an Apple Watch, you can see the shopping list in the MyNetDiary's app for Apple Watch. You'll be able to see your remaining shopping items and cross them off in the watch app. You can shop without using your iPhone, only with the watch! To share the list use the "Share" button at the bottom of the Shopping List screen. Then, select one of the sharing options available - message, email, or printing.

    Also, please see MyNetDiary blog for more information about the Shopping List tool.

    Some foods in MyNetDiary food database have only one serving type listed, without weight information. It could be "sandwich", or "cookie" or just "serving". This means a typical amount of this food. This works well for a sandwich or cookie, but could be unclear for "serving" - how big it really is?

    If serving weight information is unavailable, most likely it was not published by the food vendor. MyNetDiary would not be able to figure this out.

    We recommend finding a similar food that has weight information or creating a custom food if you have Nutrition Label. You can also use PhotoFoods to get this entered for you!

    Also check:

    How may I enter a portion size that isn't there?

    On iOS, you can send daily meals to your family members and friends using iMessage. If you eat the same things, this may help the other person to save time searching and entering foods.

    Sharing Meals via iMessage

    Make sure you both use the same MyNetDiary app! Sending via iMessage is possible only between the same apps - either between two MyNetDiary Free apps or between two MyNetDiary Pro apps or between two MyNetDiary D apps.

    There are two ways to send daily meals: 1) from the iOS app, using top-right menu on the meal screen (e.g., Dinner screen), and 2) from the iMessage app.

    Please see the MyNetDiary iMessage Help for detailed, step-by-step instructions.

    You can easily share recipes with those who use a different platform from yours: from iOS to Android or vice versa. Find your recipe in the following way: Me tab - Manage My Foods - Recipes - View Recipe - 3 dots in the upper right corner - Share - Link.

    Once you send the link - when users will open it, the recipe will open automatically, and the app will offer to save it in their own Recipes collection.

    iOS:

    Android:

    To share a recipe, you need to open it either through My Foods:

    or while logging it. Just tap the three-dot menu button in the top-right corner of the screen and tap the Share from the menu popup:

    MyNetDiary provides two ways to send and share recipes: 1) from the iOS app using links, and 2) from the iMessage app.

    Sending Recipes from iOS App

    Sharing is easy! Open to view the recipe you want to share and tap the Share button at the bottom of the screen, then select the Share Recipe Link option. A standard iPhone sharing dialog will be displayed, allowing you to use any sharing tool you use on your phone, including iMessage, email, Airdrop, and any other messaging app you use.

    On the receiving side, the recipient should tap the link, and the MyNetDiary app will be launched and display the recipe received, offering to save it. Suppose the recipient does not have a MyNetDiary app installed. In that case, the link will open a web page with the recipe and buttons to download the MyNetDiary app for iOS and Android; once the app is installed and set up, the link can be tapped again to import the recipe.

    Sharing recipes with links allows sharing and importing recipes for people using the same MyNetDiary app and people using different MyNetDiary apps, even between iPhone and Android versions of MyNetDiary. Moreover, you can share not only through iMessage but use email or any messaging app, WhatsApp and iMessage included.

    Sending Recipes from iMessage app

    MyNetDiary has a great iMessage app. It can be used to share and send meals to save time logging foods for your family members using MyNetDiary.

    You can also send recipes from the MyNetDiary iMessage app if the recipient uses the same MyNetDiary app for iPhone.

    Open the Messages app on your iPhone and select MyNetDiary among the apps available, then open the Recipes tab to select the recipe to send. See MyNetDiary iMessage Help for detailed, step-by-step instructions.

    Sending recipes via iMessage used to be available directly in the iPhone app until the March 2021 update of MyNetDiary. In this update, iMessage recipe sharing was replaced with a more powerful and convenient option - sharing and importing recipes using links.

    The idea behind keeping what you typed is that you are giving your short name to the food you are looking for and have found.

    Many foods have pretty long names, and when you search, you are using the words that are natural for you, they are effectively how you name the food. With this approach, we save a lot of screen space (in mobile apps and on the web site). Also, short names are easier to scan and read.

    We typically recommend giving "definitive" food names (i.e. searching/typing sometimes an extra word or two, to make the resulting food name unique for you). For example, if you always eat the same kind of hot dogs, typing "hot dog" is sufficient, but if you eat different kinds of hot dogs, e.g. beef franks and pork, such as "Oscar mayer wieners beef franks hotdog wiener frankfurter hot dog" and "Frankfurter pork hot dog frank wiene", you might want to type "beef frank hot dog" and "pork hot dog" respectively, although "hot dog" will be sufficient in each case. Again, in our opinion, this is easier on the eyes and fits nicely into the available screen real estate.

    Deleting a Short Name

    If you don't like or don't need a short name for some food, you can open Manage My Foods screen, then locate the food you need, tap on it, and from the appeared menu select Remove From Search History.

    MyNetDiary shows all possible serving types for each item. If you cannot find the particular serving type for the chosen item, that means we weren't able to figure this out.

    There are two groups of standard measurement units: volume and weight. Some food labels have just 'weight' information, others just 'volume,' whereas the third ones may have both serving weight and serving volume.

    The standard food weight measurement units are grams and ounces. There are five food volume measurement units: milliliters, teaspoons, tablespoon, fluid ounces, and cups. MyNetDiary uses the US or Imperial converter between tsp, tbsp, oz, fl oz, and cup depending on the user's setting to Use or Don't Use Metric Units. However, we still show all other available serving types according to the vendor's info. We do not exclude any measurement units after conversion.

    If you see one of the five 'volume' units of measurement, you will find the remaining four in the serving suggestions of this food. For example, if you see "ml," you will see the "cup," "tbsp," "fl oz," and "tsp" as well. The app does the necessary conversion of the nutrition facts between these five 'volume' servings automatically.

    If the vendor provided the Serving Weight in grams, MyNetDiary would show "ounces" as well. (And, vice-versa.)

    You may wonder if we could estimate rough conversion between 'volume' and 'weight' when the vendor refuses to provide enough information. We could show more serving types after that. Theoretically, to get the connection between 'weight and 'volume' and to have more serving types in serving suggestions, we could interchange "g" and "ml," "oz," and "fl oz." The conversion error would be insignificant in some cases; especially, if you have a kitchen scale. Unfortunately, we cannot add all 'weight' and 'volume' serving suggestions to our foods. A conversation between mL and gram is not always genuine. There is no way to make such a conversion without knowing the density of the item. And the vendor does not provide info about food density. An example is "table salt" and "popcorn." A milliliter of "salt" will weigh heavier than a gram, and a milliliter of "popcorn" will weigh lighter than a gram. The "fl oz" unit is not always equal to "oz" for these foods. We agree that in many items, they are pretty close (e.g., "water" and "coca-cola.") But, we have a lot of mixed foods (e.g., frozen combo dinners, sandwiches, and so on.) So, we cannot show the units of 'volume' measurements if the vendor did not provide the nutrients for at least one serving in a 'volume' measurement. (Or, if the vendor does not show the nutrition facts for at least one unit of the 'weight' measurement.) In some cases, we cannot "convert," estimate, or get the approximate values for the missing unit of measure you may want or need.

    We strive to display as many units of measurements as possible. Some of our items have 'volume' and 'weight' units for portion choice; e.g., "water tap drinking" has both. Some foods have just 'weight' serving suggestions; for instance, "carrot raw." Others have just 'volume' in serving suggestions; see the "Milk 2% fat with vitamins a & d by jewel" item; it does not have "g" or "oz" in servings.

    We cannot estimate the 'weight' info when the vendor does not provide at least one 'weight' serving description. And, we cannot add and assess ourselves the 'volume' if the vendor does not give us at least one 'volume' description for this product. We regret any inconvenience that this might have caused.

    As a suggestion, search for the generic item, (Staple Foods;) they have the complete nutrition facts and vary standard servings.

    Alternatively, use the "copy & customize" feature and create your custom food based on the original item with the missing serving type.

    To add the missing restaurant foods, submit the Restaurant Update request. The feature is available while creating new custom food on the mobile app; the option is located along with the "photofoods" option. See the related video tutorial.

    MyNetDiary food catalog is the most complete, accurate, and up-to-date nutrition database in the English-speaking world. We use our food catalog for high-quality calorie counting and nutrition analysis delivered to millions of our diet app users. As MyNetDiary provides a comprehensive diet service, we know how inaccurate food labels undermine the whole idea of diet tracking, analysis, and planning. Many years of rigorous food research resulted in a robust data product:

  • 1,105,000 foods in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and Australia.
  • 1,300 restaurants among 2,200 vendors, including well-known brands, restaurants, fast food chains, supermarkets, special diets, ethnic foods, and common USDA foods. See our vendor list.
  • 566,000 UPC barcodes are assigned to the majority of popular packaged foods.
  • Food popularity rank based on food logging by millions of MyNetDiary users. We know what people eat.
  • Up to 47 nutrients per food, on average 15 nutrients per food.
  • Up to 10 serving types per food. We fight duplicates and normalize the data.
  • Food icons for most foods help you create beautiful, readable food lists.
  • Enjoy our Instant Food Search by Name, or Scan the barcode with our free mobile apps. The Search by Name works by multiple words in any order, partial words, food synonyms, abbreviations, and phonetic similarity. Brand names and food categories are searched along with food names. Search results highlight matched user inputs. Search results are ranked by popularity among millions of diet app users. It suggests the most relevant foods.

    Food Data Research Team works 24/7 and processes phtoofood requests (reports from the users who noticed food anomaly) in 24 hours. All food updates are immediately available on your application and web. We add and verify about 300 foods every day. Our continuous food research and popularity ranking help us keep the database up-to-date. We research foods on demand for users sending PhotoFood requests via mobile app. We fight duplicates and research multiple servings per food whenever possible.

    A Look Under The Hood: Nutrition Research Process

    Check out the MyNetDiary research system and see how much attention we give to the completeness and correctness of the data and how many data rules are implemented by our research team. We automate data validation as much as possible, but it still takes a human to ensure quality. Every change is double-checked by our quality assurance team. Keeping the catalog up-to-date is challenging since the food industry is a dynamic, ever-changing world: food vendors sell and buy brands, change their name while growing the business, change servings and clarify their nutrition labels over time. We meet these challenges with continuous monitoring and periodic, prioritized verification of such vendors and brands.

    PhotoFood requests are processed within 24 hours or faster. We add hundreds of foods every day while removing obsolete or duplicated foods. It's a live catalog. It is hard to avoid duplication because of re-packaging and re-branding of the same products and their slight variations. We remove any duplicates within 24 hours after notice. We work with restaurants and food companies to add and update their menus and products in our food database. If you notice that our database is missing some restaurant or a food company, please create new custom food and submit a Photofood request or Restaurant Update request. We'll include it in the database. Other data sources include the USDA Standard Reference database and data from literature sources.

    Grocery Check is a feature on iOS apps that allows to compare foods by scanning their barcodes. Typically, people use it from iPhones while shopping. But you can also do it at home. It will help you to choose the better and healthier among a variety.

    If you plan your meals in advance, would like to view and estimate the potential future macro and micronutrient intake, and want to choose the best items for future purchases in the store, use Shopping List and Grocery Check features (the last one is available for iOS devices only.)

    You can create a Shopping List according to the list of consumed items for your 1-2 or more week plan. This feature even works in tandem with the Meal Planner (so far, we have implemented it for the iOS apps; soon - on Android)

    The Shopping List will help you compose and organize tentatively what you want to buy. When you arrive at the store, you just pick a particular food from the shelf, scan its barcode from the Grocery Check and decide what food and brand is better according to the comparative analysis of the nutrition facts of the scanned products. The Grocery Check feature is located in the Me section of the iPhone app:

    and in the side menu of the iPad app:

    (In the future, we plan to add it for Android.)

    Based on your trip to the store, you can also adjust the items of your Meal Planner and recompose your Shopping List for your next shopping. The Meal Planner lets you view your future macro and micronutrient consumption at a glance. Suppose you notice some lack of specific minerals, vitamins, and other nutrients. In that case, you can compare the alternative and available foods via Grocery Check and add the desired items to your Shopping List and specific weekdays of the Meal Planner.

    Sometimes, the person can eat just some of the ingredients of the system food. For instance, a "hamburger" without "bun" or without "ketchup." And, In this case, the "hamburger" is not a recipe but the regular system food. The user who cannot find the "hamburger without bun" or the "hamburger with no ketchup" item in the suggestion list may want to log a negative "bun" or the negative "ketchup" item in addition to the regular "hamburger."

    Instead of logging a negative food to your net diary, we advise creating new custom food based on authentic system item.

    On the iPhone app, the user can remove the nutrition facts of some ingredient (ingredients) while Copying & Customizing the system food. The Copy & Customize > Remove Ingredient option is located at the bottom of the food entry screen. For example, it's possible to remove the nutrients of the "table salt" from "hummus" food.

    While creating a copy of the original "hummus" item, the user has to give a distinctive new name (e.g., "my custom hummus w/o salt.")

    The new item changes the nutrition facts after saving. Each new nutrient is equal to the nutrient of the original food minus the value of the same nutrient in the removed ingredient.

    Alternatively, it's possible to remove (or change) the value of the particular nutrient of the Copied & Customized system food. In the "hummus" case, the user can choose the Copy & Customize > Update Nutrients option, change the Sodium value to "0," and tap the Next. Then, make the name of the new copy unique, tap the Save button, and log it to the meal.

    The Android app and the website do not support the Removing Ingredient option while using the "copy & customize" feature.

    On the Android app, to Copy & Customize the system food is possible only by Updating Nutrients. The Copy & Customize option is located on the Food Label screen which can be opened by tapping the food name on the Food Entry screen.

    On the website, the Copy & Customize button is located on the top-right corner of the Edit Food Entry webpage.

    On the iPhone app, Copying & Customizing the existing system food is possible in another way too. Instead of reducing the nutrition facts while removing the ingredient, the user can Add Ingredient (Ingredients.)

    Printing reports is possible from the apps (iOS and Android) and the www.mynetdiary.com website.

    To print a Food report from the iPhone app, go to the Me section, tap Reports & Summary, and select the PDF Reports option. Then, choose the "Food" Report Type, tap Prepare green button, and ⇧ icon on the top-right corner:

    After that, you will see the Print option:

    To print Food report from the iPad app, use "Reports" option from the side menu:

    Customers with a Premium membership can print Food reports from the Analysis - Multi-Day Reports web page:

    To print a Food report from the Android app, go to the Coach section, tap PDF Reports, choose the period and a report type, and tap Share option::

    Alternatively, you can share your reports with your dietitian, doctor, nutritionist, or coach via Professional Connect.

    No. You won't lose access to the Custom Recipes if you decide to downgrade your Premium membership. However, the downgrade* will lock access to the Premium Recipes, Recipe Database 370K+, and Import recipes from iOS/Android web browsers and recipe apps. (*Exception: for a limited time, the features stay unlocked in MyNetDiary’s Diabetes & Diet Tracker app for Android OS.)

    You can log vitamins, minerals, and supplements as regular foods in your meal sections (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and Snacks). This ensures that the nutrient values of these items contribute to your daily totals. To expedite the process, utilize features like Recent Foods, Same, Favorites, and Frequent Foods.

    Alternatively, if you prefer not to include vitamins, minerals, and micronutrients in your daily totals but want to record supplement information for your reference, utilize the simple text field labeled "Vitamins & Supplements" on the iOS apps.

    The "Vitamins"/"Vitamins & Supplements" screen offers a 'Copy From Previous Day' function, conveniently located at the bottom of the iPhone app's screen:

    This feature enables you to replicate supplement entries from previous/Recent days, saving you time and effort:

    MyNetDiary offers to track different diets. Most of these diets consider that Cholesterol has a negative impact while calculating the Food Grade, but very insignificant. Please take a look at the related support article and blog post. (The negative effect will rise while choosing a more significant portion size.)

    The grade with a letter represents the numerical score:

    For instance, a 0.7 Food Score is the same as B+. The positive or negative number of the Food Score is calculated by formulas using the following coefficients:

    While increasing the portion size from "1 egg" to "4 eggs," the bad and good nutrient values change (increase or decrease;), thus, change of the grade.

    The research outcomes refer to the fact that Cholesterol does not harm, and it does not have to have a negative impact (-0.000398 coefficient;) recently, Cholesterol in eggs has been proven as a nutrient not to affect the body's Cholesterol in a "bad" way. And we agree that the "eggs" food has to be graded better.

    We devised a solution to calculate unique Food Grades for Low-Carb and Keto diets. If you switch to one of these two diets, the grades of the eggs (and oils) items have to be calculated higher than the grades of the scoring system currently in use for other diet types. This alternative grading system will show you an "A" grade if you enter three large eggs of the "Egg Whole Raw" item:

    We can discuss updating the current rating formulas for the other diets (e.g., for the regular Calorie Counting diet.) So far, our development team is not yet aware of the new grading system that includes the mentioned Cholesterol factor. We continue consulting with dietitians to find out which of the modern scoring systems better fits and already consists of a better cholesterol coefficient. Until then, the app will continue showing up "B-," "D+," "D," or "D-" for foods containing cholesterol (the score/rating may vary based on whether you chose High-Protein, Low-Fat, Vegetarian, Vergan or the regular Calorie Counting diet type.) If you do not like the way how Food Grade is calculated, it's possible to hide Food Grade from tracking. Alternatively, you can switch to the Mideteraneean diet type - the app will hide the Food Grade automatically.

    At times, you may encounter situations where the MyNetDiary food lacks your preferred measurement unit. If you find yourself in this situation, please refer to the following support articles for guidance:

  • How may I enter a portion size that isn't there?
  • How big is the 'serving?'
  • More measurement units in food servings. Conversion between volume and weight
  • How to visualize a portion if the vendor provides an unclear serving's description
  • MyNetDiary does not support synchronization with any digital kitchen scales yet. While creating your recipes, you can measure the food weight and log the portion size of the ingredient manually.

    You may find it helpful to review the related blog posts:

  • Measuring and estimating portion sizes
  • 6 food tracking tips to improve your accuracy
  • Tips for entering, editing, and sharing recipes
  • On the Dashboard, you can enable the nutrient totals in the following way:

    1. tap the My Weight Plan item from the Home screen
    2. swipe the top navbar to the left and tap the Nutrient Targets
    3. tap the three-vertical-dots to the right to a particular nutrient you want to unhide from the Dashboard (e.g., Dietary Fiber) and choose the Dietary Fiber Settings option from the popup menu
    4. on the Dietary Fiber Settings screen, turn the Show on the Dashboard option ON

    There is also another way to enable the nutrient totals on the Dashboard. Enter one food for the day, go to Dashboard, and scroll to the bottom. Then, tap Customize, Show Nutrients, and choose the desired nutrients.

    Enabling the nutrient totals on the Dashboard requires a Premium membership. This functionality is an option additional to tracking specific nutrients in the meals. Whereas the Diabetes mobile app allows selecting the nutrients for tracking in meals without Premium, enabling the nutrient totals on the Dashboard requires Premium. The clients who use the Diabetes app without Premium can select more vitamins, minerals, and nutrients for tracking in meals, but they need an upgrade for enabling the nutrient totals on the Dashboard. Customers with Premium can set the app up to show up the nutrient totals on the Home screen:

    In downloadable reports, MyNetDiary follows the Nutrition Facts standard, which specifies using % of DV for vitamins and minerals. However, our iPhone apps allow switching to the micronutrient absolute weight values (in milligrams and micrograms.) On the Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Snacks, and All Meals screens, it's possible by tapping the below option:

    The mentioned functionality is not available on our website and Android app yet.

    To view it, go to the Me section, tap the Manage My Foods item, and find your food in a particular category (Favs, Frequent, Custom, Meals, or Recipes.) A long tap on this food will open the popup menu with the Consumption History option:

    Once you choose it, it will generate the screne with the name of this food and the details about when, where you logged it, and how much you ate it.

    After choosing the "Enter nutrients manually before logging the food" option from the popup that appears while creating new custom food, you see the default nutrient list: only macro-, micronutrients, vitamins, and minerals, the nutrients you selected for tracking. Some nutrients may be missing. The nutrients you do not track won't appear for input on the Food Nutrients screen. To enable them, tap the "Edit: Standard Nutrients" line and switch it to "All Nutrients."

    This function allows multiple food entries at once. You can turn it on or off via the App Settings (App Settings > Advanced Settings section of the iOS app and App Settings > Food & Exercise section of the Android app.) The enabled setting will keep the app in search mode after saving food amounts until you tap the Log button, letting you add more foods at once, with fewer taps.

    Check out the demo video for more details.

    We aim to provide a balanced grading system and understand it may not fit every context perfectly. To see 'more behind-the-scenes', please review:

    Mobile apps

    To print a recipe, you need to open it through Manage My Foods under the Me tab. Here is how it looks on iOS:

    and on the Android version:

    Website

    To print a recipe from the computer, go to the www.mynetdiary.com website, access My Foods, from the Food webpage and open the My Recipes catalog. Click the three-dots icon next to the particular recipe,

    select the View Recipe from the popup menu,

    and then click the Print button:

    Among other food types, there are two types - custom and system. The user can log a particular custom or system food into some meal (e.g., Lunch) of a specific day. Or the custom or system food may remain unlogged to the diary and only appear in Search Results (without the following logging.) In the first case, MyNetDiary considers it important for this user so that such items always appear at the top of the next Search Results. In the last case, while the user types the name, the never logged items appear in the suggestion list, but their position is lower. The position of the item in the suggestion list depends on popularity.

    Suppose the user uses specific keywords and picks the suggestion list item that has never logged into his/her diary. In that case, MyNetDiary assigns the used search keywords as a short name for this food. In the future, in the suggestion list, the user will always see the short name instead of the full food name of this item. The suggestion list shows the short names in blue font and the full food names in black font.

    Suppose the user does not want to see a particular item at the top of the list because he/she no longer eats it; he/she excluded this food from his/her diet. In that case, it's possible to Remove its short name from Search Results via the My Foods catalog online or via the Manage My Foods section of the mobile app:

    But the user cannot completely Remove any system food from the database. Suppose some system item has never been logged into the diary as a record and just appears in search results. In that case, the user has no option to Retire or Remove it from the suggestion list:

    Only the MyNetDiary Food Data Research team and admins can do it by retiring this item entirely from the database. Instead, the user can only un-assign the previously assigned short name of this system food so that it won't longer appear on the top of the suggestion list for this user. At that, the user can still find the full food name of such an item on a lower position of the suggestion list in the same way other people see it.

    The user can only delete the custom foods and recipes he/she created himself/herself. It's possible by using the Retire This Item option. This option appears in the popup menu next to a specific custom item listed in the appropriate catalog of the My Foods section online or the Manage My Foods section of the mobile app.

    Suppose the person no longer eats a particular food. In that case, he/she deletes/retires such an item from Custom Foods or Custom Recipes catalog. Such food will never appear in the suggestion list again. However, such an item will stay as a diary record if the user ever logged it to a particular meal (e.g., Lunch) and date in the past.

    To let MyNetDiary show "grams" for the recipe itself, ensure all ingredients have weight information either in grams or ounces. Alternatively, enter the approximate weight value for the whole recipe while creating or editing the recipe and specifying its total serving.

    Some ingredients may have no weight information due to the reasons explained in this and that article. Also, review more about the difference between volume and weight measurement units.

    Sync With Other Trackers

    MyNetDiary has 2 ways to integrate devices with itself:

  • The direct way - using Apple Watch, Garmin, Fitbit, or Withings device.
  • The indirect way - using Google Fit, iOS Health or Samsung Health.
  • If your device can send the data to Google Fit, iOS Health, or Samsung Health, then you can establish an indirect link between the device and MyNetDiary. Please check the above articles to find out how to do it. If it cannot - unfortunately, no sync is possible.

    We are working on adding more trackers to sync with MyNetDiary, but this is a process that takes time. If you find some particular device to be a good fit for our application, please feel free to submit your suggestion to support@mynetdiary.com.

    Enabled Active Calories and Total Calories Out can be shown in the Exercise section as Withings Calories record. This record reflects your additional calories burned beyond Activities records in Withings, for example, calories you have burned while walking. Withings mobile app calculates and displays all calories burned. Resting Calories and extra active Calories are shown there as Total Calories Out. Withings Total Calories Out imported into MyNetDiary. But, they are shown in Exercise Notes only. To calculate Withings Calories exercise, MyNetDiary subtracts DRI (Weight Maintenance calories) from Withings Total Calories Out. This number of active calories is calculated according to your activity level. The value includes only calories burnt beyond expected. This is needed to avoid double counting. After subtracting DRI expected calories, MyNetDiary creates Withings Calories exercise record.

    If you have a Withings body scale and several members of your family use both the scale and MyNetDiary, then separate Withings accounts are needed to link with each MyNetDiary account.

    First, you need to sign in to the Withings website with the existing Withings account and then "make independent" other Withings scale users. Please see the screenshot below and follow Withing's instructions Making a User Profile Independent for detailed steps.

    Then make sure that each member of your family that has a MyNetDiary account is able to sign in to the Withings website with his or her newly created Withings account.

    Finally, each member of your family that was made "independent" and uses MyNetDiary has to link to his or her Withings account either from the Settings screen in MyNetDiary's mobile app, or from MyNetDiary website's Account/Withings tab.

    MyNetDiary and Fitbit – integrate your diet and exercise

    MyNetDiary online and mobile diet program helps you lose weight by tracking your food calories with the best nutrition database in the world. MyNetDiary can also keep track and estimate your activity calories based on activity type and duration.

    Fitbit tracker uses an accelerometer and other sensors to estimate your daily calories burn, while Fitbit weight scale can automate your weight tracking.

    By linking MyNetDiary with Fitbit you get the best of both worlds:

    • MyNetDiary shows the activity calories, daily step count, body weight, sleep hours and average heart rate as measured by Fitbit.

    • Fitbit shows your food calories and nutrients tracked by MyNetDiary. MyNetDiary also sends body weight measurements to Fitbit.

    Using Fitbit with MyNetDiary helps to calculate daily calorie balance more accurately, see the actual balance of the calories you burn and eat during the day, and ultimately - helps you lose weight faster and smarter!

    We highly recommend using Fitbit for activity and weight tracking, while you use MyNetDiary to improve your diet and lose weight.

    How does linking work?

    Fitbit trackers calculate your activity calories, daily step count, weigh-ins, and more, and sync them to the Fitbit website. MyNetDiary keeps track of your foods logged online or via mobile apps. By creating a link, you allow MyNetDiary to talk to Fitbit website and exchange the following data:

    • From Fitbit to MyNetDiary
      • Exercise burned calories (Inspire 2, Inspire, Inspire HR, Sensa, Versa 3, Versa 2, Versa, Charge 4, Charge 3, Charge 2, Charge, Charge HR, Ace 2, Surge, Alta, Alta HR and Blaze, Flex, One, Zip)

      • Daily step count (Inspire 2, Inspire, Inspire HR, Sensa, Versa 3, Versa 2, Charge 4, Charge 3, Charge 2, Charge, Charge HR, Ace 2, Surge, Alta, Alta HR, Blaze, Flex, One, Zip)

      • Hours of sleep (Inspire 2, Inspire, Inspire HR, Sensa, Versa 3, Versa 2, Versa, Charge 4, Charge 3, Charge 2, Charge, Charge HR, Surge, Alta, Alta HR, Blaze, Flex, One)

      • Body weight and body fat percentage (Aria WiFi Smart Scale)

      • The amount of water you drink

    • From MyNetDiary to Fitbit
      • Daily foods - including food name, calories, fat, fiber, carbs, sodium and protein content

      • Body weight and body fat percentage

      • The amount of water you drink

    You can choose which data can be downloaded from (and uploaded to) Fitbit. Use Fitbit Settings page.

    How do I link?

    First of all, make sure you Sign Up for MyNetDiary Premium or Upgrade to MyNetDiary Premium. Fitbit linking and many other premium MyNetDiary features are available with MyNetDiary Premium membership.

    Step 1: Set up Fitbit account

    Please set up your Fitbit account and device as explained at Fitbit website.

    Before going further, please verify that your Fitbit account is set up correctly: on the Fitbit website, go to the Activities tab and check if you see the calories and other information uploaded from your Fitbit device.

    Step 2: Start linking at MyNetDiary

    On the MyNetDiary website go to the Settings tab, then click Apps and Devices - Fitbit Settings.

    Click “Link to Fitbit” button. You will be redirected to the Fitbit website.

    Step 3: Complete linking at Fitbit

    MyNetDiary redirects you to the Fitbit website, so that you can authorize MyNetDiary to access your Fitbit data. Enter your Fitbit credentials and click "Allow" button:

    After clicking "Allow" button at Fitbit website, you will be returned to MyNetDiary website with message indicating that "You have linked MyNetDiary to Fitbit":

    Exchange details

    What happens after I link?

    After you link to Fitbit, MyNetDiary performs automatic data exchange within several minutes after you enter foods in MyNetDiary, one exchange per hour. If you don't log foods for some day, MyNetDiary will download your Fitbit data during the night. In the case you do not log foods in MyNetDiary for 5 contiguous days, MyNetDiary stops exchanging your data with Fitbit. When you resume logging foods, MyNetDiary resumes Fitbit data exchanges.

    If you want to expedite the exchange of today's data, go to the Settings/Apps and Devices/Fitbit Settings page and click the "Verify link" button.

    MyNetDiary exchanges last 2 days of data after the link is established or restored.

    When you sync Fitbit trackers to the Fitbit website, MyNetDiary receives a notification from Fitbit within several minutes and automatically downloads new data.

    Fitbit exercise vs. Fitbit calories

    Fitbit download creates "Fitbit exercise" entry at MyNetDiary Exercise, which is different from the Daily Total Calories you see on Activities tab at Fitbit web site. MyNetDiary exercise includes only the calories burned in addition to normal lifestyle determined by your personal activity level. This is why MyNetDiary subtracts Weight Maintenance Calories calories from the downloaded total calories:

    • Fitbit Active calories = Fitbit Daily Total Calories Burned − Sum(Fitbit Exercises) − MyNetDiary Weight Maintenance Calories

    If Fitbit total calories minus sum of Fitbit Exercises are less than Weight Maintenance Calories, Fitbit Active calories exercise is set to zero because negative exercise cannot be used by MyNetDiary planning and analysis features.

    Make sure you have chosen the same timezone in MyNetDiary and Fitbit, also make sure your body weight, sex and date of birth settings are the same in both systems.

    We recommend setting MyNetDiary Activity Level to Sedentary, because "Fitbit exercise" includes only calories above your activity level, so Sedentary level in MyNetDiary gives you the most "Fitbit exercise" calories.

    Fitbit body measurements

    In addition to exercise calories, Fitbit tracker counts daily step count and may determine hours of sleep. Fitbit Aria scale measures body weight and body fat percentage.

    MyNetDiary downloads all these measurements from Fitbit. To see the downloaded measurements in MyNetDiary, go to MyNetDiary Daily Details page and click “Select Measurements to Track” link.

    Catching up on last several days

    In the case you would like to repeat Fitbit download for the last 2 days, please use the "Verify Link" button.

    How does Withings linking work?

    Linking your MyNetDiary account with Withings enhances your health tracking by automatically importing various health metrics directly from the Withings website. Once connected, the following data from your Withings activity tracker will be synced to MyNetDiary:

    • Daily Caloric Burn: Recorded as exercise entries, contributing to your calorie balance and analysis.

    • Daily Steps: Your steps are counted and recorded.

    • Sleep Duration: Hours of sleep are tracked and logged.

    • Weight Measurements: Updates your weight records within MyNetDiary.

    • Blood Pressure and Heart Rate: Both systolic/diastolic blood pressure and heart rate data are added to your daily tracking and measurement records.

    The synchronization process is automatic, occurring once daily or shortly after you log food in MyNetDiary, limited to one update per hour. If no food is logged for 10 consecutive days, MyNetDiary will pause the data sync from Withings. Resuming food logging in MyNetDiary will also resume the data download from Withings.

    To manually initiate the download of today's data sooner, navigate to the Account tab, select the Withings link to access the Withings Settings page, and then press the “Verify link” button.

    When your Withings device syncs with the Withings website, MyNetDiary is promptly notified and automatically downloads any new data, covering the last 10 days of activity each time the link is established or reconnected.

    The integration is one-way; linking your accounts allows the MyNetDiary website to access and display your Withings data in your MyNetDiary account across various tabs and screens for exercise, daily steps, sleep, weight, blood pressure, and heart rate monitoring.

    You have the flexibility to select which data types to sync from Withings through the Withings Settings page in MyNetDiary.

    How do I link?

    Before linking, you should have a Premium account.

    Step 1: Set up Withings account

    You can get started by following the directions on the Withings website. Once you have a Withings account, ensure you see the data uploaded from your Withings device to the website.

    Step 2: Start linking at MyNetDiary

    In the app, choose Apps & Devices under the Me tab and tap Withings Activity Trackers.

    On the MyNetDiary website, go to the Settings tab, then click Apps & Devices and choose Withings device.

    Notice, that this page shows if Withings is already linked and allows you to verify the link.

    Step 3: Click "Link to Withings" button

    You will be redirected to the account.withings.com website, where you will need to sign in to your Withings account.

    After successful sign-in, you will be asked if you allow MyNetDiary to connect and access your data.

    Step 4: Click "Allow" button

    Once you click the Allow button, you will be returned to the MyNetDiary.com Withings Settings page, where you should see "Status: Linked" message.

    Unlinking Garmin

    You can terminate MyNetDiary link on Withings settings page.

    Catching up on last several days

    If you want to repeat Withings download for the last 10 days, please use the "Verify Link" button.

    How does Garmin linking work?

    MyNetDiary can download from Garmin Connect the total number of daily step counts, calories burned while walking and running, sleep hours, weight-ins, and individual workouts that you recorded with your tracker or logged manually in Garmin Connect. The specific information available depends on the Garmin device you use. For example, with vívofit® 2, you can download all of this information. With vívokí™, you can get daily step count, calories burned while walking and running, and workout calories.

    After you link your MyNetDiary account with Garmin Connect, MyNetDiary receives notification from Garmin Connect within several minutes after you sync Garmin trackers to the Garmin Connect and automatically downloads new data.

    If information is available in your Garmin Connect account, MyNetDiary will download your daily step count, sleep hours, and weight-ins and create exercise records in MyNetDiary. This way, your activities and exercise registered by your Garmin tracker will be accounted for in your daily calorie balance in MyNetDiary.

    You can verify data downloaded into MyNetDiary by going to Garmin Connect:

    1: Go to Daily Summary screen in Garmin Connect.

    2: You can see total burned calories there. MyNetDiary creates a special Garmin Active Calories exercise record while importing data from Garmin Connect. This record represents a part of your total calories - what you burned in excess of estimated Weight Maintenance calories for your activity level in MyNetDiary.

    Calculation of Garmin Active Calories Garmin mobile app and Garmin Connect website calculate and display all calories burned during the day as Total Calories. MyNetDiary subtracts the estimated Weight Maintenance calories from Garmin's Total Calories for your activity level in MyNetDiary. These include only calories you burn beyond expected, so avoid double counting. The MyNetDiary exercise log will display the number as Garmin Active Calories exercise record.

    This way, Total Calories calculated by Garmin will be completely and properly accounted for in MyNetDiary.

    For example, if you see in Garmin Connect 3,500 Total Calories, and your personal Weight Maintenance Calories in MyNetDiary are 2,800. Mynetdiary will create Garmin Active Calories exercise with 700 calories, calculated as 3500 - 2800.

    If Total Calories in Garmin are smaller than Weight Maintenance, then MyNetDiary will create an exercise record of Garmin Active Calories with zero calories.

    3: You can see your sleep hours on the same page under the Sleep tab. Please note that Garmin Connect shows hours and minutes, while MyNetDiary Sleep Measurements displays hours, so for example, 7:30min in Garmin will be displayed as 7.5 hours in MyNetDiary.

    4: Go to the Weight page in Garmin Connect to see your weight-ins.

    If you see large differences between Garmin Connect and MyNetDiary, please ensure your timezone is set correctly in Garmin Connect and MyNetDiary.

    Note: Garmin changed how it sends data to its partners like MyNetDiary. Garmin no longer provides a way to download data on demand, so verifying the link from MyNetDiary's side is impossible. Instead, Garmin is sending data to partners when any change is detected.

    Garmin data is transferred only from Garmin Connect to MyNetDiary. By creating a link, you authorize the MyNetDiary website to read your Garmin data and write these data under your MyNetDiary account.

    Garmin exercise appearing in MyNetDiary do not include your basal (BMR) calories, only calories burned during the exercise.

    How do I link?

    Linking with Garmin (along with many other great features) is provided for Premium accounts.

    Step 1: Set up Garmin Connect account

    You can start by following the directions at the Garmin Connect website. Once you have created a Garmin Connect account, make sure you can see the Garmin Connect website data uploaded from your Garmin device.

    Step 2: Start linking at MyNetDiary

    In the app, choose Apps & Devices under the Me tab and tap Garmin Activity Trackers.

    On the MyNetDiary website, go to the Settings tab, then click Apps and Devices - Garmin Settings.

    Please notice that this page shows if Garmin is already linked.

    Step 3: Click "Link to Garmin" button

    You will be redirected to the connect.garmin.com website, where you will need to sign in to your Garmin Connect account.

    After successful sign-in, you will be asked if you allow MyNetDiary to connect and access your data.

    Step 4: Click "Save" and "Agree" buttons

    Once you click the Save and Agree, you will be returned to the MyNetDiary.com Garmin Settings page, where you should see the "Status: Linked" message.

    Unlinking Garmin

    You can terminate the MyNetDiary link at the Garmin settings page.

    MyNetDiary can sync nutrients, exercise, weight and health trackers with Google Fit app.

    In order to link MyNetDiary with Google Fit, please use app Settings → Apps & Devices → Google Fit App screen:

    Data transfer will start immediately after linking, the last 30 days of data will be transferred. Your latest data changes will be transferred automatically both ways. If you want to speed up current day's data transfer, open Google Fit App screen and tap Verify Link.

    Data exported to Google Fit App

    Food Log

    Food name, meal type, nutrient values and food consumption time

    Water

    The total amount of consumed water per day

    Daily Trackers

    Body Weight, Body Fat and Sleep Hours: the last entered value for the day

    Timed Trackers

    Heart Rate, Blood Pressure, Blood Glucose: multiple values per day with minute-precision timestamp

    Data imported From Google Fit App

    Your data can be added to the Google Fit App by other fitness apps and devices, then downloaded into MyNetDiary.

    Activities

    Total amount of calories expended per day excluding STILL, IN_VEHICLE, UNKNOWN activity types

    Steps

    Total amount of steps logged for the day

    Daily Trackers

    Body Weight, Body Fat: the last entered value for the day

    Timed Trackers

    Heart Rate, Blood Pressure, Blood Glucose: multiple values per day with minute-precision timestamp

    Sleep

    Total duration of each sleep phase for the day

    Warning

    If you have two MyNetDiary apps installed (for example, Free app and Diabetes app) make sure you link only one of them to Google Fit App, otherwise both MyNetDiary apps will send updates to Google Fit App, creating duplicates.

    How Sync Works

    Tracker vendors provide access to tracker data via their websites. Each kind of tracker or body scale, being it Fitbit, Garmin, or Withings, has to upload first its data to its website, such as www.fitbit.com, or www.garmin.com, and so on. Next, MyNetDiary website periodically downloads data from the tracker websites. After the data is downloaded, it's displayed in your online diary at www.mynetdiary.com and also sent to MyNetDiary's mobile apps.

    As you can see, it's a complex, multi-step process, with many moving parts, so there are many things that could go wrong.

    Troubleshooting

    If you don't see the data downloaded in your online diary or in your MyNetDiary mobile app, please check first that your tracker has uploaded data to its website.

    For example, for Fitbit you need to go to www.fitbit.com with your internet browser. It's important to use a browser, not Fitbit's mobile app, because even if the app has the latest data, it might have not been uploaded to www.fitbit.com. So, please use the browser and login with your Fitbit account name and password and check what you see on your Fitbit Dashboard. It should display daily steps and recent sync time, something like the screenshot below.

     

     

    If there was no recent sync on the tracker website, you need to sync your tracker first.

    If there was a recent sync, then please check link status page or link status screen in MyNetDiary mobile app. A sync with the vendor's website could be already scheduled in MyNetDiary, so the data should arrive then. If the link is disconnected, please reconnect again.

    If after these checks you are still having problems with sync or something does not work right, please send us a support request, we will be glad to help you.

    Unfortunately, as of February 2022, MyNetDiary cannot provide integration or data linking with Amazon Halo.

    Amazon currently does not provide a way for third-party developers to get data from Halo.

    Additionally, Amazon Halo does not write any data to iOS Health and to Google Fit, so getting data from Halo via iOS Health or Google Fit, such as daily steps and activity data, is also not possible.

    Polar Flow is a popular workout app, helping people to track their performance and improve.

    While there is no way to directly connect Polar Flow with MyNetDiary, it is possible to establish a one-way connection between the apps via iOS Health App. Polar Flow can write data into iOS Health App which can be subsequently read by MyNetDiary.

    Please note: Polar Flow will NOT read data added in iOS Health App by any source.

    To link Polar Flow with iOS Health App, access the More tab - General Settings - choose Apple Health.

    Please note: only Workout, Steps and Bodyweight can be synced this way. You can also force the sync by clicking Sync now to get the data into iOS Health App immediately.

    Here is an example of activity imported from Polar Flow into MyNetDiary:

    For any further questions regarding Polar Flow functionality and it's sync with iOS Health App, please reach out to Polar Support.

    If you don't know how to link MyNetDiary with iOS Health App, please watch the following tutorial video.

    Runkeeper is a an app popular with people looking to track their walking, running, or cycling activity and improve their performance.

    While there is no way to directly connect Runkeeper with MyNetDiary, it is possible to establish a one-way connection between the apps via iOS Health App. Runkeeper can write data into iOS Health App which can be subsequently read by MyNetDiary.

    Please note: Runkeeper will NOT read data added in iOS Health App by any source.

    To link Runkeeper with iOS Health App, access the Me tab - choose Apps, Services and Devices - choose Apple Health and click Connect.

    Please note: only walking, running, or cycling activity can be synced this way AND only if the workout/activity in question provides a visible amount of calories burned.

    Here is an example of activity imported from Runkeeper into MyNetDiary:

    For any further questions regarding Runkeeper functionality and it's sync with iOS Health App, please reach out to Runkeeper Support.

    If you don't know how to link MyNetDiary with iOS Health App, please watch the following tutorial video.

    AllTrails is a an app popular with people interested in tracking their hiking activity and improving their performance.

    While there is no way to directly connect AllTrails with MyNetDiary, it is possible to establish a one-way connection between the apps via iOS Health App. AllTrails can write data into iOS Health App which can be subsequently read by MyNetDiary.

    Please note: AllTrails will NOT read data added in iOS Health App by any source.

    To link AllTrails with iOS Health App, access the Profile tab - Settings (a gear button) - choose Apple Health and click Connect.

    Please note: only Workout activity and Steps can be synced this way AND only if the workout/activity in question provides a visible amount of calories burned.

    Here is an example of activity imported from AllTrails into MyNetDiary:

    For any further questions regarding AllTrails functionality and it's sync with iOS Health App, please reach out to AllTrails Support.

    If you don't know how to link MyNetDiary with iOS Health App, please watch the following tutorial video.

    Strava is a an app popular with runners and cyclists that allows users to track their performance and training goals.

    While there is no way to directly connect Strava with MyNetDiary, it is possible to establish a one-way connection between the apps via iOS Health App. Strava can write data into iOS Health App which can be subsequently read by MyNetDiary.

    Please note: Strava will NOT recognize and read data added by MyNetDiary in iOS Health App.

    To link Strava with iOS Health App, access the Settings (gear button in the upper right corner) - choose Applications, Services, and Devices - choose Health and click Connect.

    Please note: only Workouts and Steps can be synced this way AND only if the workout/activity in question provides a visible amount of calories burned.

    Here is an example of activity imported from Strava into MyNetDiary:

    For any further questions regarding Strava functionality and it's sync with iOS Health App, please reach out to Strava Support.

    If you don't know how to link MyNetDiary with iOS Health App, please watch the following tutorial video.

    Nike Run/Training Club are popular workout apps allowing people to track their progress and training goals.

    MyNetDiary cannot be linked with them directly, however, you can establish a one-way sync between them via iOS Health App. Both apps provide an option to link with iOS Health and write workout data there, which can subsequently be read by MyNetDiary.

    Please note: neither app will recognize and read the data exported by MyNetDiary into iOS Health App. The only data they will read is the data from each other.

    Nike Run Club provides an option to link with iOS Health when you first launch the app and Nike Training Club can be linked at any time by tapping the profile button in the upper left corner - choosing Settings - Partners - Health.

    Please note: only Workouts imported by the apps can be read by MyNetDiary AND only if the Workouts in question have an indicated burned calories amount.

    Here is an example of successfully imported activity:

    Keep in mind that any successful import is done via MyNetDiary reading the data provided in iOS Health App.

    For any further questions regarding Nike Run/Training Club apps functionality or their link with iOS Health, please contact Nike Customer Service - at the bottom of the page is the phone number for NRC and NTC.

    If you don't know how to link MyNetDiary with iOS Health App, please watch the following tutorial video.

    Peloton is a popular workout app, allowing people to take classes, track, and improve their training.

    While there is no way to directly connect Peloton with MyNetDiary, it is possible to establish a one-way connection between the apps via iOS Health App. Peloton can write data into iOS Health App which can be subsequently read by MyNetDiary.

    Please note: Peloton will NOT recognize and read data added by any source in iOS Health App.

    You can link Peloton with iOS Health App during the initial Sign-Up or later under More - Health App - Connect.

    Please note: only Workouts can be synced this way AND only if the workout/activity in question provides a visible amount of calories burned in Peloton app.

    For any further questions regarding Peloton functionality and it's sync with iOS Health App, please reach out to Peloton Support.

    If you don't know how to link MyNetDiary with iOS Health App, please watch the following tutorial video.

    Pacer Pedometer and Step Tracker is a an app popular with people wanting to track distance, duration, pace, calories burned, and total steps.

    While there is no way to directly connect Pacer with MyNetDiary, it is possible to establish a one-way connection between the apps via iOS Health App. Pacer can read data from iOS Health App which can be provided by MyNetDiary.

    Please note: MyNetDiary will NOT recognize and read data by Pacer because Pacer can only read data from iOS Health and not write.

    To link Pacer with iOS Health App, access the Settings (under your profile) - choose Apps and Devices - choose Apple Watch/Health and connect.

    Provided all the necessary permissions were added and MyNetDiary have imported an activity to iOS Health App - Pacer should read and log it.

    Here is an example of activity imported from MyNetDiary into Pacer:

    For any further questions regarding Pacer functionality and it's sync with iOS Health App, please reach out to Pacer Support.

    If you don't know how to link MyNetDiary with iOS Health App, please watch the following tutorial video.

    MyNetDiary can import workouts from iOS Health App so that it can import workouts recorded by other fitness apps into the Health App.

    To setup MapMyRun sync, first configure it to export workouts to the Health App, following the instructions below:

    • Open the MapMyRun app and select the Menu ("...") at the bottom right. Next select Settings, then scroll all the way down and select Apple Permissions.
    • Tap the toggle next to Apple Health to enable. If you see a pop-up asking for permission to access Health, tap OK.

      You can also confirm the necessary permissions are granted by doing the following:
        Visit your iPhone's Settings app, choose Health, Data Access & Devices, locate the MapMyRun app in the list, ensure all categories are already toggled ON, or select Turn On All. Now, your future saved workouts has to sync with Apple Health.

    Next, enable Health App sync in MyNetDiary by going to the MyNetDiary's Settings screen and selecting "iOS Health App Sync," turning on sync. When prompted, turn on the desired data types, most importantly, allow the workout data import. If you don't get prompted, go to the Health App, then to Source, locate MyNetDiary and allow the desired data types, including workouts..

    MyNetDiary allows specifying minimum workout calories for import. By default, it's 50 calories. Please adjust the minimal number in MyNetDiary Settings if you want to import workouts with fewer calories.

    After completing your run with MapMyRun, open the Health App, go to the Workouts, and ensure the exported burned calories and other data. You're all set! Open MyNetDiary app. MyNetDiary has to import MapMyRun workouts from Apple Health for the last seven days:

    If Health App workouts don't show up in MyNetDiary, please see Troubleshooting Health App Workout Import support article for detailed, step-by-step troubleshooting instructions.


    If you are using an Android device, you can link MyNetDiary with MapMyRun (or another third-party app) via the Android Google Fit app in the same way.

    This is a quite possible scenario - calories available change based on how much you move and using an activity tracker is the best way to accurately estimate and adjust available calories, to make sure you eat less than you spend and thus you lose weight. Please read on!

    We will use Fitbit as an example, but this is applicable to any wearable activity tracker.

    1. When Fitbit is not available or not used, MyNetDiary estimates your typical daily calorie expenditures per "Sedentary" activity level, which includes some typical daily chores, walking, etc. The estimate depends on your current weight, height, age, and gender. For example, your estimated daily calorie expenditures on "Sedentary" level could be 2,500. MyNetDiary does not have any other information about your activities, so this is the best estimate available.

    2. On any given day, depending on how much you move and exercise, your actual calorie expenditures will be different that the estimated (2,500 in this example). It could be 1,700 calories, could be 2,500, or 3,000 and so on. A wearable activity tracker is meant to calculate and register your accurate calorie expenditure, whether it is lower or higher than the estimate.

    3. If you were active and did exercise, you can easily spend more that the typical estimated "sedentary" calories, e.g. spend 3,000 calories, so when you sync your Fitbit and this information arrives to MyNetDiary, your available calories will be increased by 500 (that is 3,000 - 2,500 estimate).

    4. BUT, if were not active on this day and barely walked around, Fitbit may calculate your actual daily expenditures as e.g. 2,150, which is 350 calories fewer than the 2,500 calories estimate. In this case, when you sync your Fitbit and this information arrives to MyNetDiary, your available calories will be decreased by 350 (that is 2,500 - 2,150).

    Continuing this example, if you estimate was 2,500 calories and were planning to lose 1lb/week (that is losing 3,500 calories/week or 500 calories per day), MyNetDiary should have calculated your food budget being 2,000 calories/day. If you spent 2,150 calories and ate the planned 2,000 calories, you calorie deficit for the day is 150 calories. You are still losing weight, but not as fast as planned. If you weren't using an activity tracker you'd be unaware that your calorie deficit is less than planned, that you need to be more active, or you need to eat a bit less if you are not active. Fitbit, reducing available calories helps you to know exactly where you stand and keeps your weight loss on track.

    MyNetDiary no longer creates separate records for Garmin workouts. Instead, MyNetDiary compares Total Calories calculated by Garmin with your estimated calories for weight maintenance and records the difference as Garmin Active Calories.

    Garmin Active Calories is the number of calories you expended during the day beyond your Weight Maintenance Calories, which depend on your Physical Activity (PA) level.

    This way provides more accurate accounting of your calories than importing workouts and daily steps into MyNetDiary. Importing workouts as separate records as it was done before will result in double counting of your workouts. You can see workouts that contributed to Total Calories in the notes of Garmin Active Calories record.

    Please see more details in How does Garmin linking work.

    Garmin's vivo activity tracker products tracks calories throughout the day. This includes calories burned as if at rest (BMR) as well as extra calories burned from being active. Garmin's fitness products only capture and display calories for being active.

    Calories can be viewed by users on Garmin Connect and these will correspond to what is captured and displayed by the devices. However, calories that Garmin Connect provides to integration partners such as MyNetDiary only include the calories burned associated with the given activity. They do not include BMR calories. So, Garmin calories displayed on Garmin Connect and in MyNetDiary will be different due to the way Garmin sends to its partners.

    Enabled Wearable Activity Calories can be shown in the Exercise section as Fitbit Active Calories record. This record reflects your additional calories burned beyond Activities records in Fitbit, for example, calories you have burned while walking. Fitbit mobile app calculates and displays all calories burned. Resting Calories and extra active Calories are shown there as Daily Total Calories Burned. Fitbit Daily Total Calories Burned imported into MyNetDiary. But, they are shown in Exercise Notes only. To calculate Fitbit Active Calories, MyNetDiary subtracts Weight Maintenance calories from Fitbit Daily Total Calories Burned. This number of active calories is calculated according to your activity level. The value includes only calories burnt beyond expected. This is needed to avoid double counting. After subtracting Weight Maintenance expected calories, MyNetDiary creates Fitbit Active Calories record.

    MyNetDiary does not create separate records for Fitbit workouts. Instead, MyNetDiary compares Total Calories calculated by Fitbit with your estimated calories for weight maintenance and records the difference as Fitbit Active Calories. Fitbit Active Calories is the number of calories you expended during the day beyond your Weight Maintenance Calories, which depend on your Physical Activity (PA) level. This way provides a more accurate accounting of your calories than importing workouts and daily steps into MyNetDiary. Importing workouts as separate records will result in double-counting of your workouts.

    Please see more details in How does Fitbit linking work and in Fitbit Zero Calories.

    MyNetDiary can sync foods, nutrients, water, weight, steps and more to Samsung Health app. Unfortunately, due to reasons beyond our control, we cannot provide more metrics like workouts, heart rate, and blood glucose due to Samsung's refusal on the matter.

    Due to technical problems, sync is implemented only in MyNetDiary's free app for Android, available in version 6.9.0 and later. It is not available in MyNetDiary's Diabetes app for Android.

    To protect your privacy, the sync is OFF initially, you have to open "App & Devices" from MyNetDiary app's Setting screen and link to Samsung Health. Enable syncing of the desired trackers from list.

    Export to Samsung Health App

    Foods and Nutrients

    MyNetDiary sends most detailed information - each food and each nutrient (up to 30 nutrients). We recommend enabling time tracking in MyNetDiary Settings, otherwise, MyNetDiary will send breakfast foods as eaten at 8 am, lunch - at 12 pm, snacks - 3 pm, and dinner - at 7 pm.

    Other Exports

    Besides foods and nutrients, MyNetDiary can export to the Samsung Health App your water glasses consumption and your body weight records

    Import From Samsung Health App

  • daily steps
  • body weight

  • These data can be added to the Samsung Health App by other fitness apps. The steps data can be also added to the Samsung Health App by compatible devices.

    MyNetDiary supports linking with all of the Fitbit models. As long as your Fitbit device can send the collected data to your profile on the www.fitbit.com website and the www.fitbit.com website can show these records, MyNetDiary would be able to "read" them.

    Linking Fitbit and MyNetDiary includes "reading" the data gathered by Fitbit Aria WiFi/Bluetooth weighing scales.

    MyNetDiary supports all Garmin models that can send the data to the www.connect.garmin.com website. Here is a list of compatible devices. Also, MyNetDiary supports syncing with all Vivofit, Vifosmart, and Vivomove fitness trackers. Besides, MyNetDiary can automatically get your weight data over WiFi or Bluetooth from your Garmin Index smart scales.

    We've heard that some of our customers also experienced a sync delay, but it was caused due delayed sync between Garmin wearable device and www.connect.garmin.com servers. These clients saw the data gathered by Garmin smartwatches shown on Garmin Connect mobile app; at that, these data weren't showing up under their profiles on the www.connect.garmin.com website.

    MyNetDiary only "read" the data that already appeared on the www.connect.garmin.com website. We are helpless if you see the data on the Garmin band and Garmin Connect mobile app but not on the www.connect.garmin.com website. The recent changes made on Garmin's side forced us to remove the Verify Link button from our Settings > Apps & Devices > Garmin Settings page (please see the related article.)

    the below screenshot that shows how it was before we removed this button:

    and the screenshot of the page of the current state (without the button:)

    Also, see the related support article:

  • My Tracker (Fitbit, Garmin, Withings) does not sync!
  • If you see the Garmin band's data shown on the www.connect.garmin.com website (not on the Garmin Connect mobile app!!!) but this record is not synced to your profile in MyNetDiary, please tap the Upload Diagnostics from the Support & FAQs screen of MyNetDiary Android app (or Upload Diagnostics > Data & Logs > SEND from the Support & FAQs screen of MyNetDiary iPhone app) and send the screenshots of the recent non-synced data shown on the www.connect.garmin.com website (and your comments - point to the non-synced numbers on these screenshots) to support@mynetdiary.com. Our developers will compare it with the data under your MyNetDiary account and investigate your particular case.

    Your manual input might be overridden by the iOS Health app or some third-party app that "writes" the "weight" data to MyNetDiary via the iOS Health app. If so, it can happen every time MyNetDiary syncs with iOS Health.

    MyNetDiary does not support both ways of recording weight data - manual and automatic - simultaneously.

    If you do not want the app to "read" your weight data from iOS Health, you can disable the "Body Weight" slider in the current link with iOS Health. Below are the steps:

    Open MyNetDiary app, tap the Me tab on the lower-right corner of the Home screen, and tap the Apps & Devices. Then, tap the iOS Health App Link, tap the Manage and you will see that MyNetDiary opens the Health app.

    In the Health app, tap your profile icon on the top-right corner of the Summary screen, scroll down and tap the Apps.

    Next, tap the MyNetDiary App item from the app list, scroll down the MyNetDiary screen of the Health App and disable the "Body Weight" slider under the "Allow MyNetDiary To Read Data" section.

    After that, your manual weight input won't be overridden.

    Garmin changed the way it sends data to its partners like MyNetDiary. Garmin no longer provides a way to download data on demand, so it is impossible to verify the link from MyNetDiary's side. Instead, Garmin is sending data to partners when any change is detected. Learn more about Garmin linking.

    Many pedometer apps can trace your steps automatically. Modern Android phones are already equipped to track steps. You need to install Google's secret step counter app to start. Some of these apps are possible to pair with smartwatches. The pedometer app will automatically get the step data if the person wears such a watch. Then, the MyNetDiary app can "read" the pedometer app's data via Google Fit or Samsung Health app. It's ok not to have a smartwatch. Google Fit, Samsung Health, Pacer, and many other apps can gather the step data from the Android device itself. Google Fit and Samsung Health apps are among them, and the MyNetdiary Android app supports direct integration with these two apps. If you already use another app to track your daily steps (e.g., the Pacer app or so on), you can link it to Google Fit or the Samsung Health app. In turn, you can link the MyNetDiary Android app with Google Fit or Samsung Health app. So that MyNetDiary will read the third-party app's steps data from Google Fit or Samsung Health.

    If you yet do not have a smartwatch and do not use any app that automatically traces your steps, below is the simplest way to start doing that with Google Fit:

  • Go to the Google Play store and search for Google Fit.
  • Install Google Fit
  • Log into Google Fit using the same account you use to log into your Android Phone
  • Open the MyNetDiary Android app, go to the App & Devices > Google Fit App, and tap the Link button
  • That's all you have to do! Google Fit will begin tracking your steps whenever you have your phone with you. And, MyNetDiary will immediately start "reading" your daily steps count.

    Alternatively, you can trace your steps with Samsung Health instead of Google Fit.

    Also, so that you know, automatic "reading" of the steps from another source and your manual input of "steps" do not work simultaneously. Each new sync session will write the third-party app's steps over the steps recorded manually.

    MyNetDiary Android app supports integration with the Health Connect:

    Linking to Health Connect is working in a similar way as linking to Google Fit or Samsung Health. This integration allows the MyNetDiary Android app to "read" your historical records shown in other apps (it lets you import your data from third-party apps.)

    In addition, you can set up Linking with Health Connect in the way to let the MyNetDiary Android app "write" MyNetDiary entries to other apps.

    Integrating and Utilizing Oura Ring Data within MyNetDiary via Apple Health

    If you're looking to enhance your health and fitness tracking by linking your Oura Ring to MyNetDiary through the Apple Health app, you're in the right place. To integrate Oura with MyNetDiary, establish a connection between your Oura and Apple Health and ensure that MyNetDiary is also linked to Apple Health.

    Connect your Oura Ring to Apple Health

    Look how to link your Oura app to Apple Health in the related article provided by Oura company. To facilitate the Oura's data sharing:

    1. Open the Oura App.
    2. Tap the menu icon on the top left of the Home tab.
    3. Select ‘Settings’ and then ‘Apple Health’ under 'Data sharing.'
    4. Enable the options to connect and share data (e.g., steps, workouts, hours of sleep, body weight.)
    5. For additional settings adjustments, use your iPhone to go to Settings > Health > Data Access & Devices > Oura.

    Many apps can track steps. If you want MyNetDiary to 'read' Oura steps, set up Oura as the main source for steps in Apple Health.

    1. Open the Health app on your iPhone.
    2. Navigate to the ‘Browse’ tab, select ‘Activity’, and then ‘Steps’.
    3. In the ‘Data Sources & Access’, tap ‘Edit’.
    4. Drag Oura to the top of your data sources list.

    If you encounter issues with Oura syncing:

    1. Ensure your device's OS is updated.
    2. In the Oura App, under 'Settings' > 'Data Sharing', toggle off the settings and then back on.
    3. Consider restarting your device or reinstalling the Oura App after backing up your data.

    Remember, the Oura App might not import data correctly if apps aren't opened before midnight, "Background App Refresh" is disabled, or "Lower Power Mode" is active.

    Connect MyNetDiary and Apple Health

    To integrate MyNetDiary with Apple Health, enable the 'Apple Health App Link' in the 'Me' - 'Apps & Devices' section of the MyNetDiary iPhone app or through the 'left-side' menu on the MyNetDiary iPad app (iPad device requires iOS 17.)

    Linking your Oura Ring to MyNetDiary via Apple Health allows all Oura-collected data to feed directly into MyNetDiary's dashboard, providing a unified view of your health metrics such as sleep patterns, physical activity, and diet.

    Syncing with MyNetDiary will not modify your Oura data; it merely aggregates it in MyNetDiary to enhance the overall picture of your health. This integrated approach brings numerous advantages, enriching your MyNetDiary experience with Oura's detailed activity and sleep insights. It facilitates a deeper comprehension of how your habits influence your health and promotes more effective goal setting and decision-making. Your Oura data will be accessible across MyNetDiary's iPhone and iPad apps, and with the proper permissions, also on the MyNetDiary Apple Watch app, contributing to a more robust health management experience.

    If you have Smart Body Weight Scale that syncs your weigh-ins to your phone, you can automatically get these readings in MyNetDiary. It's possible to do it via Apple Health or Google Fit app. Whether you have an iPhone or Android device, MyNetDiary can "read" the synced body weight measurements from one of these apps.

    iPhone

    The Apple Health app is already "built-in" to your iPhone device. Link your smart weighing scale app with Apple Health and, then, the MyNetDiary iPhone app with Apple Health. Ensure that your smart weighing scale app supports "writing" its data to Apple Health, so our app can "read" this data from there.

    Android

    If you do not have the Google Fit app on your Android device, you must obtain it from the Play Store. Link your smart body weight scale app with Google Fit and, then, MyNetDiary with Google Fit. Our app will automatically "read" your smart weight scale data that appears on the Google Fit app.

    Our clients with Android devices can substitute Google Fit with the Samsung Health app. Even though S Health supports "reading" of the "weight" data from third-party apps, we recommend using Google Fit Link as more trackers are available for syncing there.

    If your activity tracker is aware of your exercise and includes its calories into daily totals, MyNetDiary will receive these calories as a part of the daily total. In this case, you should not log exercise separately into MyNetDiary, to avoid double counting the same calories.

    If your exercise is not registered by your activity tracker for some reason (you were not wearing it, or it's a static activity like yoga), you have two options.

    You can log it manually into your activity tracker's app or log and it will be synced to MyNetDiary; in this case you should not log it separately into MyNetDiary.

    Or, if you don't log it into your activity tracker's app or log, then you should log your exercise separately into MyNetDiary.

    You may also find it useful to review our in-depth Calorie planning guide.

    Many people do interval training. One workout of interval training can consist of multiple different exercises. Each such exercise may include various accessories like "dumbbells," "booty bands," "plates," and so on.

    Sometimes, it isn't easy to keep logging specific exercises of such complex training. Every workout has its own reps, sets, MET (Metabolic Equivalent of Task.) MET represents how light, moderate, or vigorous intensities of exercise. Sedentary uses 1.5 or fewer METs. (One MET is the amount of energy used while sitting quietly.)

    MyNetDiary standard activities were taken from the Compendium of Physical Activities. Among other categories are Conditioning Exercises. For example, "calisthenics" with light, moderate or vigorous effort has MET from 2.8 till 8.0, "circuit training" has MET=4.3 or 8.0. Depending on the intensity of the "weight lifting," your body may use MET between 3-8.

    Many people have a routine, whether it is their own workout or in a class setting. They could calculate the actual active time once, then have that for future reference. It is highly individual per person or class format. Here is an example of a 60-minute routine: warm-up and stretching 10 minutes, cardio 10 min, resistance exercise 10 minutes, cardio 10 minutes, resistance 10 minutes, cooldown 10 minutes. Other classes or routines might have 7-minute intervals.

    Record the minutes if you found the proper interval training (e.g., CrossFit) in our standard list. It's crucial because the calories of the selected exercises are calculated from the MET of the chosen activity, your current body weight, and your workout time.

    You can review the list and find your specific exercise with a particular intensity or log the close one. Send an email to support or ask dietitians on the forum if you need guidance on selecting activities for your customized workout. Also, you may find it helpful to review HIIT (High-intensity interval training). This blog article describes how to estimate active time and the science behind METS and activity tracking.

    Still, logging multiple different exercises may be time-consuming. Also, logging each workout with a specific time, reps and effort won't be very accurate.

    The user still may be unsure how many calories are spent while performing interval training. For instance, you cannot find the similar to yours or do not know how many calories you spent for one "rep"/"set,"; so you cannot create your own custom exercise. In such cases, we recommend using a fitness tracker. Fitbit, Garmin, or Apple Watch automatically calculate and log caloric expenditure of the complex, varying workouts (like CrossFit and others). Some fitness trackers calculate calories expended based on measured heart rate. So, it's more accurate.

    The tracker integration is an optimal way to understand better how much energy you've spent. On top of all, it offers the alternative to record only the minutes you are engaged in a particular activity; (a "stopwatch" functionality is "built-in" to all fitness trackers.)

    Suppose you use a fitness device that can send data to Apple Health or Google Fit app. In that case, that data can be synced with MyNetDiary "indirectly." Getting caloric expenditure of the third-party apps via the iOS Health or the Android Google Fit is especially helpful for tracking interval tracking or complex activities. You don't have to remember to enter the data from your device manually.

    Using a fitness tracker is a better solution.

    Customizing MyNetDiary

    MyNetDiary works great for weight maintenance and special diets, including pregnancy and breastfeeding. You can customize your calorie targets per your doctor's recommendations online or in mobile apps. You can also customize macronutrient targets - fats, carbs, and proteins. With MyNetDiary Premium you can customize and keep track of all of your vitamins and micronutrients - up to 108 nutrients! If you use a tracker, like Fitbit, it can also help you balance calories in MyNetDiary.

    There is plenty of information and tips about pregnancy or breastfeeding in the MyNetDiary Community.

    MyNetDiary is working to provide special support for both pregnancy and breastfeeding planning. In the meantime, you can follow guidelines of the National Academy of Medicine: breastfeeding 0-6 months after pregnancy requires an extra 330 calories per day, 7-12 months requires 400 calories per day. You can add breastfeeding as an exercise (seriously) to account for spending these extra calories.

    Make sure to drink plenty of fluids and don't forget to join our Community to ask questions and get support!

    If you would like to track additional body measurements or some other information important to you but not built-in into MyNetDiary, you typically would be able to track this with custom trackers, which are available in MyNetDiary Premium.

    Here are some ideas for custom trackers:

    • Hunger level - ten values from 1 (overstuffed and bloated) to 10 (starved).
    • Meal satiety.
    • Your mood.
    • Bristol stool tracker for bowel movements.
    • Anything else you may need!

    Online on the MyNetDiary website, custom trackers are available on the Trackers web page. In mobile apps they are available on the Trackers screen. You can customize tracker name, units, target value and color for charting.

    Please check our tutorial video here: MyNetDiary How-to: Creating Custom Trackers

    We are considering adding a field for noting common allergens or gluten in the case of Celiac. MyNetDiary's database does not contain allergen data simply because there is so much missing data and it would require manual entry for over 600,000 verified food items. Then there would be the time to update all food items as brands change their recipes (and sometimes have more or less gluten in them).

    The idea of having a blank field attached to each food item for special customized tracking purposes is in our todo list. But, this feature is not a high priority at this point. We agree that the ability to track allergens would be a fantastic feature. In the meantime, use Daily Notes.

    Some of our foods contain gluten-free keywords in the name. The good resource for identifying foods with and without gluten is Celiac.org's Gluten Free Marketplace. They have a web page as well as an app.

    We hope that at some point, we can offer the ability to track allergens, even if by manual entry by the member. In the meantime, you can copy and customize the particular item from our database and add gluten-free into the name of your new custom food.

    In addition to energy tracking (in Calorie or kilojoule units,) MyNetDiary supports tracking of the 108 vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients. With MyNetDiary Premium, you can select nutrients you want to track on the food log screens (such as breakfast), Dashboard, and reports and set custom nutrient goals.

    Selecting Nutrients in Mobile Apps

    In the iPhone and Android apps, you can select nutrients for food log and nutrients for the Dashboard.

    Nutrients can be selected for Food Log on any meal screen, using the top-right menu button and then Nutrients for Food Log menu item. These nutrients will be also displayed in nutrient reports. In the iPad app, use the top-right menu button on the Meals screen.

    You can also select nutrients on the Nutrient Targets tab of My Weight Plan screen. On this tab, you can also enter target values for the selected nutrients.

    See the related tutorial video.

    Nutrients for Dashboard

    In the iPhone app, you can use the Customize Dashboard button at the bottom of the Dashboard screen. Add nutrients you want to the Dashboard and then drag them to the position you want.

    In the Android app, you can turn on nutrient display for the Dashboard on the same Nutrient Target & Settings screen on the Nutrient Targets tab of My Weight Plan screen.

    Online at MyNetDiary.com

    Online, you can select nutrients on the Plan page. Use the "Edit other nutrient targets" link in the "Other Nutrients to Track" section.

    We recommend selecting only the most important for you nutrients so that they fit into the screen. MyNetDiary always tracks all nutrients, selected or not, and you can see all of them on the Report page.

    Please see MyNetDiary's article Customizing Nutrient Goals for additional information and recommendations .

    We don't plan to add fluoride based on dieticians' recommendations: in modern diets, most of the fluoride is obtained from tap water, which will not be accounted for, thus including food fluoride will be inaccurate and misleading.

    Despite the fact that the app doesn't support the LOG OUT function, we do understand the users' willing to protect their personal data in the app from extraneous persons. That is why you can set up a Touch ID, PIN, or Face ID.

    If your device does not support Touch ID, you will be prompted to use Face ID, and vice versa.

    Setting a PIN is mandatory in any case, as it will be requested when Face ID or Touch ID is not recognized. If the device does not support either Touch ID or Face ID, then you can only set the PIN code.

    All this you can do via App Settings - Me tab.

    Pulling the Dashboard screen down reveals the total number of calories leftover or in excess added up from each day of the week, up until today. Data for the past three weeks is shown.

    For example: "Prior to today I am 671 calories under my weekly budget" means that adding up the amount of calories you went under or over your budget each day of the week so far, results in the total of 671 calories under your calorie budget for this week.

    Please note that this statistics is calculated based on your planned budget in effect for each day. If you update your budget, it will take effect from today on, the statistics for prior days will remain the same.

    If you change your primary nutrient from calories to another nutrient, the Dashboard will show statistics for that nutrient starting from tomorrow.

  • Demo-video
  • Changing Start Weight

    If you entered incorrect start weight during app setup, it's very easy to fix!

    Open the Weigh In screen, then go to your start date - when you started using the app, then update your weight to the correct number.

    Changing Start Date

    If you want to change your start date to an earlier date, you can simply go to that date and then enter your weight on that date. The earliest weigh in entered into the app is considered the start date.

    If you want to reset the start date to a later date, or move the start weight, you may want to use Fresh Start tool on the My Plan screen, available on the Weight and Calories tab there. Please see Fresh Start for more details.

    Updating Your Plan

    After you have corrected your starting weight or date, you may want to go to My Weight Plan (which is located on the Dashboard on iOS/Android, website version's is in the Plan's tab) and then to Weight & Calories screen, to review and update, if needed, your weight loss plan. If the starting weight was not right, your weight plan might need an update, too. You can select a different target date or weight loss rate to update your plan.

    The Calorie Budget (Dashboard) or Daily Food Calorie Budget (My Weight Plan screen) might be lower than one's BMR, depending on the selected weekly weight loss rate and app settings.

    MyNetDiary used to have 1200 calories floor for Calorie Budget, but that made the tracker less useful for people who have had bariatric surgery or for those following special diets (like the protein-sparing modified fasts).

    The most common reason why the Calorie Budget ends up being lower than a person's BMR is when they choose to lose a 2 lb/week weight loss rate and do not increase their Calorie Budget when exercising. When a person chooses a slower rate of weight loss and/or turns on "Add Exercise to Calorie Budget" in app settings, then the Calorie Budget is increased appropriately.

    If you've set specific macronutrient targets and you notice that your targets change from day to day, there might be two possible reasons for this behavior:

  • Calorie Cycling
  • Add Exercise To Calorie Budget function is ON
  • Calorie Cycling

    If you modify your weekly calorie cycle in the Coach tab - My Weight Plan - Cycling MyNetDiary will automatically adjust macronutrient targets for days with different calories, using the selected macronutrient distribution.

    Effect of Adding Exercise to Calorie Budget

    If you turned on the option Add Exercise to Calorie Budget in MyNetDairy settings then on days were you log exercise, your day's calorie budget will be increased, and MyNetDiary will automatically increase macronutrient targets, distributing added exercise calories among macronutrients, following your current macronutrient distribution.

    Fixing Macronutrient Targets

    If you don't like your macronutrient targets changing from day to day, you need to turn off both calorie cycling and adding exercise to calorie budget settings.

    When either of them is enabled, your calorie budget will change from day to day. These calorie changes have to be reflected in macronutrient target changes - the calories cannot come from nowhere, they have to come from macronutrients.

    You can also take a look at the related article which in detail describe How You Can Set Specific Macronutrient Targets.

    The primary nutrient is the main nutrient to show in the app - for foods, food searches, meals, days, charts, in the Apple Watch app, widgets, and other places.

    The default selected nutrient to track in MyNetDiary is Calories. Users can change it to total fat, total carbs, net carbs or protein.

    Please follow the way to change it: Coach section - My Diet. Here is a list of diets where you can change you primary nutrient:

    - Calorie counting

    - High-Protein

    - Low-fat

    - Mediterranean

    - Vegetarian

    - Vegan.

    Primary nutrient change is also available in Me tab - App Settings - Diet Logging - Primary Nutrient.

    Also please note, this feature is available in the apps only, not web.

    MyNetDiary supports direct downloads of systolic and diastolic blood pressure and heart rate data from Withings BP monitors. When linking your account to Withings, you need to select this information for download from Withings to MyNetDiary.

    Alternatively, if your BP monitor supports writing data to iOS Health, MyNetDiary can import its systolic and diastolic blood pressure readings from iOS Health. Please see iPhone Health App (iOS Health) sync for more details.

    iOS

    Your personal information, such as your height, date of birth, gender, and activity level can be updated on the Me tab, using Personal Info screen.

    After updating your personal information you may need to review your diet plan using My Weight Plan screen, as changing your personal information may change your calorie budget calculations.

    Android

    Your personal information, such as your height, date of birth, gender, and activity level can be updated on the Weight plan, using Weight and Calories screen.

    MyNetDiary supports urine, blood, and breath ketones testing. This feature is available in MyNetDiary Premium.

    Enabling Ketones Logging

    If you haven't done so, please add Ketones to your Dashboard: on the Dashboard screen, scroll to the very bottom and tap "Configure Dashboard", then select "Customize This Dashboard". Locate "Ketones" in the "Inactive Items" list and drag it to "Dashboard" list of items.

    Logging Ketone Tests

    Once you have measured ketone levels using either urine sticks, a blood ketone meter, or a breath ketone meter, then go to the Ketones screen and tap "Add" button for the test type you did.

    On the Ketone Entry screen you can enter the test reading - either select ketone presence from the list for urine tests, or enter blood ketones in mg/dL (or mmol/L, depending on unit settings you've selected), or enter breath ketones in ppm units.

    Optionally, you can log the time of the test, assign one or more labels, and also add a note.

    You can review your ketone stats and trends using the Chart button.

    You can track medications on the website and in mobile apps, this is one of many features of MyNetDiary Premium, helping you lose weight faster and get healthier.

    You can customize your medication list and track quantity of medications taken (e.g. number of pills) and record time when you take them.

    To enable medication tracking, you need to enable Diabetes and Health Tracking in MyNetDiary settings.

    If you don't have Premium, you can upgrade online on the MyNetDiary website, on the Pay & Manage page.

    There are several ways to create a custom recipe in MyNetDiary.

    Through "Manage My Foods" in the Me tab, you can create a custom recipe or import a recipe from the web in the "Recipes" tab.

    You can create a recipe with the foods you logged for a certain meal by going to that meal, tapping the menu button in the top right corner, and tapping "Save As Recipe".

    You can send a recipe via iMessage by tapping on the recipe in the "Recipes" tab of the MyNetDiary application in iMessage.

    You can customize a premium recipe by using the Copy & Customize feature.

    Go to the "Premium" tab and tap "Copy & Customize" at the bottom of the recipe screen.

    You'll have to give the copy a new name.

    You can also Copy & Customize a recipe you created yourself, to have another version of the recipe, with slightly adjusted ingredients.

    To do this, click on the recipe in the "Recipes" tab of Manage My Foods, and tap "Copy Recipe".

    You'll need to give the recipe a unique name.

    To edit a recipe you created or imported, tap on the recipe, and then tap "Edit Recipe".

    You can save and log several foods together by creating a custom meal in the "Meals" tab in Manage My Foods.

    This is similar to a recipe, but the ingredients are logged as separate foods instead of a whole recipe, which makes it easier to modify.

    You can also save one of your daily meals as a go-to meal by tapping the menu button within a meal, and then tapping "Save As My Meal".

    If you are concerned that someone may see your weight on MyNetDiary's Dashboard, you can do a few things to protect this information.

    One option would be to move "Weight" item from Dashboard to menu. You can use Customize Dashboard button at the bottom and drag "Weight" to app menu.

    Another option would be to simply move "Weight" item further down the Dashboard, so it is not visible when you open the app.

    Either option moves your weight number out of the sight, so that you can log foods and other things in MyNetDiary without exposing your body weight, even if someone is sitting next to you .

    You may feel that your necessary calorie level for weight loss is lower than the estimated calories determined by the equation from the Institutes of Medicine.

    The equations are simply estimations and we all have our own unique metabolism. You can just override the calorie level by going into Plan and changing it to your custom calorie level. The article about calorie planning may also clarify it.

    In the MyNetDiary iPhone app, please go to the Me tab. One of the items is Measurements.

    On this screen, you can see currently selected measurements, last measurement dates and values.

    Tapping on a measurement will open its special screen - to log and edit measurements, see its chart, set targets, and more.

    Every time you exercise, you burn calories. MyNetDiary allows you to choose how to account for exercise.

    You can increase your daily calorie budget when you exercise, letting you eat more on that day. If this option is turned on, MyNetDiary will add 50% of exercise calories to this day's Calorie Budget. Since only half of the calories are added, you will lose more weight on that day, even if you consume your entire Calorie Budget - you won't be "eating up" all the extra exercise calories.

    With MyNetDiary Premium, you can fine-tune how many and how exactly your exercise calories are allocated. One possibility is changing the percentage to add to Calorie Budget from 10 to 100%. Another option is to specify how these extra calories are allocated to macros. For example, you can specify that 20% of exercise calories will go toward increasing the day's protein target and 30% - toward the fat target, not changing carbs at all.

    Or, you can keep the budget the same so that you eat the same and burned calories create a larger calorie deficit, and you lose more calories on that day.

    You can manage this setting on the Android app on the App Settings screen - Food & Exercise Logging:

    On the iOS app, it is available at the App Settings screen and at My Weight Plan:

    Note: you may see this setting turned ON and disabled. This happens if you have created a weekly exercise plan in My Plan screen, which requires having this setting ON. If you want to turn this setting on, please go to the My Plan screen and delete your weekly exercise plan first, then review and update your calorie budget in the My Plan, if needed.

    MyNetDiary supports several types of reminders, including meal tracking, weigh-ins, and blood glucose reminders. MyNetDiary also provides simple medication tracking.

    Currently, MyNetDiary does not support medication reminders. Proper support of medication reminders is not trivial. Many drugs may have complex schedules, which would significantly complicate the weight loss app.

    We recommend using the built-in apps provided with your phone, such as clock alarms and Reminders apps.

    Alternatively, you can try setting up a custom reminder for your medication intake. Under the Me tab in the App Settings, find Reminders settings.

    iOS version:

    Android version:

    You can see and adjust your macros in the Macros screen in the My Weight Plan menu.

    MyNetDiary provides a variety of typical standard macronutrient distributions created specifically for different diets and lifestyles. These can be accessed here:

    There are 16 unique carbs:protein:fat distributions:

    • Balanced/Default - a balanced eating plan, 45:20:35
    • Mediterranean - heart-healthy eating plan, 50:15:35
    • Moderate Low-Carb - shows evidence of weight loss and blood sugar reduction, 30:30:40
    • Low-Carb, High-Protein - limits high-calorie carbs for weight loss, 20:40:40
    • Keto/Very Low-Carb - low carb, high fat; 5:20:75
    • DASH - "Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension", 55:20:25
    • Low-Fat - limits fats to under 30% of calories, 55:20:25
    • Atkins - Net carbs targets between 20-100 g/day, 10:30:60
    • OmniHeart - higher protein version of DASH diet for lowering blood pressure, 48:25:27
    • TLC - "Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes" for lowering cholesterol, 55:15:30
    • Very Low-Fat - may be used short-term for digestive symptoms or as part of a plan to lower risk of heart disease, 70:20:10
    • Ornish - very low-fat plan, limited in animal products; 70:20:10
    • Pritikin - very low-fat plan for lowering risk of heart disease, 70:20:10
    • Zone - focuses on eating meals/snacks within specific macro proportions, 40:30:30
    • Paleo - restricts grains, dairy, legumes, and refined sugar; 30:30:40
    • No Carb/Carnivore - only meat and animal products, excluding all other foods; 1:29:70

    For each distribution, your Daily Calorie Budget is distributed between the three macronutrients in a unique way.

    For keto and low-carb Premium diets, there are special app features and customizations, including special macronutrient distributions.

    You can also set your own macro targets:

    Once you alter a macro target, MyNetDiary applies the last two macronutrient targets you set, and then adjusts the third nutrient to meet your Calorie Budget.

    If you modify your weekly calorie cycle in the Calorie Cycling tab of My Plan, MyNetDiary will automatically adjust macronutrient targets for days with different calories, using the selected macronutrient distribution.

    If you turned on the option Add Exercise to Calorie Budget in MyNetDairy settings then on days were you log exercise, your day's calorie budget will be increased, and MyNetDiary will automatically increase macronutrient targets, distributing added exercise calories among macronutrients, following your current macronutrient distribution.

    You can keep track of your body temperature in MyNetDiary by creating a custom tracker.

    On iOS To do this, go to "Customize Dashboard" at the bottom of the Dashboard screen and add the "Trackers" item to your Dashboard. It should look like this:

    Once you've added Trackers to your dashboard, go into this item and click on Settings at the bottom of the screen.

    Then scroll down, click "Create Custom Tracker", and add a temperature tracker.

    A temperature tracker should now show up in your Trackers. You can also set the Tracker Units to Celcius. In that case, the Target Value should be 36.6.

    On Android, you can add Custom Tracker through the My Health menu under the Me tab.

    If you are a premium member, you can track the time of meals and exercise by turning on the "Timestamp Food & Exercise" item in the App Settings:

    iOS (proceed to Diet Logging):

    Android (proceed to Food & Exercise Logging):

    The time you logged a food will appear next to the food:

    To change the timestamp of the particular record, tap this record, then tap the old timestamp and set the new one.

    To add a food to your Favorites, search for or scan a food. Once you've found the correct food, click on it and then click the star in the top right corner:

    The star will turn yellow once the food has been added to your Favorites.

    The food can now be found in the FAVS tab in the food search:

    You can also add the food to Favorites (Favs) via the Manage My Foods section which can be opened via the top-right menu. Just tap the Add New Favorites green sign under the Favs tab, then, search by typing the food name or by scanning the product barcode. Tap the Add button on the top-right corner of the Food Label screen. The new item will appear in your Favorites catalog.

    MyNetDiary supports both metric and US (imperial) units. In MyNetDiary, you can use metric for weight and length units, use kJ instead of calories, temperatures in Celsius for recipes, and use mmol/L instead of mg/dL for blood glucose measurements.

    Mobile Apps

    In mobile apps, go to the App Settings screen, then choose Units. You can turn on Use Metric Units settings for weight, length, and volume measurements. You can turn on Use kJ to switch to kJ from calories.

    iOS:

    Android:

    Website

    On the web site, open the Account page. You can customize many international settings, including units, date format, timezone, etc. The changes will be applied to both the website and the phone app. You can still enter information in any unit, regardless of your defaults.

    Among many other things helping you lose weight faster and get healthier, MyNetDiary Premium provides "Custom Trackers" - you can track anything with them, including symptoms, test results, food hunger score, life events, allergies, anything - to help you find events, correlations, trigger foods and so on.

    Here are just a few examples of using custom trackers: allergy symptoms, food satiety, recording sick time (when you stop losing weight), water ounces, blood oxygen (O2) saturation, sleep quality, bowel movements.

    For example, if you want to track your allergy on scale from 1 to 10, you can do the following:
    1. Create a new custom tracker, for example with name "Allergy", with target value "1", tracker units "intensity", and 0 decimal places. It's a good idea to make a comment in the tracker about the value range you will be using, e.g. "My allergy symptoms, from 1 to 10". Optionally, if you expect to use this tracker frequently, you can move this tracker higher up among other trackers.
    2. Once you saved your new custom tracker, you can start tracking it! Go to the tracker and enter current value - the intensity of current symptoms in this example. You can also time stamp it, and even assign a label for further classification (this is optional, though).
    3. Keep tracking your symptoms over some time, then you will be able to review them on Day Parts screens/reports, or chart them in Charts, review for any correlations, and hopefully seeing improvements!

    If you don't have Premium, you can upgrade online on the MyNetDiary website, on the Pay & Manage page.

    In case you still need additional support on creating a custom tracker, please watch this helpful tutorial video.

    You can change the week start from Sunday to Monday (and vice versa) via web only: Settings - Date&Time.

    MyNetDiary supports several types of reminders, including meal tracking, weigh-ins, and blood glucose reminders.

    You can also set water reminders. The reminders are available on the Water screen using the Settings button.

    Keeping notes on your thoughts, mood, and progress can help you understand and control eating habits.

    MyNetDiary provides easy access to daily notes functionality, directly from the Dashboard:

    Days with notes entered will have a small checkmark added to the staple icon to help you see at a glance whether you have entered notes for this day.

    Notes are also available via web in the same way.

    Friending

    • Go on web program
    • Find the members's nickname in Community (you can use the Community Search box and pick "people" in drop down box).
    • Click on their nickname to bring up their Person Page
    • Scroll down to the bottom of the page
    • Change your attitude from "neutral" to "friendly"
    • Sharing Your Data with Specific Friends

    • Go to your own "My Community Profile"
    • Go to Information Sharing settings
    • Find your friend's nickname and checkmark the data that you would like to share with them
    • Save
    • Sharing custom foods and recipes

    • Go to your own "My Community Profile"
    • Go to your "About Me" section
    • Checkmark the last row re sharing custom food items and recipes
    • Save
      • Community basic information


        If you cannot find the member's nickname in Community, please advice him/her to enable the Let Everyone Find My Foods checkbox on the Community - My Personal Page.

    MyNetDiary mobile apps support both calories and kJ units. You can switch between units on the App Settings screen, available on the Me tab. Please locate "Units" tab on the screen.

    Please note, the feature is not yet available in the web app at www.mynetdiary.com.

    People who are looking to avoid kidney stones can track Oxalates in their diet. Oxalate is a naturally occurring molecule found in abundance in plants and humans. A low-oxalate diet is less than 50 milligrams per day. It's not a required nutrient for people, and too much can lead to kidney stones. In plants, oxalate helps to get rid of extra calcium by binding with it. That is why so many high-oxalate foods are from plants.

    Foods high in oxalate include beans, beer, beets, berries, chocolate, coffee, cranberries, dark green vegetables, nuts, oranges, rhubarb, cola, soybeans, soy milk, spinach, sweet potatoes, black tea, tofu, and wheat bran.

    Unfortunately, MyNetDiary does not support tracking this nutrient since most vendors do not publish oxalate values on their food labels. We cannot estimate the values for the foods in our database. Our database contains more than a million items. There is no way to assign the oxalate values for most items except 757 generic foods. If most foods didn't have any oxalate value, such tracking would be impractical.

    As a workaround, you can create custom food with the name "oxalate" and track the approximate values while logging it with your other daily foods. Alternatively, it's possible to create Oxalate as a custom tracker and log it via the Trackers section.

    In case you need support on creating a custom tracker, please watch this helpful tutorial video.

    These two are close but still different nutrients. The standard units of measurement for the Salt nutrient are grams; the Sodium is tracked in milligrams.

    "Salt" refers to the crystal-like chemical compound sodium chloride, while "sodium" refers to the dietary mineral sodium (which is a component of sodium chloride). The difference is: Sodium is found in food, either naturally or manufactured into processed foods.

    Printing of Sodium or Salt values on Food Labels varies by country. For example, UK Food labels show Salt value in gram units, whereas USDA is more focused on Sodium; it concerns more about Sodium rather than Salt. So the US vendors publish information about Sodium in grams.

    If your food label shows Sodium value and you want to get its salt value, convert the sodium mg into grams first. 1 gram = 1000 milligrams so 200g of sodium = 0.2g of sodium. Then, multiply the sodium value in grams by 2.5 conversion factor. you will get the salt value. For example, 1g of sodium x 2.5 = 2.5g of salt; 1.5g of sodium x 2.5 = 3.75g of salt, and 0.2g of sodium x 2.5 = 0.5g of salt. So, basically, Sodium x 2.5 = Salt.

    You can substitute Salt for Sodium (or vice-versa) by turning the Show Salt OFF or ON. To adjust whether you are more focused on Sodium rather than on Salt tracking is possible via the Me - App Settings - Diet Logging section of the iOS app. (We did not implement such an option for the Android app and website yet.) Then, the app will switch either to Sodium (in mg) or Salt (in g.)

    Please review the related blog posts written by our dietitians.

    Disabling AutoPilot in Mobile Apps

    You can disable AutoPilot on the My Weight Plan screen in the mobile apps.

    In iPhone and Android apps, follow these steps:

    • Tap the My Plan item on the Dashboard
    • Scroll to the bottom and tap the "AutoPilot" item and then turn it off.

    Disabling AutoPilot on MyNetDiary Website

    You can disable AutoPilot on the Plan page, in the Weight & Calories section.

    You can link the MyNetDiary iPhone app with the iOS Health app, and you will get the steps data recorded automatically.

    If you want to log the steps data manually, you can tap the footprints icon from the Dashboard screen and record them yourself.

    Automatic "reading" of the steps from iOS Health and your manual input do not work simultaneously. If you log the steps manually, iOS Health will override your entries.

    If you have smart weighing scales, then, yes. MyNetDiary can sync with it.

    Most modern weighting scales can send the collected body weight measurement data to their mobile apps. Typically, such apps are easily available on various operating system app stores, including iOS and Android. The weight readings gathered by smart weighing scale sync with a digital scale app via Bluetooth or WiFi.

    If this scale app supports linking with the iPhone Health app, Android Google Fit app, or Samsung Health app, MyNetDiary can "read" these data via one of these apps. MyNetDiary iPhone app supports integration with the Apple Health app. MyNetDiary Android app allows connecting with the Google Fit app and Samsung Health app. So, you can get your precise weightings records in MyNetDiary automatically, without manual logging. Getting the third-party app's data (the weight information from a digital scale app) via Apple Health, Google Fit, or Samsung Health is a simple and efficient way of body weight tracking.

  • Disclaimer: Before purchasing a weighing scale, ensure it connects with Apple Health, Google Fit, or Samsung Health. For example, Fitbit smart scale does not support such linking; so, we've implemented direct integration for it. Whereas indirect linking is included in the free version, direct integration requires Premium membership.)
  • To let Multi-Day-Analysis and Weekly Summary reports pull up the latest (current) and more relevant (relevant/authentic) data, the MyNetDiary iOS and Android apps (partly, website) display/show Calorie Analysis and Single Nutrient Analysis only for "Completed Days" (or "Considered as Completed Days.") You can see the note that the analysis took into account only the "completed days" information if you tap a particular bar inside the specific analysis section. This rule does not apply to the Meal Analysis tab inside Calorie Analysis, as it analyzes information on specific meals, not days:

    The Show All Days option does not affect the calculation, but only allows you to view the table for all days, and not just the complete ones.

    Coach > Nutrient Analysis > Calories > Meal Analysis section uses info about particular meals, not days, so the "Complete day" rule doesn't affect this tab.

    Customizing meal types in MyNetDiary iOS apps allows you to accurately track your eating patterns according to your personal schedule and preferences. Whether you need multiple snack meals, special meals for drinks and supplements, or pre- and post-workout meals, MyNetDiary's latest update has got you covered.

    Here's how to personalize your meal types:

    1. Open the MyNetDiary App: Start by opening your MyNetDiary app on your device.
    2. Navigate to Settings: On the iPhone app, tap on the 'Me' tab, and then select 'App Settings'. On the iPad app, tap the '<' icon on the upper-right corner and choose the 'App Settings' from the left-side menu.
    3. Access Diet Logging: In the App Settings, find and tap on 'Diet Logging'.
    4. Modify Default Meal Settings: Scroll to find 'Default Meal Settings'. This is where you can adjust your meal structure.
    5. Add or Edit Meal Types:
      • To add a new meal type, tap on the 'Add Meal Type' button. Enter the name of the new meal type, such as "Morning Snack" or "Pre-Workout".
      • To customize or rename existing meal types, tap on the meal you wish to change. Here, you can also re-order the meals by dragging them into your preferred sequence using the handle icon on the right.
      • If you want a meal type to appear on your Dashboard for quick access, ensure the 'Show on Dashboard' option is toggled on.
    6. Select Meal Type Icon: Choose an icon that best represents your meal for easy identification.
    7. Saving Your Settings: Once you have made your changes, don't forget to tap 'Save' to ensure your custom meal types are updated.
    8. Review on Dashboard: Head back to your Dashboard or 'All Meals' screen to see your new meal structure in action.

    Remember, only three meals can be displayed individually on the dashboard, but you can access additional meals under the "Others" category.

    By customizing your meal types, you'll be able to keep a more accurate diary that reflects your unique eating habits. If you encounter any difficulties or need further assistance, please reach out to our support team for help.

    FAQs

    Q: Can I create more than one snack meal type?

    A: Absolutely! You can create multiple snack meals to suit different times of the day.


    Q: What happens if I create more meal types than can be displayed on the dashboard?

    A: Additional meal types beyond the three displayed will be listed in "Others" on your dashboard, but all can be accessed in the 'All Meals' screen.


    Q: Can I change these settings later?

    A: Yes, you can edit your meal types at any time by revisiting the 'Default Meal Settings' under 'Diet Logging'.


    Q: Is it possible to create multiple snack meal types in the MyNetDiary Android app?

    A: At present, the option to create multiple snack meal types is not supported on the MyNetDiary Android app. We are continuously working to improve our services and hope to introduce this feature in the future. Stay tuned for updates, and we appreciate your patience and understanding.

    Many pedometer apps can trace your steps automatically. Modern Android phones are already equipped to track steps. You just need to install a particular step counter app to get started. Some of these apps are possible to pair with smartwatches. The pedometer app will automatically get the step data if the person wears such a watch. Then, the MyNetDiary app can "read" the pedometer app's data via Google Fit or Samsung Health app. It's ok not to have a smartwatch. Google Fit, Samsung Health, Pacer, and many other apps can gather the step data from the Android device itself. Google Fit and Samsung Health apps are among them, and the MyNetdiary Android app supports direct integration with these two apps. If you already use another app and track your daily steps with it (e.g., the Pacer app or another step counter app), you can link it to Google Fit or the Samsung Health app. In its turn, you need to connect the MyNetDiary Android app with Google Fit or Samsung Health app as well. So that MyNetDiary will read the third-party app's steps data from Google Fit or Samsung Health.

    If you yet do not have a smartwatch and do not use any app that automatically traces your steps, below is the simplest way to start doing that with Google Fit:

  • Go to the Google Play store and search for the Google Fit app
  • Install Google Fit app
  • Log into the Google Fit app using the same account you use to log into your Android Phone
  • Open the MyNetDiary Android app, go to the Me - App & Devices - Google Fit App, and tap the Link button.
  • That's all you have to do! Google Fit will begin tracking your steps whenever you have your phone with you. And, MyNetDiary will immediately start "reading" your daily steps count.

    You can also enable the Step Bonus feature if you want MyNetDiary to convert your step data into an exercise and include it in your daily energy balance.

    You can search for the Google Fit app from the Google Play store, obtain it on your Android device and link the MyNetDiary app to this app. The Google Fit App has the "built-in" Workout Tracker. It supports tracking such workouts as "walking," "running," "bicycling," "hiking," and many others:

    After completing a particular workout, the "burned calories" data collected by the Google Fit app will automatically appear in MyNetDiary:

    Suppose you prefer another app that can track your movement or have a smartwatch or activity tracker which can gather your caloric expenditure. In this case, you can link this third-party app to Google Fit so the MyNetDiary will "read" its exercises.

    To switch from fluid ounce to milliliters or vice-versa is possible by adjusting the Volume Units option from the Water Settings screen. Just tap the Settings from the bottom of the Water screen.

    The macros you set in the Plan section remain the same. The Dashboard does not have to show these numbers. The purpose of the Home screen is different from showing the targets of your Plan. The Dashboard shows your actual consumption of these macronutrients. The person rarely eats the exact values of the "planned" macros, so the Home screen shows the actual intake of these macronutrients. For instance, you planned to eat 90g of Total Carbs in the Plan section:

    But, instead of that, you ate just 44g of Total Carbs on a particular day. So, the Dashboard will show only 44g in such a case:

    If you log more foods, the foods that contain 46g of Total Carbs, you will see 90g of Total Carbs on the Dashboard.

    Energy comes from macronutrients. So, please note that your planned macros targets change when Calorie Budget changes. There are a few cases of such change:

    • Macronutrient targets rise if you enable the Add Exercise To Calorie Budget feature. Calorie Budget will increase on the day when you exercise.
    • Macronutrient targets change if you enable the AutoPilot feature. Calorie Budget changes along with remaining lbs to lose on the days left. It happens when you enter the new bodyweight or when the new day has come.
    • Macronutrient targets change if you enable the Calorie Cycling feature, and calories vary every weekday.

    Android Technical Issues

    The Weight chart is available on the Dashboard in the Weight panel:

    All other charts associated with trackers and measurements can be found under My Health menu on the Me tab:

    MyNetDiary Wear OS App

    What can I do with the smartwatch app?

  • You can review the summary for the day: Calories, Macros with Carbs / Protein / Fat breakdown on a pie chart, and up to 50 nutrients:
  • Log foods with Voice Food Logger, by search or selecting from recent or favorites:
  • Track water consumption in one tap with selected water consumption goal:
  • Track body weight:
  • How do I install MyNetDiary app for Wear OS?

    1. Install MyNetDiary App on your Android phone from Google Play Store;
    2. Complete setup in MyNetDiary Android App;
    3. On your watch go to Play Store > Search for MyNetDiary app > Tap Install;
    Enjoy MyNetDiary App on your Wear OS smartwatch.

    How can I change my water goal?

    1. Go to Settings -> Water Tracking -> Water Containers;
    2. Tap “Glass” container and set Volume.

    How can I change the water glass size?

    This feature is available only for Premium users.

    1. Go to Settings -> Water Tracking -> Water Goal;
    2. Set your custom goal.

    How do I add more nutrients to track on my smartwatch and phone?

    This feature is available only for Premium users.

    1. Go to Weight Plan -> Nutrient Targets -> Select Nutrient you need to track;
    2. Activate setting “Show on Dashboard”.

    How quickly is my diary synced between the phone and smartwatch?

    Once opened, the app can take up to 30 seconds to update your information so please be patient if you do not see your newly added information immediately.

    What is the minimum Wear OS version required by the MyNetDiary smartwatch app?

    The MyNetDiary Wear OS app (MyNetDiary smartwatch app) is compatible with/supported by Wear OS 2 and Wear OS 3.

    If you previously tracked your vitamins and supplements using the Vitamins field, you can access your records in the Daily Notes Journal. Simply open Daily Notes and tap 'View All.' Please note that the Vitamins field was retired in June 2023.

    MyNetDiary's extensive food database includes many popular vendors that offer vitamins and supplements. We recommend considering food log tracking for your vitamins, as it enables comprehensive nutrition analysis and insights.

    If you prefer using a text field, you can record your vitamins in the 'Notes' section.

    We hope these options provide the flexibility you need to effectively track your vitamins and supplements within MyNetDiary.

    In the Android app, to delete the food entry from a particular meal section, swipe it to the left.

    iOS Technical Issues

    MyNetDiary, when running on iPhone with iOS 11 or later, can sync foods, 34 nutrients, including water nutrient, body fat percentage, weight, height, BMI, lean body mass, BP, Heart Rate (Pulse), BG, workouts and more to iOS Health app.

    To protect your privacy, the sync is OFF initially. To turn it on, you have to go to "iOS Health App Sync" from the "Apps & Devices" section located in the Me tab. Tap the green "Enable" button. If this is the first time you turn on the sync, you'll have to select which data you want to sync. Make sure to tap "Done" after you are finished.

    If you want to change the settings later on, you'll have to press Manage, which will take you to the Health App.

    Then, click on your profile in the top right corner.

    Then, go to Apps under Privacy, choose MyNetDiary, and choose which health data you want MyNetDiary to access.

    You can also turn import or export any data into MyNetDiary on or off at any time.

    Export to Health App

    Foods and Nutrients

    MyNetDiary sends detailed information on every food and nutrient (up to 30 nutrients). We recommend enabling time tracking in App Settings, otherwise MyNetDiary will, by default, report that breakfast foods were eaten at 8am, lunch at 12pm, snacks 3pm, and dinner at 7pm.

    Other Exports

    Besides foods and nutrients, MyNetDiary can also export your exercise records, body weight, blood pressure, and blood glucose readings to the Health app. Please note that BP and BG tracking is provided only with MyNetDiary Premium.

    Warning

    If you have two MyNetDiary apps installed, for instance, the Free app and the Pro app, make sure you enable sync in only one of them. Otherwise, both apps will send updates to Health App, creating duplicates.

    Import From Health App

  • workouts
  • activity
  • daily steps
  • body weight
  • diastolic and systolic blood pressure
  • blood glucose
  • water

  • This data can be added to the Health App by other fitness apps. The workouts and steps data can be also added to the Health App through an Apple Watch.

    Troubleshooting Health App Linking

    If you don't see some type of data listed above as supported by MyNetDiary syncing with iOS Health, most likely, this is a permissions issue in iOS Health.

    Please follow the steps illustrated with screenshots above to allow MyNetDiary read and/or write access to the data type you want to link.

    For import into MyNetDiary, also please double check that the data is present in iOS Health. If the data is written into iOS Health by another app, then MyNetDiary not importing the data could be, in fact, caused by the other app not writing data to iOS Health properly.

    If Health App workouts don't show up in MyNetDiary, please see Troubleshooting Health App Workout Import support article for special, more detailed, step-by-step troubleshooting instructions.

    A complication is an additional information displayed along time on the watch face. It sounds complicated (pun intended), but it's the actual term used in horology (the study of time, watches, and clocks) and also used by Apple for Apple Watch.

    Users may select different complications for their watch faces, either built-in or provided by some app. Please see Apple's support article for more information.

    MyNetDiary can display different data, depending on 1) the watch face the user has chosen in the Watch App and 2) on complication data type chosen to display.

    The process of selecting MyNetDiary complications is different between iOS 14 and earlier versions of iOS.

    iOS 14 Configuration

    In iOS 14, when you select complications to add to your watch face in the Watch app on your phone, you will be selecting the app and the kind of data provided by the app to be displayed.

    While adding MyNetDiary complications in the Watch app on your phone, you will be able to select the type of data displayed by each complication: calories, macros, any of 38 nutrients supported by MyNetDiary, or water.

    iOS 13, 12, and 11 Configuration

    Prior to iOS 14, Apple Watch supported only one complication of certain type per watch face from each app. When you select a complication in the Watch app, you can only select the app that will be providing the data, not the kind of data (e.g. which nutrient should be displayed.) Thus, in MyNetDiary iPhone app, in the Me tab, there is a special screen Watch Complications allowing you to select the kind of data that each complication will display. You can select calories, nutrients, macros, or water there.

    Troubleshooting Complications

    Sometimes, Apple Watch stops displaying data from complications. This may happen with any app, including Apple's apps. If this happens to you with MyNetDiary, please try restarting your watch following Apple's instructions.

    Verify Permission to Read Data

    Make sure that MyNetDiary has permission to read Steps from iOS Health. In the iOS Health app, click on Steps in the Summary, then go to the Data Sources & Access tab at the bottom of the page. Make sure that MyNetDiary is in the list of Apps allowed to read data and that permission is On for MyNetDiary.

    Disable Steps Download in Your Fitness Tracker

    If MyNetDiary has the permission to read Steps, but you still don't see Step data imported to MyNetDiary, then make sure you are not importing data from another fitness tracker, such as Fitbit, Garmin, or Withings. If you have connected a fitness tracker and choose to import steps from the tracker, it will take precedence over iOS Health import, as a fitness tracker typically has more information than iOS Health.

    In MyNetDiary Settings, open Apps & Devices and select your fitness tracker type. In the list of data to download, select Daily Steps and then click "Disable".

    Sometimes, iPhone gets stuck on updating one or several apps - it shows a progress indicator, but it does not move. This does not happen often, but it happens for some people once in a while.

    Unfortunately, this problem is entirely on the iPhone/iOS side and we have no control over it. All app downloads, installs, and updates are handled by Apple's own App Store app. We only send our updated app to Apple once, from that point on, distribution and updates are handled by the App Store.

    We found the official support article from Apple on this issue: If you can't download or update apps, or if apps get stuck. Please try following these instructions. If this doesn't help, we recommend contacting Apple Support over a phone or setting an appointment at an Apple Store.

    Alternatively, if you have created an account with MyNetDiary (as the app had recommended), you can delete the stuck app from your phone, then download it directly from the App Store again, and then sign in into the app with your MyNetDiary account, which will restore all of your data from online backup.

    watchOS 10, released by Apple in September 2023, introduces a redesigned user interface to make navigation consistent and predictable. The new watch widgets surface timely information from any app.

    In MyNetDiary, to see nutrients, log water, or weigh-in, use the menu button in the top left corner to jump straight to the screen instead of repeated swiping.

    MyNetDiary also provides a rich set of widgets for the new Smart Stack, displayed on swiping the watch face up.

    If they still do not show the data properly, please try to reinstall the app on your phone, then restart the device. If you still experience issues with that, please contact us at support@mynetdiary.com.

    Workout Import

    If you own an Apple Watch and use built-in Apple Watch app to track your workouts, such as running and walking, you can get these workouts imported into MyNetDiary automatically.

    As workouts recorded with Apple's app are automatically loaded into the Health App on your iPhone, all you need to do is to enable import of workouts from the Health App to MyNetDiary.

    Go to the MyNetDiary's Settings screen, select "iOS Health App Sync", turn on sync, and when prompted turn on the desired data types, most importantly - allow import of workout data. If you don't get prompted, go to the Health App, then to Source, locate MyNetDiary and allow the data types you want, making sure to select import of workouts.

    Please notice that MyNetDiary imports workouts for the 7 days.

    Apple Watch can record workouts without the iPhone nearby and send them to the Health App when connected. Currently, Apple Watch won't be sending distance, also accuracy will be reduced as it needs to be connected to the iPhone during workout to use its GPS.

    If Apple Watch workouts don't show up in MyNetDiary, please see Troubleshooting Health App Workout Import support article for detailed, step-by-step troubleshooting instructions.

    Steps Sync

    For steps import, MyNetDiary app can be connected to iOS Health app. iOS Health collects information from the phone itself, from Apple Watch, and possibly from other third-party step trackers. iOS Health then intelligently analyzes all this information, removes duplicated steps (for example same steps counted by both your phone and watch), and provides to MyNetDiary a consolidated, cleaned up, accurate step count. So, if you have allowed MyNetDiary to read your step data from iOS Health, then all information from your watch will be properly and accurately accounted for in MyNetDiary.

    The iOS Health app keeps track of two kinds of energy (calories) expenditure - Resting Energy and Active Energy. Any app can write this information. If you have an Apple Watch, its information will be used for Resting Energy and Active Energy calculations as well.

    About Importing Active Energy (Calories) into MyNetDiary

    MyNetDiary cannot import "Active Energy" (typically - calories) from iOS Health because iOS Health defines them as calories "above Resting Metabolic Rate," but MyNetDiary already accounts for some number of calories above Resting Metabolic Rate that are part of normal daily life, included into Weight Maintenance calories (such as preparing food, shopping, cleaning, walking around.) Importing "Active Calories" would result in double-counting of calories in MyNetDiary.

    About Importing Resting and Active Energy into MyNetDiary

    Hypothetically, it may seem that it is possible to add daily Resting calories to Active calories and thus calculate the total daily calories expended, similar to what an activity tracker like Fitbit or Garmin does.

    Unfortunately, there are two problems with this: 1) different apps interpret and thus calculate Active calories differently (they use different definitions and numbers for regular "not-active" calories). In other words, we don't know the number that active calories should be added to, it's specific to each app, and it's not known. 2) None of the apps work well as a full-day activity tracker, keeping track of all of your Resting calories.

    Thus, MyNetDiary keeps relying on estimated Daily Maintenance Calories calculated based on your weight, height, age, gender, and activity level. This number already includes your typical daily activities, such as preparing food, shopping, cleaning, walking around. Once again, some of these are considered being Active calories by Apple Watch and apps, and MyNetDiary using Active calories would have resulted in double counting. MyNetDiary adds only "Workouts" - clearly, explicitly specified "extra activities" beyond your typical daily living activities, such as running, gym exercises, and so on.

    In the future, when a reliable source of resting and active calories becomes available, it could be used by MyNetDiary, but we are not there yet.

    If you see discrepancies between distance you walked or ran and what is calculated by the GPS tracker, please try turning off Auto Pause, as it may detect pauses incorrectly.

    MyNetDiary GPS tracker won't work for "indoor" activities like walking in the mall or using the treadmill. To measure your distance, it uses the GPS sensor "built-in" to the iPhone device. Receiving GPS signals inside of the building is not reliable. Also, when you run or walk on the treadmill, your location basically remains the same. So, we cannot calculate the distance in these two cases. You can use MyNetDiary GPS Tracker for "outdoor" activities only.

    Also, running in a city or under trees sometimes may result in the app losing GPS signal and messing up your route. Please keep an eye on the GPS signal strength indicator in the top right corner, it should not turn yellow or red.

    If you run into other problems with GPS tracking, please send us a support request!

    All App Updates Are Installed by Users

    MyNetDiary updates its apps periodically, typically every few weeks. We prepare the update and upload it to the App Store, making it available for download by users. Whether a user downloads or not the app update is entirely up to the user and depends on "automatic updates" setting in the App Store app app. App developers like MyNetDiary don't update apps on user phones, there is simply no way to force this. And there is no way for developers like MyNetDiary to warn our users about the update or display a choice whether to update or not.

    Only the iPhone owner can install an app update, either automatically or manually.

    Automatic Installation of App Updates

    Most users have enabled automatic app updates on their phones. Downloading updates of the apps is done overnight every time a new app update is released.

    You can check this slider in your phone Settings; if this slider is enabled, all apps (not just MyNetDiary) on your phone get updated as soon as their developers update the app in the App Store.

    Some users who don't like automatic updates and prefer some stability and control over updates turn "automatic updates" off and update their apps manually. They may check what's changed in the app, if there are any crashes or other issues before installing the updated app.

    MyNetDiary uses the camera to scan barcodes and to send photos of foods and nutrition facts.

    On iOS, no app can access camera and photos without prior explicit user permission. All privacy controls are handled by iOS, not by individual apps. On the first access of the camera by an app, iOS automatically asks if you allow this app to access the camera.

    If you prefer to turn off access to the camera, you can open the Settings app, then to Privacy, then go to Camera and turn off access by MyNetDiary.

    MyNetDiary provides a flexible and powerful widget for iOS 17 Home screen, configurable to see any nutrient stats and macros.

    Adding the Widget

    Please go the Home screen where you want to put MyNetDiary's widget and then follow Apple's instructions: Use widgets on your Apple device. This support article also explains how to add widgets to Today view.

    When adding MyNetDiary's widget, you need to select its size - either small size (which can display calories, or a nutrient, or macros) or medium size (which will also display meals, water, and exercise). Other settings of the widget can be edited after the widget has been added.

    Please, note that you can add two MyNetDiary widgets, even to the same Home screen. For example, you can add two small widgets displaying calories and some other nutrient, or two small widgets with macros and another nutrient, or the medium widget and a small widget.

    Editing Widget

    After the widget has been added, you can touch and hold the widget until a menu appears for this widget. Select Edit Widget from the menu.

    For any MyNetDiary's widget you can choose a nutrient to be displayed, either "primary" - the main nutrient in the MyNetDiary app, typically calories, or any other of 100 nutrients supported by MyNetDiary. You can also choose to display macros, either as a pie chart with energy percentages coming from macros, or a bar chart, displaying grams.

    We've fixed an issue with the barcode scanner freeze in version 8.80. Ensure you got the latest app version.

    Adding a lock screen widget: tap and hold your lock screen, enter the password if you have one, then tap Customize:

    Note: if you are using a lock screen configured with iOS 15 or earlier, the following message will be displayed:

    Tap Add New, then select a wallpaper. This new wallpaper will support widgets.

    Once you are in the Customize mode, tap Add Widgets or the widget area (if you have widgets already), and scroll down to find the MyNetDiary app, then tap it. You will see a list of widgets available in MyNetDiary:

    Here is the full list of widgets in MyNetDiary:

  • Daily Nutrient. How much is consumed and left. This is a configurable widget - you can select a nutrient to display. After adding the widget, while in edit mode, tap the widget to select a nutrient - over 40 nutrients available.
  • Daily Macros. This is also a configurable widget. After adding the widget, while in edit mode, tap the widget to select 1) chart type - calories or macros pie chart and 2) macro display mode - percentages, grams, or progress.
  • Daily Steps. Daily step count and progress toward your daily step goal.
  • Daily Water. Water glasses logged and progress toward your daily water goal.
  • Weight Progress. Your weight tracker - your progress toward the weight goal.
  • Weigh In. Shortcut to log your weight. You can choose whether the widget displays your weight on the lock screen or not.
  • Exercise Tracking. Daily calories burned and exercise tracking.
  • Barcode Scanner. Shortcut to quickly scan and log food.
  • Grocery Check. Shortcut to the Grocery Check tool - to scan and compare foods while shopping.
  • Shopping List. Shortcut to the Shopping List tool.
  • Fasting. Timer and shortcut to the Intermittent Fasting tool.
  • After selecting widgets and applying the wallpaper, the widgets will be displayed on your Lock Screen, so when you tap them, they will open the corresponding screen in the app:

    We also recommend checking out Apple's article about widget configuration: Add and edit widgets on your iPhone.

    MyNetDiary's iPhone apps include a special app for Apple Watch.

    watchOS 8 or Later is Required

    MyNetDiary's watch app is optimized for watchOS 8, to work faster and more reliably. Please make sure you have at least watchOS 8 installed on your Apple Watch. Here is the procedure in case you need to upgrade.

    App Installation

    If you already have a MyNetDiary app installed on your phone and your watch is upgraded to watchOS 8, but the app does not show up on your watch, please do the following:

    • Open the Apple Watch app on your iPhone.
    • Scroll to find the MyNetDiary app, and then tap it.
    • Turn on Show App on Apple Watch.

    Apple's Step-by-step Instructions

    The following support article from Apple provides detailed instructions on app installation, managing glances and notifications: Use third-party apps on your Apple Watch.

    Troubleshooting Complications

    Sometimes, Apple Watch stops displaying data from complications. This may happen with any app, including Apple's apps. If this happens to you with MyNetDiary, please try restarting your watch following Apple's instructions.

    MyNetDiary fully supports Dark Mode. By default, MyNetDiary follows system-wide dark mode settings configurable in the Settings app "built-in" to your iPhone, iPad, or Android device.

    To switch between the Dark or Light Modes on the iOS device, open the Settings app "built-in" to your iPhone or iPad, tap Display & Brightness and select Dark or Light under the Appearance section. To adjust the Dark Theme option on the Android device, open the Settings app "built-in" to your phone or tablet, tap Display, and choose the desired option for the Dark mode setting. MyNetDiary will immediately recognize this setting and show the MyNetDiary app's screens according to the chosen option.

    If you want to have the phone mode itself separate from the MyNetDiary app's mode, you can toggle the Dark or Light Appearance via the MyNetDiary App Settings section:

    In addition to food search and barcode scanning, MyNetDiary provides several other lists of foods under different tabs, such as favorites, staple foods, recipes, custom foods, custom meals, and recent meals.

    If you don't use some of the tabs, you can hide them to make the screen simpler. You can also re-arrange the tabs, moving to the left the tabs you use most frequently.

    To reorder the food tabs, either use Arrange option during the search (shown above), or go to the App Settings - Advanced Settings screen and tap Customize Food Search Tabs item. You can tap the red "-" buttons to hide the tabs you don't need. You re-arrange tabs by dragging and dropping them in new locations. Tap the Done button when finished.

    Tip: you can open any food search tab quickly from the "+" button on a meal screen. Touch and hold the "+" button; it will display the same list of tabs; then slide your finger to the tab you need and let it go - the food search will be opened on the selected tab. All tab order customizations will be applied to this list, too.

    When you Customize Food Search Tabs on the App Settings, the new order of tabs is applied to the food search and "+" button menu only. (The food search regime starts when the user starts typing the food name on a particular meal screen.) The new tabs' order does not change to the existing Manage My Foods catalogs.

    Reminders in MyNetDiary

    MyNetDiary can remind you about logging your meals, water, weigh-in, and more - if you have configured these reminders in MyNetDiary. Meal and weigh-in reminders are configured in App Settings, water reminders - on the Water screen.

    If, at some point, you decided that you don't need these reminders, you can turn them off in the app, in the same places where you configured them.

    Disabling All Notifications from an App

    You can also disable all notifications from any app in iPhone Settings, including disabling notifications and reminders from MyNetDiary. If you disable notifications in iPhone Settings, then no notifications will be displayed, period. Even if you still have reminders configured in the app, iOS will override this and hide any notifications from the app.

    Notifications Still Displayed? It Must Be from Siri!

    If you turned off reminders and disabled notifications, but you still see notifications about MyNetDiary, it must be from Siri, not from the MyNetDiary app. Siri found a pattern in your iPhone usage and attempts to prompt you proactively.

    If you don't like Siri to do that, please adjust Siri settings: in the iPhone Settings app, go to the Siri & Search section, then select MyNetDiary and disable Siri options you don't want.

    This is just a reminder to consider creating a MyNetDiary account for backup purposes.

    MyNetDiary does not force users to create an account as other diet apps do. MyNetDiary recommends creating an account but leaves the choice to the user.

    Over the years, with millions of users, we've seen quite a few users who damaged or lost their phones, losing their MyNetDiary data because they haven't created an account. Creating an account takes a minute, and there are no real downsides. MyNetDiary does not share user information and does not spam users - there are no email newsletters at MyNetDiary.

    Removing the Red Badge from Me tab

    The red reminder badge on the Me tab is removed after the user opens Create Account screen on the Me tab, even if the user decides not to create an account.

    Starting December 2020, MyNetDiary apps for iPhone and iPad support iOS 13 or later versions of iOS. This is done for technical reasons to support the latest functionality of iOS.

    If you haven't updated your iPhone or iPad to iOS 13 or iOS 14, you can still easily download previous versions of the app.

    You need to open the App Store app, then locate the Purchased Apps list. In iOS 11 and later, you need to tap the circular face to open the Account screen, then select Purchased, then My Purchases. In iOS before iOS 11, there's a Purchased icon at the bottom of the App Store's main screen.

    After you arrived at the Purchased screen, find the MyNetDiary app. Tap it and then tap Install or the cloud icon. After a possible brief delay, the App Store will recognize that your device can't run the latest version and offer to you install an older version.

    You can also check Apple's instructions for additional information.

    The old versions of the app are fully functional and would work well for you until you move to a newer version of iOS and will be using the latest version of MyNetDiary.

    If you purchased MyNetDiary Premium subscription from the App Store, then deleted and reinstalled the MyNetDiary app, and no longer have Premium, you will be able to restore this subscription and use Premium again without a payment.

    Tap the Discover Premium banner at the top of the Me screen:

    Then, scroll to the bottom of the screen and tap the Restore Subscription link:

    If you have an active, non-expired MyNetDiary subscription purchased in the same MyNetDiary app that you are currently using, the app will be upgraded to Premium within a minute.

    If the app is not upgraded to Premium after using Restore Subscription, please check the following two items.

    1. Make sure you have an active, non-expired MyNetDiary subscription listed on the Subscriptions screen in the iOS Settings app. Tap on your Apple ID at the top of the Settings app screen, then tap Subscriptions as shown in the steps below:

    cancel sub

    2. Double-check that the app name of the subscription is the same as you are currently using. MyNetDiary offers four apps - a free app MyNetDiary, MyNetDiary Diabetes, MyNetDiary Pro, and Carb Genius. A subscription purchased in one app cannot be restored in another app. If you see an active subscription, you need to install and use the same MyNetDiary app as the one that purchased the subscription.

    Please contact MyNetDiary Support if you have any problems.

    Some of our users sometimes experience an unfortunate occurrence of their credit card being charged twice for the Premium Membership. In 99% of all cases, the reason for this is because the user did not Sign In the account they have purchased the subscription with.

    iOS MyNetDiary Subscriptions are separated in several groups due to Apple's policy, allowing the user to purchase Premium multiple times. For example, the 59.99 USD one and 29.99 USD (50% discount) one are located in different groups and thus can be purchased separately. The user creates an account and purchases the 59.99 USD one and then creates a different account by mistake and, seeing there is no Premium, purchases the 29.99 USD one (when there is an ongoing sale).

    This also occurs when the user gets a new phone and does not back up the data on the website. In this case there would be no way to Sign In the old account in the first place. For more information about this, please check the following article.

    We sincerely apologize if this is something that happened to you and we are working on creating a solution or at least adding more preventive measures within the app.

    Please check the following article on how to cancel and refund an iOS Subscription.

    Sometimes after app update, the app may have issues with accessing privacy-related features of the phone and Touch ID could stop working.

    From our experience, this happens very rarely, odds are less than 1%, but you could run into this, too.

    Please try restarting/rebooting your phone and the issue goes away.

    If you are still experiencing problems, please send us a support request, we would be glad to help you!

    MyNetDiary can import workouts and workout calories recorded by Apple Watch and fitness apps, such as MapMyRun, Runkeeper, and others. If you don't see workouts being imported into MyNetDiary, please follow the step-by-step instructions below:

    • Make sure your iPhone has iOS 8.3 or later.
    • Do a workout, record it with the other fitness app or Apple Watch.
    • Open the Health App on your iPhone, go to Health Data tab, then Fitness, then Workouts and confirm that you see in the Health App the workout you just did.
    • Make sure that the Health App allows MyNetDiary to read workout data: in the Health App go to Sources tab, tap on "MyNetDiary", scroll to the bottom to "Allow MyNetDiary to Read Data" section and turn on "Workouts". If you don't see MyNetDiary on the Sources tab, proceed to the next step (enabling Health App sync in MyNetDiary, which should automatically add MyNetDiary to Sources.)
    • Make sure Health App sync is enabled in MyNetDiary: in the MyNetDiary app go to the Settings screen, then "iOS Health App Sync" screen, then turn sync OFF (if it was ON) and then back ON. If you get prompted to allow access, make sure you allow MyNetDiary to read workouts.

    After you've done successfully all the steps above, you should see the workout imported into MyNetDiary the next time you open MyNetDiary app.

    Please note that MyNetDiary allows to specify minimum workout calories for import, 20 calories by default. Some health apps, such as Human record every movement as a small workout, often with 3, 5 or 10 calories, resulting in dozens and hundreds of such "workouts" per day. The minimum workout calories setting in MyNetDiary allows you to skip such "workouts". If you see workouts in the Health App with fewer calories than the minimal calories setting in MyNetDiary app, these workouts will not be imported. If you would like to import workouts with fewer than 20 calories, please adjust the minimal number in MyNetDiary iOS Health App Sync setting's.

    Also, please note that MyNetDiary imports workouts for the last 7 days.

    Finally, please note that importing daily step count from the Health App (including steps recorded by Apple Watch) is different from workout import. Imported step counts are stored separately from exercise and workouts. With MyNetDiary Premium, you can also enable "Step Bonus" calories, to record them as an additional exercise and adjust your daily food calorie budget.

    MyNetDiary offers free 7-day trials of the Premium subscription on iOS.

    Free trials on iOS are managed and charged for by Apple automatically. MyNetDiary doesn't have access to Apple's billing system and thus cannot charge you, cancel your trial or subscription, or refund you.

    Trial Cancellation

    If during the trial, you decided that you don't want to stay with Premium, you can cancel your subscription in iPhone Settings. According to the App Store Terms & Conditions, you have to cancel it at least 24 hours before trial expiration. Otherwise, you will be charged for the full subscription term.

    Please note that if you delete the MyNetDiary app but don't cancel your subscription in iPhone Settings, Apple will charge you for the full term after trial expiration.

    Repeated Trials

    Please note that Apple provides a trial only once per person.

    Apple considers that trying a subscription once is sufficient, and they want to avoid someone repeatedly using free trials and never paying Apple.

    If you used a trial before, and you start another trial, Apple will charge you immediately. As with any App Store subscriptions, only Apple can refund your payment. Please see Refunds of iOS App Store Purchases for details and instructions.

    Trials on MyNetDiary Website

    If you purchased a Premium subscription online (via the www.mynetdiary.com website,) we provide a 14-day money-back guarantee and a full refund. MyNetDiary Tech Support processes your request and discharges your refund within two business days. To receive the refund, please send the support request.

    We've added several new charts to the Home screen to let you see more information at a glance. We call it Dashboard and we hope you like it!

    We also know that one size does not fit all - you can customize the Home screen the way you like it - move items around, remove items you don't need, and even switch back to the old Home screen!

    To customize the Home screen, please use the "Configure Dashboard" button at the bottom of the Home screen.

    On the popup menu, you can select "Standard Dashboards" (to choose from pre-configured options).

    Swipe to the left or to the right to see available Home screens:

    Tap Apply.

    Or, you can tap "Customize Dashboard" to customize Home screen as you wish. Just tap, hold and drag the particular tab to desired place (to Dashboard, to Upper-Left-Popup Menu, or to Inactive-Items section).

    Tap Save.

    You can also change colours to more contrast on the App Settings - Display and Accessibility screen of the app. Most colors will change at once, but some will change only after app restart.

    The above functionalities of reconfiguring the Home screen are yet unavailable for the Android app; the Android app supports just limited ones (hidingDay Bars For Week, enabling Pie Chart, filling Carbs-Protein-Fat with grams or percentages, enabling nutrient totals and Health Trackers on the Dashboard.)

    Check out the tutorial video for more visual guidance.

    We do hope this helps to make MyNetDiary look and work exactly as you want it, to help you achieve your diet goals!

    If you don't hear reminder sounds or don't receive reminder notifications about meals, weigh-ins, BG measurements, you might have disabled notifications for MyNetDiary in your iPhone settings.

    To enable notifications, sounds, or change notification options, please go to the Settings app on your iPhone. Then, tap on the Notifications item in the list, find MyNetDiary in the list. Then, make sure notifications are enabled and choose notification options, such as showing them in Notification Center, sounds, Lock screen options and so on.

    To stop displaying the food photos, tap any food record logged to a particular meal, scroll down the Food Entry screen and tap the green Settings sign:

    Then, turn the Display food Photos Off.

    In such a case, please check whether the macros increase in the exercise plan is set to 0:0:0. If it does, that is the reason for exercise not being added. Follow this path: Dashboard > My Weight Plan > Exercise plan.

    For calories to be added to the budget, you need to reset this setting.

    You can also do the proper setup if you want to increase protein more than carbs/fat or vice versa.

    To get daily total calorie intakes sorted by date in descending order, go to the Nutrient Analysis from the Coach screen:

    tap the Calories item from the Nutrient Analysis screen:

    specify the Custom range, and tap the three-horizontal-dots to the right of the Average item. Then, tap the Show Details from the popup window:

    Such a screen may appear after the person changes the registered email and password or merges two profiles. In case of continuing difficulty with authorization, please tap the Upload Diagnostics:

    type in (let us know) that you see the Re-Sign In screen, and tap Send.

    The iPhone app has a Consumption History feature. You can go to the Me section, tap the Manage My Foods item, and find your food in a particular category (Favs, Frequent, Custom, Meals, or Recipes.) A long tap on this food will open the popup menu with the Consumption History option:

    Once you choose it, the app will generate the screen with the name of this food and the details about when, where you logged it, and how much you ate it.

    The 'Consumption History' functionality is available on the Android app as well. To access it, simply tap the three dots located to the right of a particular item in the 'Favorites,' 'Frequent,' 'Custom,' or 'My Recipes' catalog of the 'My Foods' section. From the popup menu, select the 'Consumption History' option. The screen will display when and how often you logged this specific food.

    The 'Consumption History' feature makes it easier than ever to track your food consumption history on both iOS and Android platforms.

    Alternative workaround is use of the Analysis > Multi-Day Reports > Food Report webpage. Just use the popular Mac's "Command" + "F" or PC's "Ctrl" + "F" method to find a particular food by typing in a keyword - the food you search for will be highlighted in the generated Food webpage.

    MyNetDiary Family Sharing is used by thousands of families and, in fact, depends only on Apple informing the MyNetDiary app after tapping "Restore Subscription" that the family member has access to Premium.

    If the expected Family Sharing upgrade to Premium does not work, please check the following steps:

    1. Your family member must see the same app icon as yours (we offer four apps: "Diabetes," "Pro," "Keto Diet - Carb Genius" and "Free;" the family member cannot restore from the "D" app if you were subscribed from "Pro." You can see the type of MynetDiary app and its icon in the Apple order receipt email.)
    2. Family sharing enabled by the purchaser
    3. Second person's current AppleID (that is email) is listed as a family member of the purchaser (ensure you enabled the slider to share the iOS Subscriptions between correct Apple IDs; you must see the active MynetDiary Premium subscription in the "Subscriptions" section of the Settings app "built-in" to your iOS device, and you must share it with Apple ID email that your family member use in his/her Settings App "built-in" to his/her iOS device.)
    4. Subscription purchased and active (listed in the ACTIVE section of iPhone Settings/AppleID/Subscriptions). Canceled subscriptions in this section have the comment "Expiring XX(month,) XX (day,) 2023". If the MyNetDiary subscription is listed in the INACTIVE section, the original purchaser no longer has the subscription, and it cannot be "Restored" neither by the purchaser nor by the family member.
    5. Both AppleIDs are using the same App Store country.

    If a workout recorded in the iOS Health app does not appear in MyNetDiary, please open the Me section of the MyNetDiary iPhone app, tap the Apps and Devices, and tap the iOS Health App Sync and make sure the Minimum Workout Calories value is less than the workout calories shown on the iOS Health app.

    Technical Issues

    There are several reasons why you may not be able to access your account. The most frequent (covering 99% of all cases) will be explained here.

    Email does not exist

    Usually happens when the user:

  • Did not create an account on mynetdiary.com. Note - being logged on the app =/= having an account. A frequent case: you have been using the app for some time but never finalized the account creation and then reinstalled/updated/changed phone. As a result - the system has no way to remember your data = your email and info do not exist in our database.
  • We cannot help you recover the data in this case, unless you somehow remember the UserID or purchased Premium via Google Play. That is why we always stress the importance of creating an account for long-time users. If that is your case - please create a new account on mynetdiary.com and Sign In your app with new credentials. Premium Membership can be restored on iOS. On Android it should restore automatically.

  • Used social Sign In when first accessing the app (clicked Sign In with Google/Apple/Facebook). The account should be created in this case, but your email will not be recognized in the database. Please try to Sign In with whatever social platform you signed in with before. If it does not work - most likely this is the above case.
  • We can try locating the account with: a) UserID (located under Support in your app or mynetdiary.com). b) A Premium Membership purchase receipt from Google Play (GPA number) or PayPal (if purchased on the website). Please write to support@mynetdiary.com with either info if you have it.

    Forgotten Password

    Please refer to the the following article. We can also provide a direct password reset link at support@mynetdiary.com if the method described in the the aforementioned article does not work for some reason.

    None of the Above

    If you are 100% sure you have created the account before and entering the correct password, please write to support@mynetdiary.com with either a) UserID (located under Support in your app or mynetdiary.com). b) A Premium Membership purchase receipt from Google Play (GPA number) or PayPal (if purchased on the website). c) Your email used for the account.

    It is possible you've made a typo when creating the account and the database now remembers it with a slightly different email. We can try to search for it.

    If you are a MyNetDiary Premium subscriber, you can turn on Step Bonus calories in App Settings (on iOS, proceed to Diet Logging, on Android, to Food & Exercise Logging), which automatically logs walking exercise for you by adding the calories burned for a number of steps above your activity level. If you walk more than expected for your Activity Level, you get a Step Bonus, and those calories will be added to your Exercise. This helps to estimate your daily calorie in/out balance more accurately. Please see Step Bonus - Your Reward For Moving More blog post for more details!

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    Step Bonus calories appear in the Exercise section. The feature is enabled when you log daily steps manually and disabled when you get step data from an activity tracker, as activity trackers account for calories burned while walking.

    Please note the user will not see the Step Bonus when the steps data is synced from another source, such as Fitbit, Withings, Garmin, or Apple Watch. There is no need to convert steps to caloric expenditure if the activity tracker accounts for these calories while sending the data about your active calories.

    Also, your Step Bonus can get subtracted when you are entering some exercise manually.

    When logging an activity that involves making actual physical "steps" (running, walking, jogging, hiking, backpacking, golf). MyNetDiary will automatically estimate the number of steps you have made during that particular exercise and subtract them from your overall Step Bonus amount.

    This functionality is in place to avoid logging your burned calories twice (first as a logged exercise and second as a step bonus), thus preserving the correctness of your diet tracking.

    Please note that the app will calculate and subtract duplicate steps only when the exercise in question has miles-per-hour (mph) or kilometres (km) indicated as one of the "amount" options.

    If barcode scanning does not work on your iPhone or iPad, there could be several possible reasons. Please follow the troubleshooting steps below:

    • Make sure you have an internet connection, as the scanner uses online lookup.
    • If the barcode scanner stopped working after the app update, try rebooting your phone.
    • In case you see the black screen when you try scanning, please reboot your phone.
    • Check MyNetDiary permissions in the Settings app built into your iOS device. Open the Settings app, tap the Privacy and tap the Camera. The slider next to the MyNetDiary app has to be enabled.
    • Make sure you are signed in with your username and password, as the scanner uses online lookup. If you don't remember your password, please reset your password online.

    If you are still having trouble after going through all the steps, please send us a support request to support@mynetdiary.com.

    When some item in our database does not have the assigned UPC code, the scanner finds a similar item with the close name (in most cases, the brandless, generic food from the Staple Foods catalog.) If such a choice was invalid, please search again by food name instead of scanning the barcode. Then link UPC to the existing item and submit the photofood request - we'll assign this UPC to this item. Or, you can create new custom food and assign UPC yourself. We'll add this item to the database 24 hours after you send its photos.

    So, if you use the barcode scanner and the scanner finds the food with the name different to the name printed on the package, you can follow one of two possible options:

    1. You can send food photos (and its nutrition facts) from the found item and then log this food. Once MyNetDiary Food Data Research team processes your request, the system will update the logged food records. Next time, you scan the same UPC, the scanner will find the correct food name.

    2. The second option is to search by food name. The food might be already in the database but without the UPC code linked; so you can log it and then submit the photofood request from it - MyNetDiary Food Data Research team will assign the barcode to it. Anybody who scans the same barcode after that will find the right item.

    The barcode scanner, which scans your food and finds it in the database, provides several options to control how it works. There are buttons to lock orientation, turn sound on and off, and control lighting.

    To ensure that the barcode scanner doesn't flip if you have to turn your phone sideways, make sure the orientation lock, under the sound button, is on:

    If you don't want the scanner to beep when an item is scanned, make sure that either your phone is in silent mode or the sound button is turned off.

    Thre flashlight icon allows you to control the lighting of the barcode. Typically, iPhone turns on the light automatically if the conditions are poor. Sometimes, when the package is highly reflective, you may have better luck scanning if you turn the light off with this third button.

    If the scanner is having trouble scanning the barcode, you can also type the barcode manually by clicking "Type In" on the scanner screen.

    It's very important to know the MyNetDiary account with which you logged onto the app. MyNetDiary mobile apps can be used with or without creating an account. If an account was not created and the app was uninstalled, there is no way to restore the data. We regret any inconvenience this might cause. If the data can be seen on the website, it will be uploaded back after reinstalling the app; just Sign In with the same MyNetDiary credentials as on the website.

    Please check our Data Sync Troubleshooting video for more guidance.

    You can find and download the MyNetDiary app on the App Store or the Google Play Store by searching for "mynetdiary".

    You can also go to www.mynetdiary.com on your tablet or smartphone and tap the appropriate App Store button to download the app.

    To sync your app with your online account, please make sure to sign in with the same account name in both places! Do not create a new account, as it won't be connected to your existing account. Please see How can I find my account name support article.

    MyNetDiary displays nutrient amounts rounded to the nearest integer. To calculate most accurate totals, MyNetDiary sums all the nutrient amounts and only then rounds, thus avoiding possible rounding errors and sometimes arriving at a different total.

    For example, if in your breakfast you logged three foods with actual carb nutrient values 3.2g, 4.2g, and 5.2g, the values will be rounded to the nearest integer and the foods will display 3, 4, and 5 grams of carb respectively. But the breakfast total will be calculated as 3.2+4.2+5.2 = 12.6 and thus rounded to the nearest integer - 13 grams. So, while it may look like the totals are incorrect (if you expected to see 12 grams), they are actually calculated most accurately.

    MyNetDiary uses the same rules for daily totals, summarizing all nutrient values first and then rounding the daily total.

    Show Fractions in Macros Setting

    If accuracy of nutrients and totals is important for you, for example, if you are on Keto diet where each gram of carbs matters, MyNetDiary provides a special setting - Show Fractions in Macros. If turned on, all macros will be displayed and calculated with one digit after the decimal point accuracy.

    Many people use MyNetDiary on a smartphone, where typos are common. MyNetDiary tries to be proactive and correct typical food name misspellings, even while you type.

    For example, "straqb" is corrected to "strawb", "sandqi" to "sandwi", and so on.

    Sometimes, such corrections may be unnecessary - if you are not typing in English or have food with an unusual name or spelling.

    If you are typing in another language, you can turn off the Spellcheck Food Searches option in the App Settings (proceed to Advanced Settings on the iOS version).

    If it's an unusual food or spelling, please let us know, and we will remove this auto-correction.

    Since iOS app version 9.5 the feature that was previously available under the Coach tab or as a Weekly button on the top right corner of Daily Analysis is suspended in favor of the new and advanced Premim version of it - My Diet Trends. For Premium users, we advise you to use that instead.

    For free users and Pro or D apps users you can still get the same analysis as before under the Me tab - Reports & Summary Emails - Report Email.

    Creating a MyNetDiary account is required to backup your data and to synchronize your data across several devices (such as a smartphone and a tablet) or track your diet at the MyNetDiary.com website.

    Different from other diet apps, MyNetDiary values your privacy and does not require account creation. The choice is yours - if you value your privacy more than backing up your data to keep it secure, or if you don't need multi-device or website sync, you can use MyNetDiary without an account.

    To create an account in a mobile app you need to go to Me tab on iPhone and Android, or go to App Settings screen on iPad.

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    You can create an account with email and password or use one of the social sign-in options - either Apple ID, Facebook, or Google. In either case, your MyNetDiary account is safe - MyNetDiary does not share any user data and does not have email "newsletters."

    Please see video Creating MyNetDiary Account for more details.

    Creating Account with Email and Password

    This is the simplest option. You would not depend on any social sign-in service. You can reset your password via email. Enter your email and password, and you are done!

    Creating Account with Social Sign-In

    Using a social sign-in is also a good option. It allows you to sign in once with your social service and avoid creating yet another email+password combination. If selected, you will be redirected to the social sign-in screen to enter your credentials. This information will not be available to MyNetDiary.

    After Account Creation

    Backup is automatic. Once you created an account, you can completely delete and re-install any MyNetDiary app and use the "Sign In" option on the Welcome screen to sign in to your account and restore your data.

    If you would like to synchronize your account with another device, such as a tablet, or use the MyNetDiary.com website, the process is identical. Install the app or go to the MyNetDiary website and use the "Sign In" option. Please see How can I sync my app on different devices? for more information.

    Please check our Creating MyNetDiary Account video for more guidance.

    Recent amounts suggestions, like food suggestions, are managed automatically. The most recent and most frequent amounts will show up at the top of the list, letting you enter repeated amounts quickly. MyNetDiary shows up to 5 such amounts.

    If you made a mistake or don't want to see a specific amount, you don't need to do anything, just keep entering the amounts you eat and they will replace old, no longer used amounts.

    MyNetDiary supports easy, automatic synchronization of user data between different devices and also access and online tracking at the MyNetDiary.com website.

    To do that, you need to create a MyNetDiary account and be signed in to this account on all devices you want to sync. If you want to access your data online at the MyNetDiary.com website, you need to sign in to your MyNetDiary account online at MyNetDiary Sign In page.

    MyNetDiary Account

    Using Already Existing Account

    First of all, double-check that you indeed have created a MyNetDiary account. Different from other diet apps, MyNetDiary values your privacy and does not require account creation. If you don't want to back up your data, or if you don't need multi-device or website sync, you can use MyNetDiary without an account.

    Please see How can I find the MyNetDiary account that I created? support article for detailed instructions.

    Create Account, If Not Created Yet

    If you haven't created a MyNetDiary account yet, you need to do this on your device, where you track your diet in the MyNetDiary app. You need to do this prior to going to the other device or online. Please see Creating MyNetDiary account.

    Sign In on Other Devices and Online

    Once you have your MyNetDiary account and password, the rest is easy.

    Using a Mobile App

    Install a MyNetDiary app on your new device. On the Welcome screen, choose the "Sign In" option and enter your MyNetDiary account credentials.

    Using MyNetDiary.com Website

    Open www.mynetdiary.com in your web browser. Click the "Sign In" button and enter your MyNetDiary account credentials.

    Synchronizing and Updating Data

    Once you are signed in with the same MyNetDiary account, changes made on one device or online will automatically show up on another device, or vice versa.

    The only tricky thing is when you are looking at and changing the same day on several devices at the same time. In that case, to see changes made on another device you need to refresh the day - go to another day and then back.

    Troubleshooting Synchronization

    Poor Internet Connection

    Most frequent problem is not working or poor internet connection. There is not much to do except of ensuring the connection is good.

    Different MyNetDiary Accounts

    If the internet connection is good, but you see completely different data on your devices, or you have a Premium account on one device and a free account on another, then, most likely, you are signed in to different MyNetDiary accounts.

    This may happen if you use a MyNetDiary mobile app without an account and then, instead of creating an account in the mobile app first, you went to the MyNetDiary.com website or your new device and created a brand new account. MyNetDiary mobile app on a new tablet or the website wouldn't be linked to your existing data if you created a new account there instead of signing in with the same MyNetDiary account. A newly created account will not be the same as data on your mobile phone.

    If you indeed have two MyNetDiary accounts, you can merge them into a single account used by all devices and online. Please see Sign In to MyNetDiary Account: Merging and Switching Accounts for detailed instructions.

    In case you cannot create a MyNetDiary account or cannot get synchronization to work, please send us a support request from the app or reach out to us at support@mynetdiary.com.

    Please check our Data Sync Troubleshooting video for more guidance.

    The Calories Chart shows how your daily calories actually affect your weight loss or gain. It compares your Daily Calorie Budget with your Weight Maintenance Cals, showing you the true picture of your weight loss progress.

    Your Calories Chart can be found by going to Charts in the Coach tab, clicking More in the top right corner, and selecting the chart type Calories (Food - Exercise).

    Your Weight Maintenance Cals are calculated based on your current weight, height, age, sex, and activity level. As you lose weight, your Weight Maintenance Cals will be reduced, i.e. your body needs fewer calories.

    Your Weight Maintenance Cals and your Food Calories Budget can be found by tapping on Calorie Budget or My Weight Plan on the Dashboard tab:

    The Calories Chart compares them with colors:

    • Calorie intake less than your budget AND less than "maintenance" are shown in green.
    • Calorie intake greater than your budget but still less than "maintenance" are shown in yellow. You are losing weight, but not sufficiently according to your plan.
    • Calorie intake above "maintenance" are displayed in red - you are gaining weight according to MyNetDiary's calculations.

    The horizontal line on this chart is your "maintenance" calories. As your weight changes, your maintenance calories change, so this is not a strictly horizontal line.

    If you don't remember your MyNetDiary account, whether you used email or a social sign-in, or if you have an account in the first place, you need to check your MyNetDiary app.

    Checking Account on iPhone and Android

    Differently from other diet apps, MyNetDiary values your privacy and does not require account creation. Account creation does enable important functionality, such as data backup and synchronization with other devices and the MyNetDiary.com website while keeping your data private (MyNetDiary does not share any user data and does not have email "newsletters"). Still, the choice is yours - if you value your privacy more than these features, you can use MyNetDiary without an account. See: What is the difference between having the app and having an account?

    If you go there and you see the "Create Account" option, that means you haven't created an account yet. It's a great opportunity to create one! See Creating MyNetDiary Account for more information.

    If you don't see such an option, it means you have an account. You will find the email or social service associated with an account in the App Settings - MyNetDiary Account under the Me tab.

    If you use Gmail, make sure to double-check whether you used an email account from Gmail or used Sign In with Google. These are different things! See Sign In with Google vs. Email support article.

    Checking Account on iPad

    On the iPad, you can see your account name and/or email on the App Settings screen, next to "Switch Account".

    Checking Account on the MyNetDiary.com Website

    On the website, you use it to sign in to MyNetDiary; it is also displayed if you go to the Settings - My Account tab.

    Account Found, But Password Forgotten?

    If you found your account or account email you used, but you forgotten your password, you can reset your password via email. Please see Forgotten Password for detailed instructions.

    Please note that if you used a social sign-in, you would need to use the same social sign-in method with your regular password for this social service. MyNetDiary does not have access to your social sign-in information or your social password.

    Some users may notice occurrences when the text size is either too large within the app and/or overlaps with itself. If that happens to you, please keep in mind MyNetDiary does not inherently have any text enhancement built in and all the text appearing within the app is influenced by your phone's Settings.

    For iOS users, you should look for Accessibility - Display and Text Size/Brightness setting where you can decrease the text size and/or disable bold font - both settings can influence how text is displayed within MyNetDiary.

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    For Android users, the exact wording of the setting may wary, but the text size/font options are almost always under Display in your phone's Settings.

    Alternative workaround

    In case you wish to use larger font and not deal with the "overlapping" issue on the Dashboard Apple, feel free to remove the apple completely and customize your dashboard by simply including essential tabs, like Exercise, Water etc.

    Access Configure - Customize Dashboard tab at the bottom of your dashboard and proceed to arrange the necessary tabs. Here is a video tutorial.

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    Please reach out to us at support@mynetdiary.com if the font/text issue is not resolved after changing the settings within your phone or you need additional assistance.

    MyNetDiary can help you to lose weight faster with meal reminders and notifications. To make sure you get reminders at the time you selected, MyNetDiary mobile apps sync your current phone's time offset from UTC, so that MyNetDiary servers can correctly calculate time to send you reminders even if you travel or you go on Daylight Saving time.

    MyNetDiary stores your current offset from UTC, which varies for standard and daylight time.

    For example, if you are located in the US Eastern timezone, your UTC offset will be -5 hours during Standard (winter) time period, and -4 hours during Daylight Saving (summer) time period. Thus, MyNetDiary Settings page will automatically display for you "(UTC-5) Eastern/Central Daylight" during Standard time, and "(UTC-4) Atlantic/Eastern Daylight" during Daylight Saving time period.

    If you change offset manually on the website and then you use MyNetDiary mobile app from a phone that has a different UTC offset at the moment, offset on the website will be updated automatically.

    In case MyNetDiary sets the wrong default current timestamps for your new records, please open the Settings App built into your phone, tablet or iPad device, go to the 'Date & Time' section and enable 'Set Automatically'. Then, open the MyNetDiary app installed to this device and make some food entry. The Food Entry screen has to show up the correct default current timestamp. After that, go to the www.MyNetDiary.com website on the computer, sign in with the same MyNetDiary credentials and make another food record. The online version has to "pick up" the right timezone setting you just set on your iOS or Android device.

    Forgotten Password

    If you created a MyNetDiary account using an email, and forgot your password, you'll be able to reset your password via email by going to the Password Assistance page.

    If you know that you created your MyNetDiary account with an email, and you reinstalled the MyNetDiary app on your mobile phone, tap "Forgot Your Password" and provide the email you used to create your MyNetDiary account.

    You should receive an email with a link to reset your password.

    If you want to access your MyNetDiary account on a web browser, tap Log In and then click on "Forgot Password".

    A password reset link will be sent to the email address linked to your account.

    If you don't receive the reset password email:

    1. Check spam folder in your email. Sometimes, password recovery email may end up in spam.
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    If you still don't receive the reset password email, then, most likely, you haven't created an account or created an account using one of the available social sign-in methods, such as sign-in with Facebook, Google, or Apple ID.

    Forgotten Account Name or Email

    If you forgot your account name or email used, but you have access to your MyNetDiary app and information, you can look it up in the mobile app. Please see How can I find the MyNetDiary account that I created? for more information and detailed steps.

    Using Social Sign-In

    Please note that if you used a social sign in (Apple, Google, or Facebook), you need to use the same method to sign in, which will prompt you to enter your Apple, Google, or Facebook credentials. There is no need to reset your password.

    With iOS17/watchOS 10, Apple radically changed how the watch complications are working. We updated MyNetDiary to follow the new rules. Unfortunately, in some cases, previously working complications may stop working because of Apple's changes.

    Complication is visible but displays zeros: We noticed that with iOS 17 and watchOS 10, complications are often not updated immediately. It may take 5-10 minutes to update after making changes in the iPhone app. Please notice that the watch app is updated immediately, but not complications. Please wait at least 10 minutes to see whether the complication is updated.

    Complication is not visible Some users noticed that complications are not displayed at all on some watch faces. In our tests, we found that this happens only if the complication is configured via the Watch app on the phone. The complication is displayed and works properly if it is configured on the watch itself. This makes us believe that the complications not displayed is caused by Apple's Watch app on the phone. We do hope Apple fixes all issues with complications in future updates of iOS. In the meantime, please use the following steps to configure complications on your watch: 1) long touch the watch face you want to configure, 2) tap the "Edit" button, 3) tap the complication spot you want to configure, 4) select MyNetDiary from the list of apps and select one of its complications, 5) press the crown once to exit editing, and press one more time to return to the watch face.

    To help you log your foods faster, MyNetDiary mobile apps let you copy the previous day's meal by swiping from the left edge of the screen.

    Copying by swiping is available for today and future dates if the previous day's meal is not empty (there are foods to copy.)

    If you don't see "Swipe to copy previous," make sure that 1) the previous day's meal has been entered, and 2) your current date in the app displayed is today.

    MyNetDiary recipe import tool provides an easy way to load full recipe information into MyNetDiary, including automatic creation of recipe ingredients. This tool can save a lot of time, but there are some limitations.

    Support for English Language Only

    At present time, our algorithms support the English language only. We are planning to implement support for other languages in the future.

    Unprotected Websites Only

    As MyNetDiary's servers do actual web recipe load and parsing, they need to be able to access the webpage with recipe information. If the website owner does not want any automated tools to access its webpages and protects the website with so-called CAPTCHA tool (requiring a human to recognize images), then MyNetDiary's servers won't be able to access and load the recipe.

    Similarly, if the recipe is located on a paid website and requires signing in to an account, MyNetDiary won't be able to access it.

    If you can access such a protected website, you can try copying and pasting recipe ingredients into MyNetDiary's import tool, to let MyNetDiary do the most time-consuming task - matching recipe ingredients to foods in MyNetDiary.

    Plain HTML Websites Only

    This may be a bit technical! Some websites don't have a recipe webpage loaded from their servers as plain HTML, but instead, they build the webpage dynamically in your browser, executing programs in your browser.

    If MyNetDiary cannot parse a recipe which you can see in your browser, you can identify whether it's a plain HTML or dynamically built page by disabling JavaScript in your browser and reloading the page. If the webpage continues to show the recipe, then it's a plain HTML; if not - then it's a dynamic website.

    Cannot Load Recipe Text

    If MyNetDiary cannot load some recipes in English, located on public, a non-protected website that supports plain HTML, and the recipe web page contains the text with recipe ingredients - you can copy these ingredients from this page and then paste them into the app. Or, you can create a recipe with Recipe Editor.

    Videos:

  • How-to: Recipe Import
  • How-to: Recipe Editor
  • Blog post:

  • Import recipes to your MyNetDiary account for easy and accurate tracking
  • For most people, the daily activity level is sedentary activity level, which includes basic activities of daily life such as walking up to about a mile (about 15-20 minutes of walking). Therefore, this is the default activity level for all new users:

    If your daily routine is more active than the sedentary level and is closer to one of the following activity levels, you can change your activity level under "Personal Info" in the Me tab:

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    Whatever your daily activity level is, if you exercise in addition to your activity level, make sure to log your exercise.

    We would suggest this article - it will help you learn more about how calories are calculated and which settings affect the targets. The exercise plan section can be especially helpful.

    This can be done only on the website. You can print notes from Analysis > Multi-Day Reports > Notes Summary page.

    Medications tracking is available in Premium. You have to add the Medications tracker to your Dashboard by going to Configure Dashboard at the bottom of the page, then to Customize Dashboard, and finally selecting Medications.

    You can also add the Medications tracker to your Dashboard by going to App Settings and turning on the BG and Diabetes Tracking.

    Once the Medications tracker is on your Dashboard, you can add new medications to track.

    Using Backup and Restore

    Information transfer to the new phone works the same for all apps when you restore the new phone from backup - your data will be there, and no actions are needed.

    Transfer without Backup and Restore

    Transferring data from your old phone to a new one is only possible with an active mynetdiary.com website account that has been linked with your mobile account.

    If you have an active and linked account

    Install the app on your new phone, on the Welcome screen tap "I Already Have an Account", and use your account name or email and your password to sign in. If you forgot your password but used an email to create your MyNetDiary account, you can reset your password by email (Forgotten Password or Account).

    If you've used a social login, such as Apple, Google, or Facebook, simply use the same social login on your new phone.

    If you forgot your password and didn't use an email to create your account, but you have access to your old phone and can launch the MyNetDiary app, you need to add your email to your account in the app, then follow these steps to reset your password: Forgotten Password or Account .

    Once you have your password, you can use the email and password to sign in to your account on your new phone.

    If you forgot your password, didn't use an email to create your account, and you don't have access to your old phone, unfortunately, there is no way to access your old account.

    If you do not have an active and linked account

    If you have access to your old phone and can launch your MyNetDiary app, you need to create a MyNetDiary account from your MyNetDiary app on your old phone.

    If you haven't created a MyNetDiary account and don't have access to your old phone, unfortunately, there is no way to find and access your old account. You will need to start fresh with MyNetDiary. Please create a MyNetDiary account this time! If you previously purchased a Premium subscription, and it is still active, use "Restore Subscription" to upgrade your new account to Premium; you won't get your old data, but at least you will have access to Premium.

    An Internet connection is only necessary during initial setup, for online barcode lookup, and for charting. When offline, they use a smaller, streamlined food database, and will use the full 1,300,000 when online.

    All apps sync your diary to our servers, giving you access to the huge food database that is always up to date, providing an option to access your diary online from a regular computer, and to restore your diary if you lose your phone or get a new phone.

    Linking and Switching Accounts

    MyNetDiary supports easy, automatic synchronization of user data between different devices and also access and online tracking at the MyNetDiary.com website.

    If you created a MyNetDiary account and used this account to sign in on all of your devices and/or online at MyNetDiary.com, all of them will be linked and synchronize updates made with each other. For linking new devices, you should use the Sign In option available on the Welcome screen, which is displayed after app installation. Online, you should use the Sign In page on the MyNetDiary.com website.

    Please see Creating MyNetDiary account (for backup and sync) and Sync my app with another phone, tablet, or www.mynetdiary.com for detailed instructions.

    Additionally, MyNetDiary supports switching between multiple user accounts on the same device. This may be helpful when a parent wants to track his or her diet in MyNetDiary as well as the diet of a child.

    Linking Devices that Already Have Some of Your Data

    If you did not follow the linking procedure above, if you created a duplicate account by mistake on the website or another device and then entered some data there or upgraded to Premium, now you have two disconnected devices with different data that don't talk to each other.

    In this case, you need to use the "Switch Account" option inside your main mobile app, where you have the bulk of your data.

    Once you enter credentials of your other MyNetDiary account (with either email or social sign-in), used either online or at MyNetDiary.com, you will be offered to do either "merge" or "switch".

    Please read carefully the explanations displayed. If you indeed have two sets of data and need to merge them into a single one and access them under the same account name, you need to type in the word "merge".

    After that, if the other account was online, you can sign in to it again using the same account name.

    If the other account was on a different device (not online at MyNetDiary.com), you would need to delete the MyNetDiary app from the other device, re-install it from the App Store (or Google Play), and sign in to your MyNetDiary account from the Welcome screen.

    Sign In to Switch Accounts on the Same Device

    If you want to have two different accounts on the same device, for example, a parent and a child, or your spouse, you would also use the Switch Account option.

    In this situation, when you are offered a choice between "merge" and "switch," you need to type in the word "switch".

    Please notice that after you switched once, you won't be offered "merge" and "switch" options anymore. The app will be switching between the accounts immediately.

    Please check our Data Sync Troubleshooting video for more guidance.

    In MyNetDiary, all nutrients are rounded for each food before adding them up for all kinds of totals and statistics. Some nutrients are rounded to whole numbers, other may be rounded to one or two digits after the decimal point, as explained below.

    We ended up with this approach after very careful consideration: while theoretically there might be some loss of accuracy, it's negligible - MyNetDiary rounds numbers to one or two digits after the decimal point where needed.

    On the other hand, this approach makes sure that all totals match up their parts and thus avoid inevitable confusion and doubts that something is calculated incorrectly when seeing that the sum of values in foods does not add up to the total displayed.

    MyNetDiary uses different rules for rounding nutrient values on Food Labels and Food Entry screens and in other places.

    For Food Labels and Food Entry screen, all macronutrients are displayed with one digit after the decimal point. On other screens, macronutrients are rounded to whole numbers of grams, as whole numbers are easier to read and scan.

    Additionally, there is a special setting for macronutrients Show Fractions in Macros. On turning this setting "on", all macronutrients, such as carbs, protein, and fats will be displayed with one decimal digit after the point not only on Food Label and Food Entry screen, but in all other places. This increased accuracy may be needed for low-carb and keto diets, when total daily carb can be as low as 20g/day and rounding to whole numbers may result in large rounding errors.

    Other nutrients are displayed the same in all places: thiamin, riboflavin, vitamins B6, B12, copper, and manganese are displayed with two digits after the decimal point; iron, vitamins D, E, niacin, pantothenic acid, and .zinc - with one digit after the decimal point; all other nutrients (with the exception of the special rules for macronutrient explained above) are rounded to whole numbers, e.g. sodium, cholesterol, calcium, potassium, and the rest.

    If the Trackers item isn't already displayed on your dashboard, you have to add it to your dashboard by tapping "Configure Dashboard" at the bottom of the dashboard screen, tapping "Customize Dashboard", then finding the "Trackers" item and adding it to the dashboard.

    The Trackers item provides several important trackers - such as A1c, LDL, HDL, and total cholesterol.

    MyNetDiary's A1C tracker supports manual input only; it does not estimate/generate A1C based on the logged data. It saves in historical records strictly what you enter after you get an A1C test result after a doctor's appointment. It's impossible to get an estimated A1C based on previously entered glucose amounts and then get a weekly and monthly average. The A1C test—also known as the hemoglobin A1C or HbA1c test—is a simple blood test that measures your average blood sugar levels over the past 3 months. It's one of the commonly used tests to diagnose prediabetes and diabetes, and is also the main test to help the person manage diabetes. The measuring of the A1C cannot be exchanged by estimation.

    You can also add a custom tracker by going to "Settings", and clicking "Create Custom Tracker" at the bottom of the screen.

    Please see this FAQ on Tracking Body Temperature for an example of how to create a custom tracker.

    The calorie budget on the Dashboard is displayed according to your plan (which may be outdated if you've lost some weight). The Analysis calculates and shows the required calorie deficit for the current day to meet your target date, as well as projected weight loss.

    The Dashboard and Analysis are displaying different things; therefore, their numbers will be different. There are two reasons why the "apple" on the Dashboard may be green, but your Analysis tells you that your deficit is not sufficient:

    1. You need to update your plan
      • The calorie budget on your dashboard is calculated according to your plan, which may be outdated if you haven't turned on Autopilot. As you lose weight, your body needs fewer calories to maintain your weight; therefore, in order to lose weight at the same rate, you have to consume fewer calories. To fix this, you can turn on Autopilot, which automatically adjusts your calorie budget and macros and helps you reach your target weight on your target date. You can also update your Plan yourself.

    2. Calorie Cycling
      • The Calorie Cycling feature, which can be found in "My Plan", allows you to plan fewer calories on some days of the week and more calories on other days. For "higher calorie" days, if you stay within the calories planned for the day, the "apple" on the Dashboard will be green; however, the number of calories might be high enough to trigger the Analysis to warn you about "slower loss". You don't have to worry, because you planned this - expecting to eat less on other days, and thus meeting your weekly goal.

    MyNetDiary supports tracking blood pressure (systolic and diastolic) and resting heart rate (pulse.)

    For quick logging on to the website, use the Health section at the bottom of the Dashboard page. On the iOS apps, it's possible via the Measurements section. Logging via the Health and Measurements sections is possible without timestamps (noon by default) and only one recording per day (the last one.)

    Recording multiple blood pressure and heart rate entries per day (each with a unique timestamp) is available via the Me - My Health section of the Android app and the Trackers section of the website and iOS apps. (On the website, with Diabetes tracking enabled, the Trackers tab changes its name to the Diabetes tab. On the iPhone app, if no Trackers item appears on the Dashboard screen, it's possible to reconfigure the Home screen by enabling Trackers there.)

    To generate the report with Blood Pressure (systolic and diastolic) and Resting Heart Rate (Pulse) data, use the Day Timeline report. On the iOS apps, you can create such a report via top-right popup menu of the Day Timeline sceen. (Then, it's possible to email this report directly from the app; we plan to release the Email Report functionality on the Android app in the future.) On the website, you can open the Day Timeline report from the Analysis - Multi-Day Reports page, from the Trackers or Diabetes page. Then, you can save such a report in XLS or PDF format as a file and email it to someone.

    If you want to export your data you can do this from the Analysis > Multi-Day Reports webpage

    99% of all lost data cases is because the user did not back up their data on mynetdiary.com website. Or have created two separate accounts on mobile and web.

    If you are sure you've never created a web account before - we will not be able to recover the data, unfortunately. The support or developers do not posses the magic to locate your phone data, as the only accounts we can locate are the ones explicitly existing on mynetdiary.com website.

    If you have created a website account before, then all you have to do is to Sign In with your website credentials into the app to recover your data.

    If you did Sign In with your old credentials but the data still did not recover - that means you had two separate accounts on mobile and web. And, unfortunately, just like with not having an account at all, we will not be able to assist with recovering your phone data.

    That is why it is very important for long-time MyNetDiary users to have an active and linked website account.

    If you are a Premium member and your credit card used for membership subscription was replaced or changed, you need to update your payment information before the next membership renewal.

    There are several ways to update credit card info depending on the payment method.

    Subscriptions Purchased on iOS App Store

    All App Store payments including credit card information are handled by Apple. Please see Change, add, or remove Apple ID payment methods Apple's support article.

    Subscriptions Purchased on Google Play

    Similar to the App Store, all Google Play payments including credit card information are handled by Google. Please see Change, add, or delete credit/debit card Google's support article.

    Subscription Purchased on MyNetDiary.com

    MyNeDiary uses PayPal as the credit card processor and does not store any credit card numbers so that there is no risk of unauthorized access to credit card information when you use MyNetDiary.

    If you have a PayPal account, you can go to PayPal.com, sign in to your PayPal account and update your payment methods.

    If you don't have a PayPal account, please wait until your current MyNetDiary subscription expires and you move to the free tier in MyNetDiary. After that, you can re-subscribe using your new credit card information or use your PayPal account.

    Sign In with the Regular Email Address and Sign In with Google Account are two different ways of accessing the same MyNetDiary account.

    Google Account

    A Google Account is a username and password that can be used to log in to consumer Google applications like Docs, Sites, Maps, and Photos.

    Google provides a "login" service for other companies. For example, Google allows using your Google account credentials to sign in to the MyNetDiary service. At that, Google company does not disclose the email address you used for registration at www.google.com. Google encrypts this information. If you forgot your Google account credentials and cannot access your MyNetDiary account, we cannot help. You have to contact Google Tech Support, verify the valid credentials, and sign in with a Google account to MyNetDiary.

    Email-ID

    MyNetDiary users are rarely registering with Google accounts. Mostly, they register the regular email addresses and use them as email id to login. MyNetDiary email ID is the chosen name you have used to create a MyNetDiary account. An email address is your email ID combined with the domain name of the email registrar.


    In some cases, the MyNetDiary user can be confused by the way on how to sign in. Google account and the Regular Email Address (email ID) are two different ways of registering a MyNetDiary account.

    MyNetDiary won't allow access MyNetDiary account under Google account JohnDoe@gmail.com if the user tries to sign in by entering Google account credentials into the Regular Email Address field. And vice-versa, the system does not give access if the user attempts to enter his regular email address by Signing In With Google Account.

    If you registered with a Google account, please use the Sign In with Google blue button. In case you registered your MyNetDiary account with the email address, please type in your email id to the "Email" field and enter the MyNetDiary password.

    To view a friend's food log is possible through the web browser only. The iPhone and Android Apps do not support this functionality yet. This feature does not require Premium. The user of the mobile app who did not create an account yet, can do this on the Settings screen of the MyNetDiary mobile app. Then, it's possible to sign in with the same MyNetDiary credentials to the www.MyNetDiary.com website by using any browser (e.g. Chrome, Firefox or Safari) and set up sharing settings with your friend, with your family member or with your health professional.
    To Copy Friend's Recipe to Your Foods:
    1. send invitation for automatic sharing or set up sharing settings manually
    2. copy the particular custom foods and recipes from Custom Catalog of your friend's Personal Page via MyNetDiary Community
    3. search the copied item from your diary, in the same way as you search for the regular foods from the MyNetDiary database.
    To view daily foods and the weight of your friend:
    Click the appropriate green button of the particular report or chart on the friend's Personal Page in MyNetDiary Community. (The users without Premium membership can share only Food Report for the recent week and Weight Chart for the last month.)

    If you have created MyNetDiary account and used Sign In With Apple option to log into MyNetDiary iOS or Web app, you can sign into this account using MyNetDiary Android app.

    1. Sign into MyNetDiary web app, use Sign In With Apple button.
    2. Go to Settings → My Account → Create Account. Enter valid email address and password, save your input.
    3. Open MyNetDiary Android app. Sign in with email address and password entered at previous step.

    Our barcode scanner tool uses Google's libraries. This library is not a part of our app. It's a part of the Google Services App built into your Android device. Usually, they are downloaded by the system automatically, but in some cases, they cannot be downloaded.

    If you see a message that "The barcode libraries aren't available. Google Services Apps have to be updated," that means the system can't download them. Spotty Internet connection on your device can cause an issue with the Google Services Apps update. Or your device does not have sufficient storage space for that update.

    If your Internet connection is working fine, we recommend cleaning up the storage space on your device. Uninstall unnecessary apps, reboot your device, and try to use MyNetDiary App again. Google Services Apps have to start downloading the required barcode libraries immediately after scanning from the MyNetDiary app. Wait for the completion of downloading process. Then, try the MyNetDiary scanner again. It has to start working fine.

    The reports are located on the Analysis webpage. Use the left sidebars to select the appropriate report type, define its period and save the generated report as PDF file or export it to Excel. Then, send the file by email. (The feature requires Premium membership.)

    There is no way to email a report from the Android app yet.

    The iPhone app allows sending reports from different places. For example, you can do it from the Me section; just tap the Reports & Summary Emails item, prepare the report for the particular period, then, share the file with someone via AirDrop, iMessage, Mail, WatsApp or so on. Or, you can Email Food Report for seven days via the top-right menu of the meal screen. The users who enabled the BG & Diabetes Tracking feature can email the Weekly Diabetes Summary from the top-right menu of the Day Timeline screen.

    The user may accidentally disable the exercise from food calories eaten daily. Excluded caloric expenditure will keep the Calorie Budget on the Home screen the same every day. At that, the big apple shape progress bar may change color (e.g., green to orange) on the Dashboard. In this case, enable the Add Exercise To Calorie Budget back. It's possible to do via App Settings.

    Subscriptions from the MyNetDiary Android app are processed by Google, not by us. Sometimes, Google needs more time to process a particular transaction, and the upgrade only happens after a few hours. When the user subscribes, Google creates an order and sets the schedule to process the actual charge for the pending payment.

    Before an upcoming charge, Google has to check that the user has sufficient funds. Until completing such verification, the MyNetDiary app shows that Premium expires in three days (grace period.) Google adjusts the membership length after the customer's form of payment authorizes a particular amount for an upcoming successful charge and after it passes all risk checks. If you don't get access to Premium-level features after you tap the Upgrade button, please double-check that the payment method in your profile with Google Play is valid. If Google cannot charge for three days, the Premium automatically downgrades back to the Free level at the end of the grace period.

    If you see in your bank account that your payment successfully went through, but you still do not have access to the Premium in the app, please forward your order receipt email to support@mynetdiary.com for further assistance.

    If you track the same workout with multiple trackers, MyNetDiary may show it as multiple separate records. It's a large number of possible variations for such an issue.

    For example, the cyclist may use the Fitness App "built-in" to the Apple Watch in tandem with the Garmin device mount on the bike. Both (the Apple Watch Fitness App and Garmin Connect) send the gathered information about the completed workout to the Apple Health app. In such a case, MyNetDiary will show two separate exercises if this workout has shown as different records on the Apple Health app. To prevent it, please ensure that the Apple Health app displays just the data from one source, in our example, either from Apple Watch Fitness App or Garmin Connect servers. For instance, you can unlink Garmin Connect from Apple Health so that it won't "write" its data to Apple Health, and the MyNetDiary iPhone app will "read" and show just one workout record, the data received from Fitness App.

    Other possible cases are when the client links one or a few third-party apps to Apple Health. Suppose this person simultaneously tracks one workout using multiple trackers (activity tracker bands, smartwatches, wearable devices, sensors, apps, etc.). In that case, the Apple Health app will show such workouts as separate records received from different sources. At that, MyNetDiary has to "read" all these data in the way Apple Health represents them. Thus, possible duplications. To get rid of duplicated exercise records in MyNetDiary, first, let the Apple Health app show this workout just from one source (unlink other third-party apps from Apple Health and leave just one you want to keep as a primary source.) So, you won't have duplications on the Apple Health side. Then, the MyNetDiary iPhone app will simply "read" all the "workout" data that appear on Apple Health.

    Duplicated exercise records also happen when our customer tracks one workout using multiple trackers. Some of these trackers may be linked to us directly (e.g., Fitbit, Garmin, Withings, etc.), and others are indirectly (via Apple Health or Android Google Fit.) As explained before, please unlink one of the sources to stop it. So, MyNetDiary will "read" the data about the completed workout from one source only.

    If you need help resolving your problem with duplicated exercise, please email support@mynetdiary.com and attach the related screenshots with the data shown on the source. We'll check how MyNetDiary "reads" this data and provide possible workarounds or better solutions.

    If you've had a history using the MyFitnessPal Android app, please be aware you can migrate the recent Body Weight data into MyNetDiary using the Google Fit link. To "write" the data for the last thirty days, tap the More tab bar in the lower right corner of the MyFitnessPal app, choose Apps and Devices and then connect to Google Fit. Follow the prompts to accept information to sync with Google Fit, select the Google account you linked to your Google Fit app, and give your permissions when requested in pop-ups.

    Link MyNetDiary to Google Fit so that it will "read"/"import" the data available there.

    Unfortunately, MyFitnessPal does not provide a way to share your custom recipes. Also, no other apps can access and import your custom recipes and recipe ingredients stored in MyFitnessPal. However, you can use the MyNetDiary Import the MyFitnessPal system/original recipes, e.g., some of the public recipes available in the MyFitnessPal Blog section (for example, from the following links - breakfast casserole, blueberry muffin, butternut sausage or from other sources.)

    Due to technical limitations, the Web Recipe Import may not parse some recipes successfully. In case of a problem with parsing MyFitnessPal ingredients, please create a custom recipe manually; otherwise, you can exchange the invalid ingredients for some of our items taken from the Staple Foods catalog. Please see more details about the Recipe Import feature at:

  • Importing recipes from the web browser and recipe apps
  • Our developers just fixed this bug. We started to roll out the new version with this fix. Please get the MyNetDiary app updated when the new version becomes available in the Google Play store. Then, please re-submit your rejected photofood requests.

    Don't worry! Email support@mynetdiary.com. We'll reply with a promo code so you can apply it on the www.mynetdiary.com website to get 30% off.

    iOS:

    To turn Reminders off, open the App Settings screen from the "Me" section, and find Reminders & Notifications.

    Android:

    To turn Reminders off, open the App Settings screen from the "Me" section and scroll down to the Virtual Coach section and open the Reminders screen.

    The weight of water is the same (or close enough) as the volume of water. But if you want the math:

    • 1 g of water = 1 ml
    • 1 kg water = 1 liter
    • 1 fl oz = 29.6 ml
    • 1 fl oz = 1 oz
    • 8 fl oz = 8 oz
    Or, use an Online Conversion Calculator provided by ConvertUnits.

    Suppose the client has the weight data for a few last weeks and wants to erase it using the Fresh Start with enabled "Delete Weigh-Ins Before new Starting Date" slider. In rare cases, these previous weight records may reappear after that. The described scenario may happen because the person sets up automatic readings of body weight measurements from other sources.

    MyNetDiary, connected to another app, may automatically and constantly read body weight measurements from Apple Health, Google Health, Samsung Health, Withings, Garmin, Fitbit, or another third-party app. Thus, the issue.

    The unwanted reappearing of the erased weights will continue every new sync session. Connected to another app, MyNetDiary must verify and update all the weigh-ins for the last two weeks (while establishing the new link, during the first synchronization, MyNetDiary checks and retrieves the missing data for the last month.) If MyNetDiary finds a discrepancy (e.g., some weight record is missed in MyNetDiary but exists on the source), it will upload the missing data to the same date again.

    Two possible solutions:

    1. Wait for two weeks and then use Fresh Start with enabled "Delete Weigh-Ins Before new Starting Date" option. The new Starting Date must be two weeks ago or before that day. If so, MyNetDiary won't "overwrite" the deleted previous records during the subsequent sync sessions.
    2. Revoke the active integration. After that, use the Fresh Start with enabled "Delete Weigh-Ins Before new Starting Date" option. It won't overwrite the erased weight history because of the disabled connection with a third-party app.

    The scanner shows the food label with an invalid or missing nutrient.

    Quite possible that the vendor updated the nutrition facts, and information on our food label became obsolete. We have a semi-automatic process for making necessary adjustments. It's called the Photofood Service. Please tap the Update on the Food Label screen of the found food item, take two photos (name and nutrition facts,) and link the barcode. We'll update the food label within 24 hours after you send these photos. (If you want, log this item before getting notified that we updated this food. The system will update the nutrients according to the processed photofood request.)

    You see that the food logged to your net diary has an invalid or missing nutrient.

    If you found that the nutrition facts of the already logged item are inaccurate, please follow the below steps:

    1. tap this food record logged to your meal screen (e.g., Lunch screen)
    2. tap the food name from the food entry screen,
    3. tap the Update from the Food Label screen,
    4. take two photos, Link Barcode, and tap Send.

    MyNetDiary Food Data Research team will update the nutrition facts of this food and your food entry in 24 hours.

    You noticed that the food from the database has some missing or invalid descriptions in the name

    If some words like "sugar-free," "fat-free," "gluten-free," or any other important words (e.g., flavor description) are missing in the food name, there is a chance that this vendor has two similar products in its product line. For example, one is "sugar-free," and another is the regular one; or some yogurts may have just "strawberry" or "strawberry-banana" flavor. If you cannot find a particular item in our database by name or by scanning the barcode, please create new custom food with the specific keywords fully describing the food name, link the UPC code, and submit the photofood request. We'll add this new item to the database in 24 hours.

    MyNetDiary Diabetes

    If you are concerned about reducing carbs and managing your blood glucose, MyNetDiary provides several options.

    MyNetDiary offers two Premium Diets focused on reducing carbs: Keto and Low-Carb. Keto limits carbs to 5% of calories to get into the ketosis state, while Low-Carb recommends 20% of calories from carbs (versus the typical 45-55% of calories). You can access these diets on the Coach tab.

    These Premium Diets provide you with special recipes, diet guides, and tools for planning and tracking. Your primary nutrient can be automatically changed from calories to carbs or net carbs for easy tracking, and special Keto Food Grade and Low-Carb Grade will help you easily evaluate and grade your food choices.

    If you have been diagnosed with diabetes or pre-diabetes, with MyNetDiary Premium, you can turn on a Diabetes Tracking feature in the App Settings.

    This will turn MyNetDiary into special, comprehensive diabetes and blood glucose tracker. You'll be able to track and assign BG labels, get testing reminders, track insulin and medications, and get special reports and charts. This is available in App Settings for Premium members.

    You can customize according to your priorities what nutrients you want to see as the primary or secondary in the App Settings - Diet Logging (or Food & Exercise Logging), the secondary will be displayed along with the primary one on all screens.

    Use the Premium Recipes' "low-carb" category to browse and select low-carb recipes.

    Also check Low-Carb or Keto menus in the Premium Menus. Of course, additional nutrient analysis and other charts are available to visualize your carbs and macros consumption.

    Glycemic Index (GI) and Glycemic Load (GL) help make better carb selections. Still, interestingly, the research does not show that using GI or GL as a tool improves Hemoglobin A1C test result in those with diabetes.

    Reviewing and updating GI values become a complicated issue as those smaller research databases get updated.

    GI is difficult to calculate. GI is calculated using the glucose area under the curve for 2-hour blood glucose measurements in 10 subjects after a 12-hour fast.

    Known GI is available only for 2,700+ foods. MyNetDiary has a massive database, over one million items. There is no way to estimate GI values for 997,300 remaining items somehow. Most foods won't have any GI value, only a smaller subset from the database. Adding the GI values to 2700+ items would be impractical and potentially misleading since most foods in the MyNetDiary database would not have GI assigned.

    Carb counting is the most effective way to control carbs at meals and snacks, and given that, the tracker does it well. Even though MyNetDiary Diabetes Tracker does not provide the Glycemic Index and Glycemic Load, the most critical diabetics tool are covered.

    Please see the articles about Using Glycemic Index and about Great Sources of Fiber.

    MyNetDiary allows to set several reminders for the day. This provides maximum flexibility, while avoiding annoying you with non-relevant reminders, as you may eat at different times on different days.

    For post-meal checks, MyNetDiary allows to configure prompts to set BG check reminders, making it very easy to set a reminder whenever you ate.

    If you eat at the same time every day, for pre-meal checks we recommend using either repeatable alarms in iPhone's Clock app, or iPhone Reminders. They are very flexible and reliable and for pre-meal checks there is no sense in duplicating repeatable reminder functionality in the Diabetes app.

    We've made an important update to our carb counting methods to ensure our users have the most accurate and beneficial tools for managing diabetes. This change comes after careful consideration of the latest guidelines from leading diabetes organizations and the withdrawal of a key research study that previously informed our DiabetesCarbCount (DCarbs) feature.

    What Has Changed?

    Previously, MyNetDiary used a carb counting method that allowed for adjustments based on fiber and sugar alcohols content, in alignment with recommendations from the American Diabetes Association, American Association of Diabetes Educators, and the International Diabetes Center. This method suggested subtracting half the amount of fiber and sugar alcohols from total carbs under certain conditions to calculate what we termed as "DiabetesCarbCount" or DCarbs.

    However, due to new research findings and the revocation of the study that supported the subtraction of certain types of fibers and sugar alcohols, we have ceased the support and availability of the DiabetesCarbCount feature in our apps and website. This decision aligns with current best practices for diabetes management, focusing on the most effective ways to track and manage blood glucose levels.

    What Does This Mean for You?

    1. Selection of Preferred Carb Type: The option to select DiabetesCarbCount as a 'Preferred Carb' has been removed. Users will now choose between 'Total Carbs' and 'Net Carbs' for tracking.
    2. Tracking and Dashboard Display: The ability to track DiabetesCarbCount as an additional nutrient or display it on the Dashboard is no longer available. Any previous selections may have been automatically switched to 'Net Carbs' or 'Total Carbs' to ensure continuity in tracking.
    3. Macros Ratio Exchanges: Exchanging carbohydrate types in macros ratios now only includes the options for 'Total Carbs' and 'Net Carbs'.

    For Users Who Previously Used DCarbs:

    If you notice that DiabetesCarbCount is still appearing in some sections of the app or website, it's due to your historical selections. We are in the process of updating these instances to align with the new carb counting methods. We appreciate your understanding and patience as we make these updates.

    Moving Forward:

    We're committed to providing our users with the most accurate, science-backed tools and information for managing their health. These changes reflect our dedication to this commitment and the evolving nature of nutritional science and diabetes management.

    If you have any questions or need assistance adjusting to these changes, please don't hesitate to reach out to our support team. We're here to help you navigate these updates and continue supporting your health journey.

    Thank you for your understanding and for trusting MyNetDiary as your partner in health.

    MyNetDiary supports Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM.) If the Blood Glucose Readings collected/gathered by CGM devices can appear on the iPhone Health app or Android Google Fit app, MyNetDiary can read such a data from there.

    First, please connect the third-party app (your CGM app) to Apple Health (or the Android Google Fit app.) Then, link the MyNetDiary app to the iPhone Health (or Android Google Fit.) While linking, ensure that the third-party app is allowed to "write" its data to the Apple Health/Google Fit and that MyNetDiary has permission to "read" Blood Glucose data from Apple Health/Google Fit app.

    MyNetDiary app immediately imports the CGM data available on the Apple Health or Google Fit app.

    Net carbs in MyNetDiary are calculated as Total Carbs minus Dietary Fiber and minus Sugar Alcohols.

    Please notice that sugar alcohols information not being printed on some food labels may result in higher Net Carb calculations.

    MyNetDiary Pro iPhone app, MyNetDiary Diabetes Tracker apps for iOS and Android supports tracking of the Net Carbs, D-Carbs and Sugar Alcohols.

    The Diabetes Tracker apps support the selection of Net Carbs, D-Carbs or Total Carbs as your Preferred Carbs; so, they appear on each screen related to food entry.

    The iPhone Diabetes Tracker app also allows the selection of some of the nutrients as your Primary or Secondary Nutrient. The user who focused on Carbs tracking more than on Calorie count can set specific carb type as Primary Nutrient; so, the value of these carbohydrates will appear on each screen instead of calories.

    To track more nutrients on the website and on the free mobile apps for iPhone and Android, to enable these and other nutrients, vitamins and minerals on the Dashboard, to adjust daily target intakes by these and other micronutrients, and, to view comprehensive analysis of these nutrients, upgrade to Premium.

    Please see the article about Choosing Healthy Carbs for Diabetes and Diabetes Prevention.

    MyNetDiary implements food label safety rules for Diabetes users, which may result in finding fewer foods after a search by name or barcode scan. The Retired and/or Contributed Foods may have anomalies since they are entered by the users without verification. The safety rules apply for system foods as well as contributed and custom foods.

    When the scanner cannot find the food in the database, search by typing a food name. Pick the right item from the suggestion list. If such a search also has no result, create new custom food.

    Check out our If a Food is not Found video for additional assistance.

    Carbs tracking is crucial, especially for diabetics. MyNetDiary lets you know that information about carbs or carb-related-nutrients is missing. We cannot put zero grams if such a value is unknown; so, we warn you by showing the Missing Carb Info or Invalid Carbs red message.

    To avoid this alarm on the Food Entry section and in the Food Report, copy and customize the appropriate item. Create your own custom food based on it. Enter carbs, fiber, and sugar alcohols numeric values; enter zeros if it is obvious. Alternatively, use a similar item from the Staple Foods catalog or from the PremiumRecipes catalog. They have the most complete nutrition facts.

    On the mobile app, tap such a food item logged to the meal, tap the food name on the Food Entry screen and, then, tap an Update button on the top-right corner of the Nutrition Facts screen. Submit photofood request; so, we will add the missing nutrient values for you. Please note that some vendors and restaurants do not publish this information; so, we cannot display it either. We add the values exactly as printed on the real food package or in restaurant menus or on the official vendors websites.

    You may also find it useful to review Missing Carbs warning while diabetes tracking and Tracking Carbohydrates blog posts.

    MyNetDiary provides two options to track diabetes and other health conditions.

    1. Full-featured, comprehensive online and mobile diabetes tracking is included with a MyNetDiary Premium subscription which requires USD 60 per year of service. You get all diabetes tracking, charting, and reporting features on the website. (So, you will be able to generate different reports and charts for different periods of time, save them or print them out. Reports can be saved in PDF, XLS, or CSV format; charts in PDF.) You will be able to customize macronutrient, vitamin, mineral, and other nutrient targets, enable nutrient totals on the Dashboard, run the comprehensive analysis by each nutrient, enable macros by meal table on the Home screen of the app, use full-featured recipe management, copy & customize recipes and other foods, get access to Premium Recipes and be able to filter system recipes needed for your personal diet, sync the data received from any Fitbit, Garmin and Withings device, enable the AutoPilot to automatically adjust your daily Calorie Budget, use Calorie Cycling feature and Weekly Exercise Plan. If you would like to track with a mobile app on the go, you can download a free MyNetDiary app to your iPhone, iPad, Android phone, and Android tablet; once you sign in with your Premium-level credentials, all the features will be unlocked in the Free app.

    2. For people interested in mobile tracking only, MyNetDiary offers special apps: Calorie Counter (iOS & Android,) Calorie Counter Pro (iOS,) Diabetes Tracker (iOS & Android,) and Keto Diet - Carb Genius (iOS). Each of these apps has its own set of features focused on specific types of tracking: basic tracking, macros & weight, diabetes, and or keto/carbohydrates tracking. Mobile apps don't require a subscription. In addition, as a courtesy to our clients, online food tracking (with calories, total fat, carbs, protein, saturated fat, transFat, sodium, dietary fiber, and calcium nutrients tracking included), exercise tracking, viewing a monthly weight chart, planning of your target date, target weight, weekly rate, calorie budget on the website are included for free. To use advanced features on the website, upgrade to Premium.

    MyNetDiary supports multiple target blood glucose ranges. For example, you can have different target ranges for fasting, for pre-meal, 1-hour after meal, 2-hours after meal, "before bed" readings, and so on.

    You can assign one or more labels to a target BG range. For example, if you are following American Diabetes Association's guidelines, you may want to have a target range with values between 80 and 130 mg/dl for "before meal" readings, so you will assign "Before Breakfast", "Before Lunch", "Before Dinner", and "Before Snack" labels to this range. So, when you log a BG reading with the label "Before Breakfast", it will be evaluated against this range, and displayed in red for low or yellow for high values outside this range.

    So, BG readings are classified based on the labels assigned to them. Depending on assigned labels and your target ranges, the same BG reading value may get different highlights and different colors on your BG chart.

    For example, BG reading 100 mg/dL, if assigned label "fasting", may get the yellow "above target range" highlight, and no highlight (displayed as a green dot on the BG chart) if BG reading 100 mg/dL is assigned label "1h after dinner".

    Please review your target BG ranges and their labels carefully. Then, make sure to assign correct labels to your BG readings.

    Automatic Label Assignment

    By default, MyNetDiary automatically assigns "before meal" and "after meal" labels to BG readings you enter if you already logged the meal. If you don't want these automatic label assignments, you can turn off this option in App Settings.

    Default Target Range

    If some BG reading does not have any labels assigned, or labels assigned don't have target ranges, MyNetDiary will use the "default" target range 60-120 mg/dL. If the reading is below 60 mg/dL, it will be highlighted in red. If the reading is below 60 mg/dL it will be highlighted in red, if above 120 mg/dL, it will be highlighted in yellow.

    The mobile apps do not allow printing diabetes data, but you can email the Weekly Diabetes Report directly from the Day Timeline screen. Just tap the top-right menu and select the Report Email option. The users with Premium membership can print Day Timeline report from the website. It's possible to do from the Analysis > Multi-Day Reports page or from the Diabetes page.

    We have already implemented a "copying from another day" feature for food tracking.

    We could also do it for Insulin Doses and Medications. Nevertheless, we decided not to do this.

    We understand that it's inconvenient to repeatedly log the same medications, day after day, probably their long list with the same dose amounts for each drug. But, the users tend to "copy" the previous records automatically, "without thinking." Unintentional and accidental "copying" can be extremely dangerous, especially for people with a severe medical conditions. The necessity of manual input is an additional layer of verification. Security and convenience are on different scalepans. While deciding between these two, we decided on safety. We want to encourage our users to double-check each medication record and its correctness during manual input; thus, current implementation without the "copying from previous day" feature. We regret any inconvenience that this might have caused you.

    MyNetDiary can "read" the Blood Glucose data from the iOS Health app. MyNetDiary does not support direct "reading" with any glucometers yet.

    You have an iPhone device

    1. Try to connect your glucometer app to iOS Health;
    2. Link MyNetDiary app to iOS Health.
    If your glucometer app supports linking, add the Blood Glucose to the Favorites on the iOS Health:

    Measure your sugar level a few times and tap the Blood Glucose item from the Summary screen of the Health app:

    You will see the appropriate dots on the chart of the Blood Glucose screen:

    Open the MyNetDiary iPhone app, and you will see that these records automatically appear on the MyNetDiary Blood Glucose screen:

    You have an iPad device

    Unfortunately, Apple company did not include the iOS Health App among standard apps "built-in" to the iPad device but on the iPhone devices only. Also, it's impossible to download and install the iOS Health app on an iPad device. So, even though your glucometer app may support linking with iOS Health, there is no way to set up such syncing via the iPad without an iPhone. We hope Apple will include the Health app in the default app list in the upcoming iOS updates.

    You have an Android smartphone or tablet

    Some glucometer vendors may support syncing with Google Fit or Health Connect. Please try to link the third-party app via Google Fit or Health Connect.

    For legal reasons, the Insulin Doses tracker is yet not included in the list of trackers available for syncing with Apple Health, Google Fit, and Samsung Health.

    Professional Connect

    It is very easy to activate the connection between you and your client or professional. Proceed to the Me tab and scroll to the bottom. Tap the highlighted button:

    If you are the client, choose to Invite My Professional or Scan QR Code to connect with your advisor. If you are a professional, tap Register as Professional at the bottom of the screen:

    If you are a professional but accidentally sent invitations for professionals at the start, the app gives you a Client status that won't allow you to invite or accept Clients. Delete your pending invitations and restart the app. You will be able to register as a Professional now again.

    All Health Professionals (dietitians, doctors, nutritionists, registered nurses, trainers, coaches, and teachers who teach future health professionals) can get Premium membership for free. We provide introductory six months to the health professional and two one-month to two of his/her patients/clients/students (the free Professional Pack.)

    If you are a health professional, email support@mynetdiary.com with your request - we'll send you the Gift Cards.

    To get listed in the Professional Directory, you need to create a free professional MyNetDiary account. Then go to P. Connect tab and click Professional Directory Registration button.

    Alternatively, if you already have a MyNetDiary account or want to create one, you can register as a professional and get listed in the Professional Directory with this account. After signing in to the existing MyNetDiary account online at www.mynetdiary.com or creating a new account online, please go to the Settings tab, then click Professional Connect in the sidebar, create your Professional Profile, and then click Professional Directory Registration.

    If you already have some records entered in MyNetDiary and want to share them with your doctor, dietitian or trainer, you can invite your health professional via the Professional Connect.

    In the MyNetDiary app, go to the Me tab. If you never used Professional Connect

    before, tap it and Invite your doctor, dietitian or trainer from there.

    If you already used Professional Connect, you will see the My Professionals on the Me screen. You can generate an email or text, or use any messaging app, to send a link to connect you with your professional.

    On the web, go to Settings and click My Professionals to send an email invitation. You can edit the invitation to include any additional information or comments.

    See more in the related blog post.

    You can browse client's food on your own through Professional Connect. Choose a client, and you will see logged foods here:

    The client may email the food and other reports for different periods to the health professional from the mobile app.

    From the Android app, it's possible to do it from the Coach/Virtual Coach > PDF Reports section:

    From the iPhone app, it's possible to generate and email reports from the Me > Reports & Summary Emails section:

    The app will allow your client to prepare the report for a period not longer than ninety (90) days. It's possible by using the "custom" option; it will let your client generate a report for any period between one (1) to ninety (90) days.