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Downloadable Offline Program

jt.muraski1 — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 03:03:48 GMT

Here is a possible idea: Why not make a downloadable program that people can use while they are offline, in case they lose interent access for a while (such as myself, being deployed to the Middle East, my internet connection tends to be spotty), and then they can upload it when the connection has been restored?

Feature Requests (mapping, gpx, detailed cardio, weight import)

wein3967 — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 12:44:36 GMT

I am new to Online Fitness Log (OFL), but I have used several other online fitness/nutrition services. So far I am pleased with the clean interface and ease of use considering the amount of information that can be logged. I have a couple feature requests that I haven't quite seen implemented at all or well in other services that I believe would greatly benefit OFL.

1) While I'd assume this is already in the works, it can't hurt to reinforce; a cardio mapping tool to plan analyze routes for running, walking, cycling, etc.. It could support Loops and Out and Back type styles with distance and elevation data.

2) Related to #1, support for uploading *.gpx files obtained from gps devices. I know this is a poll item (and I did vote for it as well). It would also be nice to be able to associate/link the gpx runs with ideal paths (#1), just so everything can be organized by route whether you had gps data for a run or not. That would make it easier to see improvement over time for a specific route (time, speed, pace).

3) Add speed and duration data detail for cardio exercises, similar to the detailed workout logs (sets, weight, duration, etc.). This would allow treadmill/elliptical runners/bikers to enter interval or hill training type information. So some sample Treadmill fields might look like: Speed, Incline, and Duration.

4) I have quite a wealth of person weight information going back a few years. It would be nice to easily upload that information to OFL via a *.csv file ("date,weight").

5) Unless I am missing something, it is kinda weird to have add an existing food in order to have the option to create a new food.

Thank you for this helpful service. I am certainly interested to see where OFL goes from here.

Long term weight graph

helloagainhello — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 19:40:53 GMT

I have lost 17 pounds since January first. I am only loosing 1-2 pounds a week. The graph on the home page is depressing because it is barely moving. Is there any way to get a graph that shows weight loss over a longer period of time; for example a weekly average covering a 3-6 month period of time. The line graph would show a greater amount of change. The nice long slope going down would make me feel better about my progress.

Thanks,
me

Favorite/Commonly Used Foods

richcase — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 09:14:22 GMT

Trevor,

Tried to see if this was already posted so if this is a dup let me know. I am fairly consistent in my daily meals and typically only eat the same "XX" items-grilled chicken breast, ground turkey, salads, etc. Is there a way to add a "favorites" food indicator so that when I type "chicken breast" I don't get 10 pages of results?

The only way I've been able to think might work would be to add a "meal" which is only that one food, but I already use the meals for my actual meals (breakfast = egg beaters, egg, wheat toast or whatever is one meal, etc) and I don't think that is the spirit of the meals section.

Long story short if there are 1000 items in your database I realistically will only ever use 50 of them, and those are the only values I want to show when I do a search.

Let me know if there is already functionality out there that I am missing, or if you think this is worthy of adding. Perhaps down under the meals section you can have another search for "your common items" or something. Whatever you think.

Appreciate your consideration, and the tool.

Cardio

trj387 — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 20:44:27 GMT

Can sexual activity be added to the exercise options?

Thanks

Phone App

katsagerine — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 17:11:52 GMT

Especially for the nutrition and meals pages!

Adding Foods to the Nutrition Log Entry

akiraeverhate — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 07:12:42 GMT

Quick question here. Is there a reason why the food addition feature for the nutrition log rounds up individual grams? A lot of the foods that I have put into the system have 0.5 gram listed per severing. However the system rounds these numbers up to 1 gram. Would changing this be much of a problem or is there a better reason why the system does this?

Future updates

trevor — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:29:40 GMT

We are continually trying to improve the application with feature releases and would like your help in prioritizing some of our ideas (and coming up with new ones).

For Carb Watchers and GL Trackers

brianj25us — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 21:31:28 GMT

For subject users, the following would be helpful:

- Availability of Net Carbs column (Total Carbs - Fiber)
- Ability to input glycemic index (GI) to food entries as an optional field
- Calculate a GL (glycemic load) column based on GI and portion size

Overall nutrition monitoring is significantly is significantly enhanced with calorie tracking and GL tracking together.

Net Carbs can be a better indicator within a nutritional balance display vs Total Carbs.

New Cardio Activity - Hula Hooping

egorman — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:51:40 GMT

Is there a way to add Hula Hooping as a cardio activity?

Salt content & water comsumption

dmaffy — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:44:56 GMT

It would be good if you could add a salt content box in the Nutrition Log and also a seprate daily (ML) water comsumption section in the Nutrition Log

Regards

Dale

List of strength workouts

mihaela — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 09:34:04 GMT

Im new to to this whole workout business and i do not know how you calculate calories burned when doing stuff like cruches or lifting weights. Cardio has a nice list of different activities where it automatically calculates the calories for you. Something like that would be nice for strength exercises too. Or is there another way to do things that i just havent figured out yet????

Mood log

boat — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 01:01:17 GMT

I know that most of us who struggle with weight issues do have tendencies to eat to make ourselves feel better. I used to use a different online food log, and it had this feature. It had categories like Anger, Stress, Clarity, Health, Happyness. And it surprised me how I seemed to eat more on days where I had negative inputs to these fields. Also, it helped me realize I was unhappy, which helped motivate me to change.

Zone Diet Nutrition Log

jff.w.wright — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 14:21:01 GMT

I have been looking for a program like OnlineFitnessLog that also manages the Zone Diet block system for recording food intake. Apparently nothing exists.

You might explore how to add that functionality to the nutrition section, which would open you up to a new market of dieters that don't track based on calories.

Multi-word search

fionex — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 08:12:41 GMT

Hey trevor,

I was hoping you can add a multi-word search for the nutrition log. Right now, if I search for "bread white", it only finds something like "wonder bread white" but it will omit "bread, white". I know that doing join SQL operations is going to be heavy on the server, but I end up having to do multiple searches just to find what I'm looking for. You can also make a checkbox below the search to switch between exact search and multi-word search.

Regards

A couple of ideas

carlucch — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:26:33 GMT

Hi,

New to the site and like it a lot over other websites I tried. Most of the features I were looking for are here but there is a couple of things that would really make it the ultimate and I didnt see them mentioned anywhere else on the forums.

1. I love the calendar however it would be awesome if you could assign different icons to different exercises. That way I could see at a glance when I've done certain types of activites. Easiest way would probably be to have a choice of 5-10 icons to select from when creating a custom exercise (much like the way I can select a message icon when posting a message on this forum) so that when that custom exercise is shown on the calendar it is shows up with the assigned icon instead of the default heart or weight icon.

2. I dont enter my food intake so the calories icon on the calendar (the one that looks like a car speedometer) is not really needed. It would be great if there was an option to turn it off as it clutters up the look of the calendar when browsing through. Seems like a small thing but it would make a big difference for how clearly I can see what I've done for the month.

3. Would be great if the cardio detail report had totals at the bottom of each column (and averages for the speed columns)

Great site but for me the above would make it the ultimate site

Thanks

Carl

Notes/Journal section.

countrygirl49 — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:43:48 GMT

Would it be possible to add some sort of Notes section on the "home" page?

Editing and Deleting Nutritional Information

Lucid519 — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:44:24 GMT

Is there a way to remove duplicate food entries? I seemed to have hit the save button twice, again, so there are doubles.

It would also be nice to include a "verified" tag, and even a "report this" tag for removal of other people's duplicates or incorrect information. This would help keep the database pure. I agree, it's great that user's can add to it, it keeps it current and full, but it also makes me uneasy to be uncertain of the validity of some of the entries. Allowing user's to verify, perhaps even putting there name on it if it's been verified, would help ease that problem. Just some thoughts.

Enter miscellaneous calories.

hellomuffin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:46:31 GMT

It would be nice to have a way to enter in the calories for a food that isn't listed that i don't want to list. Salsa for example...i eat it once in a blue moon and the brand isnt' listed. It would be nice if there was a way to enter random stuff like that on the fly with out making a full entry for it.

Graphs

countrygirl49 — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:50:08 GMT

Is there a way to change the graph style from line to bar? If not, that would be a good suggestion, IMO.

Need chart customization link on home page.

hellomuffin — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 09:42:27 GMT

Just found the customization link for home page charts under Accounts -> Preferences and love it. But It would be awesome of there was a link from the homepage.

New here! I have a question about the workout log...

carriejanev — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 01:19:23 GMT

I am loving the site so far, but I am having trouble with the workout log. I am on track to do 4 workouts per week, and it seems to be posting a new workout everyday, and when it does, I cant figure out how to view the previous workout. The problem is it doesnt seem to tell me which day I am supposed to do the workout, so if I guess wrong and skip a day, then that workout is gone and it moves on to the next one. Am I just missing a click or a link or something?

Thanks for your help!

Body fat loss goal (BMI)

hellomuffin — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:38:28 GMT

I have a scale that measure BMI and was wondering, Is there anyway to set a Body fat % loss goal? Im trying to loose fat but gain mussel so I'm reluctant to set a weight goal for myself.

Logging Nutrition

lherman — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:04:49 GMT

First off - I want to say that the online fitness log is amazing. I am training for a natural bodybuilding show and I have been able to log all my workouts and food intake. Food intake is a huge part of training for a bodybuilding show and online fitness log makes it easy!

Would it be possible to have the capability to move foods up and down on my nutrition log by dragging them up and down? Would it also be possible to add a column for time. I like to track when I eat my food.

If you respond, can you notify me via email? I do not know how to access this part of the fitness log. I was able to access it because a window popped up when I logged in to take a pole.

Thank you!!!!
Liana

Graphs...

smmuirhead — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:27:20 GMT

Is there any way to adjust the graphs on the home page? I would like to be able to see the total graph, I'm guessing everyone else's are cut off too?

If this is not adjustable, it could be a good thing to add. Thanks.

Calorie Deficit Goal Graph and Goal-Line, Calorie Consumed Goal-Line and Calorie Expended Goal-Line

Lucid519 — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 09:16:56 GMT

I think my favourite feature on this site that makes it stand above the others are the graphs, I especially love the Calorie Consumed/Expended Graph.

I'd love to have a chart showing my calorie deficit (or gain). This is great motivation, it tells me I'm doing things right, even if the scale hasn't caught up to my healthy habits yet.

I'd also love to have a goal line. The goal line on my weight chart is great, a similar one to show my goal for Calories Consumed and my goal for Calories Expended would be great. And, if a chart for calorie deficit could be made, a goal line there as well.

This would tell you that you're on track, whether your goal is to lose, gain or maintain your weight.

Weight Changes BMR?

Lucid519 — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:35:13 GMT

As my weight lowers, my BMR lowers. So, the number of calories I naturally expend in a day lowers. As I add my new weight in metrics, will it change my BMR for that day, lowering the number of calories I am allowed to have?

Same thing for exercise, with a lower weight, the amount of calories I expend for the same exercise is lower. I believe that this IS implemented (I accidentally put my weight in kg and wow, it said I was burning crazy calories).

Does anyone know, does lowering my weight lower my BMR? And if not, will this be implemented?

total Calories burned & weight moved - strength

murph210 — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:05:28 GMT

Is there a way to see total cal's burned (BMR & Exercise (Cardio and strength)) compared to Cal's consumed? Would be helpful.

for strength - is there a way to see graphically the total pounds moved in a WO, per day?

By the way, great site - like it much more that the spreadsheets i have historically used.

Mike

Track Strength Exercise

littlkj5 — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:03:18 GMT

I use this log to track my strength. It would be nice if there was a way to show each individual exercise that I input on some kind of graph. Showing where I started and where I am currently at.

This would be a good feature for any of the other activities also.

API?

chuckmo — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:57:16 GMT

Even a simple API that lets us add/access food and fitness listings would be incredibly convenient. It would be an easy way for us to take feature requests that you've admitted are a low priority (like an iPhone version) into our own hands.

Thanks for the great service!
-Charlie

Stay logged in

queenaag — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:58:28 GMT

When I first started with your site, I was able to bookmark the site and stay logged in. As of a few weeks ago, I'm unable to stay logged in. Is there a way for me to change this?

If Every day were like today...

allain — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:39:55 GMT

I've used myfooddiary.com in the past and the most empowering feature was its "If every day were like today feature..."

The gist of it is that it extrapolated by various algorithms a projection of where you would be in 1 week, 1 month, 3 months, etc. (For all I know they had monkeys in the back rolling dice).

It was extremely motivating to be able to "imagine" yourself reaping the benefits of your days work. Make the rough days that much less rougher.

Thoughts?

Tool Tip in Calendar

castylx — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 15:34:07 GMT

Just a suggestion, sometimes I have to copy a log entry and because my workouts may vary day to day I need to look up each log entry individually. It would be nice if I could just move my mouse over the log entry and have the notes(If I have any) pop up as a tool tip. Right now it just pops up with something that says "strength" etc..

Thanks, love your site!

-- Fernando

Strength option

tbarnes1 — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:50:28 GMT

It would be really helpful if the strength training portion of this website had a list of activities to select from, much like the cardio section does. Also, a calculator for calories burned during strength activities would be nice.

Homepage Graphs aligned to Date not recent entry

delirium45 — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:06:55 GMT

When i use graphs to plot data points i try to find trends for analysis essentially giving me real-world input & response data.

For example if my weight was 150 lbs and i consumed 3,200 calories and burned 2,450 calories on Jan-1, i would expect to see an increase in weight the following day. Especially should this trend continue. This weight-response to a positive calorie difference could be easily seen in the two standard graphs (calorie in/out & metrics[weight]) on the homepage.

However, this requires that i enter a value for my weight metric each day that i enter caloric data.

If i skip a day on one side the graphs will be out of sync since they only display the [i]last 20 entries[/i].
For example i enter caloric data everyday... but i do not measure my weight each day (i skip on Jan-5 and Jan-7)... by the time i get to Jan-20 i have 20 entries for calories and 18 entries for weight-metric... and the x-axis values of 1-20 give me no indication of where/why the data is out of sync.

I guess i would like to see the graphs tied to an X-axis of "DATE". This way all data gathered for a day is kept in sync with the other graphs... making correlation easy to view.

Maybe this is just my own wish, but fundamentally we are tracking on a [i]date[/i] basis not an [i]entry[/i] basis.

Thanks for your consideration.

Printable Log

amd30 — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:56:20 GMT

It would be great to be able to print out fitness and nutrition info to give to a coach, trainer, nutritionist, etc. I can't find a feature to do this and so I can't use this site for what I need. Too bad.

Nutriton Database

b-rad — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:02:22 GMT

Just realized today that the database that the nutrition information comes from is what we as users have put in. I don't know about any of you but I don't trust the entries. A lot or perhaps the majority of these entries could be just estimates, that isn't good for us who want to track each and every nutritional value! Trevor, is there a way to get a better more reliable database?

Calories burned formula

K8ero — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:20:04 GMT

I would like to be able to calculate calories burned during a workout. I'm sure there is a formula using age, weight and heart rate to be able to calculate this.

Goals

cclosson — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:21:20 GMT

Is there any way to mark a goal as "complete" and have it remain on the site....rather than delete it? I'd like to be able to review which goals I've set and accomplished. Thanks

Metrics Tracking

sharreis1 — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:27:52 GMT

In the metrics tracking chart, the color of the weight tracker is yellow- which I've found difficult to see against the white background. Is there a way to change the color, so that I can get a quick visual of my progress without straining to see it?