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Posted 3/6/2009
 

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Last Login: 3/4/2009
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Clearly the major update was the move to a paid subscription based model with a free 7-day trial. Thanks to all who have signed up for the annual subscription! For those members who would need to take a few more days to evaluate the service before committing to a payment or who would like to export their data and move on - please email me via the contact form and I will extend your trial by 7 days.

Some other various updates:

Log View page - access this page from the calendar page by clicking on the magnifying glass icon for a date that has log entries. Added navigation buttons to this page so that you can jump directly to the next or previous day without returning to the calendar. Also added a calendar icon so that you can select a date and go directly to the log detail for that day. Note on all calendars - you can click the title bar and it will open a window that allows you to select ANY date - much quick way to get to a particular date than using the back and forth links. Additionally, I've modified the carbs, protein and fat chart so that it shows the ratio between calories from each (before was using grams), i.e. 4 cal per gram of carb and protein and 9 cal per gram of fat.

Activity Level - This is used to calculate BMR. It was brought to my attention that the amount of calories expended based on the activity level multiplier seemed to be too high. I agree and have modified that multiplier so that it does not cause such a great degree of change. For example, before if you selected Extremely Active (the highest activity level) your BMR would be multipled by 1.9 (almost double). I've changed the multipliers to be 1.0 - 1.4 increasing by .1 for each activity level. This should yield a much more accurate number and help you see better results when trying to acheive a weight-loss goal.

Meals - updated the totals on the custom meals page so that they are accurate.

Food Search - We were pulling entries from other members custom foods when searching the food database. This has been reverted back to only pulling from the USDA database and your personal custom foods. The reason is that we were getting too many duplicate entries, too many invalid entries and it was slowing down the search. So, if you search for a food that you've found before and it no longer exists - you'll have to enter it as a custom food on your own.

Strength Log - Changed the totals for weight to reflect weight lifted multiplied by number of sets as requested. Also, added functionality to allow editing of existing exercises, which will make the custom workouts for strength exercises much more useful.

Post #1003
Posted 3/6/2009
 

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Activity Level - Isn't your base BMR the amount of calories you would burn if you did nothing all day (i.e. laid in bed)?  If so, even the lowest level (sedentary) should be BMR * 1.2, not BMR * 1.0, that would be too low.  Maybe start at 1.2 and go up by .1 for each level?

 

 

Post #1006
Posted 3/6/2009
 

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Ouch...one of the benefits of this site was that I didn't have to enter my own custom foods, they were already there. Remember, now that we are paying customers the bar is raised to a much higher level than before. Please keep that in mind when changing the site around and altering our experience(that has worked).
Post #1007
Posted 3/7/2009


 

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Last Login: 3/6/2009
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Yes, good points - I've updated the activity level multiplier to 1.1 - 1.5 and reinstated the food search to include other members custom entries. Thanks for the feedback!

Trevor Stith
Online Fitness Log
Post #1008
Posted 3/7/2009
 

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Wonderful! All my normal foods have returned. This is a great example of awesome customer service, I love it.

Thanks,

Mike
Post #1009
Posted 3/7/2009
 

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Last Login: 3/4/2009
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Thanks Trevor! I agree with the food search as well. It was / is a great feature. Thanks for listening to our feedback. Great customer service
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