Diet Studio User Manual
Product Version: 2009
What is the Diet Studio software?
The Diet Studio is a software intended to be used for diet
creation and management. To help you keep fit, the software allows you to track and control what you eat on
a daily basis.
Why to use it?
It allows you to control your diet much more
accurately and carefully rather than trying to control it by using Excel style
spreadsheets or by doing manual calculations. The benefit of using the dieting software is that you create once and then maintain and develop your own
database of products you use on a daily basis, so once you have created the
list of products you eat, it's very easy to create a plan to follow for next
few days or weeks. Also it’s very easy to note what food you actually did intake in fact and that’s
what you definitely need to know to work out how accurately you follow your diet, because
nothing is perfect in this world and sometimes you may need to replace some
foods with similar ones or the same ones, but from another supplier, due to the
reasons you can’t control which include temporary absence of some products on
the market, unexpected product price changes, damage or loss of some products
you prepared or mistakes in preparation of your foods.
How to use it?
It is very easy – the user interface is very simple
and consists of the set of tab sheets, where each tab sheet provides specific
functionality. More so, the distributive of the Diet Studio 2009 software comes with
the database that contains sample data – just keep what you want to use from
the existing products, delete what you don’t need and add any additional
products you may wish to use. Read through the next sections to get more idea
of what each tab sheet is intended to be used for.
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Lookups
This is a tab
sheet that allows you to enter general information like product flavours and
producers which you will use when you enter the food products you are going to
use on the products tab.
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Products
This tab
allows you to enter products you are going to use in your diets, specifying how
much protein, carbohydrates and so on contained in each product.
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A button named “Copy Product”
allows you to create a copy of the currently selected product in the grid. This
allows you to use existing product as a template for entering a new product, so
you don’t have to enter all the data again and are able to just modify value of
few fields which might be just slightly different from the original one (for
example, product flavour and amount of carbohydrates per 100 grams of
product).
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The group of fields "Cooking" contains the following fields: “Coefficient”, “Water”
and “Raw Weight”. The “Coefficient” field allows you to specify cooking
coefficient for the product, so you can correctly analyse how much you spend on
products that change in weight after cooking. For example, you buy
500 grams of non-cooked chicken breast paying for it 5 GBP. After you
cook this chicken breast, it will loose about 40% of its weight which would
mean you will get about 300 grams of cooked product. So, in this
particular case to get 300 grams of cooked product, you need to buy
500 grams of non-cooked product and it will cost you 5 GBP instead of
3 GBP which some people would mistakenly imagine. But when you track your
diet in Journal tab, you might need to enter how many grams of cooked product
you ate, in case you initially specified amounts of protein, carbohydrates etc.
this product contains being cooked. In this particular example the
“Coefficient” field for the chicken breast product should contain value 0.6 to
make cost be correctly displayed in dishes containing the chicken breast
product. The fields “Water” and “Raw Weight” are informational fields and
indicate how much millilitres of water are needed to cook specified amount of
raw product.
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Dishes
This tab
allows you to define dishes that consist of products you select from those ones entered on Products tab.
For example, you can define a dish which includes some chicken breast,
rice and vegetable salad. After that you can use this dish when you create
a diet on the Diets tab.
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Diets
This tab
allows you to create diets. Each diet describes what you have to eat within a day. For
example, you can create one diet for muscle mass building and
another one for fat loss. Then you use Journal tab to assign the diet you
want to follow on each particular day.
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Journal
This tab
contains four sub-tabs. The first sub-tab allows you to assign a diet
for any date in the future, view what you have to eat on that day and enter what you
ate in fact. The second sub-tab allows you to track your weight changes and note what time you went to
bad and woke up etc. The third sub-tab allows you to track your body measurements and fourth tab allows you to make any notes on each day.
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Reports
This tab
contains three sub-tabs. The first sub-tab allows you to view summarized
amounts of proteins, carbohydrates etc. you ate on each date in fact and amounts
you have planned, so you can compare how much you ate in fact and how much was
planned and analyse how accurately you follow your diet. The second sub-tab is
available in licensed version only and allows you to get a report that shows the list
of foods you need to buy for the specified time period, so you can ensure you bought everything you need to follow your diet. The third sub-tab allows you to
view graphics for the specified time period, so you can easily see and analyse
your progress.
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Users
This tab
allows you to enter different users to track a diet for. Data in journal tab is
stored against each user, so once you have entered a new user, they can control
their diet separately from other users. Initially there's one existing user after program installation. This user is an administrator, so they can change anything in the system and add more users. Setup a password for administrator user should you wish other users to be able to login into system. Each user will have their own instance of journal. At the same time, all users will share the same Dish and Diet Catalogues, however only administrator user can make changes to these catalogues. This program feature is commonly userful for personal trainers, who want to prepare diets for their subordinates and then give them access to the system, so they can use the same PC to track what they eat.
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Settings
This tab
allows you to specify different program settings as well as empty the database
if needed. You can partly on completely delete the sample data that you see after program installation.
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Help
This tab
allows you to open current document and view general information about the
software vendor, as well as view licensing information in regard to the copy of
your Diet Studio software.
Where to get it and how much does it cost?
You can always check for the latest versions of this
software product on its web-site www.dietstudio.co.uk
or its vendor web-site which is www.smartcodetech.com.
The Diet Studio distributive is locked to a trial version which is
absolutely free to use by anyone for 30 days. After the trial period expire the
program stops working and you either have to purchase a license or remove the
program from your computer. After you purchased the license and entered it into
your copy of Diet Studio, it becomes fully functional without any time
restrictions. The price of a license for the Diet Studio software is just
9.95 GBP (Great Britain Pounds). To purchase a license for this software just
click the Buy Now button below or
contact the vendor on the following e-mail address: info@smartcodetech.com should you have
any questions regarding your order. License and download instructions will be
sent to your email address straight after you have purchased the product via
PayPal web-site.
What Windows versions are supported by this product?
The Diet Studio supports the following Windows
versions:
The software has not been tested on other Windows
versions and is not recommended to be installed on them.