Meal Planning

Meal planning is only available with the Diary+ add on.

JXCirrus CalCount doesn't just allow you to record food and exercise - It also allows you to plan your meals by entering meals that you intend to eat in future.

Where to plan...

You can plan from any place in the application where you create records. If you go to tomorrow in the Diary Page, anything you enter using the ADd buttons will be planned.

If you want to look up which foods will fit into your targets, go to the My Food page.

How to do it...

To add a planned meal (or exercise), follow the same steps you would use for adding a normal exercise or food. There are 2 places you can mark an entry as planned:

When you add a planned meal, the meal goes towards your total for the day exactly as if it was a food that you have already eaten. To help you out more, the "Remaining" row will also adjust, so you can tune your food to make sure you don't go over your maximum targets, and so you reach your minimum targets. The "remaining" row shows you how you are going for the day.

The My Food page behaves exactly the same as usual even in planning mode - If you are planning tomorrow's meals, it will highlight foods that will blow the targets for that day.

You can plan as far into the future as you like.

If you want to switch a record as between "Planned" and "Actual".

What happens to plans over time...

If you don't do anything to a plan, it will stay in the diary. If the current time passes the plan by more than 4 hours, the system will highlight that plan showing that something needs to be done with it.

You have 2 options:

  1. Delete the plan if you no longer need it (i.e. if you ended up eating something different).
  2. Convert it to an actual meal (if you ate what you planned). Just un-tick the plan checkbox in the first column.