The Diary Page

This is the main page in the application. It lists all of the foods that you have eaten each day, what exercise you have done, and how you are going against your targets.

The Table

Total

This lists the total for each of your targets. It is equal to the total for meals, minus the total for exercise. The values are coloured:

Minimum and Maximum

This shows you the minimum and maximum amount of each of the nutrients you should have each day. To find out more about this, see the Targets dialog.

Remaining

NOTE: This entry is only displayed with the Diary+ add on.

This shows you how much of your target you can afford to eat before the end of the day. It lets you see in a glance how you are going with each target. This is what the values mean:


Example Meaning
OVER This means you have already gone over your target. Nothing to be done (except a lot of exercise).
< 100 This means that you haven't gone over your target yet, but you might do by the end of the day. In this example, you have less than 100 calories before you are over. Light red means it thinks you will probably go over.
< 1000 This means the same thing, but the system thinks you probably won't go over before the end of the day. Here it means that you have less than 1000 calories, but that might be fine if it is already dinnertime. Green means that the system thinks you will probably be OK.
> 50 This means that you have a minimum RDI and you don't look like hitting it. Blue means too little...

NOTE: The "Remaining" row is only shown for the diary page for today (or in the future). It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to show it for yesterday, since you can't do anything about what you ate yesterday (except build a time machine).

Meals

This shows the total you have eaten for all of your meals.

Breakfast (+ other meals)

This shows you the total for each meal. The Add button lets you add a food to that meal.

Entries

Each entry under a meal shows a food you have added ot the diary. You can edit the value in the count column - For example, if you ate 2 bowls of corn flakes for breakfast, enter 2 into this field. Double clicking on this lets you edit the entry.

Entries that are more than 4 hours in the future (ie if you enter food for dinner at lunchtime) will be marked as planned (see Meal Planning). Meal planning is only available in the Premium version.

Exercise

This shows the total exercise you have done for the day.

Measurements

If you made any measurements on this day, they will appear at the bottom of the window in a separate list.

The Toolbar

The toolbar contains a number of icons that are also menu items (hover the mouse over each one to find out what it does). There are 2 fields also:

Missing Records

JXCirrus CalCount can check if there are any meals in the diary that have no food recorded (see Meals).   If there are meals that are marked to be checked for missing records, and there is nothing recorded against those meals, then a button marked "Missing Records" will appear on the toolbar.

If you press that button, you will be taken to the day that has the missing records.   The meal that is missing records will have its name shown against a light red background.

If you genuinely didn't eat anything for that meal, you can get the warning to go away by recording something like a glass of water for that meal (it won't have any effect on your targets but will make the warning go away).

What can I do from here...

Add a food...

You can:

Add an exercise...

You can:

Record a Measurement

Select one of the options under the Measurement menu or press Weight on the toolbar to record your weight.

Go to a different date...

On the toolbar,  select:

You can also enter the date to go to in the field in the toolbar.