Pre-planning my meals on Cronometer

butterfly

I realized that I can put the foods that I want to have in any following days and just put a zero value for the amount. Maybe everyone else already knew this, lol. I knew I could put the foods but always put an amount of what I hoped to eat. It's really good for me because I am trying to plan 3 days in advance and do a food rotation so that I'll be eating the same thing basically for 3 days and then change to something else. Normally I record stuff after I eat to make sure I get the values correct but now my total nutrition values and calories, etc, will show zero until I put the correct amount in. So I can write out 2 or 3 days in advance and add the values as I go along.

I can also change something to a zero temporarily that I have actually eaten if I want to see what a different food would have done to the totals for just a moment and then change it back. For example, if I had sweet potato but wanted to see what would have happened if I'd had brown potatoes instead, rather than delete the sweet potato and then put it back, I can just change it to zero for a moment and then put the correct value back again.

That may have been obvious to everyone but I'm really chuffed that I can do this. I'm using my favorites list more efficiently too and that makes things a lot quicker.

butterfly

I've still been doing this a lot and it's really helping me. I pre-do the day before, add all the foods I want to eat with the amounts I want and as the day progresses put things to zero if I didn't eat them. I can p;ut the ones I haven't eaten at the bottom under a "note" saying I haven't eaten them yet. So that I don't get confused.
I have a lot of stress and stuff so I make plans and then often forget what I was doing. This gives me an outline I can follow or adjust.

Susan_RD_101

@butterfly

This is so awesome and something I ask all of my clients to do, regardless of their health goals. Pre-planning your meals helps to put some structure around your day and makes it more likely that you make informed eating decisions. Keep up the great work!