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Yeah, I have that problem. I am slowly getting the hang of doing the meal plans. I started with Find a Mealplan and then slowly edited those. When I found some mealplans that balanced, I made sure to take a screen capture of the screen so I could recreate it. It definitely takes practice. April

Here's a nice web site I found about different nutrients in food, including some good recommendations for getting potassium in your diet. http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=nutrient&dbid=90#summary They also mention that some people need higher levels of potassium. Like those that...

Remembering Mealplans I figure as I get some good mealplans, I'll want to reuse them periodically. Right now, it's hard to do that. If the Find a Mealplan allowed me to search my own mealplans, that would be perfect, but right now, it only searches the global mealplans. So I came up with the...

Vitamins I have found that as I'm making food better choices, I'm either just taking 1/2 pill or none at all. I take my vitamins at night, so I already know if I got all the nutrients from my food. I add my multi-vitamin, calcium and vitamin c as different custom foods. Go one step further...

Happy to help, Nancy. I just find things that work for me and pass them on. :) Another tip along the lines of custom foods from the database. Sometimes I'll go looking for a food and I can only find the food "cooked with no specification to..." Like oatmeal. I have some instant oatmeal...

I definitely add my multi-vitamin, calcium and vitamin c. I added them as custom foods. I have found that as I'm making food better choices, I'm either just taking 1/2 pill or none at all. I take my vitamins at night, so I already know if I got all the nutrients from my food. April

Custom Foods based on Database foods Along the lines of what Nancy said... I have a lot of custom foods because I can't find "pure" foods or the counts seem a bit off. But many nutrition labels don't have all the vitamin and extra nutrients. Lots of time potassium is left off a label and only...

Yeah, I've noticed this, too. I'm not sure what the timeout is. Maybe 30 or 60 min? I'd love to have it keep me logged in all day. I like to leave the window open and update the mealplan or refer to my mealplan through the day. April

Cathe will have 6ft bands in her fitness lineup. :D April

Nancy, it's a bit of work. It's not automatic, unfortunately. Check out my post here: http://www.thecathenation.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1725170#post1725170 that tells how I do it. April

Julie, what browser do you use? April

Check out http://web.mac.com/lainiefig/iWeb/FitnessFig/Tools.html You're looking for Cathe Compendium Jan 08.doc April

I love doing CC outdoors. I primarily bought CC to use outdoors when I'm on vacation. I stay in the zone, whatever zone Coach Sean tells me to. If I'm on the flat and supposed to be in zone 3 or 4, I just go faster. Walking lunges might work, but I always feel too goofy to do that in public. :p...

Login Procedure I still seem to have some issues logging into the forum and the nutrition software at the same time using FireFox. I found it irritating to log out and clear my cookies all the time, so I came up with the following solution. I use FireFox for the forums and Internet Explorer...

Use Recipes as groupings of food oft eaten Create a recipe with all the parts of a meal that you eat a lot. This is a very typical lunch for me. 4 oz baby carrots 1 oz hummus 20 grams natural peanut butter 1 slice 12-grain bread 8 oz natural applesauce I create a recipe with those items and...

Create Custom Food from Recipe If you put in the individual ingredients as a recipe, then you end up having all the ingredients added to your mealplan instead of a single line item. I don't like that, generally, for true recipes, so I create a custom food from a single serving of the recipe...

I thought it might be a great idea to post tips and work-arounds in one thread so that we can have a central place to find tips. I'd like to see the thread with lots of tips. Maybe try to make sure there is at least one tip in each post so that this becomes a nice repository. I'm interested in...

What I do is add the Cathe sites to my allowed list for pop-ups. Does your pop-up blocker allow you to do that? Then you wouldn't have to keep toggling your settings. April

Maybe you could put all those as snacks and then you just go to your snacks section of the favorites for "all meal" foods. Maybe would be nice to designate some foods as "any meal" that would show up in the favorites section for every meal? I like them being sorted as what would be best for...

I convert my recipes to custom foods and then add those to my favorites. Not exactly what you want, but a work-around. April