Food logs

[Girlsmum]

Hi, I'm new to the Inspire HR. Please can anyone tell me, having logged a meal, is there any way of retrieving the information should I have that same meal again, rather than log in each food individually again?  Is there a list somewhere showing my breakfasts, lunches etc? If so, how do I access it please? Thank you 🙂

[Julia_G]

Hi, @Girlsmum , you can log the whole meal as a “custom food” and add all the ingredients.  The program doesn’t care that you didn’t through it all into one pot and cook it together...  So, for example, “chicken dinner” could be a chicken breast, mashed potatoes and green beans.  You could even add in your pears and custard for dessert, and it would all be a single “custom food” of “chicken dinner”.  I hope you get the idea.  

To log a “custom food”

1. From the fitbit.com dashboard, click Log at the top, then click Food.
2. In the Favorites section on the right, click the Meals tab.
3. Click Create a meal, then name your meal and click Save.
4. In the Add Foods section that appears, add an individual ingredient and click Add to Meal.  
5. When you're done adding ingredients, click I'm done - Back to Food at the bottom.

To track the meal again later in the Fitbit app: On the Today tab then tap the + icon on the food tile and choose Custom.

I do have to add one unfortunate (but temporary!) issue.  If you are using iOS you may find that you are affected by a bug that does not correctly save calories on customs foods - it only saves calories from fat.  If you use Android or Windows this won’t be a problem, and Fitbit is currently working on a fix so that calories from Custom Foods are working properly for all users.

I hope this helps!  Please post again if anything is unclear.

[Girlsmum]

Thank you for replying. I'm not seeing any 'favourites'. I'd googled and seen this, but am failing to find favourites. Maybe I'm being thick....I click on the food symbol, as there's nothing that says 'log' on the initial dashboard screen, then have the option to 'add', which then offers frequent, recent or custom foods. Thus, I'm not seeing 'favourites' nor 'create a meal'. From which screen am I to click on 'log' please? Thank you.

[Julia_G]

@Girlsmum , custom foods is what you want.  Create your meal there.

[Girlsmum]

Thank you. I can add foods in on customer foods, I can save it as breakfast, lunch etc, but I cannot then recall the meal, nor name it for recall. That's the part I can find no way to do, thanks.