Digital nutrition log software
Turn 3 work steps into 1: As a nutritionist, digitize your processes for food tracking, nutrition records and nutritional analysis with Natty Gains and work time-efficiently with our software solution.
A nutrition log (or food diary) is the basis of sound nutritional advice so that the nutritionist can initially gain an insight into the customer's current eating habits. However, this work process is associated with a lot of time and frustration if, as a nutritionist, you have difficulty deciphering your clients' handwritten food diaries, then manually entering them into a nutritional value calculation program and only then can you carry out a nutritional value analysis.
Nutrition protocols in the nutritionist software as a database for individual advice
Using your nutrition app, your customers can easily track their diet - based on food databases and/or photo uploads. The nutrition protocol is then automatically displayed in your nutritionist software.
As a nutritionist, you can analyze the status quo and develop individual nutritional strategies for and with your customers. As part of nutritional coaching, you can carry out detailed nutritional analyzes, develop individual nutritional strategies and give concrete recommendations for action in order to optimize your customers' nutrition step by step.
With a nutrition app for Android and iOS smartphones, it is also easier for customers of all ages to enter recipes and food favorites and divide them into food groups.
Such a nutrition protocol records the actual status of your customer's diet and should be the starting point for all of your recommendations for action. If recorded correctly and completely, these numbers do not lie, but rather reflect the reality of your customer's diet and ruthlessly reveal the deficits.
Nutrition protocol as a cornerstone for a change in diet
A food diary of the meals and drinks eaten over a certain period of time directly supports your customer in reflecting on their eating behavior, thinking more about the topic of nutrition and developing an awareness of their eating habits. Digitally logging meals via a user-friendly nutrition app from your nutrition consulting software quickly and accurately reveals the weak points in a diet and creates clarity. As a coach, you can use the protocol to make it clear what is already working well, where changes have taken place and where there is still room for improvement.
Here, however, honesty and accuracy in the recording by your customer are an important prerequisite for the subsequent success of your individual, targeted nutritional advice. This is the only way the nutritionist software can reflect and analyze the clients' actual nutritional habits correctly and down to the last detail.
As soon as the customer becomes clearer about his eating behavior and develops an appropriate mindset, the foundation for changing his diet or optimizing his diet as part of nutritional advice is laid.
Benefits of the Nutrition Log feature
Digital nutrition log via nutrition app
Realistic, detailed food diary
Nutrient-based or photo-based
Analysis of macro and micronutrient distribution
Basis for individual nutrition plans
Basis for recommendations for action
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Nutrition protocols in the nutritionist software as a database for individual advice
- Nutrition protocol as a cornerstone for a change in diet
- Benefits of the Nutrition Log feature
- Keep a nutrition log with the nutrition software
- No more double work: Have nutrition logs kept digitally
- Even easier for your customers: nutrition log with photos
- With just a few clicks: Easily evaluate the nutritional protocols during your consultation
- Why a food diary is important
- The goals of a food diary
- The Natty Gains nutrition app with diary function as a simple aid
- Have digital nutrition protocols created with the food tracking functions
Keep a nutrition log with the nutrition software
At the beginning of nutritional coaching, you can also have your customer keep a nutrition log for a certain period of time to get an impression of their current nutritional situation. In order to obtain meaningful information, the food diary should be kept as detailed as possible and over a period of 1 to 2 weeks.
This requires some discipline from your customer. As a rule, your customer records, in addition to the time, the type and quantity of all food and drinks consumed throughout the day. Since individual foods and their quantities are often quickly forgotten, it makes sense to record the foods directly during or immediately after the meal. If your customer doesn't have this discipline, you can also have your customer keep a photo-based food diary. How to do this, see below.
At the beginning of nutritional coaching, you can also have your customer keep a nutrition log for a certain period of time to get an impression of their current nutritional situation. In order to obtain meaningful information, the food diary should be kept as detailed as possible and over a period of 1 to 2 weeks.
To ensure that your customer can keep a nutrition log, do the following:
- First register your customer and set up your customer's account via your trainer dashboard and using the medical history form.
- Then activate the “Tracking” setting in the customer profile.
- Release the account for your customer by sharing the access data with them and giving them a short introduction to the nutrition app.
- Let your customer keep their nutrition log using a nutrition app.
- Look at your customer's profile and evaluate the food diary for the defined period.
- Based on the food diary, write down your results and recommendations for action.
- Make an appointment with the customer and share your findings with them.
No more double work: Have nutrition logs kept digitally
Recording of all food and drinks by customers via app: with text entry or barcode scanner
The days of analog food diaries, where your customer records with paper and pen and you then have to re-enter the food diary using a nutritional value calculation program, should be over. We are not a fan of double work.
To ensure that your nutrition coaching is as efficient as possible, your customer records their food and drinks digitally using their personal account in the nutrition app. As a nutrition coach, you have insight into the customer profile at all times and can therefore evaluate the nutrition protocol at any time.
The Columbus Egg: No more paperwork for your customers
Two food databases are available to record food:
- Real Food database with approx. 15,000 entries
- Barcode product database with approx. 2,500,000 real brand products
Using text input and a barcode scanner, your customers can find all common foods and products and record them digitally with the amount eaten. The system thinks for itself and suggests conversion values for units (e.g. 120 g = 1 banana).
Even easier for your customers: nutrition log with photos
Recording of all food and drinks via photo upload
You can also offer the option of a photo-based nutrition log for customers who don't want to have the discipline required to record food and drinks via food search. While the "normal" nutrition protocol requires precise gram information, the photo-based nutrition protocol offers the advantage that your customer is not overwhelmed by searching for food and weighing or estimating it.
One photo – and you’re done!
Easily let your customers upload photos of the meals and drinks they eat and easily document their diet. This means that manual entry of individual dishes is no longer necessary and with minimal effort a valid nutrition protocol is created that you can evaluate as a nutrition coach.
Evaluate the customer's photo-based diaries in no time with your trained consultant's eye.
Extensive portion sizes, unhealthy snacks, a large proportion of calorie intake in the evening after work - insights into the current state of nutrition can be seen at a glance and can be used as the basis for a consultation with the customer. All your customer has to do is take a photo of their food.
With just a few clicks: Easily evaluate the nutritional protocols during your consultation
You evaluate the nutritional records kept by your customers as follows:
- Control the account of your customer whose nutrition protocol you want to evaluate.
- When downloading the nutrition planning PDF, select the period you want to analyze.
- Generate the PDF document and evaluate the nutrition log with regard to calorie and nutrient intake, meal timing, eating habits, etc.
Why a food diary is important
A nutrition diary not only gives you, as a nutritionist, information about the exact number of calories eaten, but also provides valuable information about existing nutrient deficiencies, an unfavorable nutrient distribution in the client's current diet and can also indicate possible intolerances (food intolerances). A realistic nutrition log can help uncover bad habits at individual meals that can lead to long-term declining health or even discomfort, weight gain, or difficulty losing weight.
The goals of a food diary
Your nutrition tips as a nutritionist set new nutritional goals, provide information about healthy foods, create clarity when choosing foods with a nutrition plan, help put together a meal and reorient your eating behavior.
Nutrition experts are often the key motivators in implementing nutritional habits. With a food diary, you first uncover the clients' mistakes in managing their diet and use the diary to establish a connection between food and a wide variety of symptoms (e.g. allergies, excessive weight, health problems, etc.).
The Natty Gains nutrition app with diary function as a simple aid
When creating a digital food diary, the key thing for users is always how easy it is to use, so that information from a food database can be quickly retrieved and items can be recorded in everyday life. Apps are the perfect digital tools here. A nutrition app on your cell phone with a simple user guide design is usually the most effective and efficient way to precisely create an accurate diary and, as with Natty Gains, then stick to your goal with an individual nutrition plan. Since dieting of any kind doesn't work for almost all people who want to lose weight, apps for counting calories and logging nutrition are ideal. In this way, you can first take a closer look at the actual status of your diet and then develop a suitable nutritional program as a template for the customer.
Only the evaluation of the data from a food diary provides information about calories, nutritional values, combinations of foods, unfavorable patterns and factors when eating, etc.
Additional function
Have digital nutrition protocols created with the food tracking functions
The Natty Gains nutritional consulting software offers your customers 3 ways to track their nutrition: via text search, barcode scanner or photo-based. This makes it easy to count the calories consumed and analyze the nutrients in detail. Such a food diary is not only an important starting point for your targeted advice, but also enlightening for your customers themselves. You will find out exactly how the food tracking functions in the nutrition app work in the next article.
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