Tracker
The tracker view allows you to track and plan your meals. It automatically calculates your usage, and remaining point values, based on the current user settings. Once the daily allowance has been used, any additional points for tracked foods will be automatically taken from the 49 weekly bonus points. Once the 49 weekly points are consumed, any activity points earned for the week will then be used.
The Tracker view will initially open on today. You can change days by either pressing the forward and back arrows on the date bar or by tapping on the date itself to jump to a particular day. You can return to ‘today’s’ plan by simply tapping the 'Today' button on the toolbar. Tapping the cog icon on the toolbar will take you to the settings screen where you can adjust the user statistics that are used to calculate the daily and weekly allowances.
Below the toolbar and date display is the points display. The points display gives you the running totals of the points used on the selected day, the total points remaining from the daily allowance, the points remaining from the weekly 'bonus' points pool, details of any activity points gained for the day, and a total of how many activity points are left to use for this week:
- Daily Used - This value is the total number of points the have been used during the selected day
- Daily Remaining - This is the remaining number of points available for the selected day
- Weekly Remaining - This is the number of bonus points that are left for the current week
- Activity Earned - This is the total number of bonus points earned for activities performed during the selected day
- Activity Remaining - This is the total number of activity points available to spend. Depending on which activity points mode you have selected this will either be a daily or weekly count (see below).
Each day you have a daily points allowance, calculated from your user statistics. You also have a weekly allowance of an additional 49 'bonus' points, on top of your daily allowance. Any activities that you perform and track will also earn you extra points. These can either count towards your weekly bonus points (by setting the default 'Add to Week' Activity Points setting in the 'User Settings' screen) or to your daily points on the day that the activity took place ('Add to Day' mode in the 'User Settings' screen).
If you have activity points assigned to 'Add to Week' (the standard setting) then points are assigned in the following way:
- When an entry is added to the day, the points value for the entry is subtracted from the daily allowance
- If there are no points remaining in the daily allowance, any further tracked points values will be subtracted from the weekly bonus points
- If there are no bonus points remaining in the week then any further tracked points values will be subtracted from the activity points earned for the week
If you have configured your Activity Points setting to 'Add to Day' then points will be assigned in the following way:
- When an entry is added to the day, the points value for the entry is subtracted from the daily allowance
- If there are no points remaining in the daily allowance, any further tracked points values will be subtracted from the day’s activity points balance
- If there are no activity points remaining for the day then any further tracked points values will be subtracted from the weekly bonus points
To add an entry simply tap the 'Add to Tracker' button, which will take you to the 'Add to Tracker' screen. To delete a tracked entry from the list simply swipe across the entry and select 'delete'.