With Nutrium, you can make a quantitative analysis of the meal plan and find out the energy, macronutrients, micronutrients, water and fiber your client consumes. You can use this feature in two situations:
Follow-up of the meal plan you assigned to the client: you can check their progress, if they are being compliant with the meal plan or if they are struggling with what you recommended to them.
Before the first appointment (without assigning a meal plan): you can make a quantitative analysis of the eating habits and find out the energy, macronutrients, micronutrients, water and fiber your client consumes.
Note: make sure that this feature is enabled in your Configurations and preferences section and inside your client's profile, in tab 8. Deliverables.
Using the food diary to follow-up on your client after prescribing the meal plan
After you prescribed a meal plan to your client, from the tab 2. Follow-up, you will be able to check the progress or the difficulties they are having. Once you are in this tab, on the right-hand side of the page you will find an overview of your client's activities:
When they have consumed a food item or followed what you planned for them: ✅ shown in green;
When they made a change or replaced a food item: 🔁 shown in orange;
When they added a new food: ➕ shown in orange;
When they didn't consume a food: ❌ shown in red;
If they added any pictures of a meal;
If they wrote any notes about the meal:
On the left side, you can check the monthly calendar, which includes:
Food record with a color that specifies the behavior of the client:
Green: compliant
Orange: changes
Red: not compliant
Gray: insufficient data
Water intake logs
Physical activity logs
Lower down, you will see nutritional information (compared to the goals you have planned before) in greater detail:
The meals and times when your client ate them;
Physical activity;
Water intake;
Energy;
Macronutrients;
Fiber;
Micronutrients:
Using the food diary before the first appointment
Whether your client has booked an appointment with you through our booking appointment system or you manually registered them, for you to have this quantitative analysis before your client comes to their appointment, you should give them access to the mobile app.
Once your new clients have accessed to the mobile app, they should start logging their food diaries.
If your client has logged their foods, you will see something like this:
In the monthly view of the calendar, this food diary will show in gray.
The only difference is that Nutrium will not have the meal plan information to make the comparison and instead, for the micronutrients, the reference you have established on tab 5 Meal Plan is used. And for energy, macronutrients, and fiber, they are not compared to any reference and the values obtained from the client's food diary are displayed.
How can I analyze and interpret the information I get from my client's food diary?
Compare the food diary with the meal plan that was prescribed when they were compliant
When your clients log their food diary according to what you recommended to them, the analysis will be represented in circles for energy, macronutrients and fiber and in bars for micronutrients:
Compare the food diary with the meal plan you prescribed to them when your client has eaten less than recommended
Compare the food diary with the meal plan you prescribed when the client has eaten more than recommended
When the amount ingested exceeds what was recommended, Nutrium will inform you like this:
Did this article answer your question? Help us understand by answering with the emojis below.