Exercise Diary (eDiary)

The drive to develop eDiary started from the will to lose a few pounds,

after SIM07, I didn't train that much but the intake of calories steered rocket high ...

I searched the net, though there are quite a few non-free products out there,

I found that the food entry is just too tedious to be practical,

for example, you have to create the food and its associate calorie before entering it

in your meal, man, who want to create the food that you eat in one Yong Tofu section

where there are fish meat, pork meat, chilli, onion, etc mixed together.

All I care is a simple estimation of the food calories and its description.

So I created this little program, just for losing and keeping track of my weight.

Then, I slowly add some feature like strength training log, etc. Now it also has simple

report capabilitis too.


To use it, you have to be familiar with food calories, search and read the list from the web,

very soon you will be able to estimate the calories. For output calories, fisrt estimate

you BMR(base metabolism rate, serch the web if you are not sure) and adjust accordingly

from you daily activity. Normal the calorie expenses for running 1Km is about 60 cal for

someone about 150lbs. For example, my BMR is to be 1650, plus some light activity like

working 750, if I run 10K (600)today, my expenses is 1650+750+600=3000 cal.

Remember to lose a lb of fat, you need to have a deficit of 35000 cal. So, if I want to lose

1 lb in a week, I need to have a deficit of 500 cal per day.



There are other entry for extension like rest HR, emontional Index(eIndex), VDOT(vomax.exe)

, etc. There are markers to the day cell, like whether you do aerobic exercise(run), strength

training, stretching, plyometric. Also, if your intake calorie for the day is more than that of the

expense(output), then the cell is colored pink to alert you. The notes entry is for daily

information, you can use it as a diary if you want.

The reporting is two simultaneous line plot for comparison and tracking.


Currently, there are no configurator coded yet, to use this software, you need to edit the eDiary.ini in the Windows directory.

It is backward compatible with the previous version.


Click the below link to download eDiary


EDiary



Happy using ...