How do I add half a serving of a tagged item?

Today is my first day on the diet and using calorie count plus.  I added a food (generic bagel for 200 calories) and tagged it.  It doesn't come up again when I type in bagel but I can find it on my tagged items.  However, I only ate half of the bagel.  How do you adjust that?  Does anyone understand what I mean or am I making this much harder than it should be?

if its an tagged item that you had to manual enter, and then add to your tag list you can just change the grams or oz to half the amount after you click add item.

meg, does this work for recipes, too?  yesterday i edited a recipe to double the servings, added a serving to my log, edited the recipe back, then tagged the 1/2 size serving under a different name.  seemed like there should be an easier way....

Recipes and items you tag for foods you cannot find listed is tricky. With entering you own nutrition values-best to enter the amount you often eat. with the bagel, enter half a bagel. If you want to enter a whole bagel just add to your calorie count twice.  Recipes you edit as to the number of servings. Its annoying but if you have a generic recipe like stew entered with each time you are making it yu use different amounts of ingredients( example adding the last two carrots) you are editing so much another change in the amount you are serving is not that much of an inconvenience. Sometimes I break it down so one person gets 2 servings (working out to a "normal" amount -the serving is actually half a "normal"serving) while another with a larger appetite gets 3 three. there are some conveniences in the set up also. I have an unvarying breakfast on workdays. I tag the whole breakfast as a recipe, that way I just have one item to click to add for all my different breakfast items.(porridge,milk, bran, coffee, milk,sugar all with one click) . If you tag something you find in CC's database, you will find hovering your cursor over the amount gives your other options like other, teaspoon, tablespoon, cup etc. Other is great if you can weigh your food.

 

If you need to be fussy about the amount you eat, say you are a diabetic so you want to know how hard your foods are on your sugar levels, get a scale with grams. Best is an electronic scale with a tara( zeroing function) for great convenience in having less addition,subtraction mistakes. The inconvenience of weighing everything ( until you remember standard amounts) is more than made up by the fact you "KNOW" why you were not losing weight.  400 extra calories daily because you were not  accurate, translates into not losing by one pound a week. to get a 1 to 2 pound a week weight loss,CC tries for a 600 to 400 calorie deficit every day.  (it also works if you average out to the same deficit over a week.  If your have an extra 400 calories one day, but manage to be lower by 400 calories over the rest of the week to make up for that days spike, you can still lose that one pound a week.  Use analysis.)

I don't know how tagging works, but for a half of a serving I just change the quantity from 1 to .50