My suggestion list

(love the site, so consider this a critique.. nothing negative...)

I sent off these site suggestions to the webmaster.

Your nutrition analysis should benchmark the type

of fats when avaiable. Some fats are good and help

people lose weight.

It should also benchmark potassium intake when

available. Potassium helps offset sodium and gives

a better idea of adding potassium rich foods on

days sodium might be a little higher.

You should put mono and poly fats on your "add and

item" screen.

You should allow for other forms of "weight" on

your add an item screen.

You should have an option for items added by users

to be "verified" by staff or the community and thus

added to the permanent database (adding whatever

fields are neccessary on the "add an item" screen).

^ An idea for this would be creating a "point

system" such as a user getting a POINT for adding a

food. They get another point if the food is

verified. The person verifying the food gets a

point. Another point is added to the user and each

verifyer for each time the food is verified (like

multi-level point distribution). If verified by

staff, they get 5 points. Points can later be used

for things like:

- a special "high priority" forum
- negotiate with food companies to provide coupons

in exchange for points
- allow users to add additional photos to their

accounts for a certain amount of points per month
- negotiate with authors to trade ebook, music or

video downloads for points (good promotion)
etc.

You can also add point gaining for things like

inviting a friend, adding a recipe, replying in the

forums, etc.

You should take a look at TRAINEO.COM and see what

they are doing in as far as "logs". Their features

of making custom logs, as well as, log download

makes their site something I use regularly.

Add an option to allow people to "edit" their

additions to the food log such as moving an item or

changing the portions. It's quite frustrating to

have to duplicate an item then delete an old item.

Remove the step in between.

Add "auto-tagging" items added to log (e.g. tag

this item?)

Add a "Measurement Log" to benchmark changes in

girth of waist, chest, hips, neck, wrists,

forearms, upper arms, calves, thighs and ankles

etc. Muscle gain can look like "no-progress" and

discouraging on the scale, but in reality -- it's

well, awesome.

You should have other timing options instead of

breakfast, snack, lunch and dinner. Add brunch,

supper, dessert and expand snacks to daytime snack,

midafternoon snack, evening snack, etc. This will

accomodate most on the markt dieters who eat 4-6

small meals a day.

chck out thedailyplate.com for ideas

It would be COOL if you could implement some kind

of visual graphical before and after. I've seen

this done on other sites. The "virtual body"

concept. Seeing is believing.

The mobile site does not work on the Sprint

Motorola Q or PPC-6700.

Add "previous" and "next" day buttons to the

activity log "add" screen.

When adding Activities, under the "This is

equivalent to eating any of the lines of the

following table." area, it would be better if such

equivilencies we're drawn from an individual users

OWN food logs. It would be MORE motivating to see

we just burned that chocalte brownie we just ate

off.

Create a PLAN vs. ACTUAL for each log. Seeing what

was planned vs. what actually took place may help

those who like the challenge of achieving their

intentions.

Create a printout version of each log or a daily

summary.

Create a log comparing calories consumed less

calories burned (via activity) less calories burned

(sedintary/moderate/etc.) to give people an

ESTIMATE of weight loss. This will help people know

if they've hit a plateau, and adjust their workout

or eating accordingly.

Use java to make todays food log and todays actvity

log expanadable right on the home page (or make

those headers links)

Allow upload of progress photos (once per month?)

Have a.m. and p.m. in the journal entries

When adding a copy of a "user added" food, if

changing the portions, one must change every value

for that portion. You should make some way of

automating this the same way portions are auto-

adjusted for database foods.

When deleting a 'user added food" a link remains in

the tag list (if added) but this link goes nowhere.

Either lose the link when the item is removed from

all logs, or make a user added food in a seperate

log so it is a permanent part of an account (or add

them to the database as suggested before).

You should make it so people can copy a whole DAY

as a starting point for modification of their diet

on another day. COPYING a dozen foods takes a lot

of time.

Use cookies to make the DATE RANGE thing in food

logs "sticky" so it wont revert to TODAY every time

a change is made. Add an option to make it always

display TODAY, YESTERDAY+TODAY and 1 WEEK of logs.

MOVE the ADD TO FOOD LOG button DOWN so when

selecting the MEAL in "re-add a previous item" it

doesn't overlap the ADD TO FOOD LOG button.

Wow - thanks so much for all this feedback.  It is very helpful!

We're already in the process of working on a lot of the suggestions you have requested, particularly with respect to logging and analyzing foods.  That said, I'll share this message with the rest of the team so we can put some perspective on our plans.  Thanks again!