About OnTarget Nutrition:
OnTarget Nutrition is a nutritional tracking and analysis program that offers many useful tools and features, including: nutrition and weight tracking, customized reports, calorie tracking, an exercise log and fitness calculator, community support and much more. OnTarget offers members an easy, and personalized, way to track and achieve their nutrition, weight, and exercise goals.
OnTarget supports and helps members achieve their S.M.A.R.T. (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Timely) goals. We know not everyone has the same goals so OnTarget adapts to the individual and offers tools that can greatly influence the success of reaching personalized goals. Whether your goals are related to nutrition, weight loss (or gain), exercise, or all of these areas, you are more likely to succeed if you stay motivated, and accountable, for your food and exercise choices. For example, did you know you are twice as likely to achieve your weight and nutrition goals if you use a food journal? This is because recording food intake allows you to take responsibility and be accountable for your food choices. Then when faced with any poor food choices you become motivated to make the necessary changes to reach your goals! With OnTarget you can easily review all foods, and meals, to find which are working best for you and also make adjustments for better food choices. Members also benefit by being able to create and add their own custom foods and recipes to their daily food intake. Members can also contribute and benefit by choosing to share their custom foods and recipes with other members.
Enjoy the journey to a healthier you!
Getting Started:
After creating your new profile you will arrive at the home page where you can use the interactive calendar to begin adding foods, tracking your daily intake and weight, add your calories burned, and add your physical activities. The first step in creating your custom nutrition plan is to calculate how many calories you burn in a day. Your BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate) is the total daily energy your body expends in 24 hours, also known as your "maintenance level". Knowing your maintenance level will give you a starting point to begin your nutrition, exercise, and weight management plan. OnTarget has automatically calculated your BMR for you using your age, gender, activity level, and weight goal information from your profile. Your recommended daily intake of nutrients was also automatically calculated. Although, if at any time, you would like to set your own preferred daily calorie target and nutrient levels you can simply enter your preferences in the "Advanced" area in your profile settings.
Daily Details:
To begin choose, and click, on your desired calendar day to open Daily Details. This is the heart of OnTarget Nutrition. Here you can search for and add foods to your daily intake, enter current weight and calories burned, add physical activities to your exercise log, and write your own personal journal entries. Another Daily Details feature includes "This Day at a Glance" which presents a nutritional summary of your chosen food intake for the day. This summary includes a caloric breakdown, including, protein, carbohydrates, fats, fiber and more.
Reports:
OnTarget Nutrition presents a variety of easy to view customized reports. The reports include your RDI (Recommended Daily Intake) percentages, nutrient totals, and weight tracking. You can view your nutrition trends by your choice of daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly time periods.
Custom Foods:
In the Custom Foods area you can easily create your own custom foods and add those foods to your daily intake. You can also use any of your custom foods as ingredients in your recipes.
Recipes:
In the Recipes area you can create your own recipes and add them to your daily intake. You can also create recipes using any of the foods in OnTarget's database as ingredients, you can also include any of your custom created foods and even other recipes. And you can share your created foods and recipes with other members.
Community:
The community is an open forum for OnTarget's members to chat about nutrition, healthy living tips, current nutrition news, fitness, and offer support to each other. Also we encourage members to suggest any feedback they might have about OnTarget's features by using the "feature feedback" link located in the top right corner.
