Hi everybody,

I want to start by thanking you all for your support of NutriMirror. Every member makes this site a better place, and we love hearing your thoughts and helpful advice here in the journal community.

As you know, the site is constantly growing and developing. We have big plans for things we'd like to do in the future, but we'd also like to hear any ideas you have.

I'll make this a permanent post so that you'll always be able to come back to it any time you have a new thought. You'll find it under the more heading, just above

Many of our members wonder how it is we have been able to make NutriMirror® a free service. As you may know, the company I manage, PrePak Products, Inc., provides home-use exercise products to Physical Therapists.

Physical Therapists, like all other health professionals, are directly impacted by the obesity/chronic disease problems in our nation. They recognize that any real solution must focus on lifetime change of individual behaviors. Everyone (including Physical Therapists) needs to act to achieve lifetime caloric and nutritional balance.

Into each of our products we now insert a notice of NutriMirror that links Physical Therapy patients to our website.

After last week's attempted update to the food search code, we rolled back to the previous version to fix multiple problems pointed out by the NutriMirror community. We've been working hard to make the necessary fixes since then, and over the last few days we've been rolling out the latest updates to more and more of our users. As of this afternoon, all of you are now using the new version of the page.

The new code is up and running not only on the Add To Log page, but on the Create Menu and Create Recipe pages as well. The

Because some of you were having trouble with the new food search code, I've stepped back and replaced it with what we were using before. Hopefully this will solve the issue for now. Let me know if it still isn't working -- and for those who had trouble before, please let me know if this helps.

Also, yes, there were issues with the server last night which made the site difficult to reach for a while. This was unrelated to the search code trouble, and unfortunately made it difficult to know who was being affected by which issue.

Thanks for your patience

Hi everybody,

I've just posted some long-overdue fixes to the code on the Add To Food Log page. The page should be much more reliable in returning results from the database now. As always, let me know if I've broken anything in the process.

A USER ASKS

I noticed that the %s for the various nutritional measurements are calculated based on my calories for weight maintenance, but I would like to see them calculated based on my calories recommended to reach my WEIGHT GOAL. The green and red in the charts are helpful, but would be even more helpful if they were based on what I need to intake to LOSE! Any suggestions? Thanks in advance!

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Many of the nutrients that we track have targets that are independent of calories eaten. With cholesterol, sodium, and all the vitamins and minerals, you're looking at fixed numbers,

Hi everybody. I'd like to apologize again for the technical issues over the last couple days. We're working our way through this and with a few fixes we should be able to make everything even better than it was.

I've just completed an update to the main Food Log page, and I think you'll notice some dramatic speed improvements there, especially those of you who have logged a lot of foods over the past month.

Again, be sure to let us know of any difficulties you might have. We've been backed up a bit with responding to everything, but rest assured that

Hi everybody,

I made some fixes overnight that should make some of the behind-the-scenes processes work a little easier here at NutriMirror. You likely won't notice any changes to the site, but do please let me know if you run across any error messages or broken features today.

Thanks ...

It’s that time again—time for a fresh start, for new resolutions, for renewal of old resolutions. It’s the time of year when searches for “weight loss” spike the Google servers and everyone promises themselves that this time, it’s going to be different.

Whether or not you went a little overboard last night, today is a new day and a clean slate, and if you’ve been using NutriMirror for a while you’ve learned that, even when you veer off course in your plans, it’s always possible to make the wise choices that pull you back from red to green.

Forgive me if I’m

NutriMirror is happy to announce that in our continuing efforts to improve this site, we've enhanced our custom recipe feature in a way that should make logging your foods even easier. When you edit a recipe in your Menus & Recipes pages, you'll now see the following section beneath the ingredients list:

This information is optional, but if you know the total weight of your finished recipe, you can enter it here. When you include this new information in your recipe, you'll be able to much more accurately report your serving measurements when you log your