http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/www/chapter1_4_1.html#SECTION0410000000000000000

http://www.plannerforms.com/display_forms.asp?type=health

On average you should drink about 1.5 to 2 liter of fluid (preferably water) per day. That’s 6 to 8 glasses of 0.25 l or 4 to 6 glasses of 0.33l.

It would be nice if you could design a form that shows a week with checkboxes (make them glasses for fun) for the glasses to drink per day.

Another idea:

weight loss/gain is often connected with mood and mood swings. You could add happy/sad smileys to the water form to indicate the mood you are in. It often helps to see that when the weight loss was not much that the week had been rough (lot’s of sad smileys).

For diet forms - just a page that allows people to enter what they ate six times a day (breakfast, snack, lunch, snack, dinner, snack), their bedtime (and latenight snack), with spaces for numbers beside each.

Time:____ Breakfast [ ] [ ] [ ]

Sort of thing. Everyone will want to put in their own numbers, or sybols.
Diabeties tracks symbols & glucose measurements, weight watchers tracks points, someone else might just count carbs, … so to please everyone just have 1-3 small columns beside the food to track numbers.

For exercise, I’d recommend just a simple planner like the ones the pros give you at gyms:

Name: _________________ Date________________

Routine name:________________________
Machine # | Exercises | Series-Reps | Weight

And on another form:
Date Routine Success level

Or some such. That way people can have their exercise ‘routine’ and track how good (or how bad) they did on a day by day basis.

Tracking weight loss is usually done on a graph, but a simple
Date Weight [Up symbol/Down symbol] would work.

Then there’s body measurements. Some folks track weightloss not just by how many grams they loose, but how many millimeters they loose.

Maybe have a silohette of a human form with lines coming out from it at the various parts of the body. The page would need a date field, and some place to mark the circumferance measurements for: neck, upper arm, forarm, chest, trunk, stomach, upper thigh, mid thigh, and calf.

You could also have a BMI page. (BMI samples available at: http://win.niddk.nih.gov/publications/tools.htm#bodymassindex).

Just my 2 cents on the issue.

From time to time, I’ll be moving some of the more relevant posts from a million monkeys typing over to this blog. This is one of them. In a way, it’s what led to DIYPlanner.com.

Often we must come full circle –to return to the very beginning– in …