In order to complete your diet tracking 
project, you will need to find some type 
of diet tracking software. 
There are books and databases available 
that might give you basic nutrition 
information, but for this project you 
will want as much information as you can 
get. 
This includes information on the vitamins 
and minerals in the foods that you'll eat 
over a four day period. 
MyPlate.gov does have a useful diet 
tracking program that I'm going to show 
you how to use in this video. 
You can navigate to their site just by 
entering ChooseMyPlate.gov And then, 
looking for SuperTracker and Other Tools. 
Select the SuperTracker, 
and then click on the icon. 
The tool we're going to be using is the 
Food Tracker. 
Feel free to navigate some of these other 
tools. 
They're very useful in looking at your 
diet and physical activity, what your 
nutrient needs are, and so forth, but we 
won't need to use all of them to finish 
this project. 
Let's go to the Food Tracker. 
In order to keep a four day record and 
create reports, you are going to want to 
log in. 
To do so, if you haven't, you will need 
to create a profile. 
Let's go there. 
I've already created a but But just let's 
go through the basics of the profile 
creation. 
You'll need to come up with a profile 
name, this does not need to be your 
actual name. 
And you'll have to enter demographic 
information. 
This should be your actual information, 
your age, your gender, your level of 
physical activity. 
Now, this I recommend that you stick to 
less than 30 minutes a day. 
I found that SuperTracker tends to 
overestimate the calories we need in a 
day. 
So, if you increase your physical 
activity, you calorie requirements are 
going to go even higher, so let's stick 
to less than 30 minutes a day. 
Enter your height and weight. 
You can do this by both U.S. 
and Metric options. And then, register to 
save this information. 
At the end, you'll click Submit. 
And now, you'll have a username and 
password with which you can log in.