Creating a Profile on The Daily Plate

Series Summary

The Daily Plate is here to help you be proactive with your healthy lifestyle and diet. Everyone wants to live a fit and healthy life, but sometimes beginning a new low fat diet can be daunting and even challenging. Changing your eating habits and learning to prepare low calorie, low fat food might be difficult to acclimate to at first, but having a solid knowledge base about the types of foods that you can enjoy without guilt and some inspiration towards creating a delicious menu full of diet-friendly meals is a great start. The Daily Plate is all about giving you that information and helping you stay accountable with others. You gain factual information about over 250,000 food items and see how other people just like you are using or avoiding those foods.

In this free video series, expert internet personality Drew Noah will teach you how to use the fabulous Daily Plate website to watch your consumption and exercise while connecting with others. This series covers the user-interface, tracking what you eat, making and saving meals, setting up your profile, and more. Drew will also teach you about searching for food, connecting with and sending messages to friends, checking out what other people are eating, and how to add new food items to the database. Drew will help you navigate the site and make the most of all The Daily Plate has to offer, giving you the tools to set up a healthy diet and lifestyle alongside people in the same boat.

Video Transcript

"DREW NOAH: So now I'm going to show you how you can create your profile on thedailyplate.com. So you just want to go to this profile link right here, and this is it. There's the profile. So to edit your profile, you can go to 'edit my profile' and then you can enter all these information, your real name. Probably, you don't want to enter your last name. I don't really see a reason to. Your location if you want to. You can enter a quote, date of birth, your gender, which this is probably from when I signed up, and so is the date of birth. And then you can write a little about me paragraph if you want. So when you're done, just click save profile updates, and there you go. You can go back to here to look at my profile. So you can also upload photos. Actually, first, yeah, to upload photos we'll just go down here. That's the photos. Upload photos. And it gives you this little upload tool. So you just browse for a photo on your computer, find it, and you can do this for multiply pictures at once, and just hit upload photos. Then you just want to wait for it to finish. You want to make sure that the pictures you're trying to upload--you probably want to make sure they're compressed a little bit. You don't want to try to put, upload something straight from your digital camera. You want to do, like, save for the web kind of option and make it smaller just like you would for other sites like MySpace or whatever. So there you go. You have uploaded one of your ten allowed photos. And I'll just go back to my profile, and there it goes. All my photos will show up right here. You can also edit your avatar by clicking this link and doing the exact same thing, just browsing for your, your picture. And you want to make sure that your avatar is nothing inappropriate and that you may use a valid, legal photo as your avatar. So that is how you set up the--your profile on The Daily Plate. And you don't necessarily have to set up your profile. I'd recommend setting it up if you plan on using any of the community features like the forum, the groups or friend requesting people you know who are using this site. But you don't have to do it to use the calorie tracker. So that's how you set up your, you're my profile on The Daily Plate."