Vitamin D, omega-3, creatine, magnesium, a compounded formula for gut health. Supplements are part of many plans, but they usually end up in the wrong place: a notes field the client never reads, a chat message that gets buried, or a paper prescription kept apart from the meal plan.
In Fitney, supplements are a prescription of their own for each client, which you link to the meal plan.
What you enter for each item
Each supplement or formula has simple fields:
- Name or composition: “Vitamin D3 10,000 IU” or the full compounded formula;
- Dose: 1 capsule, 5 g, 20 drops;
- When to take it: fasting, with lunch, before bed;
- Duration: 60 days, ongoing. If left blank, the prescription’s or the meal plan’s period applies;
- Notes: take with a source of fat, don’t mix with coffee, and so on.
The prescription can have a name and a period, and you end it when the protocol is over.
With or without a meal plan
Supplements don’t depend on a meal plan. You can prescribe supplements only, for example for a client in follow-up who hasn’t received a meal plan yet.
When there is a meal plan, you link the prescription to it. When you copy or renew the same client’s meal plan, the link is kept.
Kept out of the macro count, on purpose
The prescription is separate from meals, and that’s intentional. Vitamins, minerals and compounded formulas have no meaningful calories and shouldn’t mess up the macro totals or the shopping list.
Supplements that do have calories (whey, maltodextrin, mass gainers) can still go in as a food inside a meal, where they count toward the target.
In the client’s app and PDF
The linked prescription shows up in the app, alongside the meal plan, and active prescriptions without a meal plan are visible to the client too. The client doesn’t have to dig up the prescription or an old chat to remember the dose.
In the meal plan PDF, the linked supplements get their own section. The prescription can also be exported on its own as a PDF.
Why organize supplements
- Adherence: clients follow what’s clear, with dose and timing.
- Fewer questions over chat: the answer is already in the app.
- Records: supplements are documented with period and history, which helps at review and follow-up.
Conclusion
With dose, timing and duration in a prescription of their own, linked to the meal plan, supplements move out of the notes field and become part of the follow-up, in the app and in the PDF.
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