stewved / caloriewatcher

A personal and private browser-based food diary to keep track of your daily calorie intake

calorieWatcher

A personal and private browser-based food diary to keep track of your daily calorie intake

Featuring (experimental HTML5 standard) "Add to Homescreen" for Android (chrome firefox browsers I think), and the ability to use offline, like a native app.

How to use: the live version of this project is at: https://stewved.github.io/calorieWatcher/

Suggestions, tips/support, etc. welcome: https://github.com/StewVed/calorieWatcher/issues

My Webtop and main site: stewved.co.uk

I highly recommend using my calorie calculator at: https://stewved.github.io/calorieCalculator/ to determine how many calories you currently need, your body fat %, and how much you need to gain or lose to reach your body fat % goal.

Once you know how many calories your need and your goal calorie intake, plug them into the calorieWatcher, and start adding your foods.

If your food isn't in the list (quite likely as we all eat different stuff), click the "Add New Food" button and give your food a name, it's amount of calories per unit type. example: name | amount of calories | per number | per type cucumber | 15 calories | 100 | g cake! | 243 calories | 1 | 100g calories

Purpose of the app:

create a daily list of foods comsumed, where the calories are totaled up so you can keep an eye on your daily calorie intake.

Use this in conjunction with https://stewved.github.io/calorieCalculator/ so that you know how many calories you need.

create and maintain a food database, consisting of foods and their calories/100g or per unit.

You can add your own foods, and I hope to add the ability to submit a food to be added to the main food database.

If this webapp becomes popular and I get a lot of requests to add macros, vitamins, minerals, etc. I will consider it.

The webapp's list will be in meals which are made up of the individual foods in the food database.

GOAL: better and easier than a spreadsheet while being private, because other web-based food tracker apps sync to (the cloud) some server somewhere, and I don't want any person or company knowing what I eat, how much, when I eat it, etc.

I do not have a balanced diet. I do not have 5-a-day, but luckily the only thing that matters for gaining or losing weight is the amount of calories you eat in a day - whether from cucumber or cake, it doesn't matter!

The only difference to the body between cucumber and cake energy-wise is you could eat a load more cucumber than cake.

Obviously this isn't the whole story because macros, vitamins, etc. are all needed for the body and mind to work properly, but on an exreme example you could lose weight eating only cake!

The caveat is that you wouldn't be eating very much cake and would be hungry all the time because cake isn't filling.

StewVed's standard notice:

Warning: May contain Bugs! Cannot guarantee Bug free! Produced on a system where Buggy products are also made!