Watch What You Eat With HealthTracker
Summer is already a thing of the past and we all know that with fall, postseason baseball and football come a few extra pounds (I write this as I’m watching the Yankees while eating Chips Ahoy). Optimal Health has provided a very complete (and free) application to help help you watch what you eat and meet your caloric intake to lose weight. Just take a look at it in action:
Features:
Set weight goal
Track daily caloric intake
Track daily intake against US RDA recommended values (based on Age and Gender) for:
– Total Fat (g)
– Sat Fat (g)
– Trans Fat (g)
– Cholesterol (mg)
– Sodium (mg)
– Sugar (g)
– Carbs (g)
– Fiber (g)
– Protein (g)
Favorites – Quick shortcut to your favorite food items. The more you eat of a certain type of food, the higher it shows up in the list.
Database of over 7000 foods
Ability to add custom foods.
Upcoming Releases will include:
Tracking exercise
Charting
Syncing your data with Microsoft Healthvault
Community sharing on custom foods entered by you and other HealthTracker users.
It supports VGA and QVGA resolutions (Fuze and Tilt). Pretty nice stuff. The download is available here from Optimal Health’s website.
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bitbucket Okay, this leaves A LOT to be desired.
That sliding menu with the categories? HIGHLY sensitive. Once it gets going, it’s almost luck to get it to stop on what you want. And it takes multiple tries to double-tap something correctly. And changing the year as on the video? The one I downloaded didn’t let me just change the year; I had to tap through every month from 2009 to 197few (you expect a woman over 30 to give her ago away? Fat chance…). There was no place to choose screen setting and the calendar in the portrait mode went off the screen (had to set the date in landscape).
As for the items, I went to enter one and you could only enter the total calories, total fat, saturated fat and cholesterol – nothing else (even though you can see that information on pre-loeaded foods as from the video). And you can’t see that info for each individual, just the cycle-through on that first screen. Plus, when I sent to add the new item, the program crashed.
As I say, this left a LOT to be desired. I’ll wait for something else. Until I can teach myself C++, get Studio 2008 (yeah, right) and do it myself. It won’t be pretty, but hopefully it’ll have everything I want.
David Wow, this was absolutley perfect! I didn’t have any problems on the sliding menu like the above poster. I also have an Iphone so having sliding menus to me is pretty natural. I really like the whole Iphone like interface.
I was able to set the year by clicking on the calendar control and was easily able to set the year, but yeah, that part could be better.
As for the other items, when I went to add a new food item, all I had to do was scroll on the list of nutrients and the other slid up.
I’ve had no problems with it on my end, but maybe I was just lucky. I’ve been using it for a week now with no problems. Anyway, I did read their wiki and their forums, so if you do have some issues, I’d suggest posting on their site for them to improve it. It is after all a v1 so I’m sure it’ll get better as time goes by and we provide them feedback
sylar works well, no problem installing or entering dates. I’d give it a 4/5. They have a good wiki on using the product, I would highly suggest reading it. It answered alot of my questions and also gave me a bunch of really useful information.
phone HTC Touch HD – wm 6.1
-juan
sylar works well. not sure with the first poster what the issues are but I didn’t see any of those issues. Date entry, scrolling etc not a problem.
Anyway, good app, easy to use. I appreciate the guys or gals who made it putting it out!
That’s exactly what I’ve been waiting for. My dietitian will be happy… Crap, no excuses anymore. Thanks.