How it works

To setup your profile, the following basic information is required:

1. Gender – select your gender

2. Year of birth – enter your birth date

3. Body height – enter your height

4. Body weight – enter your weight

Based on your gender, age and height, the Healthy weight range will be calculated.

For detailed information specific entry screens are provided: "Type of diet", "Physical intensity at work", "Leisure-time physical activity" and "Personal measurements". Clicking on these fields will open designated entry screens where you will be able to provide detailed information.

Additional piece of information required to do the calculations and recommendations is the number of hours you manage to sleep every day (on average). You can enter this information in the "Numbers of hours of sleep" field.

At this screen you can provide detailed information on the type of diet you use and if you have any nutrition-related restrictions (e.g. due to some specific diseases).

You can choose from the following options:

1. Omnivore

2. Vegetarian

3. Vegan

Note that only one option can be selected at a time. This selection is important as it tells the application how to adjust the range of foods and dishes that user can collect and stack on plate when composing his meal.

To indicate health-related food restrictions (if you have any), please use the check boxes beside specific diseases or allergy types. The application will use this information to recommend you foods and dishes that are appropriate for you and warn you in case you will want to consummate food that demands precaution.

This entry screen enables you to select the level of physical intensity that you experience at you workplace.

The following options are available:

Light intensity physical activity

Moderate intensity physical activity

Extremely vigorous intensity activity

The application also allows you to provide information on how active is your free time.

These options are available:

Sedentary activity,

Light activity,

Moderate activity,

Vigorous activity,

High activity.

By selecting one of the options a new screen appears showing a list of activities that fit into the selected category. The activities are categorized into meaningful groups, such as activities at home, sport, fun etc.

Once you find the description that best describes your activity at free time, you select it.

The application offers the possibility to monitor certain personal parameters that can be used as indicators of individual effectiveness of lifestyles interventions with an emphasis on healthy lifestyle behaviors which include healthier balanced eating and encourage more active free time.

Set of possible individual measurements:

1. Cholesterol (selected with pop-up keyboard)

2. Blood sugar (selected with pop-up keyboard)

3. Blood pressure (selected with pop-up keyboard)

4. Waist circumference (selected with pop-up keyboard)

5. Triglycerides (selected with pop-up keyboard)

6. Basal metabolic rate

7. Body composition

By clicking on the Plate in the right upper corner of the screen, the main screen appears. In the screen center there is a plate that represents a place where you can put different kinds of food and ingredients. You can select the food from a food database which pops up by clicking the food button.

Above the plate there is a bar that indicates which daily meal is being prepared . You can select among breakfast, morning snack, lunch, afternoon snack and dinner. The meal that is currently selected is indicated by a yellow border.

The eating habits can be monitored for a particular day only or for a longer period. The application has an integrated calendar that helps you to select a day for which you would like to set up your meals – see top of the screen.

The application enables the user to monitor both daily and weekly rhythm of eating thus has calendar integrated.

To emphasize the importance of regular consumption of water, a glass image is located at the left bottom of the screen indicating the amount of water that has been consumed. By clicking the Glass image the glass is refilled. One glass equals to 2 dl of consumed water. Information of the daily consumed water is recorded on the scale, which has a range of 2 liters, which is a minimal amount of recommended daily water intake.

The amount of consumed water is recorded in the daily statistics and at the end of the day displayed with other relevant information on the designated screen Daily nutrition status.

By clicking the "Food" button in the center of the plate, the list of major categories of food and dishes shows up. You can select the food of your choice by clicking on a relevant category or subcategory if available.

The category "Favorites" includes all the foods or dishes that you select as your favorites (initially empty).

A special category is "Prepared dishes".

To ease the search within this category, its dishes are arranged in five subcategories:

1. Soups and casseroles

2. Main dishes

3. Side dishes

4. Salads

5. Desserts

Other categories include:

1. Beverages

2. Milk and dairy products

3. Vegetables

4. Fruit

5. Bread, pasta and other starchy food

6. Pulses

7. Meat and alternatives

8. Finfish and shellfish products

9. Fats and oils

10. Nuts and seeds

11. Sugar and sweets

By selecting a particular category (or subcategory) you get the list of items (foods and/or dishes) that belong to that category/subcategory. The items are sorted in alphabetical order. At the top of the screen there is also a search field where you can enter the name of the food/dish you are looking for.

The application controls your choices and in case you select a food or dish that is inadvisable or not recommended according to the type of diet and/or food-related restrictions specified in your profile, the selected food/dish changes its color to warn you about the possibly of inappropriate choice.

By clicking on a specific food or dish you add one unit or one serving amount of that food/dish on your plate. The selected food/dish image changes its color to show that it has been selected. Clicking on the same food/dish again will add another portion of that food/dish on your plate. The number of selected portions appears next to the star icon.

Information on energy value expressed in kcal of selected foods or/and dishes is displayed numerically at the bottom left side of the screen.

The number of items (food/dishes) that you select for one meal is limited. You can select up to 8 different foods and/or dishes. The number of already selected items appears in the center of the plate.

To include a particular item into your Favorites category press the star icon that is located on the right-hand side of the item. You can easily remove an item from the Favorites category by clicking on the same star icon again. The star will become gray and item removed from the Favorites category.

For each item there is also a detailed description available (see Extended description window).

Once you complete your selection of items click the icon "Plate" to complete your meal. You will be returned to the home screen.

If you wish to change the number of servings of the selected food or to learn its nutrition and energy values or just to obtain detailed information about your selection, click the "Food image" icon.

Clicking the "Food image" opens a new screen with larger picture of the selection and its detailed description: energy value, glycemic index, nutrient content, vitamin, health benefits, individual concerns, etc.

In this window two rows are displayed. One row shows the information of energy and nutrient content in 1 portion of the selected item, the other shows energy and nutrient content of your chosen quantity.

The user selects the number of portions by clicking on the "-" or "+" buttons. The default value is 1. Increasing the number of portions reflects in increasing the nutrient and energy values of the meal being composed.

Using this screen with the detailed food/dish information represents another option you can use to add items to your plate. By clicking "Update" the food is added to the plate and by clicking the "Remove" button, the food is removed from the plate.

While composing your meal, three essential macronutrient's ratios and quantity of consumed water are monitored.

In addition to the information about the energy value of the composed meal, there is also daily energy intake displayed at the top of the screen.

When you achieve your recommended energy value of a meal, the line that represents the energy intake becomes green. If you exceed this limit, the line becomes red.

The meals that have been composed and confirmed are labeled with different color in the above bar in order to distinguish them from the meals which are incomplete or not defined.

The meal that is being composed is marked with yellow border.

At any time you can select button Show daily statistic at the bottom of the screen. After pressing the button the application automatically opens the window Daily statistics.

Daily statistic

Daily statistics screen presents the analysis of the confirmed meals of the day. Numerical data is presented in various ways:

1. Color of the day – using the analogy with traffic light, red colored day indicates unbalanced nutrition and unhealthy eating habits. Green colored day, on the other hand, indicates balanced nutrition and healthy eating habits.

2. Occupation image – the main purpose of the application is to encourage people to adopt healthy eating habits. The change of figure image and status tries to inform the user what do his eating habits and food choices mean in a long term. Exceeding energy values for example reflects in progressive weight gain (therefore the image of over-nourished or fat person appears) on the other hand lack of energy intake suggests the possibility of malnutrition (therefore the image of a very slim and sick looking character appears).

3. Information about skipped meals

In addition the daily statistic view includes:

1. Quantities of consumed water

2. Information of energy (expressed in kcal or kJ), macronutrient (expressed in grams), salt (expressed in grams), sugar (expressed in grams) and saturated fat (expressed in grams) intake. On the right side of the actual consumed quantities, recommended values are listed.

3. Special diagram which shows the differences between the actual energy and macronutrient intake and the recommended one.

4. Basic information about health risks that inappropriate eating habits and bad food choices represent.

5. The type and duration of exercise needed to spend the exceeded energy intake.

7 day statistic

The weekly statistic view offers you information about the days you achieved the recommended nutrition as well as information about the days when inappropriate food choices were made.

The application allows you to follow the distribution of individual values of energy, macronutrients and water intake achieved per day or per last seven days.

You can easily move between weeks by using the slider. The data is represented in a graph that enables you to monitor your nutrition status – e.g. in progress, in stagnation, in decline…

This screen is also accessible through the "Menu" button.

The "Menu" button is always present on the top of any screen. Pressing the button opens Settings with the following options:

1. Profile– access to user's profile

2. Individual measurements – access to personal measurements

3. Weekly nutrition statistics

4. Calendar – calendar access

5. Healthy eating habits – access to basic information about balanced and healthy diet

6. Options – access to the application's settings (notifications switch on/off, unit of measurements selection,..)

7. Contact us – user is able to send his comments, wishes etc.

8. About application

9. Exit

The application offers you to keep track about your individual measurements such as weight, height, etc. All entered values are stored in the statistics, thus you can observe how your personal measurement's values vary through time.

By clicking on a particular measured value, the screen slightly shifts down and a diagram of measured values on a time scale is displayed.

The calendar gives you an overview of the application usage. By clicking on the "Calendar" button, a window with a monthly calendar is displayed. The days are colored in green or red, depending on how appropriate was the dietary intake for that day. Red colored days indicate unbalanced nutrition and unhealthy eating habits, while green colored days indicate balanced nutrition and healthy eating habits. If for a particular day no data about meals was recorded, the day is colored grey.

By clicking on the red or green colored days, you can access the Daily nutrition status window.

Clicking on the gray colored days will return you back to the home screen where you will be able to enter the data for that selected day.

The application tends to be educational, thus special category of basic advices and suggestions on healthy eating is designed. User can access important information about composing balanced meals, accepting healthy eating patterns, recommended energy and macronutrient intake, etc.

All the nutritional information and recommendations that a user can get through this application are intended to help the user to achieve more balanced and healthy dietary intake, thus more "Green days" in his life.