Description: Lose It! is an iPhone application that allows you to track your caloric intake and expenditure anywhere. You create a customized profile which contains your weight, age, and height and it helps to regulate your weight because it creates a daily caloric budget based on your fitness. The user simply enters the foods they eat throughout the day into the device and also any exercise data, Lose It! then goes to work keeping track of this information, making calorie counting much easier.
Use Case: Lose It! will be used by iPhone users, the primary actors, who want to lose weight. These users download this application from the Apple AppStore and then simply enter their target weight for the week and Lose It! goes to work. Lose It! creates a daily caloric budget based on this target weight and users need to strive to reach this goal. Throughout the day users enter the foods that they are eating into the system, they can either look up certain foods or create a custom entry, along with entries about exercise. This ability to look the caloric content of certain foods and the number of calories burned through certain types of exercises allows users to easily monitor their daily caloric intake in real time and makes the tedious process of calorie counting a simple procedure using an iPhone application.
Currently there does not seem to be any sort of information sharing standards but this application is based on caloric intake, a standard in healthcare, and this information could easily be added to online user health profiles because of the connectivity of the Apple iPhone.
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