FitEat
Eat right, stay light
The problem FitEat solves
It has often been observed that many people just focus on exercising for staying fit and often neglect their calorie intake. This website has been specially designed for them.
We first take the basic details of the user like height, weight, age, exercise level, their goal weight and the no. of weeks they want to achieve their goal in. Then we calculate their basal metabolic rate from height, weight and age. After BMR has been calculated, The per day calorie intake required to achieve the goal is given as a output.
The website also takes food item inputs and calculates the calories consumed in a day. Hence helping the user in keeping a track of their daily calorie input.
Challenges we ran into
We ran into many hurdles while building this project. Overcoming those challenges was very time consuming but fun too. We had to do a lot of research for figuring out the formula which gives the result. Our entire project was dependent on this one formula which we were not able to figure out. After hours of surfing and brainstorming, we finally derived a formula. Then, figuring out how to use the calorie API was the biggest challenge for us. We had to go through the entire documentation (not well written) several times to find it out. The API was very complicated and had a lot of data. We had to filter out the useful data and this was very challenging. Also, the search dropdown was giving us a little trouble but again, we overcame it with trial and error.