• On path or off path (planned meal and quality/quantity)
• Why you did you eat ?
• How are you ?
• Who did you eat with ?
• How was it?
• Where did you eat?
• How was it made?
• How did it make you feel ?

The information is captured on the pictures when one select the day cap option. The following is a visual log of my meals for 5 days with tags of the answers provided on each meal.

The app also provides data visualisation option in various charts and more reporting could have been obtained if you I purchased the full app version. I went for the basic free one which gave a lot of information. It also measured the fasting time based on the my data logging.

Some reflection points on the app data and what I learnt about my eating habits :

• 50% of my meals are out of hunger and rest varies. Being in home office and not being able to go out I believe that’s a good representation. I eat of many other reasons than pure hunger
• most of my eating is while I’m standing. This is usually at the kitchen counter because I’m either eating between calls or during calls!
• Food is most of the time making me satisfied. Although I describe myself a food adventurer and I enjoy a good meal or cooking something new. With the Covid-19 situation food is more than a routine than to make me happy or just stress eating with my guilty and stuffed ratings
• I tend to be on path more during the week and then towards the weekend I loose course!
• I’m impressed that I’m maintaining intermittent fasting without really focusing or counting the hours. I started more than a year ago monitoring my fasting … I guess it is now part of my routine
• Number of meals a day really vary… and it seems when I’m in a lower mood I eat more frequently and more meals.

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Using an application / software for data capturing this week was fun but it had certain limitation compared to the hand-based data recording for the data visualisation assignments. I can also summarise the advantages and disadvantages of having an app/software in the below

Advantages	Disadvantages
Time and date recorded automatically	the type of data captured is based on the app design
Capturing pictures and using the phone as a devise made a lot easier	No flexibility to capture additional data except in free text that is not part of the automated reports
the automatic reports and statistics	The reports are not customisable or you can’t combine two / three types of data to do more analysis
Sharing content	The options / feature are based the cost you are willing to invest
Data visiualtion presentations are neat and easy to read	there is no food content analysis / portions / healthy features etc

The question is: would I use this app on a regular basis beyond this assignment / task ? I doubt I would because of it is not linking it to my health or weight management and it doesn’t offer recommendations to improve quality or quantity.