Inspiration: An Ex girlfriend that wanted to Lose some Weight.; Obese population in the US and other industrialized nations; Diabetes and Childhood Obesity. Corporate Wellness is an over $7 Billion dollar industry. The Corporate Wellness Services industry has experienced robust growth over the past five years, as many businesses purchased wellness programs to help lower healthcare costs. In response to the burgeoning obese and overweight population, which may increase employer-mandated health insurance costs, many businesses have implemented industry services such as bio-metric screening. During the next five years, industry revenue is forecast to continue increasing as many companies increase the scope of their wellness programs.

What it does: It calculates calories, BMI, Tracks cal. intake and cal. burn rate. HIP will help you lose weight; reduce blood pressure. Consequently, companies are attempting to help employees eat healthier, lose weight and overall become more aware of their health condition. As a result HIP will benefit corporations by helping produce a healthier population is more engaged, and has lower medical insurance underwriting cost. Additionally, it will enable employers to give worker a reduction on their insurance rates based on monitoring with a track-able Health Improvement Plan Wearable and/or Smartphone App. It will also will give companies the ability to go back to their insurance carriers and negotiate lower rates for the company.

How I built it: Using a spread sheet and Project Management methodologies and temp-lets. I am not a programmer but developed knowledge on researching strategies and tactics for losing weight. In addition to work building the framework with charts, tables and graphs for my Ex girlfriend which resulted in a weight lose of 28 pounds and a drop in Body Mass Index (BMI) by almost 4 points. within four months.

Challenges I ran into: Programming and content development.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of: I built the framework for HIP with: charts, tables and graphs for my Ex girlfriend which resulted in a weight lose of 28 pounds and a drop in Body Mass Index (BMI) by almost 4 points within four months. Therefore, with the excel spreadsheet I have built the basis for a program.

What I learned: How to calculate calorie in-take vs. calorie burn rate to establish targets and measurable goals. Additionally, with experience in sales in marketing as well as innovation and creativity, although there are many weight lose apps in the Apple Store for personal use there isn't any marketed directly to corporations for employee wellness and company tracking purposes. Therefore, my goal is to create a program to market and sale HIP to major corporations (vs the App Stores); Wellness organizations.