Inspiration
We're health conscious people trying to gain strength at Georgia Tech. As first years primarily eating at the dinings halls, we were curious to determine the best possible ways for us to meet our dietary health goals.
What it does
It uses a person’s height, weight, and gender to generate GT dining hall-specific meal plans based on their fitness goals (i.e. gain weight, lose weight, maintain weight) and what dining hall they are at. We use the Mifflin-St Jeor Equation to determine what the person needs in their meals.
How we built it
We used Java for our back end and connected it to our react front end using Java Spring.
Challenges we ran into
Parsing the JSON file, debugging, merge conflicts, designing intuitive and appealing UI, API no longer working in the middle.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Our UI, working backend code
What we learned
How to work on a team, how to use react, how to define scope, requirements, and priorities in a large-scale group project.
What's next for Tech Dining Planner
Trying to use other nutrients to ensure that our meals are balanced. Implement a macro tracker that tracks user’s progress and improves meal plan suggestions over time. Implementing features to consider user’s health concerns (ie diabetes, high blood pressure, etc) when developing meal plans.
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