https://github.com/chrispritchard/hack-weight

A web app designed to be accessed using mobiles for tracking weight and calorie consumption. Based on the 'Hacker Diet' methodology.
https://github.com/chrispritchard/hack-weight

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A web app designed to be accessed using mobiles for tracking weight and calorie consumption. Based on the 'Hacker Diet' methodology.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/chrispritchard/hack-weight
• Owner: ChrisPritchard
• License: mit
• Created: 2020-07-28T21:12:35.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-09-14T00:46:42.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-03-02T15:22:52.071Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Topics: diet-managment, hackers-diet
• Language: Go
• Homepage:
• Size: 8.33 MB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 0
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Hack Weight: A weight and calorie tracking website/app

A web app designed to be accessed using mobiles for tracking weight and calorie consumption. Based on the [Hacker Diet](https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/e4/) methodology.

## Database

Hack Weight uses a SQLite3 database, that can be created with the following SQL:

```sql

PRAGMA foreign_keys=OFF;

BEGIN TRANSACTION;

CREATE TABLE users ( username string primary key, password string not null );

CREATE TABLE settings ( id integer primary key, username string not null, setting_key string not null, setting_value string not null );

CREATE TABLE weight_entry ( id integer primary key, username string not null, date string not null, weight real not null );

CREATE TABLE calorie_entry ( id integer primary key, username string not null, date string not null, amount integer not null, category string not null );

COMMIT;

```

## Rationale

I've always struggled with weight, largely because I love good food and good beer, and especially pubs that provide both. I also love pizza, which no doubt doesn't help, and the city I live in literally runs a gourmet burger month every year where the challenge is to try as many different, large and rich burgers as you can. Oh, and they also run a pretty good craft beer festival. Add to that my penchant for spending 95% of my waking hours in a chair in front of a screen and...you get an average BMI of 'Obese'.

Around 10 years prior to creating this, I found the Hacker Diet (discovered while browsing Deus Ex text transcriptions from [nuwen.net, the personal blog site of Stephan T. Lavavej](https://nuwen.net)). Giving it a go, I dropped from 105kg down to 82kg, a weight I managed to keep for five years or so until I met my Wife. She shared my preference for good food, beer and company (though she wasn't much of a beer person prior) and we both ballooned. Especially when our dog and then our daughter came alone. Stress relief through technical alcoholism is a thing people.

So I'm doing the diet again, and I thought this time I would knock together an app to support it, in my new favourite language Go. Any excuse, right?