About Ozer App Demo...

Why Use Ozer

Use OZER if you want to monitor your daily calorie intake, exercise, and intermittent fasting, and how it effects weight. OZER collects and groups corresponding information by month (max 12 months of history will be maintained).

You can list food items you have consumed for a meal in a free form statement. The app will recognize food items (match them to the best ability to items from your customized food list), split and calculate calorie intake. Prerequisite is for everybody to customize the food list.

Please, note that exercise activities are recorded and maintained by the application in a similar fashion, but the list of exercise activity types, supported by the app, is not customizable. Use 'personal training' option, if the application will not be able to match the activity you are trying to enter.

Voice & Usability

You can use voice to dictate, or type natural language statement (multiple food items or exercise types at once, but without portion or exercise time, only descriptions).

As for portions or exercise time, default values are used at first, when you dictate. You can update them always via keyboard, after the initial voice entry.

Integration with Google Assistant for recording food intake per meal and for logging exercise is implemented in Ozer as well. If you choose to use Google Assistant, you can say, for example: "Ask Ozer to log that I ate baked salmon and rice for dinner." As for exercise entry via Google Assistant you can say: "Ask Ozer to log that I walked for half an hour."

Testing revealed however, that when I dictate the whole meal list, Google Assistant might not delegate this entry to Ozer, but instead would show web search result.

Personal Food List

OZER comes with general food list split by food categories. 70+ food items, mostly fruits and vegetables, for end-user convenience are preloaded. In order to streamline daily calorie intake logging, extend the food list by entering food items of your choice.

Most of us use approximately 40+ food items (food dishes), therefore some time (measured in minutes) has to be invested up front. Ozer provides assistance to address this requirement. In order to ensure that food list can be extended quickly Ozer generates dynamic web link, based on food description, selected portion type and size.

Generated link will lead to a Google search result. Number of calories mentioned in the search results can be entered to complete food item entry. Thus food or dish entry relies on 4 simple steps: enter food description by voice; select portion type and size, press the link, review the results, return to OZER and enter the calories.

Please, note that Ozer can only provide approximation for the daily calorie intake. While the numbers will not be exact, nevertheless, seeing these numbers against BMR provided for myself enough control, I hope that it can be helpful for you as well.

Ozer's services certainly are not enough for people, who need to measure nutritional values in multidimensional way (e.g. protein, sodium, etc.), following prescribed medical advice.

Visual Monthly Progress

OZER will store daily captured weight, food intake and exercise related data for 12 month. You will be able to see for how many days in the month the information was captured/logged.

Monthly data presented with the visual plot of weight versus daily calorie intake, and minus calories burnt via exercise. This view can assist in understanding your overall progress.

Intermittent Fasting Notifications

Application allows to schedule intermittent fasting notifications. It shows intermittent fasting progress in the main view, labelled Monitoring.

NLP Technique & Food Logging

NLP stands for natural language processing, in Ozer a natural language statement, containing multiple food item descriptions or exercise types, is processed by recognizing and extracting them, matching them with food list items and exercise types descriptions, correspondingly.

If recognition is not successful for food items, if no any partial matches are found, you will be notified by a warning; for exercise type, if not recognized, the suggestion is to use 'personal training' option.

For all recognized food or exercise items appropriate calculations are done, and the results are available for the quick and easy update, editing.

Let us consider an example. My personalized food list contains 2 food items, both with 'cauliflower' and 'soup' in the description. If in my statement, while recording, logging food intake, there will be a 'cauliflower soup', both soups will be selected by Ozer. This doesn't represent a problem, since you can remove extra item by a simple click, only requires extra effort. Please, keep this in mind, while customizing your food list. To minimize this extra review effort, unique and simple labelling of your custom food items is desirable.

Personal Story

This story is personal, and is not intended as medical, or health advice. My name is Victoria Farber, and I have retired 2 years ago after 40+ years in IT industry, developing and architecting systems, using various platforms, tools, etc.

I was struggling with weight management after I was approximately 30, don't remember exactly the year. The struggle was progressing after I've been diagnosed with autoimmune disorders. While on the job, there was not much time and energy to focus on weight loss. Because of spinal stenosis, significantly effecting my mobility, at some point I had no choice, but to start paying attention to what can be done to improve the quality of my life.

I have tried almost all well known diet approaches, they worked for a short period, and than weight was coming back adding more to my frustration.

After I've retired, I've decided to try to control my food intake and measure it against my BMR, knowing the limitations, of course. I just wanted to see the approximate numbers and try to be in control. I saw that tracking my nutrition intake is working for me.

First, I tried to use the available apps, I've tried a few. While I was using one of them, I have realized that I need something simpler, without all the medical advices, diets, enormous food lists to select from. I need something easily customizable and to reduce my daily effort to maximum few minutes. I want to be able to say in free form statement what I ate for lunch, dinner, breakfast, and I want to be able to follow my intermittent fasting schedule. Plus I want to see compare nutrition intake grows, reduction tendency against my weight grows, reduction tendency, for example. And so I've created an app, a prototype app for myself on Android. Yes, I was able to loose 10kg in 7-8 months and keep it off.

Is the nutrition intake counting precise? Absolute not, but it provided the ability to truck my activities and be aware. I am so accustomed with my quick routine, that I can hardly imagine how can have managed before.

There are many applications on the market, created and maintained by large teams with a lot of professional advice and a lot of various features. Ozer is not like that and will never be! If you are like me and want a simple, easily customizable way of trucking your daily activities, please, try it. This demo version is absolutely free, and has all the features I've used on my journey.

Feedback would be greatly appreciated!