Patent ID: 8466379

Claim:
A portable apparatus for measuring eating rates and satiety levels of a user, comprising: a food device for supporting food disposed thereon; a scale disposed below the food device, the scale having means for measuring, at predetermined time intervals, a weight of the food disposed on the food device; a communication device being in communication with the scale and having means for displaying a predetermined continuously descending concave-shaped eating rate curve and a predetermined normal satiety level sigmoid curve; the communication device having means for displaying, on a display, an amount of the food the user removes from the food device; the communication device having means for receiving information about satiety levels of the user at the predetermined time intervals; and the communication device having means for simultaneously displaying the measured weight and the amount of food removed by the user from the food device as a continuously descending eating rate and the satiety levels of the user at the predetermined time intervals, the communication device having means for displaying the satiety levels of the user at the predetermined time intervals adjacent to the predetermined normal satiety level sigmoid curve and means for displaying the continuously descending eating rate of the user at the predetermined time intervals adjacent to the predetermined continuously descending concave-shaped eating rate curve.