Diets
We don't have a favourite diet. We have a record of yours.
Every protocol here works for some people and not others, and the thing that decides which you are is adherence rather than mechanism — which means the interesting data isn't the rule, it's what your weeks actually looked like while you were following it, including the ones where you weren't.
The comparison nobody runs
Head-to-head trials of these approaches keep landing in roughly the same place, with adherence doing most of the explaining. That's an unsatisfying finding at population level and a genuinely useful one for an individual, because it turns the question from "which diet is best?" — unanswerable — into "which of these can I actually keep doing, and what happens to my weeks when I do?" That second question has an answer, and it's in your own log.
What that needs is a record that survives the protocol going sideways. Most diet apps quietly stop being used at the first bad week, which is precisely the week worth having written down — the days it came apart, and what was happening on them, are the most informative entries you will ever make.
What every page here carries
- What the protocol actually involves, including the awkward parts
- An honest line on the evidence, including where it's thin
- Who should talk to a clinician before starting
- What's worth recording, and what it will and won't tell you
No before-and-after photos, no rates, no timelines. We don't know yours and neither does anyone selling you a plan.
Pages in this section
Protocols people are actually following
One page each, written for somebody who has already decided — or is weighing it up and would like a straight answer.
Intermittent Fasting
A line per meal, plus the window when it's not your usual
Mediterranean Diet
A sentence a meal, most days. Missing some is fine
High Protein
A sentence a meal. No weighing, no barcodes
Low Carb
A sentence a meal, plus a note on how the afternoon went
Keto
A sentence a meal, and a note on how the day felt
Calorie Deficit
A line per meal and a weigh-in when you feel like it
Plant-Based
A sentence a meal, most days
Macro Tracking
A sentence a meal. Nothing weighed, nothing looked up
Questions
The things people ask before signing up
Which of these diets is best?
The trials that compare them directly mostly find small differences between approaches and large differences between people who stuck with one and people who didn't. So the useful version of the question is which one you can keep doing — and that's answerable from a few months of your own log rather than from an article.
Will it tell me what to eat on my diet?
No. It records the protocol you're running rather than prescribing one, and it won't set your carbohydrate limit, your fasting window or your protein target. Where a diet is genuinely a clinical matter, the page says so and points at a person.
I'm on medication. Can I follow one of these?
That depends on the medication and it's a question for whoever prescribes it. Fasting and low-carbohydrate approaches can cause hypos in people taking insulin or sulfonylureas, and doses may need reviewing beforehand. Every page in this section lists who should talk to somebody first.
Do I have to count macros or calories?
Not here. If you want genuine gram-level precision — a competition, a clinical plan — weigh your food, and we'll say so plainly rather than pretend a photo can substitute. For everyone else, the structural findings that people actually act on don't need the scales.
What happens when I fall off it for a fortnight?
It gets logged like anything else, without a verdict. Those fortnights are the data that tells you whether a protocol fits your life, which is the thing you're really trying to find out.
Can I track more than one at once?
You can log whatever you're doing — most people's real eating doesn't sit neatly inside one named approach anyway. The sections here are how the pages are organised, not a box your account gets put in.
Early access
Tell us what you're following
We'll set it up with you — recording the parts of your protocol that actually decide whether it works, without a spreadsheet to maintain.
- Founding accounts lock their price for life
- No card, no trial clock, no plan being sold to you
- Export everything you've logged, photos included, whenever you want
Track the protocol, including the weeks it slips
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