Diets · Low Carb
A low carb tracker that records how you feel, not just what you cut
Low carb rarely fails at the start and often fails at week five, in a completely specific way: the first fortnight is easy and encouraging, the energy dip hits, the evenings get harder, and one bad week takes the whole thing with it. All of that is visible in advance if it's written down, and none of it is visible in an app that only records what you removed. The useful log here is what you ate plus how the afternoon and the evening actually went.
For people eating fewer carbohydrates and wanting to know what it's actually doing.
What it actually is
Reducing carbohydrate, usually without the strictness of keto, often as a way of eating fewer calories without counting them. It works for a lot of people for exactly that reason. Two things get overstated: the early weight change is substantially water as glycogen stores empty, and long-term trials against other approaches mostly land in the same place. The version that holds up is the one you can still be doing in six months.
Why this is hard to keep track of
- The first two weeks are mostly water and everyone reads them as the trend
- The energy dip lands around week two and takes the plan with it if it's a surprise
- Evenings are where it comes apart, and evenings are the worst-logged part of any diary
- Carb counting apps record grams and miss all of it
Worth recording
- What you ate, in plain words. The carbohydrates are obvious enough
- Energy through the afternoon, which is where the first two weeks show up
- Evening eating, since that's the usual failure mode
- Weight if you want it, read as a trend and not as a day
Cadence
A sentence a meal, plus a note on how the afternoon went
In practice
Say it once, or photograph it
The entries most worth having are the ones made at the exact moment nobody wants to fill in a form. A sentence — typed, dictated, or replaced entirely by a photo of the plate — is a much lower bar, and it carries the context a calorie field would have thrown away.
Called 5 tools
log_meal(items: ["eggs", "avocado"], meal: "breakfast")log_meal(items: ["chicken salad"], meal: "lunch")log_meal(items: ["salmon", "green beans"], meal: "dinner")log_energy(level: 2, at: "15:00")log_craving(type: "bread", at: "21:00", acted_on: false)
Every figure here was counted from entries you made. The model chose which tools to call — it doesn't score the meal, estimate calories from a photo, or decide what any of it says about you.
And then ask
The question the log can answer
Months of entries hold real answers to the things you've been guessing at, and reading them properly has always meant a spreadsheet and a free evening — which is exactly what nobody has.
Ask in plain language. The answers come back with the counts behind them, including when those counts are too thin to mean anything yet — which is the more useful answer far more often than people expect.
Called 3 tools
get_history(topic: "low-carb", window: "6m")find_pattern(group_by: "context")compare_periods(metric: "entries")
Counts and averages over your own entries, nothing more. Where the data is confounded or too thin, the answer says so instead of rounding it into a conclusion.
What it does
Set up around low carb
The same mechanics as everything else here, pointed at what actually matters for this one.
Log the protocol as you're living it
What you ate, in a sentence, plus whatever this particular protocol turns on — a window, a training day, a threshold. No spreadsheet to maintain.
The parts that drift
Windows stretch, thresholds creep, and the rule you're following in month three is rarely the one you started with. Drift is obvious in a record and invisible from inside it.
Whether it's actually doing anything
The question every protocol dodges. Answered here by comparing your own weeks against each other, rather than against a claim from a website.
Straight about the evidence
Where the research is strong we say so, and where a popular claim doesn't hold up we say that too. You can get the marketing version anywhere.
The weeks it slips are the useful ones
Adherence is what separates protocols that work from protocols that don't. The days it came apart, and what was happening on them, are the most informative entries in the whole log.
Something to review with someone
Several of these interact with medication. A real record of what you ate and how it went is what makes that a conversation rather than a guess.
The reason a lot of people start
Something to actually bring to the appointment
You get fifteen minutes, and the first question is always some version of "so what does a normal week look like?" — which nobody on earth can answer accurately from memory.
What this gives you: A record of what changed and when, which is what makes a conversation about adjusting medication or approach possible at all.
- Export the date range you were asked about, as a file you can print
- Photos alongside the entries, which say more than any description
- Counts and timings rather than an impression of the worst week
- Nothing shared anywhere unless you choose to share it
What it won't do
- Score a meal, or sort food into good and bad
- Estimate calories from a photo and present the guess as a number
- Set you a calorie target, a macro target, or a weight
- Run a streak you can break, or tell you that you've fallen behind
- Comment on your body. The photos here are of food
- Diagnose anything, or suggest that a pattern is a diagnosis
It's a notebook that can do arithmetic and answer questions about itself. Deciding what any of it means is a job for you and the people advising you.
Early access
Start with what you're already trying to hold in your head
Tell us what you've been trying to keep track of and we'll set it up with you — recording the thing that's actually useful, at a cadence that survives a bad week.
- Founding accounts lock their price for life
- No card, no trial clock, no notification designed to make you feel behind
- Export everything you've logged, photos included, whenever you want
Also here
The rest of the picture
These overlap constantly, which is the point — the answer to a question about one of them is very often sitting in another one's data.
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
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
Keep the record without it becoming another job
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