Diets · Mediterranean Diet
A Mediterranean diet tracker for a way of eating with no finish line
The Mediterranean diet has better evidence behind it than anything else on this page and the worst tooling, for one straightforward reason: there is nothing to count. No window, no macro, no forbidden list. That makes it easy to sustain and impossible to assess, so most people drift for a year and genuinely can't tell whether they're eating this way or just believe they are. A record of what's actually on the plate answers that in a fortnight, without turning any of it into a scoreboard.
For anyone eating this way for the long run rather than for a result by christmas.
What it actually is
Mostly plants, olive oil as the main fat, fish and pulses regularly, meat and heavily processed food rarely, and food eaten with other people. It has the strongest long-term evidence of anything in this section, particularly for heart health, and it is deliberately a pattern rather than a protocol — there are no rules to break, which is both why it lasts and why nobody can tell whether they're actually doing it.
Why this is hard to keep track of
- Nothing to count means nothing to look at, so drift is invisible for a year
- "Mostly plants" is easy to believe about yourself and hard to verify
- The fish and pulses are the parts that quietly disappear first
- Every tracker in existence wants a number this pattern doesn't have
Worth recording
- What was actually on the plate, in plain words
- Fish and pulses — how often, since those go first when a week gets busy
- Whether the meal was cooked, and whether it was eaten with anyone
- The fat you cooked with, which is one of the few concrete markers here
Cadence
A sentence a meal, most days. Missing some is fine
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 4 tools
log_meal(items: ["roast vegetables", "chickpeas", "feta", "bread"], fat: "olive oil")log_context(company: "partner", cooked: true)find_pattern(tag: "fish", window: "8w")compare_periods(metric: "cooked_meals", window: "8w")
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: "mediterranean", 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 mediterranean diet
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: Something to show a GP or a dietitian when they ask how you eat, which is otherwise answered with a hopeful sentence nobody can check.
- 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
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
Keep the record without it becoming another job
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