GLP-1 · Portion Changes
Photograph the plate, because portions changed faster than you noticed
Portion perception recalibrates quietly and quickly on these drugs, in both directions. What felt like a small plate in month one becomes an impossible amount by month two, and then — often around a plateau, or after stopping — starts drifting back without any decision being taken. Nobody can see this from inside it, because a plate always looks like a plate. Two photographs eight weeks apart settle it in a second, and taking one costs nothing at the moment when writing a description feels like too much.
For anyone whose idea of a normal plate has quietly changed underneath them.
Where this fits
What this sits alongside
Nothing here sets a portion for you or tells you a plate was too small. Your prescriber is managing the medication and a dietitian is the person to ask whether you're getting enough — neither of those is an app's job. The photos exist so that when one of them asks, there's something honest to compare against instead of a guess.
Why this is hard to keep track of
- A plate is invisible to itself; only two plates side by side mean anything
- Portion sense recalibrates within weeks, so memory of "normal" is already wrong
- Descriptions are worst at exactly the thing that changed most
- Leaving most of a meal stops feeling notable, so it stops being recorded
Worth recording
- A photo of the plate, which takes a second
- How much of it you actually finished, which is the field that matters here
- How you felt half an hour later
- Whether it was served to you or served by you
Cadence
A photo when it's a proper plate of food. Not every sip of soup
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: ["dinner"], photo: true, finished: "about a third")log_fullness(after_min: 10, level: 9)compare_photos(meal: "dinner", window: "3m")get_history(metric: "portion_finished", 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: "portion-changes", 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 portion changes
The same mechanics as everything else here, pointed at what actually matters for this one.
An entry survives a bad week
A sentence, or a tick that a meal happened at all. On the weeks when eating is genuinely hard, the log has to cost less than the meal did — otherwise the record stops exactly when it gets interesting.
Photos, for the thing descriptions miss
Portion sense recalibrates within weeks and nobody can see it happening. Two photographs eight weeks apart settle it instantly.
Mark the date something changed
Your prescriber decides what changes; the log just notes when, so the fortnight either side can be counted against each other instead of recalled.
Side effects with the meal before them
Nausea on its own is a complaint. Nausea with what you'd eaten, how long it lasted and where it fell in the week is something a clinician can work with.
Watching for eating too little
The risk here is rarely eating too much. Missed meals and meals without a protein source are counted and shown to you, because appetite has stopped being the thing that would have told you.
Formatted for the review
Export the window you were asked about, photos included, and take it in. It's the answer to the first question at every appointment.
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: Actual photographs of what you're eating now, which answers a question your clinic asks at every review and that nobody describes accurately.
- 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.
Food Diary
A line per meal when you can. A tick when you can't
Protein
A sentence a meal. No weighing, no packets
Side Effects
When something happens. Ten seconds, at the time
Titration Weeks
Mark the date, then carry on logging as normal
Coming Off
Much lighter than while you were on it. A few entries a week is plenty
Keep the record without it becoming another job
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