GLP-1 · Protein
Protein is the thing to watch, and appetite is no help at all
This is the one thing almost every clinician raises and almost nobody can answer. Losing weight quickly costs muscle as well as fat, protein is the main lever against that, and appetite — the thing that would normally get protein onto the plate — has been turned down to nothing. So intake drops without any decision being made about it. You don't need a gram count to see this. You need to know which of your two or three small meals a day had a protein source in them, and that's a sentence.
For anyone trying to keep protein up while appetite is down.
Where this fits
What this sits alongside
Whether you need more protein, and how much, is a question for your clinic or a dietitian — they know your bloods and your history and we don't. What a log adds is the part they can't see: which of your meals actually contain any.
Why this is hard to keep track of
- Gram counting needs weighing, and weighing does not survive a month of nausea
- Appetite used to do this work automatically and no longer does
- Two small meals a day makes every single meal count, and nothing tracks which ones did
- Shakes and supplements get bought, used for a fortnight, and forgotten unrecorded
Worth recording
- Whether the meal had a protein source, and roughly what
- Which meal it was — the gap is nearly always meal-shaped
- Whether a shake or supplement was actually taken, as opposed to owned
- Strength and energy, in your own words, over months
Cadence
A sentence a meal. No weighing, no packets
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: ["coffee", "toast, half a slice"], meal: "breakfast")log_meal(meal: "lunch", happened: false)log_meal(items: ["scrambled egg"], meal: "dinner")log_note(text: "protein shakes make me nauseous")find_pattern(group_by: "meal", tag: "protein_source")
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: "protein", 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 protein
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: A month of real meals for a dietitian to read at a glance, instead of a conversation that starts with "so, roughly, what do you have in a day?"
- 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
Side Effects
When something happens. Ten seconds, at the time
Portion Changes
A photo when it's a proper plate of food. Not every sip of soup
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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