What I ate, and why
Humans eat for dozens of reasons and hunger is only one of them. Spaghetti because it's family dinner. Five cookies because you were out all day and suddenly ravenous. Toast because it was all that was in the house. None of those are failures — they're reasons, and reasons are useful.
No calories. No scores. Nothing leaves your browser.
I'm not here to check your plate. I'm here to help you spot the reason underneath it — that's the part that actually changes things.
Today's check-in
Fill in as much or as little as you like. One tap is a complete entry.
What kind of thing was it?
Descriptions only — there's no good column and no bad column.
And why? Pick everything that was true.
Most eating has two or three reasons stacked on top of each other.
How much, roughly?
How did you feel afterwards?
There is no such thing as a bad eater
Food does more than one job
It's fuel, but it's also comfort, culture, celebration, memory and the way a lot of families say I love you. Expecting food to be only nutrition is what makes eating feel like a test.
Too much of a good thing is still fine
Any single food can be eaten past comfort — including the very healthy ones. What matters is the pattern over weeks, not the plate in front of you.
Some reasons aren't about you
Money, time, energy, transport, illness and an empty cupboard decide a huge amount of what people eat. Naming that is honest, not an excuse.
Your patterns, quietly
These appear as you log. Nothing is compared to anyone else, and nothing here is a target.
Long gaps, big evenings
If 'starving after a long gap' and 'past comfortable' keep appearing together, the fix is usually earlier in the day — not more willpower at night.
Feelings doing the ordering
A few comfort-eating entries a week is ordinary human life. If it's most entries, the useful question is what else could sit alongside food, not how to remove it.
Cupboard and wallet reasons
When 'all there was in the house' or 'what I could afford' dominates, that's an environment problem. Food banks, batch cooking and frozen veg beat self-blame.
People-shaped eating
Lots of family and friend entries means your eating is woven into your relationships. That's a strength worth protecting.