Food Diary App

There's a reason nutritionists ask you to keep a food diary: you're bad at remembering what you ate. Everyone is. We forget the handful of crackers, the extra coffee, the "just a bite" of someone else's dessert. A week of honest tracking is often a revelation.

The problem with most food diary apps is they turn eating into data entry. Scanning barcodes, weighing portions, hitting macros – it works for some people (bodybuilders, mostly), but for everyone else it becomes a chore that lasts about two weeks before you give up.

A simpler approach

You don't need to track every gram. What actually helps is writing down what you ate in plain language: "Oatmeal for breakfast. Leftover pizza for lunch. Too much pasta at dinner." That's it. No calorie math, no scanning, just a record.

With OhDiary, you can add a simple calorie estimate to your diary entry if you want, but you don't have to. The point is noticing patterns: Do you eat more when stressed? Skip meals and then overeat? Snack out of boredom in the afternoon?

What you'll actually learn

• You eat more than you think. Almost everyone does. Seeing it written down is clarifying.
• Time and mood matter. When and why you eat often matters more than what you eat.
• Patterns are obvious once you look. The "I'm so good all week then blow it on weekends" cycle becomes impossible to ignore.

If you've tried food tracking before and hated it, try the simpler version. A few words about each meal. No calculations. See what you notice after a week.