Logging food when you barely want to eat

On a GLP-1 the hard part of food logging isn't willpower — it's that you're not hungry, you eat less, and the one number that matters most is the one most apps bury. Glipath logs a meal four ways and puts protein at the top.

Four ways to log, because no single one always works

Photo — point the camera at the plate and the scan estimates what's in it, which you can correct before saving. Barcode — for anything with a label. Search — a food database with grouped variants, so "chicken breast" doesn't mean scrolling through forty near-identical rows. By hand — for your own recipes and the things no database has. The photo scan is the fastest and the least precise; the other three exist because sometimes you want the exact number.

Protein first, not calories first

Most food apps are calorie counters that mention protein somewhere below the fold. On a GLP-1 that ordering is backwards: appetite drops, intake drops with it, and protein is the thing you have to be deliberate about to protect lean mass while losing weight. Glipath shows the day's protein where you look first. The research on why — and the intake ranges studies point to — is in our article on protein and muscle.

What the scan is honestly good at

Protein, carbohydrate, fat and calories from a photo are a good estimate, and you can adjust every detected item and its portion before it's saved. Micronutrients are not: the food databases behind this simply don't carry reliable per-item micronutrient data, so we don't show numbers we can't stand behind. If you need precision for a particular meal, use the barcode or search instead of the camera.

It connects to the rest of the log

Food sits next to your doses, weight, side effects and food noise in the same private log, which is the point of having it in the tracker rather than a separate app. Whether eating changes across the dose cycle is a question only a log that holds both can answer.

What it costs

Logging food by barcode, search or hand is free and unlimited. AI photo scans are one a day free, unlimited on Premium — the scan is the only part with a real per-use cost behind it. The full line is on the what's free page.

Glipath records what you log and shows you the totals. It does not prescribe a diet, set a calorie or protein target for you, or give nutrition advice — those belong to you and your clinician or dietitian.

Track food where your doses already are