Eat well, even when eating feels different.
● Practical nutrition for a changing appetite
Is for people eating less than they used to, and for the people cooking for them. Protein, fluids, fiber, and the nutrients that matter most — worked out for smaller portions, rather than for an appetite you no longer have.
No diet culture · No shame · No one-size-fits-all meal plan
Less appetite can make nutrition harder, not simpler.
"Whether your appetite changed because of GLP-1 treatment, weight loss, recovery, stress, or another reason, the goal is the same: make the food you can manage count."
When you feel full sooner, skip meals without meaning to, or tolerate fewer foods, getting enough nutrition can become difficult. Large portions may no longer work. Advice designed for a typical appetite may stop being useful.
Appetune helps you focus on what matters most: protein, hydration, digestion, nutrient density, strength, and meals you can realistically finish.
Appetune is new, and most of this site is still empty. Guides, tools, recipes, and research briefs stay in draft until a qualified reviewer has signed them off, and that reviewer network is still being recruited. An empty page is easier to explain than an unreviewed one.
Being built — start with your current appetite
A plan built around what you can actually eat.
The Appetune Nutrition Planner is not built yet. When it is, it will start from how often you are managing to eat, which textures are going down at the moment, what you are avoiding and why, and the one thing you most want to be different.
What it will hand back is a shape rather than a prescription: a protein range to take to your care team, a way of spreading it across the meals you actually eat, a drinking routine attached to your day, and a short list of questions for your next appointment. It will not set a personal target for you. Someone who knows your history does that.
See what the planner will doNot built yet · No account needed · No diagnosis
The shape of the output — an example of the format, not a plan
A protein rangeto discuss with your care team, not a number we set for you
A drinking routineattached to fixed points in your day, rather than a daily total
A gradual fiber steponly if fiber is one of the things giving you trouble
Questions for your next appointmentwritten down, so they survive the wait outside the room
Food tools for smaller appetites
When you can eat less, each mouthful has to carry more.
Tool 01 · Protein per Bite
Protein per Bite
It will compare foods by protein per portion you can realistically finish, per calorie, and per gram — filtered by texture, preparation time, and what you are avoiding.
See what it will doTool 02 · Small-Appetite Meal Builder
Small-Appetite Meal Builder
It will put small meals together from portion size, the textures you can manage, the foods that are going down, and how much effort the day allows.
See what it will doTool 03 · Hydration Planner
Hydration Planner
It will build a drinking routine around the fixed points already in your day, rather than a daily total to remember — and it will work inside any restriction your care team has set.
See what it will doTool 04 · Fiber Ramp Planner
Fiber Ramp Planner
It will step fiber up slowly alongside fluid, and track what happens: bloating, constipation, loose stools, or nothing at all.
See what it will doTool 05 · Food Tolerance Journal
Food Tolerance Journal
It will hold a dated record of food, portion, timing, and what followed, so a pattern is on paper instead of in your memory when you get to an appointment.
See what it will doGuidance for every stage · Find your stage · No one-size-fits-all meal plan
Advice written for week one is rarely the advice you need in month nine.
Nutrition needs change through treatment, so the guidance is split by stage rather than by topic — including one stage for the person doing the cooking.
Each pathway will gather the guides, symptom information, tools, and clinician questions that are relevant while you are actually in that stage. The pathways are mapped; the guidance in them is still in draft.
Being built — start with your current appetiteFind your stageThe shape of the output — an example of the format, not a plan
Smaller meals can still be complete meals.
Recipes are led by texture, because texture is usually what decides whether a plate gets eaten — then prep time, then what the portion actually contributes. Each one gives a lower-effort version for a bad day, and a note for whoever is doing the cooking.
A recipe publishes once it has been cooked, tested, and had its nutrition figures recalculated from food-composition records. The two on the site are still in draft, and their figures are marked as illustrative until that recalculation is done.
Designed for the appetite you haveExplore small-appetite recipesEvery medication page here points back at the label.
A medication page here is a plain-language account of what the official label contains — approved uses, common adverse reactions, major warnings, storage — with the prescribing information linked from the top. Those summaries are being written and none has been checked against a current label yet, so the link to the label is the part to use today.
We do not recommend doses, tell you to change medication, or replace your prescriber.
A brief from the library
How much protein preserves muscle when appetite is suppressed by medication?
- Evidence
- Insufficient — not enough evidence to say either way
- Studied in
- Mostly adults in supervised weight-loss programmes, many with resistance training alongside, and mostly predating widespread GLP-1 use. Very little of it in people eating as little as this brief's readers are.
- Uncertain
- Whether the intakes those programmes used apply during medication-driven appetite suppression, where total intake is often much lower and protein is harder to reach at all. The direction is not in doubt; the number is.
- Status
- Drafted, not yet reviewed
Being built — start with your current appetite
Clear answers without pretending every answer is settled.
Nutrition during weight loss and GLP-1 treatment is developing quickly. Appetune separates established guidance from early evidence, explains limitations, and updates content when recommendations, labels, or safety information change.
Every advice-bearing page names its author, its reviewer, the date of that review, and the sources behind it before it is allowed to publish. No brief is published yet.
The Appetune standard
Nothing here uses shame as a motivator.
We do not use shame, fear, before-and-after imagery, or language that treats a smaller body as a moral achievement.
Read our editorial standards- Clear authorship and clinical review
- Direct links to reliable sources
- Practical guidance with visible limits
- Fast updates when official information changes
- Respectful language at every stage
Appetune Notes
Practical nutrition for the week ahead.
The plan is one useful food strategy, one reviewed answer, one small-appetite meal idea, and one research or safety update worth knowing.
Signups are not open yet. There is no first issue to send — nothing on the site has cleared review — so the field is switched off rather than quietly dropping your address.
Not open yet · No diet-culture noise when it is
Make the food you can manage count.
Whether you are the one eating less or the one cooking for someone who is, start from the appetite that is actually in the room today.