On GLP-1
A GLP-1 medication changes how hungry you feel, how quickly you fill up, and how long food sits. Everything else on this site follows from that. This section is the map: what changes, when it tends to change, and which page covers each part of it.
Navigational · The guidance itself lives in the linked sections
What changes, and roughly in what order.
Seven pieces, in the order they usually come up. Each is being written as a guide, and none has been through review yet — so this is a plan you can hold us to rather than a menu.
- What GLP-1 medications do, in plain language
- What tends to change, and roughly when
- Preparing to start, before the first dose
- Appetite changes, and why they are not steady
- Dose-change periods, which are their own thing
- Plateaus, and what they do and do not mean
- Questions worth taking to a clinician
None of these has cleared review yet · The stages and tools below are what exists today
The same material, arranged by where you are.
The same material, arranged by the point you are at rather than by topic. If you are cooking for someone else rather than taking the medication yourself, the last stage is written for you.
No stages are published yet
Every stage is drafted and waiting on review. You can still open each one to see what it will gather and what it is waiting on.
How our review works9 stages drafted · Including one for the person doing the cooking
The questions these pages are being written against.
These are the questions the guides above are being written against. Nothing here answers them yet — an answer on this site waits for a reviewer.
- Why can hunger change so quickly, and then change again?
- What is worth sorting out before the first dose?
- How much should food intake be tracked, and for how long?
- Which symptoms should be raised promptly rather than managed at home?
- What can nutrition support, and what can it not fix?
Somewhere to put what you are noticing.
None of them calculate anything yet. Each page sets out what it will ask and what it will hand back.
Tool
Nutrition Planner
Build a starting plan around the appetite you have today: meal frequency, tolerated foods, and the one or two things worth prioritising this month.
In development · not yet reviewed
See what it will doTool
Appointment Prep
Turn a month of small observations into the three or four things worth saying in a short appointment.
In development · not yet reviewed
See what it will doTool
Tolerance Journal
Record what you ate, how much, when, and what happened afterwards, so the pattern is on paper instead of in your memory.
In development · not yet reviewed
See what it will do
The label is the authority, and we link to it.
Appetune does not give dosing guidance and does not tell anyone to start, stop, or change a medication. The medication summaries put the official label into plain language and link you to the label itself.
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
Start from the appetite you have today.
Not the one you had last year, and not the one a standard meal plan assumes.