Appetune tool

Appointment Prep

Turn a month of small observations into the three or four things worth saying in a short appointment.

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Write the page you take in with you

Your questions go at the top, where they will not get lost. Everything else follows in the order a short appointment can use.

Optional. Useful if you are handing the sheet over.

Optional — a name, or just "the dietitian".

Optional.

How you are attending
What you want to come away with

Two or three at most. More than that and the ten minutes goes on the list rather than on the answers.

Questions to ask

These print at the top.

Weight, appetite, medication, a new symptom, a good stretch.

A normal day, described plainly. "Toast, half a yogurt, a few bites of dinner" is more useful than "not much".

The pattern is the part they can use — mornings, after eating, worse on injection days.

Your food journal

Counts only, with their denominators, and the line that says what a count is not.

Where this is kept

The draft is saved in this browser only, and the journal summary is read from the same place. Nothing is uploaded, and deleting it here deletes it.

Nothing you type here leaves your device. There is no account and no server.

What this result is not

  • Not a medical record, and not a referral. It is your own notes, written up before you go in.
  • Not a diagnosis, and not a set of findings. Anything carried over from the journal is a count of what was written down together.
  • Not a replacement for saying the thing out loud. Hand it over, then start with the question at the top.

Where each figure comes from

This tool prints no published figure, so there is no coefficient to trace. Everything it shows is either a count of what you wrote down or a sentence you typed yourself — nothing is borrowed from a study, and nothing is compared against one.

What it asks you

What has changed since last time, what you are managing to eat and drink, which symptoms are limiting you most, and what you want to come away with.

What it gives back

A one-page summary in the order a clinician can use it, with your questions at the top so they do not get lost at the end.

How it works

Every figure a tool produces comes from a structured food record or a published reference, and the working is shown. If a number cannot be traced, the tool does not print it.

How we rate and calculate
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What this draws on

These are the reference works this page is being written against. Specific citations are added, line by line, before it leaves draft.

Bring the output to your next appointment.

A page of specifics is a better use of ten minutes than trying to remember how the month went.

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