No food diary. No calorie math. No portion scale. Just a number of bites per day, tracked with a tap.
GLP-1 medications worked by suppressing your appetite — specifically by slowing how fast your stomach emptied and signaling your brain that you were full sooner. When you stop the medication, those signals diminish. Hunger comes back.
Bite counting is the behavioral version of that same mechanism. Each bite averages roughly 55 calories. By keeping your daily bite count in a target range, you're indirectly keeping your total calorie intake in range — without tracking a single calorie.
But there's another layer: your stomach has stretch receptors that adapt to whatever volume you regularly eat. GLP-1 trained them lower. When you stop, they recalibrate upward — which is why hunger feels more intense in the first few days. Consistent bite restriction retrains them downward again, usually within 1–3 days. After that, the lower intake starts to feel normal.
From onboarding to progress tracking — here's exactly how BiteBuddy works.
When you first reduce your bite count, you may feel hungrier than usual. This is normal — and it's temporary.
Your stomach stretch receptors are recalibrating to the new, lower volume. It usually takes 1–3 days of consistent eating at the lower level before that hunger signal settles down. After that, the new bite count starts to feel like enough.
If hunger is intense but manageable, stick with it — the discomfort is the adaptation happening.
If you experience severe dizziness, chest pain, extreme fatigue, or anything that genuinely worries you, please reach out to your healthcare provider.
BiteBuddy uses your height, weight, age, gender, and activity level to estimate your Total Daily Energy Expenditure (TDEE) — the number of calories your body uses each day. That number is then divided by 55 (our average calories-per-bite estimate) to give you a bite goal that matches your maintenance needs.
For someone choosing to lose 1 lb per week, we subtract 500 calories before converting — a standard, safe deficit. We never suggest a bite goal that would put you below a safe calorie floor for your body size.
Your goal isn't fixed. As your weight, activity, and habits change, your AI coach can suggest adjustments — or you can recalculate anytime in Settings.
Three steps. One number. That's all.
Answer a few quick questions about your GLP-1 journey, current stats, and goal. BiteBuddy calculates a personalized bite goal based on your actual size and activity level — not a one-size-fits-all number.
Use the big button on your phone or your watch. Each tap logs one bite. That's the whole system. No food diary, no macro math, no weighing portions.
Your AI coach checks in daily, tracks your weight trend weekly, and suggests small adjustments when needed. You stay steady without having to think about it.