How do very small, frequent meals fit into a day?
In the six named meals a day already has: breakfast, morning snack, lunch, afternoon snack, dinner and evening. Each one holds a list of items rather than a single food, so a day of five or six small intakes fits without stretching anything. "30 g of scrambled egg and two spoonfuls of yoghurt" is one meal with two items, said in one sentence.
What happens when you eat again an hour later is the part worth knowing. A day holds one meal of each type, so saying a second breakfast is refused rather than silently recorded twice; the reply says that breakfast already exists, that nothing was recorded, and offers the two honest options, add the food to it, or record it under the next meal if it belongs there. "Add 50 ml of soup to the morning snack" is the sentence, and the receipt names what the morning snack now contains and gives its new totals with the old ones beside them.
Small amounts are said the way you know them: millilitres for anything liquid, grams where you have a scale, a spoon count where you do not. A shake or a supplement drink usually has a label: show it, the values are read back to you before anything is stored, and you say how much of the bottle you actually finished. The row then carries its source, like any other.
Who sets the numbers after surgery?
The team following you, without exception. Whatever your team covers, protein, fluids, supplements, what you can eat and when, is clinical and theirs to set and revisit. IZeat publishes no figures about any of it, holds no reference of its own, and computes nothing.
What it does is hold the figure you were given and show the distance to it. "From today, the protein figure they gave me" is stored with its date, and every read of the day says how many grams are left of it; when the team changes the figure, the new one is dated from the day you name and the earlier one stays in the history, so an earlier week still reads against what applied then. What the assistant you connect adds around those figures is its own; IZeat's replies carry no remark on how much you ate.
| The question | Who answers it | What IZeat does |
|---|---|---|
| How much protein a day | Your surgical or dietetic team | Stores the figure, dated; shows the grams left |
| What you can eat at this stage | The same | Nothing: no stages, no lists, no warnings |
| Fluids and supplements | The same | Records anything you describe, like any item |
| Whether today was enough | Not a question the record takes | Records the day and says nothing about it |
| Whether to keep a record at all | You, with your team | Exports the record as CSV or JSON, with one download for each format; deletes the account on request |
Bottom line: your team sets the figures; the record's job is to hold small amounts faithfully.
What does one day look like, end to end?
IZeat is the calorie tracker inside ChatGPT, Claude or any other assistant. Tell the assistant you already use what you ate instead of searching for foods and entering them one by one. A Thursday, with a protein target from the team and no calorie target.
- 07:30 — "30 g of scrambled egg and a spoon of yoghurt, about 20 g."
- 09:45 — "Half a protein shake, 125 ml, here is the label." Recorded as the morning snack.
- 10:30 — "Another 60 ml of the same shake." Added to the morning snack, which is shown again with its new totals.
- 13:00 — "Two spoonfuls of dal and a little rice, maybe 40 g in all." An estimate with the amount stated.
- 17:00 — "How much protein is left?" The read gives the day's totals and the grams still to go, with no comment on either.
Five sentences, five small intakes, one of them an addition rather than a new meal. The shake comes from its label and is recorded twice into the same meal, the egg and the rice are reference values and estimates for what you said. No receipt remarks on how small any of it was, because none of them ever does.
Said plainly: IZeat is a food record. It is not medical advice and not a substitute for anyone qualified, and it has no part in your care. It does not know you have had surgery, holds no weight and no measurements, gives no advice, and cannot tell you whether a day met what your team asked for. Those questions belong with them, and what the record gives you is an inspectable account of what was recorded, with the estimates visible.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers to the questions people type, each one sourced above.
Can I record five or six tiny meals a day?
Yes: a day has six named meals, breakfast, morning snack, lunch, afternoon snack, dinner and evening, and each holds a list of items rather than one food. Small amounts are said as you know them, in millilitres, grams or spoonfuls, and the assistant is asked to convert what you said and keep your own words beside the figures it records.
How much protein should I be getting?
That figure is your team's, and IZeat publishes none. Only your team can set that figure, and this page offers no range on purpose. Tell IZeat the figure you were given and it is stored from the day you name, with every read of the day showing how many grams are left of it.
Can I track protein without calories?
Yes. A target can carry calories, protein, carbohydrate and fat, and any one alone is a complete target; with protein only, each read gives the grams left of it while the calories are still recorded and shown as totals, with no remainder since none was set. Nothing in the product pushes you toward setting more than your team asked for.
Does IZeat know the stages my team talks about?
No. It holds nothing of the kind: no stages, no food lists, no textures, no warnings and no advice anywhere in the product; it records what you describe and reports the figures. What you can eat and when is between you and the team following you. If you want a record of what you actually managed at each stage, that is what it can give you, with the uncertain rows marked as uncertain.
Can I share the record with my team?
Yes, and the history is there as well as today: the figures you were given, with the dates they started, and each day read against the one in force at the time. The account page exports all of it as CSV or JSON, with one download for each format, and the web app shows any day or week on screen if you would rather look at it together.