What carries the figure on a day of three items?
The cut, and the fat. A day of eggs, steak and butter is a short list, which sounds easier and is not: with three items instead of nine, a wrong assumption on one of them moves the whole day. A weight is the easy part to say; which version of the food it was is what stays vague.
Mince is the clearest case. The same 200 g is a different meal at 5 percent fat and at 20; say the percentage if the pack gave you one, and it is what the figure is built from. The same holds for a chop with the fat on or off, chicken with skin or without, and a steak whose trimmings stayed on the plate. When your words leave it open, the assistant is asked to settle it before estimating rather than assume the leaner version.
Then the cooking fat, which on these days is rarely incidental: butter in the pan, tallow, the oil a piece of fish sat in. A cooking fat is nearly all fat, so it is dense whatever the jar: oil is about 884 kcal per 100 g and ghee about 876 in USDA FoodData Central, read 15 and 16 September 2026, which puts 10 g of either a little under 90 kcal, while butter is lower because it carries water. Two spoonfuls quietly outweigh a side dish. It goes in as its own item, with the share that was yours if a pan fed two.
What does the day show when a figure is near zero?
The figure, and nothing else. A day with almost no carbohydrate shows almost no carbohydrate: a total in grams like any other, a remainder if you set a carbohydrate target, and no mark, colour or comment either way. The record has no notion of a day being on plan or off it, because it holds no plan: a day total, the calories left against any calorie target you set, and the source of a number on every row is the whole of it.
| On these days | What IZeat does | What it has no view on |
|---|---|---|
| A day of meat, eggs and butter | Records each item with its source | Whether that is a good way to eat |
| Zero grams of carbohydrate | Shows zero, like any other figure | Whether zero is the aim |
| Organ meats, bone broth, tallow | Records what you describe, estimated where nobody weighed it | Whether they belong on the list |
| A day with fruit in it | Records the fruit | Whether the day still counts as paleo |
| Protein far above most targets | Shows it against any target you set | Whether it is too much |
Bottom line: the record describes the plate; the rules about what belongs on it are yours.
The rest behaves as everywhere else: each meal carries its calories and macros with the source on each item, a day with nothing recorded is a gap in the week rather than a zero, and over and under any target are written in the same neutral form. If you set no target at all, the days show their totals and no remainder, which suits people who keep the record to see the figures rather than to hit one.
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 Friday, with a protein target of 180 g and no other figure set.
- 07:30 — "Four eggs fried in 15 g of butter."
- 13:00 — "A ribeye, about 300 g raw, cooked in its own fat, and nothing else."
- 16:00 — "How much protein is left?"
- 19:30 — "500 g of beef mince, the pack says 15 percent fat, and two eggs on top."
- 21:00 — "A spoon of tallow in the pan for the mince, about 10 g." Added to the dinner rather than opening a new meal.
Five sentences, one of them a question, one of them an addition to a meal already recorded. The mince is a reference value for the weight you gave, its percentage deciding the figure, and the eggs are the same, on the standard egg the reply states so you can correct it; the ribeye is a reference value for the raw weight you gave, and had you said only "300 g" the likely reading, weighed cooked, would have been taken and written into the reply for you to correct in a word; the tallow is its own item at the amount you gave. Nothing in the day needed an entry to be found and picked: there is none to find.
What it will not do: IZeat has no view on whether this way of eating suits you, holds no list of what is allowed, and will not tell you that a day was consistent with anything. It records what you say you ate, with the source on each item, and compares it to targets you chose. What to make of the figures is yours, and a professional's if you want one.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers to the questions people type, each one sourced above.
Does IZeat have a paleo or carnivore mode?
No, and it has no mode for any way of eating: no allowed list, no excluded list, no compliance mark and no plan. It records the food you describe with the source on each item and compares the day to whatever targets you set. That is why it works the same on these days as on any other, and why it never tells you a day was on plan.
How do I record the fat a steak was cooked in?
As its own item, with the amount and, if a pan fed two, your share: "a spoon of tallow, about 10 g, and half of it was mine". A rendered animal fat is nearly all fat, so a spoonful is dense whatever the jar, and on a three-item day it is a visible fraction of the total rather than a rounding error. The share you assumed is written into the row, and a correction later is one sentence.
Does the fat percentage of mince matter?
More than almost anything else on these days. The same 200 g of mince is a different meal at 5 percent fat and at 20 percent, so say the percentage the pack gave you. Leave it open and the assistant is asked to settle it rather than assume the leaner version, because assuming lean makes days look smaller than they were.
What about organ meats and bone broth?
They are recorded like anything else: say what it was and how much, and the figure comes from a reference table where one exists for that food, or from an estimate that says so where it does not. Homemade broth is the usual estimate, since what went in and how long it reduced are yours rather than a table's; the row says it was estimated.
Will it show zero carbohydrate?
It shows what the items declared, which on a day of meat, eggs and fat is at or near zero, and it says so plainly with no mark and no comment. If you set a carbohydrate target, the remainder is shown like any other; if you do not, the total is there with no remainder. Nothing in the product treats a low figure as an achievement or a problem.
Is a very high protein intake a problem?
Not a question this record answers. IZeat shows what you ate against the targets you chose and passes no judgement on any figure, high or low; it publishes no ranges and gives no advice. If the amount you are eating is a question you want answered, a doctor or registered dietitian is the person to put it to, with your own record as something to bring.