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Minimum Viable Nutrition
A weight-reduction protocol documented like infrastructure — runbooks, telemetry, failure modes, rollback procedures. Built by someone who doesn't cook, eats most meals out, and won't tolerate daily tracking.
Look at July 10. That 195.8 sits between a 198.4 and a 198.6 — a single low reading, not a milestone. It got logged as an achievement at the time. Low outliers are more dangerous than high ones: a bad number gets scrutinized, a good one gets promoted to your new baseline. On August 21, the exact same number showed up again — a genuine coincidence, not a pattern. The four-week average moved from 197.7 to 197.2, real but small. Two more Fridays will say whether this is real. Both readings are in the product, unedited.
246 → 198 / what this is
Three things that make it different
Built around real constraints
No cooking skill. No calorie logging. No daily rituals. A system that assumes discipline you don't have is a system that's already broken.
It rates its own claims
Every parameter is marked well-supported, reasonable, or personal preference — with a table telling you which half you can drop and still get most of the result.
It solves eating out
Roughly half of all meals happen somewhere you don't control. A ninety-second procedure for reading an unfamiliar menu, plus documented verdicts on thirty-odd venues.
8 modules / what's inside
The workspace
- Boot Sequence
- The origin, the full unedited telemetry, and how to establish your own baseline.
- Core Config
- The protocol parameters, each with a confidence rating and an honest note on what the evidence supports.
- Inventory
- A live database of what's in your kitchen, linked to the recipe library — so meal selection becomes a lookup, not a decision.
- Component Library
- 45 recipes as modular assembly, named so you can scan the whole list in fifteen seconds.
- Field Operations
- The largest module. Menu-reading procedure, restaurant and grocery verdicts, playbooks for conferences, catered dinners, and travel.
- Telemetry
- The weekly cadence, the dashboard schema, and how to read a trend line that isn't monotonic.
- Deployment Cadence
- Three review loops with separate authority, so you stop changing a working protocol in response to noise.
- Rollback Procedures
- Failure taxonomy, plateau audit, and how to resume after stopping for three months.
$49 / getting it
Available now
Full Workspace
$49
Instant delivery — click purchase, get a link, click Duplicate, and it's your own fully editable copy. Nothing shared back, nothing dependent on my account staying accessible.
Buy Now — $49One-time purchase. An optional $7/mo tier is available after purchase for quarterly content refreshes — never required.
Free Waitlist
Free
Not ready to buy yet? Join the list — it's also where I'll publish the follow-up sleep study results when they come back, better, unremarkable, or unchanged.
No spam. The list exists to share the results and nothing else.
Scope / plainly
What you're actually buying
A well-organized Notion workspace containing one person's documented protocol, the reasoning behind it, and a decision procedure for eating outside your own kitchen.
Not a coaching program. Not a community. Not an app. There's no check-in, no accountability partner, and nothing requiring my ongoing attention — that's deliberate, and it's why it costs $49 instead of $200 a month.
If you want someone in your corner, this is the wrong product and you should buy something else.
AHI 39.49 / read before buying
Honest disclosures
I was on CPAP the entire time.
Prescribed after my baseline sleep study. Any improvement in my apnea can't be cleanly attributed to weight loss — two interventions ran concurrently. This is not a way to avoid the machine.
I don't have post-protocol clinical results yet.
The follow-up study is pending. When it returns — better, unremarkable, or unchanged — it gets published unedited.
This is a case study, not a prescription.
It was engineered for one person with one diagnosis. The architecture adapts. The specific parameters are mine.
It isn't appropriate for everyone.
If you're pregnant or nursing, have a history of disordered eating, manage type 1 diabetes, or are under 18 — this isn't for you, and I'd rather say so than take your money. The fasting component in particular can require medication adjustment. Talk to your doctor first.
FAQ / questions
Before you ask
How fast do I actually get it?
Under a minute. Click purchase, a link arrives, click Duplicate, pick a workspace — that's it. No waiting, no manual step on my end.
Do I need to be technical?
No. The vocabulary is engineering-flavored — runbooks, telemetry, failure modes — but nothing requires a technical background. If you're comfortable with a spreadsheet, you're fine.
What if I don't cook?
That's the design constraint the whole thing was built around. Every recipe is assembly rather than cooking, and the largest module is about eating in places you don't control.
Does "Cook Tonight" instantly know what I have?
Not on day one, and I'd rather say so than let you find out the hard way. It filters recipes to what's actually in your kitchen, but that requires linking each recipe to its ingredients — which happens naturally the first time you cook it, not automatically the moment you buy the workspace. Link a handful of recipes through real use over a few weeks and it gets genuinely useful. Trying to link all 45 upfront is a chore nobody should do.
What's the $7/month tier?
Optional, offered after purchase, never required. Quarterly refreshes: new restaurant verdicts, seasonal menu re-audits, new recipe modules. The core workspace is complete without it.
Wasn't this waitlist-only for a while?
Yes — briefly. Payment processors won't approve checkout for a product that isn't finished, and they're right to be cautious about that. The workspace is finished now, checkout is live, and this page reflects that.
Will this cure my sleep apnea?
No, and be skeptical of anything claiming otherwise. Weight loss reduces AHI in the clinical literature, but it's not a fixed exchange rate, it doesn't work identically for everyone, and it doesn't reliably eliminate apnea on its own. It's an adjunct to treatment — not a replacement for your sleep physician or your CPAP.