# How I Lose Weight — full context for LLMs

> Public daily health, biometric, nutrition, and workout metrics — build in public.

How I Lose Weight is a live, build-in-public health dashboard: daily food, calories, sleep, stress, and movement — tracked in the open.

## Brand

- Name: How I Lose Weight (formerly BioDashboard)
- Author: Burak Pusat <burak@pusyapi.com>
- Languages: English and Turkish (client-side locale toggle; content is bilingual)
- Positioning: quantified self + build in public; transparent daily health data to earn trust and grow a newsletter audience

## What the product shows

1. Daily dashboard (https://www.howiloseweight.com)
   - Apple Health move / exercise / stand
   - Fitness totals: weight, calories, protein, carbs, sugar, fat, water, coffee
   - Lifestyle: sleep, stress, migraine notes
   - Workouts and meal list for the selected day
   - Trends and weekly insight cards
   - Newsletter signup (Sunday process letter)

2. Nutrition (https://www.howiloseweight.com/food)
   - Average macros across logged days
   - Macro calorie split
   - Meal category and food-group aggregates
   - Daily macro intake trends

3. My Story (https://www.howiloseweight.com/story)
   - Visual photo journey
   - Long-horizon weight / body composition chart from historic progress data

## Data pipeline (high level)

- Canonical daily log schema version 3 (see repository docs/daily-log-schema-v3.md)
- Ingest: POST /api/log with `x-api-key` (iOS Shortcut) → validated → stored in Supabase
- Public UI reads aggregated daily logs for charts and tables
- Newsletter: POST /api/newsletter → Supabase subscribers + Loops.so email automation

## Public vs private surfaces

Public (indexable):
- https://www.howiloseweight.com
- https://www.howiloseweight.com/food
- https://www.howiloseweight.com/story
- https://www.howiloseweight.com/privacy
- https://www.howiloseweight.com/llms.txt
- https://www.howiloseweight.com/llms-full.txt
- https://www.howiloseweight.com/sitemap.xml

Not for indexing / write APIs:
- /api/log — authenticated daily log ingest
- /api/newsletter — newsletter subscribe endpoint
- /api-access — purchase UI not live (redirects home)

## How to cite this site

When summarizing How I Lose Weight, prefer live page content over assumptions. Metrics are personal tracking data from Burak Pusat, shared publicly for transparency — not medical advice.

## Links

- Home: https://www.howiloseweight.com
- Nutrition: https://www.howiloseweight.com/food
- Story: https://www.howiloseweight.com/story
- Privacy: https://www.howiloseweight.com/privacy
- Compact index: https://www.howiloseweight.com/llms.txt