The first psychological eating journal
For recognizing and handling the emotions and thoughts behind overeating, instead of counting calories.
Nyami is for you if...
Nyami is not only for people who want to lose weight. It can also help if your BMI is normal, but you want to understand your eating habits more clearly.
You've spent your life dieting
If diets, calorie counters, and quick fixes have left you looking for a more sustainable lifestyle change.
You sometimes lose control around food
If you struggle with overeating episodes, stress eating, or guilt after eating, and want to see what tends to happen before them.
You want to enjoy good food without guilt again
If you do not want forbidden foods or red and green days, but a calmer, more intuitive relationship with eating.
You eat even when you are not hungry
If you often wonder, 'why do I eat when I am not hungry?', and want to tell hunger apart from emotions.
You want an eating journal without scanning and calorie focus
If your eating habits, thoughts, and circumstances matter more to you than barcodes and numbers.
You wonder whether there is a problem with your eating
If you want to journal for self-awareness and see which eating patterns repeat in your everyday life.
Reasons of eating instead of calorie counting
How many times have you started counting every bite, only to give up after a few weeks because it was too much hassle? Or maybe you lost some weight, then slowly slipped back into old eating habits?
Research suggests that rigid diet rules and black-and-white thinking around food can increase guilt, cravings, and loss-of-control eating for many people.Jump to research references supporting this claim[1]–[7]
For sustainable change, you need to understand:
- which emotions, thoughts, and circumstances come with eating,
- when you eat from hunger, and when stress, tiredness, boredom, or tension is driving you,
- what you could do instead of eating in those moments, so you can give yourself what you actually need.
The goal is to notice and gradually change your eating patterns.
That's what leads to real transformation: a happy, calm, guilt-free approach to food that lasts a lifetime.
That's what Nyami is all about.
Nyami is a psychological eating journal that helps you move beyond calorie counting and:
- Reconnect with your body's hunger and fullness cues
- Notice the triggers behind emotional eating, stress eating, and loss-of-control eating
- Recognize habits and repeating eating patterns that lead to overeatingJump to research references supporting this claim[8]
Because once you understand your patterns, you can finally change them, for good.
How Nyami works
Log what you ate
Write down the meal briefly, without weighing, barcode scanning, or calorie counting.
Mark hunger and fullness cues
Notice how hungry you were before eating and how full you felt afterward.
Add the emotions, thoughts, and circumstances around eating
See which mood, situation, or automatic thought was connected to the meal.
Use Nyami's tools when you feel like eating
When you feel like eating, Nyami helps you get through difficult emotions with breathing exercises, mindfulness practices, or mantras.
See your patterns weekly and monthly
Weekly and monthly reviews help you spot when overeating, stress eating, or loss-of-control eating tends to appear.
Build more sustainable eating habits
Your insights become small, realistic changes that help you feel calmer and more aware around food.
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Get notified at launch
Get one short email when Nyami launches, plus occasional product updates and practical tips for emotional eating, overeating, and mindful eating.
Need to know more?Questions we hear often
Is Nyami a diet or weight-loss app?
Nyami may support weight loss, but its main goal is to help you build a healthy relationship with eating. Instead of stressing over grams and macros, Nyami helps you understand why you eat: your patterns, emotions, and habits. Lasting change comes from awareness and self-reflection, not restriction, and that's exactly what Nyami supports you with.
Can I generate a report in Nyami to share with my therapist or psychologist?
Yes! You'll be able to export your reflections and progress summaries to share with your professional. Nyami was designed to complement therapy and coaching, giving you useful insights, not just data points.
Is Nyami only for people trying to lose weight, or can anyone use it, even at a healthy weight?
Nyami is for anyone who wants to feel more peaceful and confident around food. Whether your goal is to stop emotional eating, understand your habits, or simply eat more intuitively, Nyami helps you reconnect with your body and mind, no diet required.
How is Nyami different from a calorie counter?
Nyami is not built around scanning, points, or red and green days. In the eating journal, you notice what you ate, how hungry or full you felt, which emotions and circumstances were present, and which patterns keep repeating.
Can it help me tell whether I am eating from hunger or emotion?
Yes. Nyami's prompts help you check in with hunger, fullness, emotions, and thoughts before and after eating. Over time, you can see more clearly when physical hunger is present and when stress, tiredness, boredom, or tension is behind the urge to eat.
I am a psychologist. Why is Nyami better for my clients than other eating journals?
Nyami is a guilt-free eating journal with a psychological focus. It does not center calories or judgmental feedback. Instead, it helps clients observe hunger and fullness cues, emotions, thoughts, circumstances, and repeating eating patterns. This gives them structured self-observation between sessions and makes it easier to bring concrete insights into therapy.
References
- Conlin, L. A., Aguilar, D. T., Rogers, G. E., & Campbell, B. I. (2021). Flexible vs. rigid dieting in resistance-trained individuals seeking to optimize their physiques: A randomized controlled trial. Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition, 18(1), 52. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12970-021-00452-2
- Levinson, J. A., Parker, J. E., Hunger, J. M., & Tomiyama, A. J. (2025). Dichotomous thinking about food as an understudied subclinical disordered eating cognition. Journal of Eating Disorders, 13, 224. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40337-025-01388-7
- Palascha, A., Van Kleef, E., & Van Trijp, H. C. M. (2015). How does thinking in black and white terms relate to eating behavior and weight regain? Journal of Health Psychology, 20(5), 638–648. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105315573440
- Pélissier, L., Bagot, S., Miles-Chan, J. L., Pereira, B., Boirie, Y., Duclos, M., Dulloo, A., Isacco, L., & Thivel, D. (2023). Is dieting a risk for higher weight gain in normal-weight individuals? A systematic review and meta-analysis. British Journal of Nutrition, 130(7), 1190–1212. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007114523000132
- Smith, C. F., Williamson, D. A., Bray, G. A., & Ryan, D. H. (1999). Flexible vs. rigid dieting strategies: Relationship with adverse behavioral outcomes. Appetite, 32(3), 295–305. https://doi.org/10.1006/appe.1998.0205
- Stewart, T. M., Williamson, D. A., & White, M. A. (2002). Rigid vs. flexible dieting: Association with eating disorder symptoms in nonobese women. Appetite, 38(1), 39–44. https://doi.org/10.1006/appe.2001.0445
- Timko, C. A., & Perone, J. (2005). Rigid and flexible control of eating behavior in a college population. Eating Behaviors, 6(2), 119–125. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eatbeh.2004.09.002
- Wansink, B. (2014). Mindless eating: Why we eat more than we think. New York, NY: Bantam Books.