Are You Actually Eating the Mediterranean Diet -- Or Just Thinking You Are?*

It’s easy to say you eat Mediterranean. Fish a couple times a week, olive oil, plenty of vegetables. Sounds right.

Then you start logging it.

Cronometer is where I’d start. Enter a week of meals honestly and ask it to show you omega-3 intake. Most people are surprised. The number is lower than they expected – sometimes by a lot.

Fish frequency is the usual culprit. You thought you were eating it twice a week. The log says once, maybe. And that one time was a fish sandwich.

Plant-to-protein ratios tell a similar story. The Mediterranean pattern leans heavily plant-forward. The American version of it – even the well-intentioned version – tends to drift back toward meat as the center of the plate.

The numbers don’t judge. They just show you what’s actually happening.

That’s the whole point of logging.

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