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title: "Dino Pohilj | Founder, RealFoods"
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description: "Dino Pohilj, founder of RealFoods, built the Weight Impact Score, a modelled estimate of how a meal is likely to affect blood sugar and insulin."
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Author profile

# Dino Pohilj

Founder, RealFoods

Founder of RealFoods. Builds tools for people who want to eat for weight loss without counting calories, by estimating how meals affect blood sugar and insulin.

I founded RealFoods after years of watching close friends and family burn out on calorie-counting apps that produced short-term losses and long-term rebounds. The product is built on a single thesis I argue here repeatedly: hormonal impact, not calorie totals, is what determines whether the body stores or burns fat after a meal. Every article on this site is written or reviewed against that lens.

I am the founder, not a doctor or a dietitian. I research each article from the published studies and books it cites, and everything here is educational, not medical advice. If you have a health condition, talk to your own clinician first.

## Areas of focus

- Weight Loss
- Nutrition Science
- Insulin Resistance
- Blood Sugar Response
- Calorie Counting Alternatives
- Metabolic Health
- Intermittent Fasting

## Find me elsewhere

- [www.linkedin.com/in/dinopohilj/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dinopohilj/)

## Recent articles

- [How The Weight Impact Score Works](https://realfoods.app/how-weight-impact-score-works)
  Why a modelled estimate of a meal's insulin impact answers a different question than a calorie count.
- [The Problem With Calorie Counting](https://realfoods.app/problem-with-calorie-counting)
  Why a calorie count alone misses how a meal is likely to affect blood sugar and insulin.
- [Why Restrictive Eating Fails, and What Works Instead](https://realfoods.app/why-diets-fail)
  The psychological and physiological reasons restrictive eating so often rebounds, and what tends to work better.
- [Does High Blood Sugar Cause Weight Gain?](https://realfoods.app/blood-sugar-and-weight-gain)
  How blood sugar, insulin and weight gain connect in the carbohydrate-insulin model, and what to try.
- [Low-Insulin Foods: 23 Popular Foods Scored](https://realfoods.app/popular-foods-weight-impact-scores)
  Eggs and salmon score 1, cookies 10 and orange juice 9: the estimated insulin impact of 23 everyday foods at the serving the app shows.
- [Foods That Cause Weight Gain](https://realfoods.app/foods-that-cause-weight-gain)
  Sugary drinks, potato chips and ultra-processed snacks are linked to weight gain. Ten everyday foods and what to eat instead.
- [Weight Loss Without Calorie Counting](https://realfoods.app/how-to-lose-weight-without-counting-calories)
  A practical four-step guide: protein, healthy fats and fibre at meals, a score per plate, and an optional overnight gap.
- [Weight Loss Without Constant Hunger](https://realfoods.app/lose-weight-without-hunger)
  The science of satiety: how protein, healthy fats and fibre help you stay fuller between meals.

[See all articles →](https://realfoods.app/articles)