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Local woman Jessie Harcourt has recently enlisted the help of a popular fitness and nutrition app to help track her eating habits.

The self-confessed gym junkie had the app suggested to her by a friend after lamenting that a month’s worth of Body Pump classes hadn’t resulted in a flat stomach.

Now, just three days in, Jessie has become obsessed with counting macros and restricting calories.

“I had no idea my diet was so bad,” says Jessie.

“I was overloading on carbs, and my protein intake was really low. No wonder I wasn’t losing weight.”

Jessie is also trying a diet trend she heard about from a Joe Rogan podcast, which consists of eating everything in two hours and inhaling deep gusts of air for the rest of the day.

The neanderthal like eating pattern has been praised by scientists for its supposed longevity benefits and is reportedly practiced by a number of celebrities.

It is also unintentionally practiced by thousands of university students, who often forgo food while they’re waiting for their Austudy claim to be accepted.

“Yeah, apparently Jennifer Aniston does it!” adds Jessie.

“Just burns the fat away.”

Despite this commitment to fitness, Jessie has failed to track her lunchtime ice cream or the three bottles of wine she had over the weekend. “I’m sure you don’t have to track EVERYTHING,” Jessie says as she punches in the 1⁄4 morsel of a carrot she ate for dinner.

“It’s not that strict.”

“I’ve been so good during the week anyway, surely it doesn’t count?”

It’s uncertain if the diet has resulted in the washboard stomach Steph hoped for.

