Plan Your Meals / Plan Your PIs (PI=Personal Indulgence....reference Eating Supportively for more info) (total possible points for every aspect of this bonus challenge from 4/27/12 - 6/28/12 is 2,952)
KISS your meals (keep it simple silly) and support your body! How's The Tracking? For every preplanned full day, give yourself 5 points...so if you plan a day in advance (the full day's meals) then you get 5 points for each day preplanned (this would then be in lieu of the 2 points for tracking). You get 5 additional bonus points for how many days you plan in advance, meaning that if you plan two full days meals in advance you get 10 points instead of just 5; if you plan a weeks worth of meals in advance you get 70 points instead of just 35.....(total possible points 630 from 4/27/12 - 6/28/12). However, if you do not consume what you preplan, then you have to deduct 10 points for each meal that was altered. Additionally, if you preplan the indulgences you consume, then you get an additional 2 points for each day's worth of PI's you planned in advance of the day they were consumed (total possible points -based upon a no more than 4 PIs per week plan- 72). Flip side is, if you consume UPIs (unplanned personal indulgences) on the days you preplanned your meals, then you have to deduct 30 points for each UPI consumed (add'l info: Weekends).
Clarifications: This means that in addition to preplanning your meals (which you would have to necessarily preplan your PIs if you are correctly preplanning your meals) you get an additional 2 points to the 5 points or 10 points. If on the day planned, you switch out healthy options (so not making it a UPI, just changing what you had planned), you have to deduct 10 points for each meal switched (not each food item...so if you make multiple healthy changes (again no UPIs) within one meal, you still only deduct the 10 points). Note, this is just if you change it on the day you are consuming the food, not if you make changes throughout preplanning. If, however, you consume one or more UPIs within a meal or a day, you have to deduct 30 points for each UPI serving regardless of whether it is throughout the day or one meal. You would also have to deduct the 10 points for changing the meal plan. So, if you planned grilled chicken, broccoli, squash and instead consumed pizza, brownies, and beer you would have to deduct 30 points for each consumed plus 10 points for the altered meal (e.g., 30 points for each serving of pizza, 30 points for each serving of beer (normal size servings here), 30 points for each serving of brownies, and 10 points for the meal). Note, that I am not suggesting you never eat pizza, brownies, beer, etc., I am simply saying it is better for you if you preplan those indulgences into your nutritional ranges as PIs instead of eating them on the fly and by whim.
Finally, for every week you ate 7 out of 7 days worth of preplanned meals, PIs and all (this means you consumed everything you preplanned at least a day in advance) and no UPIs (this includes BLTs (bites, licks, tastes)), you get an additional 250 points for each week accomplished (total possible points 2,250).
If you are not the person in your household who "plans" or primarily prepares the family meals, you can still preplan your days by communicating with the person in your household what meals are on tap for the week ahead. I'm certain they would like your input and assistance in planning!!!! Worse case, you plan your servings of whatever the primary food preparer is serving in advance.
Thinking this aspect of the Challenge isn't worth the time or the points? Sorry to say that if you do not at least try to preplan your days, but still track your days, you will continue to receive your 2 points for each day tracked, but you will have to additionally deduct 10 points for each week you do not preplan your days. So get planning!!!!
KISS your meals (keep it simple silly) and support your body! How's The Tracking? For every preplanned full day, give yourself 5 points...so if you plan a day in advance (the full day's meals) then you get 5 points for each day preplanned (this would then be in lieu of the 2 points for tracking). You get 5 additional bonus points for how many days you plan in advance, meaning that if you plan two full days meals in advance you get 10 points instead of just 5; if you plan a weeks worth of meals in advance you get 70 points instead of just 35.....(total possible points 630 from 4/27/12 - 6/28/12). However, if you do not consume what you preplan, then you have to deduct 10 points for each meal that was altered. Additionally, if you preplan the indulgences you consume, then you get an additional 2 points for each day's worth of PI's you planned in advance of the day they were consumed (total possible points -based upon a no more than 4 PIs per week plan- 72). Flip side is, if you consume UPIs (unplanned personal indulgences) on the days you preplanned your meals, then you have to deduct 30 points for each UPI consumed (add'l info: Weekends).
Clarifications: This means that in addition to preplanning your meals (which you would have to necessarily preplan your PIs if you are correctly preplanning your meals) you get an additional 2 points to the 5 points or 10 points. If on the day planned, you switch out healthy options (so not making it a UPI, just changing what you had planned), you have to deduct 10 points for each meal switched (not each food item...so if you make multiple healthy changes (again no UPIs) within one meal, you still only deduct the 10 points). Note, this is just if you change it on the day you are consuming the food, not if you make changes throughout preplanning. If, however, you consume one or more UPIs within a meal or a day, you have to deduct 30 points for each UPI serving regardless of whether it is throughout the day or one meal. You would also have to deduct the 10 points for changing the meal plan. So, if you planned grilled chicken, broccoli, squash and instead consumed pizza, brownies, and beer you would have to deduct 30 points for each consumed plus 10 points for the altered meal (e.g., 30 points for each serving of pizza, 30 points for each serving of beer (normal size servings here), 30 points for each serving of brownies, and 10 points for the meal). Note, that I am not suggesting you never eat pizza, brownies, beer, etc., I am simply saying it is better for you if you preplan those indulgences into your nutritional ranges as PIs instead of eating them on the fly and by whim.
Finally, for every week you ate 7 out of 7 days worth of preplanned meals, PIs and all (this means you consumed everything you preplanned at least a day in advance) and no UPIs (this includes BLTs (bites, licks, tastes)), you get an additional 250 points for each week accomplished (total possible points 2,250).
If you are not the person in your household who "plans" or primarily prepares the family meals, you can still preplan your days by communicating with the person in your household what meals are on tap for the week ahead. I'm certain they would like your input and assistance in planning!!!! Worse case, you plan your servings of whatever the primary food preparer is serving in advance.
Thinking this aspect of the Challenge isn't worth the time or the points? Sorry to say that if you do not at least try to preplan your days, but still track your days, you will continue to receive your 2 points for each day tracked, but you will have to additionally deduct 10 points for each week you do not preplan your days. So get planning!!!!
Some further CLARIFICATIONS:
ReplyDelete1)If you are sick and cannot eat what you had planned, then you do not have to take a penalty...just get better! This means really sick, not having a bad day ;-)
2)You do not have to take a penalty in a week if you preplanned at least 5 of the 7 days. Please don't use this as an excuse to not preplan the weekends because this will not help you!!!
3)If you started preplanning your week on Fri or Sat and you realize that the last week of this Challenge will leave you with a 5 or 6 day week, you can still collect the "weeks" preplanning points, just reduce by the 1 or two missing days (e.g., 60 points for 6 days as opposed to 70).
4)I am not saying you cannot have more than 4 PIs in a week, I am only saying that you can only count the 4 recommended PIs in a week. That will be 2 points additional for each PI up to 4 each week.
5)Realize that you only have to do complicated math if you do not eat what you plan....EAT WHAT YOU PLAN!!! KISS, remember!!!
6)Let me know if you have any questions about anything in this Post or Comment that do not make sense to you....I want you to succeed! I do not want you to pull your hair out....so please let me know how I can help!!!
7) Yes, if you preplan a day in the morning before you eat anything that day you can count it as "preplanned"! It would be a 5 pointer....
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