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Ok, so today is my first day on the program, and already I’m noticing the same issue that I’ve had with other programs. It seems like my whole day revolves around food. If I’m not eating, I’m planning my next meal, both what I need to do to have it ready and when I should eat it to get all the meals/snacks in for the day. Is there a tip or a trick to getting away from it all? I don’t want to be “constantly” thinking about food. Thanks.
Hi, Hsuzieu1622, and welcome. You can merge your meals together so that you have only three a day, if that helps. One way to do this is to select the “Intermittent Fasting” option in your profile and generate a new menu – you can then have the meals whenever you wish and not worry about fasting for an entire 16 hours.
Another option is to do it manually through the fully personalized version of the Menu Planner – through this you can make the system give you three main meals per day, by taking the following steps:
1. Click on the “Exchange View” icon in the toolbar above your menu, and take note of the exchanges you are allotted for each snack.
2. After returning to normal mode, click on the circular arrow icon to the right of each major meal header.
3. Once you are in the subapplication that pops up, you can build your major meals from scratch, using the meal+snack exchange numbers to guide you (ignore anything in red telling you that you have exceeded your limit, of course). It is recommended to incorporate the exchanges from the next meal into the present one – i.e., breakfast+snack #1, lunch+snack #2, and dinner+snack #3.
4. Since snacks cannot be completely deleted, to make a cleaner-looking menu put something simple in each of the snack menus such as “Vegetables of Your Choice”
If you would like more assistance with this, please let me know.Is there a list that tells which fruits and vegetables are allowed or encouraged? I haven’t found one.
PlexusMama, there is a list in the quick start guide. I don’t remember if it talked about which ones are encouraged or not. Sorry. Hope this helps
Hi, PlexusMama (and thanks, Hsuzieq1622). When you click on “Vegetables of Your Choices” in your menu, you will be brought to a page with lists of vegetables, and when you click on the edit tool next to a fruit, you will get a list of fruits. However, note that any fruit or non-starchy vegetable will be counted as a fruit or vegetable – you are not limited in that way. Just be aware that starchy vegetables like potatoes, yams, parsnips, corn, peas, and certain orange squashes count as “carbohydrates.”
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