 Ossie-Sharon 12 years ago | Your target weight would be about 180, give or take a few. |
 ggilbreath 12 years ago | Here is my profile: male, 220 lbs,6’0, 58 yrs old and not very active. |
 Seaborngirl 12 years ago | Thankyou Ossie….my husband is eating the same foods as me, and doesn’t like eggplant much, so thought I needed to find some other things to swap it with. I appreciate your help, and other than that, I have found it very easy to follow. cheers…… |
| Ossie-Sharon 12 years ago | Your goal weight is automatically calculated according to your height. If you would like confirmation, you can put your height here (physical activity level and age would help, too). |
| ggilbreath 12 years ago | Hi Ossie,
With the menus are based on the profile I added, I know they will be healthier for me but I was wondering if there is some sort of target weight that is figured in? I certainly don’t want to use the menus to maintain the weight I am now. I can’t find a place to input anything like this. Based on my current weight, I would like to lose about 40lbs. Please let me know how this is figured in.
Thanks, |
| Ossie-Sharon 12 years ago | Hi, Chris01. Yes, the menus are based on the measurements you put in your profile. The correct amounts and proportions of foods are built in.
If you find there is too much time-consuming cooking required, try choosing less of the recipe links, and go for more of the basic foods. As for the recipes themselves, try making fewer portions ahead of time, i.e. 2, and freeze one for later – try calculating the ingredients divided by 4.
If you want to let me know in which recipes you are particularly interested, you can post here, and I can give you a scaled down version. |
| Ossie-Sharon 12 years ago | Hi, AsiaRays. Try Whole Foods Market, Trader Joes, and/or New Leaf Market for the foods.
As for the menus, it is intended for you to eat all the foods listed. |
| Ossie-Sharon 12 years ago | Hi, SandyWig. The amount of the snack depends on how the other meals worked out. If you had lots of proteins left over then the snack was enlarged. If it is too much, you can swap out part of it with another protein, i.e. a glass of milk. |
| Ossie-Sharon 12 years ago | Regarding foods in the Menu Planner:
The program was originally based on foods found in all countries; true the original model was American, but it has been checked to ensure people from most western countries can manage. For people in the US, Canada, and UK, Whole Foods Market has chains, and their stores carry everything but raw dairy, which generally is special-order anyway (and organic dairy is considered an acceptable substitution).
Note also that the Menu Planner has been expanded to include regular foods, with which you can build your menu. However, since some of the perhaps less familiar foods have been linked to improvements in metabolic balance – which provide a boost to weight loss and management – it is recommended that you at least try incorporating some of them into your daily habits. Some are becoming popular enough that they are entering regular grocery stores, i.e. some sprouted whole grain (SWG) breads.
Basically, if you choose whole foods rich in nutrients/fiber, and apply good food prep methods, you can carry out the intent of the program. |
| Ossie-Sharon 12 years ago | Hi, Seaborn. A cup of any non-starchy vegetable is an acceptable swap for the cup of eggplant. |
| Seaborngirl 12 years ago | I am finding the menu plan really easy. But I have come to a small hitch…one of my items is 1 cup eggplant, and the only substitute for it is half a cup of red sauce.I am wondering if there is anything else I can substitute instead of the sauce? |
 SandyWig 12 years ago | Please can you confirm that Snack 1 on Day 1 of the Express 14-Day Meal Plan is half a cup of Almonds and not half an ounce as all the other nuts are? |
 Carolyn188 12 years ago | I quite agree with these comments.I felt so positive when I watched your sales pitch and was looking forward to a new eating plan with the right combination of foods I like instead it looks as though someone is making a comedy sketch.The combinations of food are wierd.The recipes give ingredients in Imperial and American weights and capacities.Half the foods mentioned I have never heard of and are not available where I live.Ihave spent two full days trying to understand your programme and am still no nearer sorting out my shopping list so that I can actually start the plan.I will eventually try 1 weeks menu andhope that it is worth the effort. |
 CCKranz 12 years ago | I am so lost… just joined and thought from the caption video that they would take normal everyday foods and show us how to balance them out so you get the right ratio of protein and carbs. had no idea I would have to use special foods, recipes, ect..What is SWG? |
 AsiaRays 12 years ago | just joined yesterday and already wondering if it was a mistake and waste of money. I live in the US not the UK.I shouldn’t have to shop on line and have foods sent from another country to be on this diet. Your team should do research for American markets that cans be used instead. Also when reading a snack menu do u eat all items listed or choose just one? Seems to me this kind of info should come before the menu planning stage. |
