My TLC Program

Week 4: Plan Instructions

Continue the same Plan for implementing the previous Components of your TLC Program.
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Nutrition

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This fourth week continues with the previous weeks' Elements and begins to establish the Nutrition Component.​ Over the following several weeks, you will come to better understand:
  • ​The central role of healthy nutrition for achieving and maintaining optimal health.
  • Healthy dietary changes need to be thoughtful, practical, and considered permanent (but flexible).
  • Food choices are personal, but culturally influenced by each person in your household.
  • The virtues of tolerance, patience, willingness, commitment, self-denial, faith, and delayed gratification.
Nutrition Component
For the 5 Elements of the Nutrition Component this week, you will make an effort to:
  • Schedule your meals at regular (same) hours each day (+/- 30 minutes). at least 5 hours apart.
  • Adjust the amount you eat at Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner to be "Large, Medium, Small" in relation to your daily total amount.
  • Become much more aware of the nutritious value of your food and beverage choices.
  • Avoid snacking between meals, especially no "junk food."
  • Learn about the benefits of Whole Plant Foods (WPF).
  • Discover the small dietary changes you make for big results.
  • Plan your meals and shop for your groceries on a weekly cycle.
Scoring: During the day (columns):
  • Write the number of Points you earned for each Element described above.
  • At the end of the day, add your Element Scores to get your Total Daily Scores for the Nutrition Component.
​Scoring: At the end of the week (rows):
  • Add your Daily Sores for each Element and divide the Row Total by 7 to get the average Weekly Score for each Element.
  • Add your Total Daily Scores and divide by 7 to get your Nutrition Component Score for the week.