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Your Body Score. A Number that Can
Change Your Life.
The Body Score
is a simple, powerful tool to help you lose weight and stay
healthy. It distills the Nine Turning Points of weight
management and healthy eating into a single, motivating number
that you can use to gauge your progress. Like
the
Eat, Drink, and Weigh Less
program, your Body Score is about total health in
addition to weight loss. It shows you how to add food,
rather than simply subtracting, and prevents self-starvation,
which might help you lose weight in the short run, but usually
results in a yo-yo effect of losing and gaining.
Here’s what it
promises: Raise your score and you’ll lower your weight
and improve your health over the course of your life.
And here’s how it works:
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Set a benchmark—Before you begin the 21-Day Diet
or the Warm-Up Plan (both available in
Eat, Drink, and Weigh Less),
go through the Body Score Card, answering the
questions based on the previous few days to determine your
starting Body Score.
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Keep a journal—Writing down what you eat can be a
helpful way to become more conscious of your eating overall.
It’s also invaluable—at least at first—in helping you
measure your Body Score as accurately as possible.
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Scoring—Tally your points—0, 1, or 2—for each
question, and add them up to arrive at your Body Score.
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Daily at first—As you begin either the 21-Day Diet
or the Warm-Up Plan (or just pain eating better),
go through the Body Score Card at the end of every
day. At the outset, your goal is to raise your score as much
as you can every day.
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Weekly later—After a few weeks—and when you’ve
reached your target weight and want to stay there—go through
the Body Score Card at the end of the week, using a
journal, if you need to, as a reminder.
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What about calories?—
Because we want you to
focus more on the qualitative aspects of the food and
lifestyle choices you make than on the quantitative ones,
your Body Score is not directly related to calories.
But bear in mind that the recommended caloric intake for
weight loss is 1,500 to 1,600 calories a day, with regular
exercise. To get a sense of what that looks and feels like
in food terms, read through the 21-Day Diet. We have
counted the calories for you, so if you simply follow our
portion-size indications, you’ll end up in the 1,500 to
1,600 calorie/day range. If you want to delve further into
your own calorie counting, there are plenty of websites that
make it easy, for example,
http://www.nutritiondata.com.
 Evaluating
your score:
Shoot for a range
of 25 to 50. If you’re already at 25 or above,
congratulations. You’re doing well. Keep up the good work, and
try to raise your score as much as you can. A score of 50
means you’re doing all the right things.
Remember: The
higher your score, the more weight you’ll lose, and the better
you’ll feel as your health and state of mind improve!
Remember: This
score is not a grade! It’s not about judgment or failure.
Think of it as a Scrabble game you’re playing with yourself.
Focus on getting the highest score you can.
Remember: You
don’t need to dive into the deep end! Even if you’re not ready
to start the 21-Day Diet, doing whatever you can to
raise your score will help you start losing weight and
improving your health.
Remember: It’s
not a test, it’s a tool—The Body Score is a formula for
healthy weight loss that reduces the wisdom of decades of
research and science into a number you can manage.
Remember: This is not a competition!
Everyone is a winner. Enjoy the game.
Click here to take the
Body Score Quiz
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