Lean Me

The Planning tab helps you chart a road map to success, covering both the day-to-day task of planning diet and exercise routines, and the invaluable process of setting specific goals for yourself.

Through the calendar view you can not only plan diet and activity logs ahead of time, but you can also create or view logs for the past and present. You can also highlight multiple days in the future to assign them to a specific diet cycle in bulk, or to email yourself a simple shopping list of foods planned for those days. Alternatively, you can view any previously created logs, past, present, or future, through the days list view.

In the outcome goals section you can define measurable results that you want to achieve by a specific date, and you can even set multiple, overlapping goals for any given goal type. A graphical progress bar will show you both your actual progress towards that goal, as well as your projected progress based on the amount of time elapsed since the goal was created. The actual progress bar will turn green if you’re ahead of your projected progress, and red if you fall behind the schedule you set for yourself.

You can use action goals as complements to the outcome goals. Action goals are concrete behavioral goals that you will naturally help lead you towards the outcome goals. A common outcome goal might be to lose 10 pounds within 2 months, while corresponding action goals might be to run 3 times per week or only eat ice cream once every two weeks.

Action represents one of the latter stages of change according to behavioral psychologists, and stating action goals as positive affirmations (“I feel proud that I am now a non-smoker”) can feel awkward, but makes them more effective given the cognitive dissonance which commonly arises in the face of major lifestyle changes, particularly when somebody has rushed through the more cognitive earlier stages of change.