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We’re very excited about this! To make our new Lean Mode, Color Code—Not Your Usual Food Diary accessible to anyone, anywhere with an internet connection (and, for now, a U.S. or Canadian billing address on their credit card so that our system can process the transaction), we created and are able to instantly deliver an ebook version that you can print out and bind yourself.

It's perfect for college students and older teens, because they can pop a few pages at a time into their notebooks. No need to be weighed down carrying around another whole book.

Besides being the most affordable version of our Lean Mode Food Diary, the eBook features a touch of added color not found in any other versions of Lean Mode (but in non-critical areas, in case you need to go easy on your color printer ink cartridges by printing in black and white.)

Here's where you'll find color that is exclusive to the Lean Mode Food Diary eBook:

- full-color nameplate
- 2 full-color sample filled-out daily pages and color-code & goals pages
- all "bubbles" with motivational quotations are in color
- 2 colored "milestones" pages
- each of the seven 4Week Bubbles has a different lightly-screened background color to make it easier for you to visually distinguish them
- 2 bonus full-color scrapbooking pages, not found in any of the black-and-white versions of the Lean Mode Food Diary! You may wish to print these out on a heavier paper stock.

This 8 1/2" x 11" ebook allows room on the left margin for spiral binding, or you can 3-hole punch and organize the pages in a 3-ring notebook.

Except as noted above, the eBook content is identical to the inside black-and-white pages of our paperback and spiral bound Lean Mode Food Diaries, and the journaling areas are the same size. But if you like color and adding your own touches, there's plenty of room for being extra-creative with the Lean Mode, Color Code—Not Your Usual Food Diary Color eBook.

The eBook is also a good way for Streaming Colors Fitness Journal users to try out the Lean Mode format either as a food diary supplement to Streaming Colors or as an alternative format you might want to consider for your next year’s journal. You can find help on which ColorCode Mode Journal format might be best for you by going to our ColorCodeMode.com home page and clicking on the Q & A in the right nav bar.

You can purchase the eBook from our online Shop and download it easily and instantly (or within 10 days of purchase; we do not enforce unnecessarily tight time limits on downloading.) The PDF you will download is approximately 4.5 MB. You'll need to have Adobe Reader installed on your computer (available for free at the Adobe site.) Our eBook is not returnable. The PDF you'll receive of our copyrighted eBook is for your own personal use and not for republishing, redistributing or reselling, of course.

We're so excited about the eBook, did we forget to tell you about the Lean Mode Food Diary in general (not that there's anything general or usual about it)? Here's the full description—the whole enchilada:

Lean Mode, Color Code—Not Your Usual Food Diary

From Jennifer Luhrs and Alexis Luhrs, creators of the popular Streaming Colors™ Fitness Journal "healthy habit-forming calendar" (since 2004), comes the new Lean Mode, Color Code—Not Your Usual Food Diary, with PowerCircles™ and FoodDots™ you color in and connect on each full page devoted to recording daily diet and exercise details.

Studies show people who keep a food diary every day during their weight loss effort can lose twice as much weight as people who don't journal. Food diaries are a proven but underutilized weight loss tool to help you focus on small daily choices. Now the ColorCode Mode team reinvents the humble food diary to be quick, easy, and fun to use.

As with all of the ColorCode Mode™ Journals, the main idea is to color in the good things you do each day, such as eating more veggies, exercising, drinking more water, or having a junk-food-free day. Color reminds, rewards and motivates you to practice a healthy action long enough for it to become a habit you hardly have to think about (like taking a shower in the morning.) Healthy habits feel comfortable and normal—unlike torturous diets and exercise regimens you can’t wait to quit—and are the key to better fitness and a healthier lifestyle!

Jot down what you eat on each daily page, and then grab your highlighters. Next to each food entry is a FoodDot to color in if you consider that food item or meal to be healthy. Not seeing a lot of color on your page can give you insight into which eating habits you need to change. Can you connect-the-FoodDots™ on each daily page by making healthful food choices all day long?

A Color Code and Goals page at the beginning of every week gives you the option of setting small, achievable daily goals that you will color into your PowerCircles each day as you meet them. Track such things as a daily calorie goal, exercise goal, your water intake, healthful food items you've added, or a day free of the unhealthy food item you think you can't live without.

Keep it simple or add detail and more challenging goals and weekly tabulations as you progress through seven 4Week Bubbles (28 days each) for a full half year of journaling. UNDATED. Add your own dates and start at any time. Completely customizable to fit your habits, goals, program, pace of change and involvement, and style and level of journaling. Since consistency is the key to success, there are places to track your continuous weeks of journaling.

Because the main concept is for you to add your own color (and notice when you haven't!) this food diary features mainly black-and-white (and gray) graphics for you to color in throughout its 270 pages.

In addition to 196 daily tracking pages, there’s helpful info on getting started, plus handy Quick Look-Up Charts.The daily page design adapts to your preferences for tracking, including columns for entering what you ate, when/where, quantity, calories, fat, carbs, fiber, and protein, plus one blank column.

Lean Mode rewards you every step of the way. Coloring in and connecting your FoodDots and PowerCircles each day is an immediate reward for making positive choices. Set optional goals each week and tally them up in your Weekly Tabs and 4Week Bubbles; then reward yourself for meeting them. Of course the main reward is your healthier new habits and lifestyle!

Lack of color in your FoodDots or PowerCircles is a reminder and motivator to get back on track, and/or set more realistic goals. Over time, a build-up of color is a reminder of your ability to improve. Every completed journal is a unique mosaic of your half year of building healthier habits, and a healthier and more fit you.

What are you waiting for? The only day missing from this food diary is "someday."
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Nothing in this food diary/journal is intended as a substitute for medical advice or counseling. Consult your doctor if you have any risk factor or health-related condition that might prevent you from using this food diary/journal as a fitness tool. This food diary/journal is intended as a health promotion tool, not as a medical or physical therapy intervention. Luhrs Media Co. makes no claims whatsoever regarding the utilization or interpretation of any information contained herein and/or recorded by the user in this food diary/journal. Designed for adults and older teens in normal health. Not designed for unsupervised use by children. We are developing products for the special needs of children.

Copyright 2008 Luhrs Media Co. All rights reserved. Patent Pending.