Cutting calories, curbing fat, counting carbs on Drawing the Line on Calories, Carbs, and Fat(tm) food, exercise, and activity tracker

It takes nothing to set up your Daily Connection. Follow the simple steps in the Instruction Booklet that comes with Drawing the Line to determine your calorie, carb and fat needs.
Then, draw a horizontal line for your Calories. (In this example, the line is drawn at #24, which represents 1200 calories.)
Next, draw a vertical line for your Carbohydrates or Fat. (In this example, the line represents a meal plan with 50% carbs.)

Now "Draw the LIne"

After looking up what you want to eat in the supplied Food List or using food label info, draw a line DOWN for Calories and ACROSS for Carbs or Fat. Where you land, draw a dot. It’s up to you if you want to write the name of the food on the Daily Connection.

Food	Amount	Calories DOWN	Carbs ACROSS	Fat ACROSS
FRUITS
Strawberries	1 ¼ cups	1	2	0

Example of Food List

Knowing How Many More DOWN (Calorie) Dots You Have Left for the Day

(You don't have to do any math to find out!)

Drawing the Line does the math for you. Just look to the right-hand column of numbers. (Follow the blue box.) That number tells you how many dots are left. As you can see from this example, this person has 19 more DOWN dots to spend for the day.

Knowing How Many More ACROSS (Carb or Fat) Dots You Have Left for the Day

(Again, you don't have to do any math to find out!)

Drawing the Line again does the math for you. Just look to the bottom row of numbers. (Follow the green box.) That number tells you how many dots are left. As you can see from this example, this person has 14 more ACROSS dots to spend for the day.

And that’s all there is to it! If you can count dots, you can "draw the line"!

Now look how exciting it is when you decide to "draw the line" for exercise.

For exercise you “draw the line” UP. (See the yellow box.) By drawing the line UP, you get to see how many calories of food you've eaten that get burned off with exercise. (The blue box shows the number of calories.) Makes you want to exercise more.

So…Up your exercise to DOWN your calories!

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words!

Look how much of the Daily Connection Joe used for lunch at McDonald’s. He doesn’t have much fat left for dinner.
(See how far over the pencil is and that’s just for lunch!)