Check-ins

What it does

Earlie writes first. Each morning he sends a short check-in about your day. Once a week he looks back at your meals and training with you. During the day he can remind you about your steps, and when you walk after a reminder, his next reply opens with a short well done. When Earlie tells you to have a pain checked by a doctor or a physio, he remembers: a few days later the morning message asks once if it still hurts and what they said, and Earlie trains around what the doctor told you.

How to use it

1. Read the morning message. It comes in the morning, at a set time. If you planned today’s workout with Earlie, the message opens with it.
2. Answer in your own words. A short answer is enough.
3. Read the weekly look back. It sums up your week, ends with three small goals for the next week and with your progress picture. Reply 1, 2 or 3 to pick one; each morning message then says how far along you are.
4. Choose how often. Tell Earlie, for example “2 or 3 times a week” or “no food tracking”. He confirms in one line.
5. Stop one kind of reminder. Say “no water messages” or “no more step reminders”. The same works for protein and gym reminders. Earlie says “done” only when it is really off; if it was already off, he tells you so. “Keep the protein tips coming” or “more step reminders” keeps that one on, or brings it back.

Limits

• Check-ins come at set times of the day. Earlie does not write at night.
• Each daytime reminder comes at most once a day, at its own time. If you answer neither of two reminders in a row, no more come that day.
• If you chose “a little” when you started, you get at most one daytime reminder a day.
• Earlie leaves at least 25 minutes between two messages he sends on his own, and sends at most 12 in a day.
• The weekly look back always comes, even when you choose fewer days.
• When yesterday’s log stops before dinner, Earlie asks what you ate before he judges the day.
• When you already chatted with Earlie in the two hours before the morning message, he does not ask about yesterday’s food again.
• The well done for a walk comes at most once a day, only after a steps reminder, and only for a walk of at least a fifth of your daily step goal.
• When your last six days already cover the week’s step goal, the morning message gives the steps you really walked, not the goal.
• The day’s steps target is never less than your daily step goal, said as an easy day, even when the week is nearly covered.
• When you mention a plain ache or stiffness, the next day Earlie asks how it feels. He asks if you saw a doctor only after he told you to see one.
• The morning message asks one question. When today’s workout works a part of your body that hurts, that question is how it feels; a question Earlie planned for that morning waits for the next one. At the gym Earlie still asks how it feels right before you start.
• The doctor question comes once: the next morning after “see a doctor today”, three days later for any other doctor advice. Earlie does not ask it before that morning; if you bring up a doctor or a check-up first, he asks right away. Say the pain went away, before or as your answer, and it is never asked. Until you answer, moves for that spot keep their warning mark: ask first, light weight, stop on pain.