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5 Weight Loss Tracking Rules


Tracking your calories, exercise, or weight loss progress is a great way to ensure that you are on the right road to reaching your goal weight. However, you need to do it correctly to achieve the best results. Here are some rules you should always try to abide by:

1) Track Daily

First things first, if you are tracking the calories you consume and exercising, do it every day! If you start skipping a day or two you will be likely to get lazy and stop doing it altogether. Tracking is important as it helps you systematically keep track of what you are eating and helps you decide if that particular food or meal has a place in your diet.

2) Weigh Yourself Weekly

When it comes to weighing yourself, doing it once a week is adequate. Your weight fluctuates on a daily basis, and it may be disheartening if you weigh yourself every day and occasionally you see the number on the scale go up. Weighing weekly will give you a better picture of your progress.

3) Tell Someone


Stay accountable to your weight loss and tracking by partnering up with someone as their weight loss buddy, or by telling your friends and family about your approach to weight loss. This way someone will remind you to stay true to your goal and continue your efforts.

4) Get Help

In the same way, get some support from your friends and family. When you are feeling down or defeated, turn to them and express to your family so they can give you a motivational boost.

5) Be Realistic

Lastly, be sure to set a realistic caloric limit for yourself. For men, do not go below 1500 calories a day, and for women, do not go below 1200 calories. Eating too little can slow down your metabolism and hamper your weight loss efforts, and thatâ??s certainly not what you want.

Follow these five weight loss tracking rules and youâ??ll be on the right road to your ideal weight. Make healthy food choices and exercise regularly to increase your caloric burn and lose weight faster. Also, find a good calorie tracking website to automate your calorie counting, or even better, download an app for your tablet or smartphone so that you can track on the go.

As long as you stick to your calorie limit and maintain your willpower, there will be nothing that can stop you from achieving your goal weight. Keep your head up and good luck!


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Get Proof of Your Progress



Sometimes you may feel that you’re not making any progress at all with your fitness program ? like a gerbil spinning on its wheel ? going nowhere. But there are ways to track your weight loss and fitness targets that will provide the incentive you need to keep on keeping on until you reach your goals.

During your fitness quest, you’ll want to weigh yourself once a month rather than daily or weekly. This strategy gives your body a chance to react to the weeks of effort you’ve given. It also keeps you from becoming discouraged if your happen to see a minuscule weight loss on the scale.

Another way to track your weight loss progress is to take your measurements. Sometimes the scale doesn’t reflect the inches you’re losing and taking measurements will reassure you that you’re making some progress.

When you measure yourself, do so without clothing or clothing that fits tight to your skin (such as leotards). There are numerous measurement charts online that provide instructions on how to accurately take your measurements and that will track your progress in inches to your desired goal. You should measure yourself once a week or once a month.

You can also track your fitness progress by measuring your body fat percentage. This method can provide help you realize how much fat you need to lose to reach the desired fitness goal. Body fat should measure from 25 to 31% for women and 18 to 25% for men.

There are a number of ways to measure body fat, including hydrostatic weighing, calipers, DEXA and bioelectrical impedance scales. But a simpler way to measure body fat is to access an online calculator that uses skin fold or tape measurements. If you belong to a health or fitness club, be sure to ask if they offer any of these methods to measure body fat percentages.

A great motivational tool to be your skinniest best is to actually see yourself thinner via a digitally enhanced photo (before and after). This method will cost you, but if you have trouble picturing yourself thin, it could be a powerful incentive to keep up with your diet and exercise program.

There are several online sites where you can obtain a digitally-adjusted photo of yourself. You simply send them a full body photo, they slim you down digitally and send the enhanced photo back to you by email.

Print them out and post them on your refrigerator door and mirrors to give you a mental reality of what you can be at the end of your quest ? a new and thinner you.

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