How Do I Lose Weight?

The most often asked question in any fitness facility is "how do I lose weight?"  There are hundreds of infomercials, diet plans, pills, you name it.  You can try every item out there, but the results will normally come back to the same.  Why?  It's simple.  BURN MORE CALORIES THAN YOU BRING IN.  That's it, that's the big secret.  So now you ask, "how do I find that information out?" 

Today, with most food places displaying the nutritional information, and most phones and ipod's having programs to track your caloric intake, it's easier than ever.  Most programs are free as well, it just takes a little effort from YOU to write enter each night exactly what you ate that day.  You now have your total calories that you are bringing in.

Finding how many calories you burn is a little more challenging, but can be done.  Cardio exercises are the easiest to find calorie burn information on, most cardio machines will have that information on the actual machine.  For all other exercises, there are numerous new products coming out that will show you how many calories you burn in a day, during exercise, or both!  Most simply have you put on a heart rate monitor strap, a wrist band, and the information goes to the wrist band.  Write this down every night, and you now have your total calories burned.

Tadaaa!  It's really that easy!  Forget every expensive informercial, expensive pill, weight loss plans, it just takes a little effort from YOU. 

John Burr
General Manager / Personal Trainer
Solera Health Club & Spa
http://www.soleraspa.com/