| If you're looking to lose weight fast and easy this year | | | | new calorie goal. Several fitness coaches have used |
| why not go online and try the free calculators offered | | | | this method to develop diet and exercise programs for |
| by many health and fitness membership site? These | | | | their clients. Once you have a fairly good idea of what |
| calculators assist you in determining real outlooks for | | | | it will take to maintain your ideal weight, go ahead and |
| your fitness and diet goals. | | | | adopted that new calorie quantity. |
| You can learn how to calculate your body mass index, | | | | For instance, let's take a male 5'9" tall, age 50 at 240 |
| find out how much protein you actually need for your | | | | pounds. His BMR calculates to 2104 calories a day to |
| body size, determine your caloric intake and activity | | | | maintain his body weight. If his goal is to reach 180 |
| level in order to more easily shed pounds of fat this | | | | pounds, his caloric intake would be 1729 a day. |
| year. | | | | To lose weight fast and easy while reducing calories, |
| Gradually reduce your calorie intake to match your | | | | determine your current set point and your new set |
| goal weight. If you're currently 220 pounds with a body | | | | point through the use of online calculators. Once you've |
| fat percentage of 30, you might want to evaluate your | | | | determined what your new calorie intake should be, |
| body mass index with an online calculator. A BMI rating | | | | split that number by six. Our example above had our |
| of 30 puts you in the obese category. Once you've | | | | 15-year-old male eating 1729 calories a day. |
| checked your body mass index and get a handle on | | | | Two more efficiently uses calories while maintaining |
| your BMR to determine your estimated calories per | | | | and even blood sugar level, he should eat six small |
| day. | | | | meals of around 288 calories each. A simple way to |
| Online calculators will take your gender, height, age and | | | | reach this goal is to eat half of your normal meal and |
| weight. After you have filled out the information you'll | | | | save the other half for later. If you're going to eat three |
| receive an estimated calorie per day result. One way | | | | hours later chances are you're not going to be very |
| to get a handle on your caloric intake when shooting | | | | hungry using this method. |
| for a diet or fitness goal is to start by programming the | | | | When you combine a walking program with this |
| BMR calculator with your ideal weight. | | | | reduced calorie regimen you can't help but to begin to |
| I would recommend using the estimated calorie per | | | | lose weight fast and easy this New Year. |
| day result from your adjusted weight reading as your | | | | |