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Weight Loss Tips

Weight Loss Tip #9: Define Your Best Exercise

The benefits of exercise are undeniable. It increases circulation, flexibility and stamina. Exercise helps to regulate mood, weight and sleep and is a key component to living a vital life. No exercise was created equal. You must decide which types of activities, exercises or sports you enjoy. Next, you’ll find answers to your typical exercise excuses. You might like running, so run. You might like swimming, so swim. You might like dancing, so take a samba class. Don’t pick a routine that you don’t like or you won’t want to do it. If you do, you certainly won’t stick with it for long. I’ve lost weight without hurting myself, and you can, too. Compete with yourself. Avoid the tendency to compare yourself with others by focusing on your abilities. Make exercise a part of every aspect of your life.

Diet Diary

Day 60: Diet and Exercise Downloads

I wanted to post some handy downloads I found for tracking progress – one for diet and one for exercise (make that, EXTREME exercise). I received an email the other day asking me if I knew how to find out how many calories you should eat, cut, burn, etc. There are easy formulas you can use to do the math, but I found this cool spreadsheet that makes it simple. In other words, you just fill in the blanks in excel! Lovely. You can calculate your maintenance, fat loss, and/or muscle gain calorie intake and macronutrient ratios (fancy words for nutrition values) with Fat Loss Calculator v. 4 Excel spreadsheet.

Now onto the exercise part: these are great and they’re also FREE! This link is to download the P90X Worksheets in excel format. There are three versions of this workout – anyway this download is the best I have been able to find online. So, for those who failed to make copies of their workout sheets and are also doing P90X, here they are: http://www.paulymath.com/2009/02/26/p90x-log-sheet/

Enjoy!