Essential Tools for Fat Loss

If you are truly serious about losing body fat, the first thing you must do is establish your fat loss calorie requirements (the number of calories you need to consume each and every day in order to start losing body fat). This is rather easy to do:

1. Multiply your current body weight by 12
2. Subtract 20% from that figure

Example, if you are 150 lb. female who wants to start losing body fat and body weight, your fat loss calorie level (not to be exceeded) is 1440 calories daily (150x12=1800; 1800-20%=360).

Now, once you've determined your fat loss calorie requirements, you need to put these figures into action. This means you have to track and quantify the food you eat each and every day in order not to exceed your limits. THIS IS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY! Yes, it is tedious, and is basically a part-time job, but it is necessary if you really want results. Fat loss and weight loss comes down, largely, to input vs. output...if you don't know what your input is, how can you expect to get results?

Two tools that are absolutely essential to make this process easier are a food scale and an online calorie tracking system (which will allow you to look up the calorie content of the foods you eat). A food scale can be purchased at any number of retail stores (I got mine at Bed, Bath, and Beyond) or online for about $30. I'd recommend one which has a digital read out and that is accurate to an eighth of an ounce. As for the online calorie tracking system, I cannot recommend http://www.calorieking.com/ enough.

In the last 7 days, I have lost 11.8 lbs., and these two tools have helped me tremendously. For the exact system I used to achieve these phenomenal results, click on the banner below: