For someone trying to lose weight for the first time, knowing your calorie intake is an integral part of making your diet work for you. The best way to do this is to count your calories daily. Every meal, including snacks, should be recorded. At the end of the day, you should be able to look over a report on your intake for the day. Empowered by this information, you'll be able have an understanding on how your day went, and know what changes to make for the next day.

Losing weight isn't easy. The physical roadblocks are obvious, but there are mental hurdles to overcome as well. The thought of dropping your current eating and exercise habits and starting fresh can be a very stressful experience. It's very easy to feel overwhelmed. Keeping a daily record of your dieting and and exercise can help to turn an overwhelming life change to step-by-step, one day at a time process.

If you picked up any one of the weight loss magazines at your local grocery store, you would be forgiven for thinking that starving yourself and weight loss goes hand in hand. At FIT Medical Weight Loss, we are living proof that this is not actually the case, particularly if you want to achieve long-term weight loss and do away with yo-yo dieting forever.