What to Do Before You Begin a New Weight Loss Program
By admin on Jun 23, 2010 in Health and Fitness
In my last post I detailed how you can actually increase the volume of your workout program and still not lose weight if you don’t track your nutrition and calories burned and end up eating additional calories that offset your energy expenditure.
To prevent this from happening what I would recommend doing before you add more cardio or other exercise days to your current lifestyle is to track these 3 key statistics:
1. Daily caloric intake and total calories for one week
2. Daily activity level (minutes exercising, being active, and/or calories burned per day)
3. Daily walking total (you can use a pedometer for this)
After you track and journal at least those 3 metrics I would then begin to increase your total workout volume (or begin your new program). Keep in mind, though, that you should not increase your daily caloric intake when adding in your additional exercise if your goal is weight loss. I would also continue to keep your walking and activity levels the same as they were before increasing your training program to ensure that every new calorie burned will aid in your weight loss.
In a future post I will also talk about how additional calorie intake from high quality protein and vegetables can actually speed the weight loss process, but for now I would focus on maintaining your current calorie intake while boosting your weekly exercise.
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