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Food
Do you need to lose weight? This tool will definitely assist you in achieving your goal!
Every food has a point value. These points are based on the amount of calories, fat, fiber and carbohydrates (carbs).
Every day, a maximum number of points are allowed based on your weight. These points are defined as follows:
less than 130 = 18
131-140 = 20
141-155 = 21
156-175 = 22
175-200 = 23
201-250 = 24
251+ = 25
Here's a quick example:
Here are some very simple changes that you can start today that will improve your chances of weight loss:
Eat frequent but small meals
Drink 8 to 10 glasses of distilled water a day
Eat lots of raw fruits and vegetables
Avoid drinking calories; coffee, alcohol, soda pop, etc...
Do not eat processed foods; white sugar, potato chips, frozen dinners, high sodium canned foods etc...
Avoid red meat and animal fats
Build your meals around fish, tofu or poultry
Cut out fried foods
Start with a soup or a salad
Exercise
You need to lose weight? This tool will definitely guide you to achieve your goal.
Changing your eating habits is the first step of losing weight. The second one, is exercising.
Losing weight can not be done overnight. Like the food tool, the exercise tool can help you lose weight using our points system.
For example, a 180 pound man can eat 23 points a day. He exercised for 30 minutes at a moderate level.
Therefore, the number of total points is 3.
These points are not added to the number of points you can eat but subtracted from the total amount allowed.
In other words, although he ate 23 points that day it would only count as if he ate 20 points that day.
** As a reminder, aim to lose 1-2lbs per week as this is the safest amount to lose per week.
Target Heart Rate
Find out what your target heart rate is!
The Target Heart Rate is a desired range of heart rate reached during a sport or workout based on your age and activity level.
Use our target heart rate tool to quickly and easily calculate the ideal sport or workout heart rate range to maximize your cardiovascular fitness.
This tool will help you calculate your target heart rate zone to exercise safely.
**Tip: To determine if you're working within your zone, locate your radial artery at the side of your wrist with your index finger, and count the beats for 10 seconds, then multiply by 6.
Body Mass Index
Are you underweight, overweight or within a healthy weight range?
Body Mass Index or BMI is a measure utilized determine weight status.
In other words, this tool tells you if you are underweight, overweight or within a healthy weight range.
Body Mass Index is a measurement of body fat based on height and weight for both men and women.
Look at this chart to find out your status:
BMI Underweight: Less than 18.5 Ideal Weight: Between 18.5 and 24.9 Overweight: Between 25 and 29.9 Obesity: Between 30 and 39.9 Morbid Obesity: 40+
** Note: Being overweight increases the chances of serious health risks like heart disease, diabetes, and high blood pressure.
** Note: Body Mass Index is not a foolproof measurement. Though muscle tissue weighs more than fat tissue, BMI calculation doesn't recognize the difference between muscle and fat. This tool leads for those who are more sedentary.
Ideal Weight
Are you in your target weight range?
Your ideal weight is really a range of weights that is considered healthy, as long as your body fat
is reasonably low. Have you ever wondered what the ideal weight is for your height?
This tool will tell you if you're overweight or underweight.
** Note: This body weight calculator does not account for pregnant, breastfeeding women, athletes and those with a muscular build, older persons or persons who have loss of muscle mass, and illness.
Sports
Find out how many calories you burned while performing your favorite sport!
Ever wanted to know how many calories you burn while jogging? Or playing football?
This tool estimates the number of calories you'll burn performing a range of activities at
varying intensity levels, over a certain period of time and taking into consideration your weight.
Find out how much calories you lost performing your favorite sport or activity.
Basal Metabolic Rate
How much calories did I lose performing my favorite exercise?
Your basal metabolic rate (BMR) is the minimum calorific requirement needed to sustain life in a resting individual.
It represents the amount of energy (measured in calories) required to keep your body functioning normally assuming you participate in no activities.
Your BMR generally decreases with the loss of lean body mass and with age.
This tool gives you a good estimate on how much calories you need to eat everyday.
Calories Burned
How much calories did I lose performing my favorite exercise?
The "calories burned" calculator gives you an estimate of the calories you burned while performing an activity or sport.
The number of calories burned are based on your age, gender, weight, duration of the exercise or activity and your heart rate.
This tool can work with any activities or sports as long your target heart rate zone is greater than 42%.
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