To lose weight and get it: Write it down

It’s springtime and time to slim down for summer. Watching what you eat and getting exercise is critical to get in swim suit shape and I’ve found some Websites that can help you plot your way to… well… a new you.

The idea is to write down everything. What you eat and what you burn in calories by working out, bicycling and running. The Fit Day site is a great place to do just that. It’s totally free, and all web based.

Set your weight loss goals, allot how many calories you can consume a day and then enter in your food and workouts. FitDay then keeps track of everything. A lot of people have lost a lot of weight and credit this site with giving them the motivation.

A similar and also very popular free site is The Daily Plate. Again, the idea is to keep track of what you eat and what you burn. Information is power. As long as you burn through physical activity more than you take in through food, you lose weight. And if you write down everything, you’ll know… there’s no room for excuses to NOT lose weight. the Daily Plate has a huge online database of foods with full nutritional information that it automatically totals for you.

And if you still need more help, a site called Shrink Yourself offers helpful online courses aimed at helping you to stop overeating. Some, which they charge for, are quite in depth and intense. But there is also a free four-day online course called Emotional Eating 101 you may want to check out.