Do you know how important eating well is to ensuring weight loss? OK, first take a look in your kitchen cupboards and pantry. Then make a list of all the Junk Stuff you can find (all of it) to make a "Junk Food List."

Let's just call it The List for now. Are you surprised to see how long it is? Bet you had no idea that there was so much junk in your house, write down (again, all of it!).

Then write next to each item the number of calories/serving of each and every item. You can find that information clearly stated in the food label. Don't worry about getting down the saturated fat values or the artificial flavor information... only the number of calories per serving.

Usually you can find that number as the very first item listed right at the top of the Nutritional Value Table. Remember, food companies are very smart and they need to let you know ahead of time "exactly" what you are putting into you body if you eat their food (it's the law).

OK, lets move on. A calorie is a unit of energy. We tend to associate calories with food, but they apply to anything containing energy. Specifically, a calorie is the amount of energy, or heat, it takes to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water 1 degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit).

Remember, you need to burn off 3,500 calories to lose 1 pound. So following is a list of common exercising activities and the number of calories a 150 pound person will burn (heavier people will burn more calories, lighter people will burn fewer calories):

1- Bicycling @ 6 mph you'll burn 240 cal/hr.

2- Jogging @ 5 mph you'll burn 740 cal/hr.

3- Jumping rope you'll burn 750 cal/hr.

4- Running in place you'll burn 650 cal/hr.

5- Swimming 50 yards/min you'll burn 500 cal/hr.

6- Tennis (singles) you'll burn 400 cal/hr.

7- Walking @ 3 mph you'll burn 320 cal/hr.

So what are you waiting for? Get started right now and visit the following link to read about Exercises for Beginners and get information about effective but affordable exercise equipment while you're at it:

Exercises for Beginners.

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