Lifting Weights and a Pen

Lifting weights helps you drop pounds.

but, so does picking up a pen.

You can double the amount of weight you shed simply by writing down what you eat. In a recent study at the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research in Portland, Oregon, participants who maintained an eating log, lost an avaerage of 18 pounds in six months, which was twice as much as those who didn't.

Keeping a food diary shows you where extra calories are coming from, so you know what habits to change. At calorieking.com you can look up the calorie count for everything you've consumed each day.

Did you know that it would take a 106 minute walk to off-set the calories in a Dairy Queen peanut buster parfait? No thanks!!