On-line Tools For New Year's Resolutions
Happy New Year from your guide! Now's the time to eat healthy, increase physical activity and make those lifestyle changes that are so important for good health. How do you keep track of fat grams and carbohydrates, as well as calories in and calories out? There are free on-line tools to help you on your way.
The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) offers an interactive Menu Planner. You pick your daily calorie amount and then enter what you've eaten for meals and snacks. The Menu Planner figures out total calories, fat grams, and carbs for the day and let's you know whether you've stayed within your limits. The site also can help you calculate your BMI. There is lots of information about good nutrition and calorie requirements to browse through, too.
FitDay.com is another website that offers a free online diet tool. FitDay has a large data base of different kinds of food including many name brands. It breaks down the calories, carbs, fat grams, and more and figures out serving sizes. It also show your progress with pie charts and line graphs, while keeping track of exercise and goals. You may also journal about your feelings at FitDay as you journey towards your weight loss goals.
My Calorie Counter.com can help you figure out your diet goals and progress. It allows you to enter your food, meal by meal and gives calorie counts, fat grams, carbs, sodium and other information. My Calorie Counter also has a variety of tools such as a BMI calculator, body fat calculator, activity and exercise list, and a weight loss ticker.
Make those New's Year Resolutions come true. A healthy lifestyle is easier to achieve when help is just a click away. Check out these pages for even more nutritional information to get you started.
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