If you are like so many people out there and you have made a new years resolution to lose weight, then you're probably looking for some helpful ways to stick to your goal. It can be easy to hit the ground running for the first week or so, but then afterward, especially if you don't see an immediate result, you might feel that you are not making any progress. This is when it can become very tricky to stick to your diet. Luckily, there are many ways you can follow through with your plan and the below tips are the perfect way to help you out. Here are a few ideas that you can use.

Get A Calorie Tracker App For Your Phone

You never want to ballpark calories when you are on a diet. Many people underestimate the number of calories they eat every day. This is critical when you are on a diet. If you overshoot your daily allowance by even a hundred calories (which is not that much food wise) you will not end up losing weight. So, you need to get a calorie counter for your phone. What you can do with these apps is to input your daily food choices, and the app will tell you exactly how much you have consumed calorie wise. You can set a daily goal for calorie consumption and then use this as a benchmark. As you lose weight you can adjust the number to your target weight.

Don't Exercise Alone: Get A Personal Trainer  

Exercise is a vital part of anyone diet and fitness plan. If you don't exercise properly you won't maintain muscle. You never want to lose muscle while dieting, and this is why you always want to hit the gym. The problem is that if you don't know how to exercise you will simply be wasting your time in the gym, or, more importantly, you might even end up damaging yourself. What you want to do is find a gym that has a personal trainer that you can schedule sessions with. These personal trainers will know how to design a routine for you that includes weight training that will help you maintain muscle and lose fat while keeping lean body muscle. The other reason that you want to hire a personal trainer is that not everyone body is the same so if you simply go online and look at popular weight lifting routines they might not be appropriate for your own needs.

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