How to Exercise Your Wasteline, Stomach and Loose That Gut

If you're a business owner or accountant, thinking in terms of profit and loss is a great strategy for you. You're used to ensuring your turnover is higher than your expenses to ensure you make a profit right? You can apply the same ideas to your weight loss, simply burn off more calories than you consume and you will lose weight.

It's simple math for both of them, but you also need to use common sense. If you have record sales every Monday at work, but terrible sales the rest of the week, plus you have heaps of added expenses, you won't make a great profit will you? You may even lose money. It's the same with weight loss if you're ultra healthy on Monday and exercise for three hours, but for the other six days of the week you eat fast food and don't exercise, your waist line profit and loss is going to look pretty bad isn't it?

The key to success in both areas is consistently earning more/burning off more and spending less/eating less calories. There is no miracle involved with any of the fad diets. Most of them involve starvation tactics. Who wouldn't lose weight if all they drank was juice for a week and a half? What about the maple sugar/lemon juice diet cleanse? Of course you will lose weight because the calorie deficit is substantially higher than what you burn.

Anytime you take in fewer calories than you burn, you will lose weight. The same thing is true in business where anytime your profits are less than the amount of expenses you spend, you will lose money. In weight loss, you have to apply the principle of burning more calories than you take in to LOSE!

The main difference is that when you are on a weight loss diet, you want to lose! Unlike business where the goal is to gain money, a weight loss diet should include a calorie deficit at the end of the day.

For this reason, many people have found keeping a food journal actually helps them lose weight. Just like businesses that track their expenses and stop spending as much when they see what they have spent on paper, a food journal can help you realize just how many calories you have taken in.

If you write down every single thing you eat, and look up the calorie counts, you will know how much exercise it will take to burn those calories off and you are more likely to correct before you take in an excess. For many, they don't realize how many calories that bag of chips from the vending machine has or the calories in that sugary soft drink they have every break at work. Consider your calorie and food journal the books for your weight loss business.

Weight loss is simply a matter of math. Each bite of food contains a certain amount of calories, some much higher than others. You can fill full by eating the same quantities of low calorie, nutritious foods such as fruit and vegetables as you can feel full from a bag of chips, except the calorie count is significantly different. When it comes to your weight loss business, take control of your profit and loss statement. This is one business where you want to see a deficit and a LOSS!

Scott Hunt has been a Personal Trainer for over a decade and has personally taken over 20,000 Personal Training sessions. While his Gold Coast Studio, Fitness Enhancement has done hundreds of thousands of sessions.