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Losing fat and staying in great shape is a difficult task since it is so hard to stay motivated and so tempting to cheat. For dieters like us, there is a constant battle between emotion and reason and when hungry, reason is out of the window and emotion just wins. We do not see the immediate effects of our behavior and therefore our brain is fooled into thinking that everything is all right. On the other hand, let's say you would get very sick when eating more than you need, overeating would stop very quickly.

We need to show this in a factual manner like an immediate visual display of the results of our cheating. This will help us to start to understand why we don't lose weight and can pinpoint the causes.

First is a chart. In this chart, I would like to see over a period of time the average calories I take per day compared with the average calories that I burn per day. This can determine the intake calories lower than the burned calories and I will lose weight or vice versa I will gain weight. Correlate that with your weight or BMI (Body Mass Index) over time and having the tool that helps regulate my food consumption versus my daily activities.

I can fine tune my meal plans and daily activities if I add my hunger levels before and after the meals. This can sustain my dieting for a long time and it will become my way of life. I have minimized the hunger pain and increase the pleasure of losing weight and feeling more attractive.

Free online food calorie calculators are available anywhere. It just display nutrition facts and are not going to help you lose weight. These are simple little gimmicks that are a waste of your time.

If you seriously track and correlate your calorie intake and calories burned over time, depending on your age, weight, gender, height and individual activity intensity levels can precisely measure your calorie balance. You can also see immediately when you are off track and you can adjust your situation accordingly.

Great health is a complex task. Diet, nutritional facts, meal plans, calorie balance, body reading measurements, supplement and medicine intake, exercise routines, daily activity intensity and costs will make it very difficult for you to see the forest for the trees.

Managing your health, fitness, weight loss, muscle mass gain or any goal you have set can be very easy if there is well designed software that keeps track of all of the above factors and can correlate them.