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1. Weight Loss Fundamentals
   Learn the basics regarding calories and fat and how they relate to weight loss, dieting and exercise.
    
2. Body Fat Calculator
   Helps you determine your starting point, and aids you in establishing an appropriate weight loss target.
    
3. Calorie Calculator
   Helps you determine required daily calories to maintain your current weight, and set sensible calorie intake goals.
    
4. MyRightSize Weight Loss Tracker
   Use our free weightloss tracker to record your progress. Keep track of your diet, exercise and weight loss and see how you are progressing toward meeting your goals.
    
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   If you need meal plans to complement your RightSize diet, or help figuring calories, we recommend DietWatch, a Forbes "Best of the Web" winner.
   They offer more extensive tools, and provide help for those struggling with emotional eating. Get started with DietWatch's free diet profile.

Weight Loss Fundamentals

The whole secret to dropping pounds is to consistenly expend more calories than you consume. For every pound of body fat, you store approximately 3500 calories. Therefore, if you burn 3,500 calories more than you consume over some period of time, you will lose approximately 1 pound of weight (on average, 75% of this weightloss is body fat and 25% lean tissue). If your goal is to lose a pound a week, you'll need to consume an average of 500 calories less per day than you expend.

Your calorie deficit can be achieved in one of 2 ways; either by reducing the amount of calories you consume in your diet, or by expending more calories through exercise. Employing both methods is best for long term weight loss. Just by sitting at a desk, a person will burn in the range of 1,700-3,000 calories per day depending on size. This calorie burn goes up with activity.

A good rule of thumb is to reduce you calorie intake by 500 to 1000 calories below your daily maintenance level. An alternate means of determining a safe minimum calorie consumption is to reduce your calories 15% to 20% below your daily calorie maintenance requirement. Even then, you should never drop your daily calorie intake below 1200 calories for women and 1800 calories for men. In most cases, 1 to 2 pounds of weight loss per week is sensible and recommended for long term and sustained weight loss.

One problem with reducing calories, however, is that we are often left feeling hungry. That's why RightSize is such an affective tool in helping you reach your weight loss goals. Right Size Smoothies help you reduce your daily calorie intake and leave you satisfied.

To see how Right Size helps in a weight loss program focusing on calorie reduction, let's look at this example consisting of a typical lunch. A club sandwich with chips and a soda contains approximately 1,400 calories. A Right Size Smoothie blended with skim milk, on the other hand, is only 200 calories. Your hunger satisfaction will be similar, but you've just saved 1,200 calories. Continue ths for 3 days and you just lost a pound (1,200 calories saved at lunch X 3 days=3,600 calories (3,500 is a pound of weight loss)). You can use similar examples for dinner, breakfast or even "problem" snacking. Everyone has their "problem" times. RightSize is designed to take weak moments and turn them into satisfying, calorie saving events.

† You should consult your doctor before attempting any weight loss plan.