Printable Weight Loss Charts
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Tracking weight on printable weight loss charts offers benefits to dieters seeking long term answers to their weight problem.
Benefits of Tracking Weight Loss
Progress charts have been used for decades to help motivate people involved in a given task. It's no different for those trying to lose weight. A weight loss chart helps guide you in a way that allows you to see your progress in black and white. There's no question about how much you've lost in a week or month. If your weight loss system isn't working, you'll know that too. Instead of spinning your wheels and making no progress, you'll be able to make a change in your diet plan to help you make forward progress in your weight loss attempt. Online resources provide a number of weight loss charts that are printable and free.
Using Your Weight Loss Chart
When tracking your weight loss, if you're chart is a graph, use two different colored pencils or markers to delineate your current weight from your target weight. Other information to chart can include:
- BMI
- Guidelines for your weight loss plan. For example the Prism Weight Loss Program has members read a signed statement each day in which they agree not to place one bite of forbidden food into their mouth. Keeping such a statement on your weight loss chart can be both convenient and inspiring.
- Measurements
Chart Jungle's Printable Weight Loss Charts
The Chart Jungle offers a large selection of printable charts dealing with health and giving you the means to track your progress. They offer the two following free printable weight loss charts:
If tracking your progress on a chart helps to motivate you to better health and weight loss, these other free printable charts may also be of interest:
- Calorie Tally + Exercise + Water
- Calorie Counting Chart
- Fruits and Vegetables Daily
- Salt Intake Chart
- Sugar Levels Chart
- Sweets Chart – to help you track the sweets you eat so you don't over indulge
- Exercise Chart
ParenTime's Printable Cheklists
ParenTime's printable weight loss checklist is designed to help people to see how well their exercise program is working. This chart is free to download and tracks weight loss or gain and has a place for notes.
3 Fat Chicks on a Diet
Along with the calculators and tools available at 3 Fat Chicks on a Diet, their printable weight loss progress chart lets you track weight loss for three months. While there is a space for each day of the week, they recommend weighing once a week on the same day of the week.
ePrintableCalendars.com
This simple chart tracks everything you need for keeping an eye on your weight:
- Day#
- Date
- Weight
- Change
- Total Weight Loss
What Else to Track
Watching your weight go down inspires you to keep going. Along with tracking your weight, you may also want to consider tracking:
- What you eat – This not only helps you to become more aware of what and how much you eat but may also help you to see a pattern in your eating. For example, if you see cookies on your What You Eat chart every afternoon, perhaps it would be better to exercise at that time of day. Once you identify patterns and habits, you can work to change them.
- Exercise – Exercise is important not just for weight loss, but for good health. Fit it in whenever you can. In fact, Breakthrough health and fitness expert Jonathan Roche suggests starting out slow like walking to the mailbox and back and working up from there. Seeing progress will help you stay motivated. Once you start to build muscle you'll burn more calories and your weight will drop steadily.
- Drink 64 oz. of Water – You've heard it and heard it, but do you do it? Tracking how much water you drink might help you stay hydrated. Water also works to suppress your appetite and helps the body to metabolize stored fat.
You Can Do It
Using a weight loss chart helps track progress and keeps you going even when you don't feel like it. You have the knowledge of what to do, it's the actual follow through that trips most dieters up. Using a chart to track your progress can help with that as it gives you a tangible visual of your accomplishments along with the goal you will achieve if you stick with it. If you have a bad day, don't let it bog you down. On your chart, one day among so many does not need to be a pitfall. Get right back at it the following day. If you stay disciplined, you'll reap the rewards of a thinner you!.
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Comments
Hi Teresa,
They do come in handy, don't they? Thanks so much for taking the time to let us know how much you enjoyed the resources found in this article. You've made my day.
Donna
-- Contributed by: Donna SundbladThese charts are absolulely fantastic and a must for everyone who is serious about losing weight
-- Contributed by: Teresa ChapmanThis page has been accessed 16,513 times. This page was last modified 14:13, 2 October 2008.
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