Chart Your Health and Exercise Future Now

To achieve your ideal health and exercise balance, chart your food intake for the week, paying attention to portion sizes. For example, if your Honey Nut Cheerios is 110 calories per 3/4 cup serving, but you eat only 1/2 cup, lower the calories consumed by a third, to 73 calories. Then chart your daily exercise.

If the calories consumed and calories burned are equal, your weight will stay the same. To lose one pound per week, you must consume 500 calories per day less than you burn.

Get a quick start with these tips to trim 100 calories a day.

Get the proper daily nutrients while you adjust your diet and exercise levels by following the simple food pyramid steps set out by the US Department of Agriculture. Find more detailed nutrient information and specific recommended levels of 26 essential nutrients such as carbohydrates, protein, numerous vitamins and fats, also courtesy of the USDA.

*For a complete list of the Institute of Medicine's daily dietary intake recommendations, click here and scroll to Table 2

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