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On this page, you have all the tools you need for a complete weight loss program. Do NOT pay for free information given here.

BookMark this page and continue to use the free BMI calculator and Calorie Counter chart for your own custom weight loss program.

Body Mass Index (BMI)

BMI is a term that isn’t completely familiar to everyone. It is short for Body Mass Index. It approaches a standard, and is the common choice for physicians and for research concerning obesity. With a mathematical formula, BMI uses a person’s height and weight for the calculation. Your Body Mass Index is equal to your weight in kilograms divided by your height in meters squared. It is expressed as BMI=kg/m2.

In the table below, the risks for disease associated with being over weight or obese are listed based on BMI and waist size for women and men. For your convenience, use the calculator below the chart for your BMI.

Below are two daily calorie counter charts. The first chart estimates the calories burned daily for men. The second chart estimates the calories burned daily for women. In each calorie counter column, there is a lower number based on individuals with passive lifestyles and a higher number based on individuals with a moderate degree of physical activity working and exercising. Use these as a guide to provide calorie intake levels for you to lose weight.

It’s very simple. Find your chart listing and lifestyle. Stay below the calorie count for you, and you will lose weight. Don’t pay for some expensive plan. It’s as simple as less calorie intake than you burn in order to lose weight.

Chart of Daily calories burned for Men

Chart of Daily calories burned for Women

Now, combine the tools on this page with the food choices on my Negative Calorie Page and you can have confidence you will lose the weight you want.

Regards.

Have you ever gone on a diet? It wasn’t something I had to worry about when I was younger. It seems the older I get, the more my body metabolism shuts down. And I do mean shuts down.

I used to take my wife to Red Lobster and get the Admirals Feast, just for me. Now, we have trouble splitting it without getting too full. It saves money for sure, but sometimes I long for those days when I could chow down and still be a lean, mean machine.

Alas, those days are gone forever.

We’ve tried several diets over the years. A couple of them worked really well, but one was a pain, and the other one, I hated.

One was a three day diet. It even let you have ice cream. I hated it. By the third day, I was starving! One of the days, lunch was one measly boiled egg and a single saltine cracker. Yes, the diet worked. But it was like starving to death.

The other diet that worked was a life style change. Basically you ate as much as you wanted, but no starches or sugars of any kind. It made the body start using fat for its energy source. I must say it worked well. I was never hungry. In fact, I was supposed to eat as much bacon and eggs as I could stomach for breakfast.

The problem with that diet was that it just wore on me after a while. Never a potato. Never a piece of bread. No rice. Not even any fruit!! Remember, no sugars of any kind.

So, the wife and I aren’t fat by any means. But, neither are we the trimmer selves we once were either. Say what you want about getting caught up in the picture of perfection painted by the media. Like it or not, we live in this world with these influences. So, yes, we would like to be thinner.

Many or most of you might already know this. I’m not one that has been into the diet scene enough to have really researched it. This evening, I was looking for ads to run on my website. In the click-ads there was this one that sold recipes and a full list of dishes that used negative calorie foods. It’s here if you want to see it–Click Here.

Well, I started digging around on the web to see if the list of foods was there for the grabbing. I found several small lists. And my master list kept growing.

Below is the list of negative calorie foods I compiled from several lists. There may be others, and there may be ways to prepare these that would ruin their negative calorie effect. I’m just giving you what I found. If you want recipes and all the extra little info then you may want to get the book from the site I found here.

I had no idea there were so many fruits and vegetable that would be negative calorie. By the way, they aren’t negative calorie because they have no calories. They are negative calorie because the body has to burn more calories than they have to digest them. I had never thought of that.

Use the list below with the BMI calculator on my complete weight loss program page.

I think they should list the calories of a food by its ‘effective’ calories. That would just make it all more clear.

Wow! That’s quite a list. I was really surprised by some of these too. I never dreamed figs, strawberries, watermelon, or pineapple would require more calories to digest than they supplied. That’s rather incredible.

I believe I can live with a list like this. Well, here’s to thinner living.

Regards.

My daughter has always hated school with a passion. I’ve always told her it was because she hated responsibility and to get over it. But this was more than just a passing whine with her. She would actually get physically down and depressed over it when there were added pressures like a paper or big exam.

So, brilliant me, I told her one year that I really didn’t care what grades she got. As long as she did her best.

Yes, you’re right. That was fairly dumb. All her grades dropped off a bit.

However, in the scheme of things, I have to step back a step or two for questions like this.

Is it the goal or the journey?

Well, most people with a six figure income would say it’s about the goal. Most the folks without a six figure income wouldn’t say it’s about the goal or it’s about the journey. They weren’t really actually thinking about it in the first place. Thus, no six figure income.

Now, after they finally did see the guy with the six figure income driving his sweet little baby down the street, they look on with envy–trying to figure some way to get the six figure income. The scramble starts.

So, the guy who set goals and got the six figure income does what? Obviously he notices the envy. So, guess what he does? He offers the little guy instruction in how to get what he has. In fact, without any effort whatsoever, he can deliver an automated system requiring no work that will make anyone a rich man. And it’s free to join! < <<—-See. I’ve even got one!!

Does it work? Sure! But mostly for the guy with the six figure income!

What’s my point?

Well, at the end of the day, we all want to have it all. But, at the end of the same day, most of us aren’t willing to pay the price.

I make a comfortable income. I pay my bills. I pretty well live at the edge of my means with a little left to save. If I lost my job or couldn’t work, I would be devastated in just a few months. My point is, I couldn’t just drop what I’m doing to do what I liked. I have responsibilities that won’t allow me to follow any dream that might still be lingering.

So, what did I tell my daughter?

I told her to always pursue what she loved doing and to hope that the path would bring an income. I told her this would keep her happy whether she had money or not. AND, if she started life like this, and always lived within her means, she would never be trapped in a job with no way out.

Boy was that dumb. She has a group of people that pay her to do things for them and works on the side doing things with the youth at a very large church. Basically she gets paid to go to church, and paid to help her friends. Hmm, maybe not so dumb after all.

So, which is it? I think we all have a false sense that money will bring happiness. It may bring more toys, but toys just leave us wanting more.

“Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” lofty words. Hopeful words. Life and liberty are mostly givens in the USA. Happiness, which really matters at the end of the day, isn’t any more a promise in the USA than it is in any other country.

No, for that you need contentment first. So, happiness is really a result of contentment. And, you’ll find nothing and no one can give you contentment. No. You alone can do that.

I’m going to tell my daughter to practice contentment. Yes, you heard correctly. I said “practice contentment.” Contentment can’t be given and it can’t be taken. When practiced, it brings happiness. Now, that’s not so dumb.

Regards.

Have you ever sat thinking about something that happened to you in the past, even years ago, and felt all the emotions of the moment all over again?

Boy, I sure have. And that remembered moment can ruin the day I’m having now! Is that not bizarre?

I can remember when I was around twelve years old, before my voice changed, and I was singing in a group. We were at camp standing around a campfire. There was this really, really cute girl in front of me. She turned around and said to me, “You have a very nice voice.” Ok, maybe I was a late bloomer for one, but I know by what I said to her that I was a complete idiot.

I responded to her, “I know,” with all the graces of a complete moron.

What on earth was I thinking?

Was I always that stupid?

What ever happened to “Thank you,” or “You’re very kind,” or even “Well, you’re very cute. What’s your name?”

For crying out loud, I could have said almost anything EXCEPT what I did say!

So, any time I want to feel absolutely ridiculous, I can just think of that moment. It’s amazing how emotions work in the first place. It’s even more amazing how they work with our memories–and that they can be just as powerful when the moment is remembered.

Power and Control come to my mind when I think about emotion. Emotion can be completely crippling. It can also drive us to the point that it even alters our personality.

Most of us have a certain level of confidence. Some more, some less. It is wired in directly with how we are feeling about ourselves at any given point. It establishes the life background of healthy pride that carries us. When it is damaged or attacked, it shakes us at the very core of our emotional stability.

I call it my stupid button. Do NOT press my stupid button.

I can be having an entirely un-eventful day, or even a great day, and have it totally changed when my stupid button is pressed.

My stupid button is wired directly to both my established level of confidence and my personal pride. When you press my stupid button, both of these core elements in my stability are attacked simultaneously. This triggers the emotion that we commonly call embarrassment.

Well, being embarrassed by itself is one thing. But FEELING embarrassed because someone made us feel stupid, consequently shaking our very foundation, is like pushing the last radioactive rod into the reactor. If something isn’t done quickly, there will be an explosion.

This is where I’ve told people things like, “Go outside and practice falling down. I’ll be out in a minute,” and I wasn’t joking. This will take a full grown man back to a teenager in a chest pushing contest of, “come on, punk. Let’s go punk.”

So, don’t make me stupid.

Why am I sharing this? Because, this isn’t just true at work. This isn’t just true playing your favorite sport. This isn’t just true in a classroom. This isn’t just true in a fight or a debate [often the point of a debate].

This is most true with those you love.

Indeed, the most hurt, the worst fights, the most damage I can remember in my marriage was a direct consequence of pressing my wife’s stupid button.

Now, we could all argue that we should have better self control. The difficulty here is our relationships are the places we have made ourselves vulnerable. The closer the relationship, the more vulnerable we are. And, a truly loving marriage even paints a perfect target in the dead center of our stupid buttons. We know it all, and we know how to press it just right.

I have ruined some of the best times with my wife in the past by pressing her stupid button. I often interact with friends by having to be saying comical things in a conversation. When I meet new people, I try even harder to make things fun with laughter and light-heartedness. So what comes out the easiest? Where do any comedian’s jokes come from? Friends, family, life, and experience are the sources of all our good stuff.

It’s rather incredible more public comedians aren’t maimed, hurt, and killed by their loved ones. Their loved ones are so often the center of their quips and routines. The same goes for preachers. I guarantee Sunday lunch has had it’s share of the wife’s scorn for words that she knows he should never have made public–and which he is very sorry he did.

So, guard your words. Practice keeping your mind a couple of phrases ahead of your mouth.

And, where your wife is concerned, don’t you dare push that stupid button. Believe me. It will ruin your day. It will ruin your night. It can ruin the next several days and nights. It’s just plain stupid.

Find some new material.

Regards.