When I was living in the States 24 Hour Fitness was the best place to go. At 3am I would be able to use any machine I wanted for as long as I wanted. It gets a little more hectic during 6-8am and ofc 11-1 and 4-7 but if you go during odd hours you can have a really good workout without worrying about the machine time limits. They usually have so many machines from elliptical machines to spinning bikes. Weight loss and exercise are really easy when you have the choices and time to make them.

The best part about 24 hour Fitness is the TV/radio station box at each machine. You plug your headphones in and you can watch the TVs on the wall, whichever channel you want. It makes exercising so easy and you hardly notice you’re working out.

24 Hour Fitness is one of my few exceptions to the “free” rule, but I will give tips on cheaper gyms. You can exercise for free, and those will be towards my best recommendations, which of course will be towards the end of the month =D!

I have about 30 recipes I use regularly from the site and they are in my recipe book. I change a few of the recipes to make them to my own tastes, but most recipes are perfect just as they are.

Try the site and report back how much you like it! www.allrecipes.com

Self magazine also has a really great forum area with lots of help from other people losing weight. I really enjoy websites which offer support to readers from readers.

Everything on the Self website is free and you can easily spend hours a day on the site. Check out some of the free videos if you want to do strength training a different way.

What I love most about Self’s website is the Self Challenge competition. You sign up and enter in your food consumption and exercise daily, blog about your weight loss and take part in the other activities. You have a chance to win daily prizes or a grand prize vacation.

Check out their site!

Read his book Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle and check out his blog at www.Burnthefatblog.com. His blog and books are very honest about how to lose weight and build muscle. They are about eating properly, counting calories, exercising and strength training. While these are the same ways your doctors and dietitians have been touting, he also does a great job of explaining why weight loss works best this way.

Tom Venuto is the reason I have never looked for another quick weight loss solution and why I continue to manage my weight loss by calorie counting, exercise and strength training. Let him motivate you!!

When I had finally reached my breaking point in weight gain, I sat down and began browsing websites to learn about losing weight. At first, I’ll admit, I was trying to find information on bypass surgery or pills.

Luckily the first website I found, which taught me the correct way to lose weight, was Caloriesperhour.com. While this site is very professional now, when I first started reading, it I think sometime back in 2004, it was just some calculators, forums and very interesting articles by a guy that ran the site. I wish I could remember his name because he taught me so much.

This site is important because of, not only its vast amount of material, but information and tools which don’t advocate ridiculous pills, powders, money or other ridiculous claims. It gives you the tools to work out for yourself exactly how to lose a pound per week and exactly how many calories you are burning now per week. The calculators are an invaluable tool that every person who wishes to lose or gain weight using healthy methods.

This site is completely free and I recommend their calculators highly.
Warning: You can get lost in this site because it has an amazing amount of articles and calculators and you may never leave their forums.

Calorie counter, calorie calculators, exercise advice and more.