On the way to achieving your big picture goal of maintaining a healthy weight, you’ll need a few tools. There are only three, and they’re all easy to use, especially when you learn to use them together. Once you have your assessment in hand, you can stay on target with a complete tool kit that includes your exercise plan, a heart rate monitor, and meal plans. Here’s why New Leaf considers these three tools to be the complete solution to weight management:

Tool #1: Your Exercise Plan
There’s a fitness message you probably won’t hear in the mainstream media: Honor your limits. There’s nothing to be gained from working out longer than the next guy, or with more zeal than the perky ponytailed gal two treadmills over. Based on your New Leaf metabolic assessment, your workout plan is personalized to work best for your body so you get a steady start to your fitness program. Your trainer uses your assessment results to create an exercise plan that will help you build a strong foundation that can sustain you on your path to fitness success.

Tool #2: Your Heart Rate Monitor
The tool that’s most responsible for monitoring your workouts to ensure you burn fat instead of time is a heart rate monitor. These little gadgets make your workouts effective by reporting your progress during each session. The simplest heart rate monitors are low-cost, one-button push watches. Just as easy to use and (we think) best for beginners: a simple chest-strap transmitter most reliably sends your heart-rate data to whatever fitness machine you’re working out on.

You can find a heart rate monitor at your fitness club or through New Leaf.

Tool #3: Your Nutrition Plan
A new approach to moving your body requires a new approach to your diet. Notice that’s “diet,” not “dieting.” Why the distinction? “Dieting” creates the mindset of deprivation (having to skip out on all your favorites) and rigid control (forbidden foods and counting calories). But with some guidance on what makes for a good diet, you’ll find that you’re eating well and nourishing your body with healthy foods—and that can be a source of real pleasure. With guidance from New Leaf’s ENERGYsmart ™ online nutrition tracking and training tool (or with help from a dietitian or your personal trainer) you’ll learn to fuel your body with the right foods, in the right amounts, at the right times. No point systems or calorie counting required!

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