How does it work?

Fitbug is a little gadget that tracks your calories and steps - a unique system designed to help you achieve your weight, fitness and healthy living goals within your day-to-day routine.

Effective weight loss is not only hard to achieve, it's hard to maintain. But there is a way to achieve natural weight loss. Fitbug is a simple gadget that can help you make a few easy lifestyle changes. Fitbug is your own online personal fitness coach. But unlike other weight loss programmes, Fitbug doesn't promote fad diets. Research has found that fad diets don't work. What does work is weight loss that is a result of a few simple lifestyle changes.

Natural Weight Loss Versus Fad Diets

The facts say it all. In America, the diet industry generates $100bn a year. And yet diet companies rely on a 95% failure rate - which is what generates that $100bn as dieters keep seeking out new diets. Diets don't work because they starve your body of calories and fat - so when you do eat normally again, your body hangs onto every calorie because it has switched to 'starvation mode' and grabs onto fats - which is why you balloon and the term 'yo-yo dieting' was coined.

Effective Weight Loss With Fitbug

Effective weight loss is simple - eat less, move more. Regular exercise and a healthy diet is all it takes. Fad diets featuring low-calories or bizarre food regimes are destined to fail because they are, by their nature, unsustainable. For an achievable, effective weight loss programme, turn to Fitbug.

Healthy Eating For Healthy Weight Loss

There's always a new diet book out, but rather than focusing on foods labelled as low fat or undertaking extreme diets that can sacrifice vital nutrients, investing in healthy eating is more effective. By adopting a healthy diet and embracing tasty foods and recipes you can achieve long term weight loss, nutritional balance and optimum health. Why not check out the healthy eating recipes on our website and kick start your healthy eating plan? Find out more, call: 0870 228 4949.

Walking For Health - Best Foot Forward

Like diets, opting for extreme exercise can also pave the way to failure. Your exercise programme needs to be sustainable, achievable and easily incorporated into your day-to-day life. Walking for health has long been acknowledged by health experts and nutritionists as the best way for people of all ages and fitness levels to lose weight and achieve a healthy lifestyle. There are countless benefits to walking for health reasons - as well as walking for weight loss, walking can lower your blood pressure, reduce the risk of heart disease, diabetes, cancer and help you sleep better and lift your mood.

Walking For Weight Loss - The Perfect Exercise Programme

The government is keen for more of us to take up walking for health as the cost of obesity and the associated illnesses is costing the NHS an estimated L29 billion a year. You don't have to be able to afford exclusive gym membership - walking for health could be the answer to reducing health inequalities in the UK as well as promoting well-being. Walking for health and walking for weight loss is the most achievable fitness and weight loss strategy. It's time to pound the pavements. Using the Fitbug pedometer you can get the right structure and motivation to keep you on the straight and narrow. Choose a walking programme to suit you. You can print out your programme, stick it on your fridge and cross off each power walk as you complete it. Find out more, call: 0870 228 4949.

USB Pedometer - A Step In The Right Direction

It's a simple device but pedometers have been proven to increase the number of steps we take. Using a pedometer or a USB pedometer (which lets you automatically download data from your pedometer onto your computer) you can easily track your progress. According to a study published in the journal Nature, walking can burn off more energy than short bursts of gym activity. Using a pedometer or a USB pedometer works by making you more aware and conscious about incorporating walking into your daily life. The study from Maastricht University found that those who incorporated walking into their lives, for example using a pedometer, were more active for longer periods than those who opted for short, intense gym sessions. A moderately active lifestyle, the research found, speeds up our metabolism more than intense bursts of exercise in a relatively sedentary lifestyle.

Pedometer Power

Investing in a pedometer then can help you lose weight naturally, as well as boosting your health and helping to protect you against heart disease. If you are interested in using a pedometer, try Fitbug. Fitbug offers flexibility. You can choose a walking programme to suit you. Fitbug won't ask you to make dramatic lifestyle changes or live on a diet of cabbage to get the results you want. This is healthy living on your terms.

Home Fitness Programmes - Tone In Your Own Home

As well as healthy eating and walking for weight loss programmes, Fitbug can help you incorporate home fitness into your routine. It doesn't matter what your age or ability, Fitbug can find the right fitness programme and exercise plan for you. Home fitness is the new exercise trend for 2009 as more of us seek affordable alternatives to the gym. Gym club subscriptions have already declined by 20%; home fitness is sustainable, convenient and affordable. As a Fitbug member, you are already on course for a fitter, healthier body. For a more toned appearance you need to add a little resistance work into your weekly routine. Resistance training helps you increase muscle mass, which speeds up your metabolism helping you burn more calories. The great news is that you don't have to be a slave to the gym; you can get great results in your own front room just by using furniture, your own body weight, and simple household items like tins of beans. Check out the front room workout routines on our website. Of you can find out more - call us on 0870 228 4949.