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How to Calculate Your Weight Loss Goal

Setting a weight loss goal can help you to stick to your plan, but it’s a lot more complicated than picking a number on the scale. Your scale weight isn’t always indicative of your true health. Other methods, such as body fat, waist-to-hip ratio and dress size, combine to give you a full picture of the state of your health. Set goals in each area to calculate your weight loss goal. A bonus to setting goals this way is that you have many more milestones to celebrate.

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Starting a Children’s Saving Account

Opening a savings account is a wonderful way to teach your child about money and setting goals. By starting an account at an early age, a child learns how numbers relate to dollars and cents and can begin to understand the value of a dollar. By making savings accounts part of your children’s lives when they are young you will be helping them learn one of life’s most basic skills: how to manage their money.

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How to Calculate Body Mass Index for Women

Body Mass Index, or BMI, is a calculation obtained by a person’s height and weight. While your doctor or fitness trainer may have a handy calculator to feed the numbers into for instant results, it may be helpful at home to learn to do this fairly straightforward equation. Tracking your BMI is an excellent tool to use in estimating your body fat and setting goals in your weight loss program.