This Isn't Sweat; My Fat is Crying!

By a show of hands, how many people enjoy the constant yo-yo routine that often occurs with dieting and weight loss?

Jennifer Hudson and Weight Watchers make it seem so simple. Count your points and lose weight. Easy. It works!

But what happens if you stop counting points??? You can probably guess. Weight loss is at the top of New Year resolution lists everywhere. While moving the scale is an admirable goal, it's not really what most people want.

What most people want is to feel confident and sexy in their own skin. They want to be healthy, strong and pain-free. If this sounds like you, what you want is fat loss, not just weight loss and there's a big difference.

Weight loss is just one tool of measurement for what's going on during a body transformation. Scale weight will decrease if you lose water, muscle or body fat. By looking at a number on the scale, you can't tell which you've lost. If you are losing without exercising, it's likely that water and muscle make up a large percentage of the decrease.

We need some fat loss, baby! Losing primarily body fat instead of water and muscle will completely reshape your body, improve your health and maintain your strength.

How do you lose body fat and more importantly, keep it off? You implement a complete program that includes diet change, strength training and the right balance of cardiovascular training. Strength training is important because it will increase your metabolism, or the rate at which your body burns what you eat.

It's the secret to creating and maintaining a fabulously healthy, strong and lean body. The healthy body fat range for women is between 13-28 percent. For men, it's 5-20 percent. Women naturally need more body fat for childbirth and hormone regulation.

It's 2012! Get a plan, workout and start making your body fat cry!