Determine Your Body Type!

Hourglass® Body Type Problem Areas and Characteristics: Noticeable difference between the size of the chest, waist, and hips. Tendency to be a bit slimmer in the waist. Hourglasses® tend to look lighter than their actual weight would indicate. Also, Hourglasses® tend to gain mass in the thighs and the back of the arms. Ruler® Body Type Problem Areas and Characteristics: Relatively equal body proportions. Weight gain is more prevalent in the midsection/waist area. Rulers® do not bulk easily. Rulers® tend to have less hamstring flexibility than Hourglasses® or Spoons®. Rulers® have a tendency toward low back pain Cone® Body Type Problem Areas and Characteristics: Upper body is considerably larger than the lower body. Stomach area may protrude. Cones® tend to have weak abdominal muscles. Cones® tend to experience some back pain. Spoon® Body Type Problem Areas and Characteristics: Lower body is considerably larger than the upper body. Thick upper thighs and thick calves. Uper body tends to be weaker than the lower body. Saddlebags.

Contact Exude California Office and find out how learning your body type can help achieving your weight loss goal: Pam Rumi, Ph. D. 1-949-554-5003 pam@exude.com www.exude.com

Exude is the largest motivational and one-on-one fitness consulting company in the United States. Since 1985, Exude has been designing both individual and corporate fitness programs both here and abroad and has garnered thousands of testimonials along the way.

Exude has revolutionized the way people exercise by creating a formula based on four factors: your lifestyle, your medical and orthopedic background, your current level of fitness and most importantly, your unique body type. Exude puts it all together to prove you with a safe, efficient and effective fitness prescription.

Fresh Dining has teamed up with Exude to help people find the answers to a healthy lifestyle that includes Food, Exercise, Education and Wellness Management of all types that goes well beyond mere weight loss.

• Read the Monthly Weight Loss & Fitness Column: Escape Your Shape in the Resource Center. Written by Edward Jackowski, Ph.D., CEO of Exude Inc.
  
  
• Take the "Escape Your Weight Quiz" and find out the recommended approach for acheiving your weight loss goal
  
  
• Go to Exude website to learn more about Exude

Escape Your Weight Quiz:

Losing weight is a function of choosing the right plan or Approach specifically targeted for your personal needs and goals. Before you embark on your weight loss quest, take a moment to determine which Approach is best suited for you by answering each question below.

Please decide which Approach you're most likely to follow in your quest for weight loss:

1. Diet sprinkled with a little exercise
2. Exercise sprinkled with a little diet
3. Combination of both watching caloric intake and regular exercise

If you chose number 1 then you will be following the Restrictive Approach.
Carefully watching your diet/nutrition and caloric intake while exercising 1-2 days per week.

If you chose number 2 then you will be following the Excessive Approach.
Exercising 5-7 days per week and making minimal changes to your diet/nutrition and caloric intake.

If you chose number 3 then you will be following the Equilibrium Approach.
Exercising 3-5 days per week and making moderate changes to your diet/nutrition and caloric intake.

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