As personal trainers we understand that some if not most clients would like to "lose a bit of weight" during their personal training package at our EXOFIT personal training studio in Ballsbridge, Dublin 4. Which is perfectly understandable, but often leading to a none understandable relationship you create with starting exercise in the first place. See, exercise has absolute fantastic benefits to the body other than just burning off calories. We understand at EXOFIT as personal trainers that a decrease in fat mass can reduce the percentage of developing chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes, etc. But beginning a personal training package or starting out exercising to just burn calories is a bad move for a long term success rate of improving your health and physiological departments such as strength, cardio vascular fitness, mobility, flexibility, etc. Fat loss is a massive tie of exercise, physical activity, nutrition, calorie intake and time. So when the other four components are not in place, and you don't lose a happy amount of body fat - that's when you run the risk of "falling off the wagon" with your exercise and letting your overall health and physiological departments take a hit. See exercise should be considered as you promoting change and increasing your health rather than burning calories. Reduce the excessive amounts of calorie tracking on your fitness watches and studio equipment (Bike Erg, etc), as a start. This will not help for sure. And focus more on your muscular endurance tracking during a workout for example, "how many meters did I cover on that Ski Erg, Zoe?", etc or your strength gains, what are you open hex bar trap bar deadlifting this week?, how did that weight feel?, etc or how many minutes did you cover this week overall?, rather than how many calories did you burn. We EXERCISE to improve our health, everything else is just a bonus.