Burn Calorie Burn Pt 2
As mentioned yesterday, the Burn Calorie Burn Challenge, starts next week and lasts till the end of the year. The goal is to aim to burn 250-500 calories per day through diet, exercise or a combination of both.
You can pick how you plan to burn your calories, cut 250 from how you eat. Or, burn 500 during 3-4 workouts each week. It'll all be guestimating, but one thing I hope it'll do is take away the mystery of losing weight. If you cut 250 calories and by the end of the week, feeling like you did awesome on your diet, but the scale doesn't budge, adding it all up 250x7=1750 or 1/2 a lb.
Seeing it in black and white, may give you the oomph to keep up the good work during the next week and all things being perfect, at or around day 14 your 3500th calorie is burned.
Sounds long and tedious, but how many times have you started a week on a weight loss mission only to be disappointed by the lack of or slow movement on the scale? Rather than let emotions cloud your progress, let logic and numbers work for you.
Next week will be all about organization and planning. There'll be new buttons added below the smileys that you can click to log your calorie burn for the day. At the end of the week, add up all your clicks and see if it matches what the scale says.
Now a few things to keep in mind, especially for those like me that will do the calorie burn counting for exercise. I personally don't count calories, but do keep my eating reasonable. If your eating is out of hand, it'll wipe away any deficit you are holding onto. Just because you burned 700 calories on the elliptical, making your daily goal, doesn't mean you can go hog-wild at the buffet. 
For the duration of the challenge, I'll post articles and ideas for eating sensible and realistic workout routines.
If you are already doing a preset eating plan, like Weight Watchers, NutriSystem or South Beach, your calorie counting already has been done and at least 250 calories less. You can do the 250-500 calorie burn via exercise. Your results will be even more amazing.
The nature of the challenge is ongoing, you can jump in or out whenever. Reading it today, you may feel it's not for you, but a post Halloween candy binge may send you running to the computer looking for motivation, the challenge will be here and it's never too late to get started 
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