3,500 calories is equal to one pound of fat, right? If you want to loose 10 pounds of fat, simply burn 35,000 calories. Sounds ambitious doesn’t it. But this mindset might be exactly what you need to stop binging and achieve your weight loss goals.
A lot of articles suggest focusing on weekly goals and loosing a pound a week, and I’ve been trying this for the past year without desirable results. I would loose my one pound one week, then the next week gain it back. Since 3,500 is such a small number, cutting about 500 calories a day, once I went even a little over my daily calorie budget one day I would feel bad then binge enough to ruin the entire week.
So it’s time to try a different mental approach. Instead of only focusing on a 3,500 calorie deficit, why not focus on cutting 35,000 calories? With this you’re not likely to feel like such a failure after one bowl of ice cream or one candy bar because you see the bigger picture. You can see that the one candy bay is insignificant, there for you are less likely to binge after a minor slip up in your diet.
With this reasoning, I’ve embarked on my 35,000 calorie challenge. I created a simple google spreadsheet to track my progress.
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