How Many Calories Do I Burn?

This pic is a pic of a pound of fat.

This week I am going to start a series of posts that deal with the numbers - how to figure calories burned, how many consumed, and how that relates to weight loss.

Before we start that discussion tommorow, there is one essential figure to know - 3500. If you want to lose a pound, you have to eat 3500 calories less than you burn - or burn 3500 calories more than you take in.

This week, you will learn how to figure how many cals you burn daily. If you keep a good diet log, you will know how many calories you are taking in. When the difference between calories burned and calories consumed is 3500 calories, you will be 1 pound down.