Lose 20 pounds in one month.
It is your chance to do what you
dreamed of for a long time.

The main thing you should eliminate is fats. To rid your body of one pound of fat, you have to burn 3,300 calories. So, to lose twenty pounds, you must burn 66,000 calories. Because you have one month to discard the twenty pounds, you must burn 3,300 calories daily to reach this goal.
Exercise is the key here, and it is the survival guide that will give the results you need. Here is a table that shows calorie burn per hour; please note that a heavier person needs less time to lose the weight than the lighter person is.

Shopping	243
Dog walking	396
Hiking	413
Gardening	323
Aerobics	405
Jogging	675

To use this table properly, keep your calorie level on the same plane. If you reduce it, you will burn calories much faster.
In this instance, getting rid of twenty pounds per month by reducing 300 calories is illustrated by 2,300-300=2,000 calories to be burned.

Deborah White

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