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With the help of My Fitness Pal, I've calculated and set my calorie limit at 1200 per day. This is less calories than I am used to with past challenges and I've found myself going over each of the first three days (that includes eating the exercise calories that I burned off). In the past, I would have given up after so many days of not keeping within my limit. This time, I'm not being so hard on myself. I know that lowering my caloric intake is going to take some getting used to and as long as I am eating less than I have been in the days/weeks/months leading up to this challenge, than I know that I am on the right track.
On Day 4, I stayed within my calories by 1 calorie! And only with the help of those…
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