It’s been claimed that individuals can lose a pound of fat a week just by taking 10,000 steps a day because of the potential to burn 3,500 calories from walking. As a general rule of thumb, a pound of fat contains around 3,500 calories. If you create an average caloric deficit of 500 calories over a 7-day period, that’s equal to 3,500 calories: good for a pound of weight loss per week. Unfortunately, that 10,000/day = 3,500 calories/week calculation is based on estimations of a specific body type, so this may not apply to you. To understand why, let’s break this claim down.   Weight Any estimation of how many calories…

BISD schools are supposed t0 resume on August 17th if everything is back to normal which is a lot earlier than children used to go to school. Not knowing what is going to happen once the Schools open I’ve been preparing Charlie for Homeschooling one more year. One of the classes Charlie will be attending is a Creative Writing or Journaling class if we continue to Homeschool and I plan on purchasing Journals Charlie will use this week. I’ve picked out journals created by Elle Emme of LM Solutions. Those of you who’ve been following my site may have heard me speak of Elle as she is a VA I…