Challenge #2: Pass on the Sugar This Halloween, Choose Healthy Alternatives

Do you know how many calories your favorite candies pack? Just looking at all the calories in a little chocolate bar could pack up to 200 calories... to me, that's not worth it.

Halloween is already next week and this tends to be the start to when many people pack on the dreaded extra calories. 

How many calories is in that fun-size candy bar? See the list of candies here

Whether you trick-or-treat yourself, or snag some of your children's candy, every little piece you put in your mouth adds up. After Halloween, the extra calories keep on coming with Thanksgiving around the corner, then Christmas and then New Years! 

Missed the first challenge? You can still do it! Challenge #1: Don't Count the Numbers on the Machine
 

With all of the celebrations and good food around, we tend to forget that the end of the year sometimes isn't too kind to us when stepping on the scale. Keep reading after the jump for challenge #2. 

Challenge #1: Don't Count the Numbers on the Machine

Hello and welcome to the first challenge!

Whether you use gym machines or use a pedometer or an app to track your mileage and calories burned, the first challenge is to not look at the numbers. 

*** MY UPDATE IS BELOW ON MY CHALLENGE RESULTS

Sometimes we tend to focus on starring at how many calories we're burning. Instead, work out as long as you can and as hard as you can on one exercise and don't focus on any numbers. Just focus in on the moment of working out, no goals set, no time to beat and no obsessing over counting the numbers.