| As you feel the effect of aerobics unfolding | | | | |
| within you like the petals of a blossoming | | | | But in the normal course, our non-calorie |
| flower, you will find yourself seeking out | | | | counting method is simpler. It allows you to |
| and enjoying the kind of food that | | | | eat delicious food in large quantities with |
| complements your lifestyle. You will realise | | | | just a few changes in your pattern of eating |
| that it is not how much you eat but what you | | | | no fat, no sugar, minimum salt. Then, you |
| eat that is important. | | | | need not worry about how much you are eating. |
| | | | At the end of every meal, you feel full, |
| When the field of fitness was still in its | | | | content and even your taste-buds are |
| infancy, experts introduced calorie | | | | satisfied. We shall deal with the 'hows' and |
| Âcounting meals. They figured - rightly - | | | | 'whats' in later chapters. But our method |
| that if you expend more calories than you | | | | leaves you psychologically free, giving you |
| consume, you lose fat. Hordes of | | | | plenty of space to experiment and enjoy the |
| calorie-counters took to it with great | | | | eating process. And scoring those 30 runs per |
| enthusiasm and lost weight. But once the | | | | week becomes a breeze - without counting a |
| novelty palled, they began to feel they were | | | | single calorie! |
| strapped in a straitjacket. The rigorous | | | | |
| discipline of eating only one bowl of cereal, | | | | Charming, isn't it? But do you know that this |
| two slices of fruit, seemed rather tedious. | | | | calorie-expending chart holds good for you |
| After weeks of counting the calorific value | | | | only if you weigh about 68kg? A separate |
| of every morsel they put into their mouth, of | | | | chart will have to be drawn up if you are |
| feeling guilty every time they exceeded their | | | | say, 80 kg! Also, this raises another |
| quota, they gave up. | | | | spectre. If you have consumed 1500 calories |
| | | | in a day, it means you have to calculate how |
| The calorie data that continued to pour out | | | | many hours you have been lying down, sitting, |
| of these fitness laboratories was impressive | | | | standing, driving, playing, etc. to figure |
| - if you thought of them as purely | | | | out whether you have expended the same amount |
| mathematical exercises. For example, they | | | | Âor more - of calories. Whew! Rather |
| informed you that an average person needed | | | | impractical, don't you think? |
| 1500 to 2500 calories per day. Along-side, | | | | |
| you read food facts like one kg of fat | | | | By the way, sporting activities can be |
| corresponds to about 6000 calories, while a | | | | vigorous without being aerobic! For example, |
| kg of carbohydrates contained 4000 calories. | | | | tennis is a stop-and-go sport. It will make |
| Sometimes, two experts did not agree on the | | | | your cardiovascular system work hard, your |
| number of calories in the same foodstuffs! | | | | heart will pump faster - but only in short |
| And as the great calorie debate continued, | | | | bursts. Whereas as we have said earlier, |
| you opted out of this rating race wanting | | | | aerobic training requires vigorous continuous |
| desperately to gnash your teeth preferably | | | | and steady movement. |
| into a small chocolate bar. "That's 300 | | | | |
| calories!" whispered your guilt-ridden mind. | | | | Our aim is to free you from the tedium and |
| "So what?" you chomped back defiantly. | | | | give you the maximum aerobic benefits, It is |
| | | | not only easier to notch up a fitness score, |
| Calories do have their place - but only as | | | | it is also more fun. In fact, we have |
| preventives, or therapies, They should be | | | | simplified it to the extent that it can slide |
| taken into account when you have a specific | | | | easily into your lifestyle - where it is as |
| medical ailment and are treated by a | | | | effortless, normal, and reflexive as |
| nutritionist for a specific cure. | | | | blinking! |