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