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