THE LITTLE BOOK OF CALORIE BURNING
Gill Paul
Illustrations by
Judith Ash
CONTENTS
Introduction Aerobics Arguing Badminton Ballet Baseball Basketball Belly dancing Bowling Boxing Brushing your teeth Canoeing Carrying bags Chewing gum Childcare Circus skills Clothes shopping Computer games Cooking Cricket Croquet Cycling Dancing Depilation Dishwashing Diy Dressing Driving a car Dusting Eating Filing Football Frisbee Gardening Golf Grocery shopping Gym workouts Hockey Horse riding Ice skating Ironing Jogging Kissing Kite flying Knitting Making beds Making-up Martial arts Massage Mountaineering Mowing the lawn Music, listening to Music, playing Parachute jumping Phone, talking on Pilates Ping-pong Pub, going to Queuing Reading Relaxing in a hammock Rollerblading Rowing Running Sewing Sex Singing Sitting still Skateboarding Skiing Skipping Sleeping Smoking Snooker Snowboarding Stairs, climbing Stretching Surfing the internet Surfing the waves Sweeping floors Swimming T’Ai chi Television, watching Tennis Texting Typing Unpacking groceries Vacuuming Volleyball Walking Washing hair Washing the car Watering the garden Waterskiing Weightlifting Whistling Wrapping presents Wrestling Writing a letter Yoga
How can you boost your metabolism so that you burn more calories through everyday activities? What weight should you be, and what’s the easiest way to achieve it? Does your chocolate addiction need to stop you getting into your size eight skinny jeans? Read on to find out the sneaky secrets of successful calorie burning…
Here it is at last – the ultimate, the Holy Grail of weight-loss plans, a revolutionary new regime that genuinely allows you to eat whatever you like. No more saying ‘No’ to Ben & Jerry’s or burgers or even booze. All you need do is count the calories you consume and make sure you burn them off again before they manage to settle implacably on your hips and thighs. Simple as that!
SO WHAT EXACTLY IS A CALORIE?
A calorie is just a unit of energy. Compare it, say, to a lump of coal. You put the right amount of coal in a fire and it burns attractively producing just enough heat to keep your room warm; pile too much coal onto your fire, however, and it bulges messily out of the grate – just like those wobbly muffin bellies