Читать книгу The Lunch Box Diet: Eat all day, lose weight, feel great. Lose up to a stone in 4 weeks. - Simon Lovell - Страница 9

Stop driving yourself crazy with guilt. Guilt is a wasted emotion. There are days when you get it all done and days when you don’t. Accomplish the big things, the imperative things, but if you let a few little things slide to free up time for more important things like exercise or family time, that’s okay!

We burn energy day and night to perform the basic necessities of life: breathing, digestion, brain function and so forth. The amount of energy burned for these basic functions varies according to a person’s size, age and sex. The larger the person, the harder the body has to work, so the more energy is burned. As we get older, we burn less energy – which may very well be why some of you bought this book in the first place. For the first time in your life, you might be experiencing weight gain.

Most of us do more during the day than simply breathing and digesting food (I hope!). How much more varies. Some of us have physically active jobs. Others spend the day sitting behind a desk. But we all have choices about what we do with our free time. For some, relaxing means lying on the sofa and for others it means going on a bracing hike.

I don’t want you to count every calorie, nor to become a slave to the ‘calories burned’ function on your treadmill. However, you must adjust your eating to accommodate your activity level. It’s just common sense.