The Zen of Calories – A Simple Approach to Healthy Weight Loss and Long Life is a book about what has worked for me and others and keeps working.
The basic facts of weight loss, or of maintaining a healthy weight, are painfully simple: Consume fewer calories than you burn—or for maintaining your weight, Do not consume more calories than you burn.
It does not matter how many views and opinions you pile on top of this fact, it still holds true.
All far-reaching truths are basically simple, and the truth of losing weight is no exception. It rests squarely on the First Law of Thermodynamics, which, unless you’re from some neighboring universe with a different set of physical fundamentals, has proven to hold very true indeed. Here it is (in geek-tongue):
The increase in the internal energy of a system is equal to the amount of energy added by heating the system, minus the amount lost as a result of the work done by the system on its surroundings.
In plain language: You provide heat (calories) to your system (body) through food—you lose energy (calories) by work done.
If you add more heat to the system than you lose as a result of work, you increase the internal “energy” which the body stores for future use, usually as fat. Also known as gaining weight.
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This little book is about what has worked for me, and about what has worked for others when I’ve lent a comforting or guiding hand.
A few years back, to help a good friend of mine lose sixty pounds in about six months, I researched and wrote a series of short articles about the basics of weight loss, which I’ve included here.
I have also touched upon my long-term, somewhat radical (some would say) but extremely simple, food regimen. Of course, other factors have bearing on a long and healthy life as well. Exercise, nutritional supplements, spiritual outlook. I’ve touched on these as well.
I share this with the wish and hope that it will be of some help.
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