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—————- The next find out more meeting for our March programme is on Tuesday 23rd February which is in [cntdwn todate=”25 February 2020 23:59″ timeoff=”0″ showhours=”0″ showmins=”0″ pretext=””] Check myrise.co.uk/briefing-meeting to find out more, see what the meeting involves and, potentially, take that next step to transforming your life and body 🙂 ———————-
You may have noticed that I like the old food-money analogies.
Different ways of thinking of your food in the same way as you do money.
With a budget that you find ways to, on average, stick to.
Ways that are, perhaps, a little bit of a pain.
But, I would suggest, way less of a pain than ‘spiralling into debt’.
Got another one for you.
Imagine your friend has been over spending.
Running up substantial debt.
They told you their plan to curb this.
“I’m just going to buy less things”.
“Good thinking” you might reply.
“Yeah – just the higher, quality, more expensive things, but less of them overall”
“Not so good” you could continue.
“Why not buy less expensive stuff? Or a mixture of cheaper and more expensive stuff if you really feel the need. You can have more stuff overall. And probably still have most of the stuff you really fancy”.
Makes sense, no.
Yet we’re tempted to do the equivalent when trying to lose weight.
Going hungry on your more energy dense stuff…………..
When we could be fully satiated on a sensible mixture of low energy density stuff.
I recently worked out that I would lose weight on 20 kilos a day of mushrooms (might be 10kg if you’re considerably smaller than me).
A slightly daft example sure.
No one would want to do that and probably not great for overall health.
But not a chance would you go hungry on that.
And mushrooms can, of course, be replaced in that equation, with dozens of other filling, energy sparse and enjoyable options.
Don’t switch of to that if you don’t like mushrooms – they’ll be plenty of other options that you do like.
I’m going to be doing something for members to search foods by energy density soon.
But you’ll already know some basics, I’m sure.
Most veg and lean meats are relatively low.
Sweets, cakes, etc pretty high.
There are labels on nearly all foods and MyFitnessPal or google can tell you otherwise.
Doesn’t mean you can’t have the sweets, cakes, etc of course.
But you’ll have to go pretty hungry to stay in deficit if you have a lot.
So, if you want to keep ‘within budget’, get plenty of the ‘good value’ stuff in first.
Not stuff you don’t like or don’t want.
But stuff that you ‘get a lot from your investment from’.
And, if there’s a little left – get some of that more ‘expensive’ stuff.
Much love,
Jon ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides’ Hall and Matt ‘Titanic’ Nicholson
P.S. Time flies and all that. We’re only 11 days from the next monthly find out more meeting. Why “leave it” yet another month? –>Â myrise.co.uk/briefing-meeting
