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—————- The next find out more meeting for our March programme is on Tuesday 23rd February which is in [cntdwn todate=”29 September 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 🙂
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So, we’re a week into the ‘Rule of 6’.
As a family of six, that’s no socialising for us for a while.
I sat at home yesterday while my wife and two of the kids went to see our nephew for his birthday 🙁
You’ve probably heard the same arguments about this as I have.
Seen similar posts on social media.
Picking the holes in it.
“So, I can be in the same room as twenty strangers in a pub, but we can’t go to my parent’s house?”
Or “They want me back in the office but I can’t meet up with my friends in the park?”
And so on.
And I get that.
The rules aren’t perfect.
Because there isn’t a ‘perfect’ rule.
Not in regards to COVID anyway.
There is no way to make it completely fair to everyone.
There are ways to reduce infection, especially in the ‘less visible’ and controllable situations where most infections have been taking place.
But no combination of restrictions that will work perfectly, make perfect sense and keep everyone happy.
The fact that people there might be more people in the pub or work doesn’t mean that we should automatically ignore the ‘Rule of 6’.
Just because it can’t be perfect, doesn’t mean we shouldn’t bother.
Doesn’t mean there isn’t sufficient benefit to an imperfect solution.
It doesn’t mean that the imperfect solution won’t get us where we want to get to.
Like in most areas of life.
Our eating, for example.
Wanting to eat ‘perfectly’ twenty one meals a week sounds nice.
But what does that even mean?
When we start to label foods as good and bad………….
And when we define “having a good week” as only eating these “good” foods…………
And no “bad” ones………….
It very easily becomes something we feel we can’t do.
We’ve “failed”.
It jumps from that to somewhere near the opposite end of the spectrum.
When an imperfect solution that took is the right direction would make more sense.
Maintaining an average calorie deficit (or maintenance) from a variety of foods can be done every week for the rest of our lives, if we choose to.
Just because we don’t feel we can live on chicken and broccoli or salads for the rest of our lives (which, let’s be honest, is a far from perfect solution in reality)…………..
Doesn’t mean we can’t do some combination of trimming portion size and some tactical swaps to make progress in a way we’re happy doing.
Much love,
Jon ‘Party of Five’ Hall
P.S. Standard dated TV reference for my middle name there.
P.P.S. A sub-optimal, but maintainable (and enjoyable) approach is kinda what we do. There might programmes that, theoretically, produce 5% better results. But if you hate doing them, what’s the point. Check myrise.co.uk/briefing-meeting if you agree that 80 to 95% actual progress is better than the 0% you get when you can’t do the 100%.
