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For years now I’ve been hanging on with bed time stories for my two older sons.

When they started saying they were too old for them, I shifted to doing interesting facts from Guinness World Records and Ripley’s Believe It Or Not.

The older of those two carried on with this for a few years as they’d often ending up sleeping in each other’s rooms.

But now he pretty much takes himself of to bed and I read them to middle son only.

He really enjoys them and always asks for the latest copy for Christmas.

I was reading one out the other day.

It’s in the blog picture if you’re reading this online.

About an online voting competition each year to pick the bear that’s done “the best job” in gaining weight ready for hibernation.

No need to look back – you read that right!

It got me thinking about how Bears gain weight for hibernation.

About how any animals do it really.

They eat a lot.

Much more than they need.

So the excess is stored as body fat.

That’s it really.

Nothing more complicated than that.

They don’t worry about the time of day that they’re eating.

They don’t eliminate or massively increase certain food groups or macronutrients (carbs, fat and protein).

They don’t make themselves really stressed.

They don’t speed or or slow down their actual eating.

They don’t have different coloured days for what they eat.

They just eat like before, but a lot more.

And it doesn’t have to be any more complicated than that for us.

Ultimately, we gained weight because we were in an average calorie surplus over time.

There might be considerations as to why that happened, of course.

But that was the important bit.

None of those considerations would be relevant (from a weight perspective) if we hadn’t have been in that surplus.

And to go the opposite way just requires an average calorie deficit over time.

Again, there’ll be other considerations.

Different methods we might choose to employ.

But again, they won’t matter if they don’t enable that deficit.

They are just means to an end.

That deficit is key.

And the great news?

Just like eating in a surplus is, ultimately, just a choice……..

Eating in a deficit can just be a choice.

Something we can do whatever else is going on.

If we decide to.

Not always easy, sure.

But that simple.

And, probably, easier than we might be telling ourselves.

Much love,

‘Smarter than the average’ Jon Hall

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Jon Hall
Jon Hall

When not helping people to transform their lives and bodies, Jon can usually be found either playing with his kids or taxi-ing them around. If you'd like to find out more about what we do at RISE then enter your details in the box to the right or bottom of this page or at myrise.co.uk - this is the same way every single one of the hundreds who've described this as "one of the best decisions I've ever made" took their first step.