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In yesterday’s blog, I included a little phrase I’ve started using recently.
Almost in passing.
But I think it’s also worthy of it’s own blog.
“Full and lean” rather than “hungry or fat”.
Looking back, it’s a way that, perhaps without realising it, many of our success stories over the years have come to view their food.
There are loads of foods that are tasty.
And also very energy dense.
You can lose weight on any of them.
But it can be really hard.
A four pack of Mars Bars and a 2 litre bottle of coke per day adds up to 1,760 calories.
Most people (unless they’re pretty small) will lose weight over time on that.
But, man, that’s not much food.
I’d be so hungry.
Absolutely miserable.
You could have three pretty big meals with lots of veg and lean meat (other options are available) for that.
I know which I’d rather have.
Or, maybe, some balance of the two.
Or, more realistically, I’d have more than that.
And the ‘fat’ option would kick in.
It’s what’s often termed ‘energy density’.
How much food you get for the calories.
Or how many calories per gram.
Here’s some rough guidelines.
Very low energy density foods = less than 0.6 kcal/g
Low energy density foods = 0.6 to 1.5 kcal/g
Medium energy density foods = 1.5 to 4 kcal/g
High energy density foods = more than 4 kcal/g
There’s a section on the site and app coming soon for members to help with this sort of stuff (P.S. We’ve got some other exciting tweaks coming up. Check out myrise.co.uk/briefing-meeting if you’re ready to stop just hiring access to some equipment and, instead, are ready to be part of a movement. A movement that has helped hundreds who’ve struggled before get what they want from this whole health and fitness business whilst actually enjoying it).
But it’s not all that difficult to work out (or at least, get an idea of) from the labels on the back of most foods.
Calories divided by weight.
As with the tracking, we don’t need to do it forever.
But getting clear on the impact of our choices is massively beneficial.
Then we can make those choices.
“Full and lean” or “hungry or fat”.
Much love,
Jon ‘Time’ Hall
