Long-term members and readers of these blogs will have noticed a shift several years ago.
I talk much less about the other variables in the way we eat and much more about creating a calorie deficit if we’re looking to lose weight.
Which most people who read these blogs are.
It’s not that the things I used to talk about more don’t have value
Or that I don’t believe in them anymore.
I just came to the realisation that, for many people, they end up missing out on the most important and relevant parts because they’re confused about lots of other potential considerations………….
When they could just create a calorie deficit in a way they’re ok with.
As always, this probably won’t get them in the Olympics.
But that’s not what we’re looking for here.
Aiming for a knowingly suboptimal approach that we will do………..
That will achieve us the results we desire………….
Will get us there much quicker than that theoretically better approach that we don’t do.
I must admit, at times in the past, I was less of a believer in the value of the calorie deficit.
I got somewhat distracted by more and more talk of what you could consider more advanced interventions.
And, as often happens, when you start to hear things and believe in them, there seemed to be more and more evidence to confirm that view point.
On probably a weekly basis, I have people question the validity of a calorie deficit for eliciting weight loss.
But there’s a really simple response to that.
And it lies in remembering what body fat is.
Body fat exists, primarily, as a method to store energy
To help us get through periods of feast and famine.
We have survived as a species, in part, because we were able to store energy for use at times when it was not available.
Fat is an energy store.
So it stands to reason that we’re going to struggle to accumulate body fat in the absence of surplus energy.
If we’re losing body fat, it stands to reason that the energy has to go somewhere.
If we were looking to reduce stored anything, we would need to create a deficit of that thing in some way.
If we were looking to reduce stored money in our bank account we would need to create a deficit of money going in vs money going out.
Body fat may not work quite as simply and directly as the numbers do financially.
But the concept has to apply.
If you think that we can reduce a surplus of stored energy in the body without creating a deficit of energy…………
It’s worth asking ourselves………..
How do we propose to achieve that?
Much love,
Jon ‘Proposed on top of a tower’ Hall
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