The other day I had the following conversation with a member.
Member: “How important are the different things you recommend. Ie: What percentage of the results is down to the balanced diet? And what percentage to the natural food, the hydration, sleep, stress, etc”
Me: “I don’t know”
Member: “You don’t know?”
Me: “Yeah. Nobody can. It’s impossible. The best anyone could do would be an educated guess. But a guess it would be”
Member: “That’s quite refreshing, someone admitting they don’t know something.”
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In life there is less that is ‘known’ than we think.
Most of the things we do know are hardly worth mentioning.
I know I have two hands.
But I don’t keep banging on about it.
The more conversation that surrounds something, the more likely most of it is to be opinion.
The best we can get with a lot of things is a ‘consensus of opinion’.
There’s so many things from the past that we thought we knew……….
It’s all down to calories……..
Fat is the enemy………
Long duration, low intensity exercise is best………
That we would be arrogant to claim we know for an absolute fact what we currently think.
I generally find the better the expert, the more willing they are to admit when they don’t know something.
And to state when something is just their opinion.
People who state things as hard and fast, immutable facts are often best avoided.
We feel fairly confident in recommending what we do.
There is a good scientific argument for why it works.
Better than “You know, it’s fat, isn’t it? Fat makes you fat. Same word” anyway.
There are plenty of studies that seem to back it up.
Although there’s plenty that contradict it too.
It seems to work pretty well for the people we recommend it to.
Our results aren’t too shabby 😉
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People are of course, entitled to a different opinion to us.
But, if you’re trying to decide who’s opinion to follow………..
A good place to start is long term success rates.
Slimming clubs, diets, etc generally have a 5% long term success rates.
Maybe 10% in some cases.
We’re not perfect.
But our success rate is WAAAAAYYYYYYYY higher than that.
Not sure what we recommend?
Just ask.
Know what we recommend and struggling to actually implement it into your already busy and stressful life?
Let us know and we’ll see what we can do.
Much love,
Jon ‘April Fool’ Hall and Matt ‘1 hour left to get Amanda’ Nicholson
