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I’ve mentioned before that, since the family and I moved house a few months ago, we’re trialling running just the one car.
Rarely before were both cars in use at the same time.
So it’s more a case of coordinating our movements so we take it in turns with the car or are all moving at the same time.
And now we can run / walk to work / town / the train station which helps.
The other week Alex (my wife) couldn’t find her phone as she was leaving and was tight for time for the train so left it.
She said she needed picking up from the train station at 5.50pm unless I heard otherwise.
Unsurprisingly, she missed her train so tried calling me from the pay phone at Manchester Piccadilly.
She put in the 60p minimum as that’s all the change she had.
It rang to voicemail.
Having listened to my (short) greeting she only had time to say “I’m on the train that gets in at…….” before it cut out.
Now I get that she’d only paid for the minimum time.
But I’m sure when I was a kid the minimum time on a pay phone was, what, a minute?
This must’ve been about 10 to 15 seconds total.
Diminishing Returns
That’s the way the world is now.
Minimise price increases by decreasing what you get.
Shrinking Toblerones anyone?
Same with Freddos, Quality Street and more.
We don’t seem to get quite the same Return On Investment we used to, do we?
Being fit and healthy and slim used to be so much easier, didn’t it?
Just happened automatically.
Then it became a bit of an effort.
And we actually seemed to get in less good shape for that increased effort.
Then more effort still.
For even less results.
Less and less ROI.
Is it Harder to Lose Weight When You’re Older?
The thing is though, the research shows that’s not the case.
Big empirical studies done with hundreds of thousands of people.
The actual physical effort doesn’t change.
And neither do our basic energy requirements.
What does though is everything else we have going on in our lives.
And the stories we tell ourselves about all that. So, us it harder to lose weight when you’re older? No.
Running round when you’re a kid is easy – all your mates are doing and what else is there to do?
Fitting in some workouts when you’re a young adult with a job and other commitments gets more tricky.
Throw some kids in, a promotion or two and so on and it seems impossible.
In reality, we actually get the same ROI from it all.
It’s just there’s so much more do do as well as it.
That our ‘metabolisms slow with age’ is, unfortunately, a fallacy.
We just continue to eat like we used to (if not more)……….
Whilst doing less and less physical activity.
A dangerous combo.
Our ROI has been, and always will be, the same.
Telling ourselves otherwise is doing us a disservice.
If the return isn’t what we’d like it to be or what it once was………
We just need to make a change to that ‘investment’.
Much love,
Jon ‘Drive by’ Hall and Matt ‘California 37’ Nicholson
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