This is the final blog about last week’s speed awareness course that I went on.
I promise.
Hopefully you found them all useful, though.
And, as I’m sure you can imagine, writing brand new blogs for 3,460 days in a row ain’t easy – I’ve got to take inspiration while it’s there.
Anyway – during the session the instructor showed us a number of videos.
One of them was particularly impactful.
It showed an expert driver slamming on the brakes at various speeds such that he stopped just in front of a wall of boxes.
Then what happens when he slammed on the brakes with the same amount of warning at 1, 5 and 10 miles an hour above that speed.
The one that particularly surprised us all was that at 31 mph, he still hit the boxes going at 8mph.
Unlikely to kill, but probably going to do some pretty bad damage to a human for the sake of saving less than four seconds per mile.
Starting at 35 and 40 miles an hour, he completely obliterated the boxes and ended up stopping a fair distance down the road.
The impact of numbers can be quite profound when phrased the right way.
I get that fast weight loss can be enticing and motivating and slow weight loss off putting.
But marginal differences really can add up.
Just like we wouldn’t notice going one mile an hour slower on our journey…………
If we were to be in a 100 calorie a day deficit, we would lose 10.5 pounds over the year.
100 calories is a small mouthful of food.
The difference to our life by dropping that is non existent.
We could even make a tiny adjustment so that we end up with the same volume of food (or more) for 100 less calories.
Make that 200 calories and it’s 21lbs.
300 calories and it’s 31.5lbs.
Conversely, we’re 100 calories over and, over five years, we’ve gained nearly 4 stone (possibly what’s happened?).
Ultimately, short of dying, we’re going to get to this time next year.
Here’s what we could have done, in order of probable preference;
1. Significant deficit, large weight loss
2. Small deficit, surprising weight loss
3. Maintenance, no weight loss
4. Surplus, weight gain
———- Jump in at www.myrise.co.uk/apply to make sure it’s not 3 or 4 – September 2025 you will thank current you for this, I promise ———-
Much love,
Jon ‘Got to admit – it did look quite good fun smashing through the boxes’ Hall
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