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—————- The next find out more meeting for our March programme is on Tuesday 23rd February which is in [cntdwn todate=”25 February 2020 23:59″ timeoff=”0″ showhours=”0″ showmins=”0″ pretext=””] Check myrise.co.uk/briefing-meeting to find out more, see what the meeting involves and, potentially, take that next step to transforming your life and body 🙂 ———————-
As part of our monthly ‘Coaching Day’ we do assessments, interpretation and some goal setting with our members.
If they’re looking to lose weight we can help them work out what level of calorie deficit would lead them to their goal and work together to figure out a suitable way for them to do that.
Could be straight tracking / calorie counting.
Portion size changes.
Some tactical swaps.
Exercise and activity levels.
Some ‘rules’ / guidelines to stick within.
Or, more likely, some mixture of a few of these.
And we like the plan to largely come from the member.
A bit of nudging and direction if the suggestions aren’t going to lead to the desired results, of course.
Asking pertinent questions to help them develop the plan in a way that works for them and has a good chance of success.
———————- It’s rare that people need better answers to the same questions they’ve being asking for years or decades – we help them ask better questions. Check myrise.co.uk/briefing-meeting if you’re ready for better questions not just the same old answers you’ve heard countless times before and struggle to implement into your already busy and challenging live —————
Way more likely to then happen then us ‘telling them what to do’.
But, ultimately, within said plan (assuming there is goal of weight loss) a calorie deficit has to be getting created.
And, of course, the bigger that deficit (if maintained), the faster the progress.
Sometimes the maths on a specific goal shows it to be very challenging.
Or maybe even impossible.
If someone’s maintenance calories are 2,000 then they’d be looking at 1,000 to 1,500 a day to make progress at a rate that would keep them enthused.
And, at the bottom end of that range, that’s not a great deal.
Someone else may have maintenance calories of 3,500 a day (a considerably bigger person than the first one).
And lose weight at a fair pace at 2,000 to 2,500.
And it’s tempting to think that’s “not fair”.
We get that.
But, ultimately, it’s completely fair.
Whilst there are variances, most people store around 3,500 calories per pound of body fat.
So for anyone who has, let’s say, two stone they want to lose, that’s just shy of 100,000 calories.
That’s 100,000 calories above maintenance that they’ve consumed.
Irrespective of their size, shape, gender, activity levels and time frame involved.
Whatever the case, there’s been an ‘overspend’ of 100,000 calories.
And that needs repaying.
Not unfair.
Just the way it is.
If person A earned £20,000 a year and person B earned £35,000 a year……….
And they’d both ran up a hundred grand of debt……….
That would just be the way it is.
Harder for person A to repay, sure.
But completely ‘fair’.
The only alternative is that person A is let off some of their debt.
Or, more accurately, someone else pays some of it for them.
Not possible in ye olde weight loss game (unfortunately).
Ultimately, if we’ve got weight we’d like to lose………..
It’s an overspend versus budget that we’ve created.
And we just need to find a way to pay it back quickly enough to make it feel worthwhile, but not so quick we can’t, on average, maintain it.
Much love,
Jon ‘Mel Gibson’ Hall and Matt ‘Porter’ Nicholson
