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The other weekend the mother of my two eldest sons had a flat tyre.
And couldn’t take son number two to his football.
So I did instead.
I had to fetch him from their house near Bakewell, then on to his games, drop him back, then back to Macc.
So I had a few more hours of unaccompanied driving than I’d expected that week.
I’d already scheduled and completed all my ‘audio learning’ for the week on previous journeys.
So I thought I’d listen to some music.
And I put on an Amazon Music recommended playlist of 90s music.
And on came four tracks in a row that I haven’t heard in years.
Each of which inspired a blog.
Which was a bonus.
The first was ‘Kiss Me’.
—— Don’t worry, the blog title wasn’t an instruction 😉 ———
The 1997 hit by ‘Sixpence None The Richer’.
Which got me thinking about that band name.
I’m not surprised that they’re not richer after six pence.
It’s a step in the right direction, I suppose.
It’s just not “enough” is it?
An extra six pence every day for the next fifty years would amount to a little over a grand.
Worth having, I suppose, but hardly enough to be ‘richer’.
And the old six pence was, after decimalisation, worth 2 1/2 ‘new pence’.
So even less.
If you had to make any sort of effort to gain that thousand pounds over half a century, you’d probably ‘give up’ after a week or two at the very most.
Much like all slow progress.
Losing weight at half a pound a week is great.
Way better than gaining weight.
And it’d add up to just shy of two stone over a year.
A nice amount.
But, chances are, we’ll get put off by that slow rate of progress.
Demotivated.
The effort won’t seem worth the reward.
We’ll give up.
People will tell you that you’re better to lose weight slowly.
But there’s tonnes of research that shows that a quick start followed by a transition into something more long term has the highest success rate.
Up to five times the long term success rate of a ‘slow start’ in some studies.
That’s why our ’20lbs challenge’ works so well.
Lose 4lbs in eight weeks and it’s still nice.
I suppose.
Might not seem worth it though.
Not all that much more effort and lose twenty pounds?
Much more motivating.
Losing 20lbs and then regaining it isn’t a good idea, sure.
That’s where that transition comes in.
The support.
The systems and the structure.
But next time someone tells you that slow weight loss is best, you can let them know the research doesn’t back that up.
Much love,
Jon ‘One of my very few regrets was selling the coin collection I inherited from my Grandpa for the first offer at a valuation. It’s not the selling it I regret, it’s the not bartering as that’s what he’d have done’ Hall