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Who’s been told or heard this?

“Listen to your intuition”?

Or to your “gut”?

It’s one of those things that sounds great.

In theory.

Because we all like to think we have good intuition, don’t we?

Put your hand up if you think you have bad intuition.

Anyone?

I thought not.

When intuition is “the ability to understand something instinctively, without the need for conscious reasoning”………….

Is it safe to say that in any areas of our life where we haven’t applied much “conscious reasoning” (or beyond)…………

And we haven’t achieved the results we’d like……….

Then our intuition wasn’t great?

I know plenty of people (especially in fitness) who essentially try and run their business off intuition.

Deciding what does and doesn’t work with little to no facts to support that decision.

Arguably fine if the business is doing well (although it would probably be doing even better with something more concrete behind the decisions).

If the business is failing though (as a lot of Fitness businesses have been this year) and there’s no data, then something more than intuition would help.

And it’s the same with our eating.

You may see things online about “intuitive eating” and “listening to your body”.

Absolutely great if what’s then happening is taking you in the right direction.

But, if it isn’t?

Might something a little bit more concrete work better?

Equivalent of some KPIs.

Something measurable that, if it’s happening, will lead to the desired outcome.

If it’s not, we’ve got something we can look at and see what we can change to get it so it is happening.

A tracked calorie deficit is a great one.

And a number of bits of exercise of some sort per week is another.

Both things we can just do no matter how busy we are and what’s going on.

Not the entirety of a conversation about a healthy lifestyle, sure.

Not everything we could do to lead to the best results possible, I grant you.

But big ROI activities that will take us in the right direction.

That are measurable.

Not just our intuition as to what we should do (or eat).

Which may, or may not, get us there (it probably hasn’t, long term, in the past).

We can keep track of both.

If it isn’t happening we can look at what we could do so that it is.

Tactical swaps of less calorie dense foods, perhaps?

A “cut off” for consumption at some point in the day, maybe?

A trimming of portion sizes, potentially?

A making of certain choices harder or easier with a little thinking ahead?

A challenging of what exercise we think “is worth doing” when the studies show differently to what we’re probably telling ourselves?

Ultimately, intuition has it’s place.

If the results it brings about are ones we’re happy with, that’s awesome.

If they’re not, we could, perhaps, look at some cold hard facts?

Much love,

Jon ‘Intu Centre’ Hall

P.S. If you’d like some help with big ROI activities and are ready to start making some relatively easy, but worthwhile and lasting changes, then that’s what we do –> www.myrise.co.uk/apply

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RISE in Macclesfield was established in 2012 and specialise in Group Personal Training weight loss programmes for those that don’t like the gym and find diets boring and restrictive!

Jon Hall
Jon Hall

When not helping people to transform their lives and bodies, Jon can usually be found either playing with his kids or taxi-ing them around. If you'd like to find out more about what we do at RISE then enter your details in the box to the right or bottom of this page or at myrise.co.uk - this is the same way every single one of the hundreds who've described this as "one of the best decisions I've ever made" took their first step.