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I was chatting to one of our ninjas the other day.
During a session.
I asked him how he was getting on outside of the sessions.
“I’m not doing the food” was his reply.
A statement we’ve heard many times over the years.
I asked what he meant.
He explained.
“No, you are doing the food mate. You’re doing it too much” was my reply.
I get on well with him so felt it a perfectly fine response based on our relationship.
I wouldn’t say that to everyone before you write me off as a standard, tactless, insensitive FitPro.
You could see the penny drop with him.
When you think about it, “I’m not doing the food” doesn’t really make sense, does it?
What does that even mean?
It’s normally happens when people have, without realising it, made the ‘what’ of what they need to do to be something much harder than it has to be.
They’ll have turned it into “cutting out XYZ”.
No sugar, bread, pasta, cake, biscuits, sweets or alcohol.
Or ‘being hungry’.
Or “tupperwaring up 21 meals a week on a Sunday night”.
Or “never getting take out”.
Or not socialising.
And they don’t feel they can ‘do that’.
Which is understandable.
I definitely couldn’t (or wouldn’t at least).
What we actually need to do is create an average calorie deficit (or maintenance if that’s what we’re looking for).
Whilst, ideally, getting enough protein, vitamins, minerals, etc.
How we do that we have flexibility over (check myrise.co.uk/briefing-meeting if you like the sound of an approach that is built on flexibility and gives you all the tools and support along the way).
From a perspective of how easy we find it, logistics, personal preferences and more.
Making tactical substitutions.
Tweaking portion size.
Not eating for the sake of it.
Putting a little bit of planning into what we’ll eat that week.
Are these things we ever ‘can’t do’?
That we ever really need to have reason to say “I’m not doing”.
Sure, we don’t have to do it.
We can do whatever we like.
But, from my experience, at least, usually when people say that they “can’t” or “aren’t” doing “it”, then the “it” is something much more full on and difficult to do then it has to be.
Much love,
Jon ‘Like they do on the Discovery Channel’ Hall and Matt ‘Do it. Do it now. Do it’ Nicholson
RISE Macclesfield – myrise.co.uk
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