The other day my wife sent me a screen grab of a payment that had just gone out of our joint account.
From the energy company we use.
It was four times what we normally pay.
Which was, I’m sure you’ll be unsurprised to hear, shocking.
Having checked, it’s a combination of two things;
1. Our DD wasn’t for enough and we’d been underpaying for quite some time, building up a balance that needs to be paid off over the next few months.
2. The price rises that I’m sure you’ll be aware of
Not ideal, of course.
But, every cloud, it gave me a couple of ideas for this blog.
Parallels to our eating.
I’ll cover the first today and the second tomorrow.
1. It’s easier to keep up than catch up.
If we’d been paying the right amount all along, it would still have been the same overall amount across the year……….
But it would have definitely been easier to ‘absorb’.
And it’s the same with the ‘balance’ we might be accruing in our body fat.
Maintaining current weight isn’t always easy, sure.
But it’s an awful lot easier than losing it, isn’t it?
To go from gaining weight to losing it we not only have to remove the ‘surplus’ we’ve been eating in, but go the same again into deficit.
Just averaging maintenance all along would be much easier.
It’s super easy to leave absolutely everything running in the house for a day and spend however many dozens of pounds that would cost.
Much harder to go under normal spend by enough to average out.
Like it’s super easy to smash a few thousand extra calories on a night out.
Much harder to go under by that total over the ensuing days.
‘Standing still’ can feel “boring” sometimes.
We get that.
But, like keeping up to date with the money we owe, maintaining weight (and fitness, health, etc) when we could slide massively into ‘debt’ that’ll be hard to pay off, is invaluable.
Much love,
Jon ‘My Uncle Bill is a little mental. He’s been pretending to have a partially functioning right arm since he was hit by a car over 60 years ago. But I’m not falling for it and keep telling him I’ll catch him out using it one day’ Hall
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