If you’re looking to lose weight, how would you describe how you might approach your eating?

You’d call it a “diet” perhaps?

Maybe mention “cutting out” certain nutrients or food groups?

Reducing portion size?

“Eating healthily”?

Whatever the case, in most of the approaches we’d choose, there’d be a certain way of eating that we considering “good”.88

And others we thought of as “bad” in some way.

And that works for some people.

But, from my experience at least, for many that creates a somewhat dysfunctional relationship with food.

We beat ourselves up over our choices.

Feel we’ve “failed”.

And it’s something to “start again” with at some point in the future.

A lot of emotion.

A lot of guilt.

I know some feel that way about “calories”.

That they’re bad things.

But, as we’ve mentioned before, they’re just a measure of energy.

Energy which enables us to do everything that we’ve ever done or ever will.

Energy that has to be used by us and ingested by us in order to go on living and doing fun stuff.

We can just have the amount of energy we need.

Or more.

Or less.

Maintenance.

Surplus.

Deficit.

And, really, let’s be honest, on a day to day, meal by meal basis, maintenance doesn’t really exist.

At best, we could argue that 10,500 calories for the week could look like 21 meals at 500 calories each.

Or, more likely, seven lots of 300 at breakfast, 500 at lunch and 700 at tea.

In reality, we’re not going to hit that level of precision.

Every single one of those meals will be deficit or surplus compared to those targets.

And that’s fine.

We like to think our eating will be constant deficit.

DDDDDDDDDDD.

Or, maybe, sometimes, DDDDMDDDDMDDMDD.

In reality it’s SDDSDDDSDDSDDDDSSSDSSDDDDDD.

As long as the Ds out weight the Ss and create ‘Average D’ we’re good.

That’s how it’s been (give or take) for every person I’ve ever known to successfully lose excess weight and keep it off relatively easily. It’s www.myrise.co.uk/apply or www.myrise.co.uk/join if you’re ready for that.

Even if they didn’t know the numbers, that was what was happening.

And it’s probably going to be what would happen for you.

Much love,

Jon ‘Card’ Hall

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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.