If I had to hazard a guess, I would say that today is the day that the thoughts of a fairly high proportion of the population turn to their health and fitness.

Christmas and New Year festivities are completely over.

We’ve got this slightly awkward Bank Holiday where many won’t have all that much to do and we’ve seen everyone we want to see already recently.

We’re feeling the effects of the last few weeks.

Google Trends shows big peaks in searching for the term “weight loss” in the first two weeks of January every year since 2004.

Followed by gradual reduction (with blips) throughout the year.

Interestingly, the highest ever month for searching for “weight loss” was the second month of the first Lockdown, having increased five fold since just before Lockdown.

Anyway, it’s clear that a lot of people will be asking questions like “what’s the best way to lose weight” right now.

Either to Google, their friends and family, on social media or in their own heads.

And that makes sense.

To a point.

If it’s the same question we’ve asked before, it’s likely to lead to the same answers.

And, if those answers had worked for us, would we need to keep asking those questions?

The answers aren’t wrong…………

But the questions, perhaps, aren’t the best ones for us.

The same questions lead to the same answers which leads to the same results.

One of Anthony Robbins most well known quotes is “The quality of your life is a direct reflection of the quality of the questions you are asking yourself”.

New questions can lead to new answers which can lead to new results.

So, here’s a few questions you that you could try on for size instead?

What way of creating a calorie deficit do I find easiest to do?

What ingredients or meals can I swap with something else that I’m equally ok with eating that will contribute less calories with little to no reduction in enjoyment?

Are there any simple rules that I could put around my eating that I’m ok with that would help reduce my intake?

What forms of exercise do I find most maintainable?

Do I have feelings of resentment and restriction around making changes to my eating and / or exercise? And, if so, could I question why I would make those changes for the value they would bring to me and what’s important to me?

Why might I want to make these changes (not surface level, first answer stuff – deep reasons that are personal to you and actually motivate you)?

Who can I get to help me with all of this (cough ** us ** cough —-> www.myrise.co.uk/apply).

Again, the answers to the normal questions aren’t ‘wrong’.

But the same questions will lead to the same answers and, probably, the same outcomes.

What questions could you ask that will lead to better answers for you?

Much love,

J ‘&A’ 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.