Imagine that you’re a mechanic.
You may not need to imagine.
Somebody brings their car into the garage.
They tell you that there’s a problem with the engine.
“The car is using more fuel than my wife’s,” they say.
You have a quick look at both cars and immediately identify what’s happened.
One car is considerably bigger than the other.
And it does more miles.
Nothing wrong with the engine.
It just uses more fuel because it’s moved something bigger further.
It’s similar with differences we sometimes put down to ‘metabolism’.
If somebody else is bigger and/or more active than us, then they’ll need more energy.
From food.
Very little of this will be a difference in “metabolism”.
The vast majority is a difference in size and activity levels.
All the large-scale studies ever done show very little difference between energy needs of people when size and activity matched.
Usually with tens to a hundred odd calories difference per day.
Ultimately, whatever the case, your body requires a certain amount of energy.
An amount just to keep it working.
And an extra amount for how much it moves.
We can change the latter, of course.
But whatever our energy needs are, they are what they are.
We can then choose how much “fuel” we put in to work around that.
Much love,
Jon ‘Last two months with our seven seater now as since my eldest passed his driving test a year ago I think we’ve only all been in same car once or twice’ Hall
P.S. We can help with getting clear on how much fuel you need, finding ways to change that fuel that you’re happy to do and some movement that will get that ‘car’ driving better –> www.myrise.co.uk/apply.
