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No, this isn’t the new version of ‘A Partridge In A Pear Tree’.

It’s the meals out and take out I had in a ten day period the other week.

In order:

Family break in the North East – Fish and chips take out in the park and fish and chips at Trenchers in Whitby.

McDonald’s breakfast on way home from family break.

Eldest son’s birthday – All you can eat breakfast at The Springwood in Tytherington.

Stag Do – McDonald’s on the way into Manchester with a friend for lunch and Bem Brasil all you can eat rodizio meat feast for tea.

Next day quick lunch at McDonald’s in Rotherham with the family whilst visiting the in-laws.

Few days later the wife surprises us all with a Dominoes take out because the fridge was pretty empty in the run up to main family holiday and she’d been working all day but had intended to sort some tea.

When you work in the Fitness Industry, people assume one of two things;

1. You live like a monk and only ever eat chicken and broccoli (other plain, boring meals are available) or

2. You can eat whatever you like but you have a good metabolism / genes that enables that

The truth, as for anyone who achieves and maintains body fat levels they are happy with, is actually option 3:

3. Eat mostly pretty well but still live a normal life that involves eating take outs, meals out, etc.

And doing this by averaging out.

By not using the “less good” choices as justification to go crazy with them (medium fish and chips when I could’ve gone large, McDonald’s choices that came to about a third of my daily calorie requirements, a fair portion of breakfast when I could’ve had 50% more if I really wanted to, etc).

There was probably only the Bem Brasil where I went significantly over the number of calories I might normally have at that meal.

And then not using the “less good” choices as justification for more similar choices (reduced portion size at the meals around it rather than deciding to “write it off” and increasing them).

I didn’t have breakfast the morning after the Bem Brasil or lunch after the Springwood breakfast.

And no, skipping meals won’t have damaged my metabolism.

We wouldn’t have survived this long as a species if that was a thing.

And I’d have reduced portions on all the other meal around this time.

All this was still only 8 out of 30 possible meals.

I still had nearly three quarters of that time to pull back on the effect of that one quarter.

The point of this blog isn’t to tell you to go nuts with take out, meals out, etc.

It’s to let you know that you can still do those things in a way that allows you to work towards your goals.

If they’re going to happen anyway, we can do them in a way that takes us in the direction we want to go in.

Or we can do them in a way that takes us in the direction we don’t want to go in.

No food is inherently unhealthy or fattening.

Average diets can be.

If we cracked our phone screen we wouldn’t stamp on it to finish it off.

If anything we’d take more care with it.

Our eating can be the same.

Much love,

Jon ‘Ronald’ Hall

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.