I was chatting to some members before a Session on Monday.
One of them was telling me that she’d gone back to tracking her food (having had a period of stopping tracking and gaining weight).
Unsurprisingly, she’d lost weight whilst tracking.
Because adding a level of precision to what we’re consuming makes it much more likely that we’re in a deficit than essentially guessing does.
But I’m hopeful you know this by now.
It was a comment made by someone else in response that particularly piqued my interest.
She’d been tracking her food as well and her Dad had offered her some cake.
As the blog title suggests, her response was “Sorry Dad, I’ve run out of calories”.
Which I liked.
It reminded me of when I carried cash.
When it was gone, it was gone.
I was spent up.
Out of money.
Couldn’t overspend.
Unfortunately eating is like having an infinite overdraft.
We can keep on spending to our heart’s content
But it needs paying back at some point.
Having a method to help us decide when we’re spent up can be powerful.
And, even better, it means we can enjoy the actual expenditure even more knowing that we can ‘afford it’.
Much love,
Jon ‘Out Of Time’ Hall
P.S. We’re in October. The time when people first start thinking “I’ll have a look at this in the New Year”. Which, common as it is, is madness. It’s the eternal deferment of doing something to this fictional “better time” that causes people to slide back year after year. If you want to finish the year better than last year (and have less to do in 2026) then I literally guarantee that’ll happen if you jump in on our risk-free trial at www.myrise.co.uk/apply
