We wouldn’t think our money was magically disappearing [Would we?]

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Imagine you were getting more and more into debt as each month passed.

You’d done some rough sums.

You felt you were probably earning more than you were spending.

But that debt kept increasing.

Further into the overdraft.

What would you think?

Assuming you were confident that no one was stealing, you’d probably think “I must be missing something with my sums”.

We wouldn’t think that the money was magically disappearing, would we?

But we’re tempted to do the same with our calories aren’t we?

Think we’re “not eating much” but gaining weight?

Or that “I should be losing weight on what I’m eating” but aren’t?

When people are kept in tightly controlled, laboratory style conditions………

Where every morsel of food is measured……..

Body composition accurately calculated…….

Movement precisely tracked………

Breath monitored constantly to measure energy usage……..

Everyone ever tested has lost weight when in a confirmed, sustained calorie deficit.

With only marginal differences in the rate of that loss, when otherwise matched.

So……….

If we’re not losing weight………

One of two things can be happening:

1. We’re the first person ever to not lose weight in a calorie deficit

2. We’re missing something with our ‘calculations’.

We might be a bit optimistic with the activity multiplier we pick when calculating our energy needs.

Our estimates of energy used exercising might be somewhat ‘keen’ (many FitPros massively overstate how many calories are ‘burned’ in their sessions.

These estimates might neglect to consider that we’d have used an amount of energy just by being alive in that time.

We might have already factored our exercise in our choice of activity multiplier (and, so, be double counting it).

We might be a little bit out with our estimates of portion sizes.

We might forgot to consider a few snacks, drinks and other bits that ‘make their way’ into our mouths through the day.

The nutritional info were going off might be a little out.

All relatively small potential errors individually.

But add a few together?

What appears, on the face of it, to be a deficit, might be maintenance.

Might even be a surplus.

Ultimately, unless we’re that first person ever to not lose weight in a confirmed, sustained deficit……….

We’ll be missing something in our ‘calculations’.

And that list above might give us ideas as to what.

Much love,

Jon ‘It’s a kinda’ Hall