Imagine you’ve got some money to invest.
You’re going to invest it in a 25 year fund.
You can change how it’s invested when you like.
And you have the option of how often you get reports on your fund’s performance.
Every month, every year or every 5 years.
Which do you do?
Well, research shows that five yearly reporting returns, on average, twice the profit of monthly reporting.
Which sounds counterintuitive, doesn’t it?
Those with the longer reporting had the benefit of that long term view.
The monthly guys we’re more inclined to keep changing their investments, often against the advice of the experts.
Focusing too much on natural, short term variations and missing the bigger picture.
Tis the same in ye olde weight loss game.
We’ve seen it many times over the years.
People weighing themselves daily, or multiple times per day.
And giving too much ‘weight’ (so to speak) to short term fluctuations.
Your scale weight can vary by a good few pounds a day.
As you eat, drink and go to the toilet.
I once did an experiment where I weighed myself every 30 minutes and purposefully ate and drank quite a lot – gaining and losing up to 8lbs a few times.
Short term weight gain can’t be avoided.
But is often demotivating.
Causing people to repeatedly change direction.
To jump straight to the next diet or workout.
Or, more likely, go back to old habits for a while before making said jump.
People who weigh themselves less frequently see the ‘bigger picture’.
The overall forward direction.
Which, when maintained, brings the amazing results (check myrise.co.uk/briefing-meeting if you like the sound of amazing, life changing results more than the standard yo-yo diet).
We’d say no more than weekly is plenty.
Maybe less.
Always at the same time of day.
As you’d only expect to have lost a few pounds of body fat in a very good week.
And that could be easily masked by the few pounds of daily fluctuation if you weigh at a different time.
Fortnightly seems to work well.
If an approach has been followed for two weeks or more and weight lost, then keep it up.
If weight hasn’t gone down, that would be a good time to look at either the approach itself or what’s not quite happening within it and why.
Much love,
Jon ‘Dancing Queen’ Hall and Matt ‘Knowing Me, Knowing You’ Nicholson
P.S. One bonus ninja point for the obvious reason behind the middle names. A second for the ‘deeper’ reason.
P.P.S. Yesterday’s middle names were, of course, words that go with Ski – Apres Ski and Ski Sunday 🙂
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