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—————- The next find out more meeting for our March programme is on Tuesday 23rd February which is in [cntdwn todate=”29 October 2019 23:59″ timeoff=”0″ showhours=”0″ showmins=”0″ pretext=””] Check myrise.co.uk/briefing-meeting to find out more, see what the meeting involves and, potentially, take that next step to transforming your life and body 🙂 ———————-
Imagine your friend is telling you about their new car.
It seems to be using more fuel than they think it should be.
What might you ask?
“What’s it’s average mpg?”………….
And “What’s it supposed to be?”………….
Would be a couple of good questions to start with.
Without those answers, you don’t really have much to go on.
And it’s the same with our ‘metabolisms’.
While there are variations in our Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR – our energy requirements ‘at rest’) person to person …………
Most of this can be explained by variations in body size and composition.
Variations outside of this are only of the magnitude of up to +/- 100 calories per day.
And the research shows that there is zero correlation between BMR variations and body fat levels.
Ie: Someone who is carrying extra body fat is just as likely to have a ‘better’ metabolism and someone who is slim is just as likely to have a ‘worse’ metabolism as vice versa.
Without knowing what our BMR is and what it, theoretically, should be………….
It’s impossible to say if it’s ‘good’ or ‘bad’.
We can work these things out more precisely, of course.
But we don’t really need to.
Outside of changing our body composition, it is what it is.
And variations in it don’t stop calories in vs. calories out from being a ‘thing’.
Worse case, we just have to adjust food and / or activity levels by no more than 100 calories per day.
Or, more likely, figure out what we’ve been ‘missing’ when we thought we were in a deficit, but didn’t lose weight.
———– Amongst other things, we’re pretty good at helping people figure this out and, more importantly, make those last changes needed to their already busy and challenging lives. Check myrise.co.uk/briefing-meeting to find out more ———–
Much love,
Jon ‘Cafe’ Hall and Matt ‘His hat’ Nicholson
