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—————- The next find out more meeting for our March programme is on Tuesday 23rd February which is in [cntdwn todate=“27 August 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
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We’ve mentioned before that there are approximately 3,500 calories of energy stored in a pound of body fat.
That number is up for debate, but the accepted research suggests it won’t be too far from correct.
So, in a stone of body fat there is approximately 50,000 calories of stored energy.
If you gained a stone of weight in a year, you were in (again, approximately) a 1,000 calorie a week surplus.
Let’s say your maintenance calories are 2,000 per day …………
Then you’ve only gone 7% over.
9.5% if your maintenance is 1,500 or 5.7% if it’s 2,500.
You weren’t actually all that far out.
Not as much as you might have thought.
Two stone gained in a year and you’re still only 10 to 20% out on a daily basis.
Many people will have the image of someone who’s gained weight as “stuffing their face”.
But going 7% over maintenance doesn’t really match that, does it?
To lose the weight at the same rate, you’d have to go into the same size deficit.
Turning a 7% surplus into a 7% deficit is only a 14% reduction.
You’d barely notice a 14% reduction in average portion size, I’m sure.
You could even end up eating a greater volume of food by making some tactical swaps to, let’s say, a 30% lower average energy DENSITY.
We find that the best results come from the highest deficit someone is happy to (on average maintain).
Too slow can lead to disillusionment.
Too fast to swinging back to what you were doing before.
But…………
It doesn’t need to as much as you might think.
You were actually pretty close when you were going in the wrong direction.
Undo that surplus……………
Do the same again to create a deficit……………
Add anymore that you find maintainable………….
And you’ll be good 🙂
Much love,
Jon ‘Encounters of the third kind’ Hall and Matt ‘But no cigar’ Nicholson
P.S. Tick tock – just 5 days to the next find out more meeting for the September starters –> myrise.co.uk/briefing-meeting.
