Daily blog (audio): What’s the easiest way to tell if you’re in a calorie deficit? [Want to know?]

<p>What’s the easiest way to tell if you’re in a calorie deficit? [Want to know?]</p> <p><br> <br> We're on a mission to help one million people RISE by 2030 - join the movement at <a href="http://www.myrise.co.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.myrise.co.uk</a></p> <p><br></p> <p>I had a question the other day.</p> <p>Well, I probably had hundreds.</p> <p>Most of them from my oldest son.</p> <p>But I’ll have had a fair number from members to.</p> <p>This one was “What’s the easiest way to tell if you’re in a calorie deficit?”</p> <p>It’s a pretty easy one to answer.</p> <p>“You’ll be losing weight”.</p> <p>Variations in our resting metabolic rate (what we mean when we say “metabolism” – how much energy our body uses at rest) are minimal when people are matched for body size.</p> <p>+/- 80 calories per day the research shows.</p> <p>But, whatever our metabolic rate is……..</p> <p>Weight loss occurs when we’re in a deficit.</p> <p>In every controlled study ever done.</p> <p>When everything is monitored so tightly that energy in versus energy out……..</p> <p>Is controlled to within 20 calories…….</p> <p>Everyone ever tested lost weight.</p> <p>At very similar rates.</p> <p>Maybe variations in the composition – water, body fat, lean tissues, etc.</p> <p>But everyone lost weight and everyone lost fat.</p> <p>If we could show that we didn’t lose weight in a verified, sustained, average deficit……..</p> <p>We would be the first person ever.</p> <p>Knowing that is powerful.</p> <p>Changes the conversation in our head.</p> <p>From one of being a victim of our metabolism and genetics……..</p> <p>To just realising we haven’t been in a calorie deficit.</p> <p>Even if we thought we were.</p> <p>Maybe we’d calculated we were.</p> <p>But, again, unless we’re that first person ever, there’s something missing in those calculations.</p> <p>The easiest way to tell if you’re in a calorie deficit…….</p> <p>Is to see if you’re losing weight or not!</p> <p><br></p> <p>Much love,</p> <p>Jon ‘Quick maths’ Hall</p>