Daily blog (audio): We wouldn't think our money was magically disappearing [Would we?]

<p>We wouldn't think our money was magically disappearing [Would we?]</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>Imagine you were getting more and more into debt as each month passed.</p> <p>You’d done some rough sums.</p> <p>You felt you were probably earning more than you were spending.</p> <p>But that debt kept increasing.</p> <p>Further into the overdraft.</p> <p>What would you think?</p> <p>Assuming you were confident that no one was stealing, you’d probably think “I must be missing something with my sums”.</p> <p>We wouldn’t think that the money was magically disappearing, would we?</p> <p>But we’re tempted to do the same with our calories aren’t we?</p> <p>Think we’re “not eating much” but gaining weight?</p> <p>Or that “I should be losing weight on what I’m eating” but aren’t?</p> <p>When people are kept in tightly controlled, laboratory style conditions………</p> <p>Where every morsel of food is measured……..</p> <p>Body composition accurately calculated…….</p> <p>Movement precisely tracked………</p> <p>Breath monitored constantly to measure energy usage……..</p> <p>Everyone ever tested has lost weight when in a confirmed, sustained calorie deficit.</p> <p>With only marginal differences in the rate of that loss, when otherwise matched.</p> <p>So……….</p> <p>If we’re not losing weight………</p> <p>One of two things can be happening:</p> <p>1. We’re the first person ever to not lose weight in a calorie deficit</p> <p>2. We’re missing something with our ‘calculations’.</p> <p>We might be a bit optimistic with the activity multiplier we pick when calculating our energy needs.&nbsp;</p> <p>Our estimates of energy used exercising might be somewhat ‘keen’ (many FitPros massively overstate how many calories are ‘burned’ in their sessions.</p> <p>These estimates might neglect to consider that we’d have used an amount of energy just by being alive in that time.</p> <