The Multiplication Error

For a weightloss blog, there has, I am aware, been very little in the way of actual weightloss advice over the last two years (and very little in the way of weightloss in the last nine months). But here's an actual tip.

I know it's an actual tip because it hit me like a sledgehammer to the temples when I woke up this morning at 2.26.

Ready?

Here it is:

Don't count on multiplication to get you out of things.

Hmm...You're impressed now, aren't you? I can tell, you're all stroking your chins and going "That Disappearing Man, he's deep. Fuck knows what he's on about most of the time, but bloody deep..."

What I mean is: There's a tendency to piss about acting like a gambler. To say "I can get away with having an easy week, and then I'll just have to lose twice as much next week, and I'll be back on track..."

That's bullshit. It's a highway straight to failure, because while you will have weeks where you lose more weight than you should or expect to, you can't rely on doing that. Not ever. So if you're relying on it, you're relying on having an ace to play, when you probably have a two.

Rely on patience application of effort, and the long expanse of time. Those two are your true friends. They're the ones that will get you where you want to go, but you have to a) trust the long expanse of time, and have patience with it, and b) put the effort in.

This is of course a statement of rammmmpant hypocrisy from me at the moment, because tonight I've had a three course dinner - including dessert - and too much alcohol, so it's a hollow piece of wisdom. But come the new year, there will be plans, and schedules, and discipline and all that good healthy stuff. There will be the putting in of effort, and the trusting to time. And multiplication can kiss my hairy, wobbly pale white ass...

Oh - did I mention? Merry Christmas, people!