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The 80/20 Rule For Weight Management
It’s appearing in so many places in my life. Maybe
it wants some attention from me. The most recent one came
last week at work: 20% of the work a person does makes 80%
of the impact. So, there’s no point in focusing your
efforts on the 80% of the work that no one notices, especially
if you neglect the 20% that someone is watching!
But more commonly, I’ve heard it in terms of weight
management: eat until you’re 80% full and 20% empty.
And, my favorite, eat what you should [ie, on whatever plan
you choose] 80% of the time, and what you want the other
20%.
The idea is that this will help us to manage our weight
without making ourselves stark raving mad.
So, with this in mind, I’ve looked at some recent
writings on the internet. One was a plea from a woman who
has decided that, since she refuses to eat fruit and veggies,
there’s no point in her dieting. Someone suggested
that she simply reduce her portions. For her, it sounds like
following the 80% full/20% empty rule might work.
Other people get hung up on the ‘can’t have
this, can’t have that’ denial thing. Giving
themselves permission for a treat 20% of the time might help
stop that hang up.
Even with exercise, we’re told to have move for at
least 20 minutes on ‘most’ days of the week.
Let’s see - 20% of 7 days is 1.4 days. That means that
we get a day off a week, and an occasional 2 days off!
But it can also apply to that
work/play balance that we ALL struggle with that. Between
family, work, other commitments, we have little or no time
to ourselves. Maybe we should declare that we each get
20% of our time to ourselves to do with whatever we want.
Let’s see [don’t you love all
this math talk?] 24 hours in a day. 8 hours for sleeping.
8 hours for work. That leaves 8 hours. 20% of 8 hours is
1.6 hours. Can we manage an hour a day to ourselves? Sounds
like a challenge to me!
And I’m going
to propose another 80/20 rule: 80% seriousness and 20% fun,
especially in exercise. My goal this week is to start having
more ‘fun’ in my exercise routine.
Hiking is great [Magnolia Louise was especially happy last
evening!], the elliptical is not. Weights have to happen.
But that purple hula hoop I bought over the weekend. …Anyone
remember how to hula hoop???
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