We missed our go on the ride after Nemesis [I forget what it was called]
💪💪💪 We’re on a mission to help one million people RISE by 2030 💪💪💪
📚📚📚 Reading Time: 2 minutes 📚📚📚
👂👂👂 Listen on podcast via www.myrise.co.uk/podcast 👂👂👂
💡💡💡
If you’re a frustrated yo-yo dieter and gym disliker who would like to lose 20lbs in 8 weeks while developing lasting healthy habits without having to do boring exercise you hate and give up food you love, then email contact@myrise.co.uk with ‘RISE’ and we’ll send you the information for our online 20lbs weight loss challenges.
💡💡💡
So, Alton Towers is back open.
I’m originally from Ashbourne, which is the nearest town to Alton Towers.
So I’ve been a fair amount over the years.
Particularly as a teenager.
My mate Fuzzy’s parents had a holiday let in Alton and they got a free pass.
So we used that quite a lot when we were 17 had just learned to drive.
I went with the French Exchange too.
First time I went on the French Exchange I was 13 and in Year 9.
Long term readers might remember this French Exchange as the first time I kissed a girl.
But that’s a separate story.
By the time the French crew came over to us, I’d just turned 14 and Nemesis had just opened.
We spent 3 hours queuing for that.
There was another ride we queued for a while for.
I can’t remember what it was called but it was pretty much where Thi3teen is now.
We got the front and it broke down.
After a little wait we were told it wouldn’t be fixed today and given tickets to jump the queue next time.
Next time proved to be several months later.
— — — I’ll be honest I’m starting to question the time frames of all of this now. This may have been years later than the trip when Nemesis opened. But it definitely all happened. And it was all in the mid 90s. — — –
We had the tickets to jump the queue.
We weren’t sure what to say.
It felt such a long time since we’d got them that we didn’t know if they’d still be honoured.
So we decided, if asked, to say they were from “last week”.
We went to the guy at the front of the queue and presented our tickets.
He asked when they were from.
“Last week” we replied.
“The ride wasn’t broken down last week. Nice try” he said and took the tickets from us.
We tried to explain that they were actually from months earlier but he’d got us pegged as trying to pull some sort of elaborate con by that point.
If we’d have told the truth, it probably would’ve been fine.
As it was the first time we’d had chance to use them.
Honesty is always the best policy.
Never more so than with our eating.
You probably know that we recommend tracking our food for 3–5 days with MyFitnessPal.
For both the insight it gives and the accountability.
People are often reluctant to do it.
Partly because of the inconvenience, sure.
But I think there’s often more than that.
It’s only takes a minute or two at most.
And maybe 10 or 20 minutes to start with to watch the training videos on it on our Learn tab get our heads round.
I think sometimes we’re worried about the truth it will show us.
How it might disprove the stories that we’ve been telling ourselves.
That we’ve “got a bad metabolism”.
That we “can’t seem to lose weight no matter what”.
That we “eat healthily”.
We “don’t know why I’m not losing weight”.
We’re maybe worried what it will show us.
That we’ve just been consuming more calories than we need.
But, remember, honesty is the best policy.
Better an ugly truth than a beautiful lie.
Getting clear on what’s actually happening…….
What relatively easy to make changes we can put in place……..
A little bit of accountability……..
Will always help us more than the other version of events we’ve come up with.
Much love,
Jon ‘I remember my Granny telling me she used to “Love going to Alton Towers as a girl” and me looking shocked until she explained that it was just the Towers and garden then’ Hall
