Taking the stairs instead of the elevator?
Eating Oreos at the end of the day?
Most definitely unhealthy, right?
Here’s why thinking in this way might be stifling your progress.
This ROI is dependent on individual context.
Let’s look at two fictional examples from a 300 pound man with diabetes and atherosclerosis, named Jack.
Example 1: Jack wants to start losing weight by reducing his calorie intake.
Example 2: Jack reads something about the “potential dangers in the chemicals of diet soda.”
Despite the fact that Jack seeing amazing results, he isn’t putting too much effort into his actions.
This yields him a very high ROI on health and fitness.
In example 2, Jackmightbe improving his health from the lens of eliminating artificial sweeteners.
But how much is he improving his health on that front?
Health and fitness is what’s known as anon-linear system.
Your return on health isn’t necessarily linear to your efforts.
Use ROI To Your Advantage
ROI is highly contextual.
We’ve already talked aboutexercise possibly yielding low ROI on goals like weight loss.
If you truly enjoy running, however, then your ROI will be much higher.
There are no hard and fast rules for determining an activity’s fitness ROI.
It’s merely a framework to use that is a mixture of both art and science.
You might also find that you caneat at a suitable caloric deficitusing absolutely nothing but Chipotle all week.
And that’s what heathy living should be all about.
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