Have you ever stepped on the scale, seen you gained the same pound today you lost yesterday, and felt yourself an absolute failure? Yeah, me, too. Until a wise one taught me, “Your data is not judgmental of you because of the data and neither should you be judgmental of yourself because of your data. Just study your data, learn from it, and react to it appropriately.”
A reader asks, “What’s the benefit of micromanaging weight loss daily vs. the negative psychological effect of failing to drop weight for one or two days?”
First, I reject the premise of the question. There should be no psychological effect of failing to lose weight daily. The daily data is just data. We don’t judge actors based on data. We just analyze data and prior actions and other factors that caused the data to fluctuate as it did to discover the cause of the deviction from the expected result and correct our inputs in order to get better results going forward.
We use data such a daily weight to exercise CONTROL over our actions by Correcting Ourselves Nicely To Repair Ocassional Lapses.