I can be very good at rationalizing. I am not the best at stats, but considering where I work & what I do, I have the fundamentals down ~ or I can at least fake it well enough.
One thing that I do know about statistical analysis is that you can rationalize most anything. I see people wasting energy fighting the obvious to try to justify things. We all are guilty of it though, I am certain.
With my current initiative to lose weight, I have been looking at the numbers and was getting a bit discouraged. I know I have been doing well, but the road seems so long!(with many a winding turn…great now I have that Hollies song in my head).
So often we are given information and we assume we understand what it’s providing to us, but then when we sit back and take the time to really listen, you realize that the easy breezy cheesy information someone gives you isn’t always really that clear, like with that 5% goal they set ~ what does it really represent?
Is it based off of what I need to lose or is it based off of my total body weight?
I had to do the math (AIIIEEE!)
It made me happy when I found out that the 5% is based on my TOTAL body weight, not what I need to lose. For that, my percent is higher than 5%. Whatever I can do to motivate myself…
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