The Overeliance on Numbers and The Law of Diminishing Returns

Keep in mind that as you get leaner and leaner your ability to measure or quantify change will decrease. Progress will show up qualitatively, but not quantitatively (you can see it but you can’t measure it), so you have to now start moving OFF the numbers.

For example, improvements in vascularity don’t show up on any numbers. Also remember that the process is not a straight line – as you get leaner it gets harder to get even leaner and progress is slower near the end than it was at the beginning; and not only that, you wind up having to work harder for less results in the home stretch.

So again, goal achievement isn’t a magical linear process of application from point A to point B. This is also why setting a weekly static weight loss goal, say 1lb/week, 1.5lbs/week or whatever is one shortsighted, and two, just ANOTHER number to worry about.

Process is always non-linear in both experience and results. We can’t quantify everything. An overemphasis on numbers, as is all too common (another reason I think bf measuring is a waste of time – one more number to get all worked up over) can be an added source of perceived pressure – success vs failure. Quantifying everything dilutes and dissolves an individual’s qualitative experiences and differences.