Awareness

I talked about weight as just a way to measure changes. Another important reason to track progress is because of awareness. Just being aware causes you to make micro-choices in habits, lifestyle, eating, that will affect a larger picture and will have large ripple effects.

People who never want to check or track progress out of fear tend to end up in a vicious cycle. They don't want to track progress because they are afraid they are doing worse. But because they don't track their progress they do worse. And because they are doing worse, they don't want to track progress. And because of that they get even worse and so on and so forth ad nauseam. It's irrational, illogical, and very human. Imagine anyone trying to study anything, from tapeworms to growth of trees who never tracked anything. They would get nowhere and any findings they make would be purely accidental and coincidental and impossible to repeat.

The small effort to track though will have a very different cycle that will make you better and better. You track because you are progressing. You are progressing because you track.

It's human to be stupid. It's also human to be smart. Be aware of the choices you make.