.6 –  That’s not a typo the Weight Watcher lady said we lost POINT-SIX this week.

Shows like The Biggest Loser make you think point-six is craptastic, diet-fail, ridiculous. But it is not. In a first half of a week where we pretty much ignored things like tracking, water, positive visualization and jeans that-shall-not-be- named and then got back on track in the four days leading up to the weigh-in losing point-six is not so bad.

We have no idea if point-six means slightly more than half a pound (8-ounces) OR does it mean acually six ounces. Electronic scales confuse us but EITHER way it’s not a Biggest Loser amount it is a Smallest Loser amount.  But guess what?  We’re going to put things in perspective and feel good about less than one. Here are a few things to think about if you had a teeny tiny loss recently.

1.  It’s a loss dufus – how many times have you gained? Lotsa.

2. The average sized hamster is five ounces. Losing MORE than an entire animal is impressive.

3.  A hockey puck is between 5.5 ounces and 6 ounces. Imagine the disaster if Wayne Gretzky lost a hockey puck? That’s big trouble.

4. A chicken breast. You’ve removed a chicken breast size amount of fat from somewhere. Perhaps overall? Certainly we hope it was point-six distributed evenly. What if we lost point-six from ONE arm? Odd. Hoping point-three from each.

5. Multiply point-six by 52 and you get 31 pounds in a year unless that’s only point-six ounces. Than we have no idea.