“Just the facts, Ma’am.”

Hmm. I wonder if Joe Friday had an analyst personality?

We’ve been looking at the four personality types and the best way to adapt the low glycemic/step plan to each one.  Today we are looking at the analyst personality.

Analysts tend to be number people.  You often find them in jobs as accountants, computer programers, and engineers.  They like accuracy, rationality, and logic.  Control is a major issue.  They want the facts and the details — and then they want to get down to business.

If you are an analyst, you are much less dependent on other people for support than either the leader or the sparkler.  You would rather get the plan lined out and then just do it. Besides, you don’t like drama, and you don’t have much patience for folks who are supposed to be sticking to the plan and then cheat.  More than likely you are a goal-oriented blitzer. Click here to read about Blitzers.

So what plan works best for an analyst?

If you are an analyst, you will be interested in the “why” of the glycemic index.  In fact, it may not be precise enough for you. You may want to figure the more complicated, but more accurate, glycemic load. The load takes the number of servings into account and so gives a more complete picture. To figure the load, you multiply the glycemic index number by the amount of carbohydrate in grams in the food, and then dividing the number by 100.     ( GL = GI/100 x Net Carbs) Then your goal is to keep the load for the day under 100.

That is way too complicated and too much trouble for most of us, and, really, it comes out about the same. If you are an analyst, though, you will want to be precise and will enjoy figuring it out.  You will also want to keep more exact track of your calories while other folks are estimating theirs.

Keeping track of your steps and the weekly average will be the type of activity you enjoy, too, so the step plan is right up your alley.  You might also like the Couch to 5K program which involves training for a run.  You start mostly walking with short sprints and then gradually increase running time until you are able to run a 5K race.  Smart phone apps make this plan easy and it will appeal to your penchant for programs and order.

Analysts have many advantages in reaching fitness goals.  If they go astray, they are able to pinpoint the reason.  They like facts and reasons, so they will do research and become convinced of the best plan for them. Once they have a plan, they tend to stick to it

Trying to force an analyst to do the plan that would appeal to a sparkler is doomed to fail.  God didn’t make you with a cookie-cutter.  So, if you are an analyst, just do it your way!

Eating to live and living for Christ,
Susan Jordan Brown