Why Retesting ERMI Too Often Made Me Doubt My Progress

I wanted confirmation. What I didn’t expect was how easily it could undermine trust.

After my first ERMI test, I told myself I’d wait.

I wanted space for the house to change, for my body to settle, for everything to catch up.

But uncertainty has a way of shortening patience.

Each time I considered retesting, it felt like checking a wound that hadn’t finished healing.

This didn’t mean ERMI was the problem — it meant I was using it to manage anxiety instead of understanding.

Why I Thought More ERMI Tests Would Bring Reassurance

Part of me believed that progress would show up clearly if I just kept measuring.

I assumed more data would quiet doubt and help me feel confident that things were improving.

I was looking for certainty in repetition.

This didn’t mean I was obsessive — it meant I was still learning how to trust change.

Instead of noticing subtle improvements, I began waiting on numbers.

That habit echoed the confusion I’d already experienced when results didn’t align with sensation, something I reflected on in why my ERMI results didn’t match how my body felt.

Progress became conditional instead of experiential.

This didn’t mean retesting was wrong — it meant my timing was off.

ERMI reflects accumulated history.

Understanding how long ERMI takes to reflect real change helped me see why frequent retesting created more noise than clarity.

The test wasn’t slow — it was patient.

This reframing helped me stop interpreting stable numbers as failure.

Each new result reopened questions I had already worked through.

I noticed echoes of the same misinterpretation cycle I had experienced early on, something I unpacked in why I misread my ERMI score at first.

Familiar fear can attach itself to new data.

This didn’t mean I was regressing — it meant my nervous system remembered how to brace.

Once I slowed down retesting, something shifted.

I stopped asking ERMI to prove progress and started letting change register naturally.

Trust grew in the absence of constant checking.

This helped me reconnect with the understanding I had already built about when ERMI is helpful, something I explored in when ERMI is helpful — and when it isn’t.

Is frequent ERMI retesting harmful?
In my experience, it wasn’t harmful — but it wasn’t always helpful either.

Can retesting increase doubt instead of confidence?
Yes. Especially when results are expected to change faster than they realistically can.