[Log] public log, started week 1, currently week 90, still updating
Check-in as promised in the title: public log, started week 1, currently week 90, still updating.
The numbers the title promised, since a headline without them is worthless: week 1 and week 90. Everything below is context for those.
A log is a record of what you did. It is not a protocol, and posting one as a schedule for other members is a different thing that this board does not do.
Kept one line a week for 10 months. It was pointless for the first eight weeks and then it was the most useful document I owned.
If somebody has the same thing measured a different way, post it next to mine and we will see whether they agree.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Why contemporaneous beats reconstructed, with the failure mode.
Memory smooths. Reconstructing a fortnight from recollection produces a series that is more regular, more consistent with your current beliefs, and quietly wrong in a direction that flatters the story you are already telling.
I found this out by reconstructing six weeks and later finding order receipts that contradicted my own entries. The log was not a little wrong; it was wrong in exactly the direction that made my narrative work. Write it down on the day, even the boring days, especially the boring days.
Careful — posting a log as a schedule for other people to follow is not what this board is for.
Attribution requires that one thing change at a time. A log with dose, training and intake all moving in the same fortnight cannot assign anything to any of them.
Correction: those two entries are 22 weeks apart, not consecutive, which changes how the middle of that series reads.
a missed week is data, write it down
log what you did, not what you meant to do
a log with no dates is a story
a log is not a plan and it is not advice for anybody else
annotate the weeks where something else changed
Choose a format you will still be able to open in two years. Plain text or a spreadsheet you export beats an application that may not exist.
waist monthly, weight weekly, notes whenever
Wrote the concentration into the log as well as on the vial. Have referred back to it more than once.
Right, and the payoff arrives around month six when a pattern becomes visible that nobody could hold in their head.
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