week 62 check-in — 20kg down, muscle cramps manageable, one thing confusing me
week 62 check-in — 20kg down, muscle cramps manageable, one thing confusing me. This is a description of what happened to me and not a plan for anybody else.
Numbers, in the order they matter: week 62 and 20kg.
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.
Missing entries recorded as blanks preserve the shape of the series. Dropping them silently makes the remaining points look more regular than they were.
Screenshot none of this. Read the whole thread, including the parts where I am told I am wrong.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Annotation is what makes a log survive contact with your future self. A single note beside an unusual week saves an hour of puzzled reconstruction later.
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.
A log is only interpretable if the conditions are consistent. Same day, same time, same state, same scale — otherwise you are recording measurement variability rather than change.
I would not draw a trend line through that. Two points and a gap is not a series.
Logged the missed weeks as blanks rather than skipping them. The gaps turned out to be the informative part.
Yes — write the concentration in the log as well as on the vial. Belt and braces and it costs nothing.
The four columns that survive, after several people here have tried and abandoned much more elaborate systems.
Date. Dose. One number measured under consistent conditions. A short note when anything unusual happened. That is it. Anything more and you will stop, and a log you stop keeping is worth less than a crude one you maintain.
Add a waist measurement monthly if you can be bothered, and a sleep column if you want the one variable that explains the most confusing weeks. Everything else can be reconstructed from those, and nothing can be reconstructed from a log you abandoned in week nine.
Careful — posting a log as a schedule for other people to follow is not what this board is for.
log what you did, not what you meant to do
write the concentration in the log too
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