how much of what we believe about weekly update actually comes from tracking threads
Genuine question, and the title is the question: how much of what we believe about weekly update actually comes from tracking threads.
Missing entries recorded as blanks preserve the shape of the series. Dropping them silently makes the remaining points look more regular than they were.
Contemporaneous records do not drift; reconstructed ones do, and the drift is systematic rather than random because memory smooths.
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.
Not medical advice, obviously, and nothing here is approved for human use. One person with a spreadsheet.
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.
How long have you been logging?
record the dose, the day and one number, that is enough
record the dose, the day and one number, that is enough
Adding the column everyone adds late — sleep. Start with it.
export it somewhere you will still be able to read in two years
Correction: those two entries are 18 weeks apart, not consecutive, which changes how the middle of that series reads.
Small fix — that is a reconstructed entry rather than a contemporaneous one, and the post presents it as the latter.
How long have you been logging?
Agreed — and the payoff genuinely arrives in month six, not week two.
That template is elaborate enough that you will stop using it by week ten. Mine was.
Left up. Dates, consistent conditions and annotations, which is the standard here.
Logged the missed weeks as blanks rather than skipping them. The gaps turned out to be the informative part.
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.
Same. Waist monthly was the column I added late and wish I had started with.
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