6 months in and weight is still the thing I get wrong
Update, and the title has the headline: 6 months in and weight is still the thing I get wrong.
The numbers the title promised, since a headline without them is worthless: 6 months. Everything below is context for those.
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.
I will update this if the picture changes rather than quietly leaving it up.
best — the order this archive was captured in
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.
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 convinced by the retrospective reconstruction. Memory smooths things and the smoothing is systematic.
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.
Attribution requires that one thing change at a time.
Agreed — and the payoff genuinely arrives in month six, not week two.
Disagree with daily weighing. You are logging fluid, and the emotional cost is real for very little information.
Is the concentration recorded anywhere in the log?
Reconstructed six weeks from memory once and later found receipts that contradicted my own log. Never again.
Reconstructed six weeks from memory once and later found receipts that contradicted my own log.
intent_to_treat is right about blanks. Silent gaps make the series lie.
How long have you been logging?
What are you actually recording each week?
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.