[Meta] the log rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining
the log rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining, and it will stay as it is unless somebody makes the case to change it. Reconstructed six weeks from memory once and later found receipts that contradicted my own log. Never again. A log is a record of what you did. It is not a protocol, and posting one…
Agreed that consistent conditions matter more than frequency. Daily weights under varying conditions are noise.
Contemporaneous records do not drift; reconstructed ones do, and the drift is systematic rather than random because memory smooths.
Contemporaneous records do not drift; reconstructed ones do, and the drift is systematic rather than random because memory smooths.
Disagreeing with this bit: daily weighing gives you noise and costs you something.
the column you will wish you had is sleep
Same conditions each time for the weigh-in?
one line a week beats a spreadsheet you abandon
Annotated the fortnight I changed training. Without that note the numbers around it would look like a mystery.
Annotated the fortnight I changed training.
Agreed — and the payoff genuinely arrives in month six, not week two.
Small fix — that is a reconstructed entry rather than a contemporaneous one, and the post presents it as the latter.