reading waist threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly
reading waist threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly, and I am aware this is a minority view on this board.
Reconstructed six weeks from memory once and later found receipts that contradicted my own log. Never again.
Added a sleep column late and immediately understood two of my worst weeks.
Logged the missed weeks as blanks rather than skipping them. The gaps turned out to be the informative part.
Research-use-only material is not approved for human use and nothing here should be read as a recommendation to use it.
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.
annotate the weeks where something else changed
Not convinced by the retrospective reconstruction. Memory smooths things and the smoothing is systematic.
a log is not a plan and it is not advice for anybody else
Careful — posting a log as a schedule for other people to follow is not what this board is for.
How long have you been logging?
Built an elaborate spreadsheet, abandoned it by week nine, restarted with four columns and have kept it ever since.
Did anything else change in the window you are asking about?
record the dose, the day and one number, that is enough
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.
Yes — log what happened rather than what you intended. My retrospective entries were quietly wrong every time.
Are the missed weeks in there as blanks or dropped entirely?
What is the one column you added late and wish you had from the start?
That template is elaborate enough that you will stop using it by week ten. Mine was.
Small fix — that is a reconstructed entry rather than a contemporaneous one, and the post presents it as the latter.
Contemporaneous records do not drift; reconstructed ones do, and the drift is systematic rather than random because memory smooths.
a missed week is data, write it down
Disagree with daily weighing. You are logging fluid, and the emotional cost is real for very little information.
Disagree with daily weighing.
Disagreeing with this bit: daily weighing gives you noise and costs you something.
Retitled — a log is a record, not a protocol, and the original read as a schedule for others to follow.
Is the concentration recorded anywhere in the log?
Annotated the fortnight I changed training. Without that note the numbers around it would look like a mystery.