[Results] 64 weeks, 15kg, and waist was the hard part
Reporting in. 64 weeks, 15kg, and waist was the hard part.
The relevant figures are 64 weeks and 15kg, and they come from the same log I have kept the whole time.
Missing entries recorded as blanks preserve the shape of the series. Dropping them silently makes the remaining points look more regular than they were.
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.
Please do not ask me what dose you should be on. I genuinely do not know and neither does anyone else here.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Reminder: no dose recommendations for other members, however the post is framed.
Same conditions each time for the weigh-in?
Right, and the payoff arrives around month six when a pattern becomes visible that nobody could hold in their head.
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.
A log is only interpretable if the conditions are consistent.
Adding the column everyone adds late — sleep. Start with it.
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.
Contemporaneous records do not drift; reconstructed ones do, and the drift is systematic rather than random because memory smooths.
Push back: a log with four variables changing at once cannot attribute anything to any of them.
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That is a waist figure in the weight column. Easy mistake and it makes the chart look dramatic.
Built an elaborate spreadsheet, abandoned it by week nine, restarted with four columns and have kept it ever since.
Added a sleep column late and immediately understood two of my worst weeks.
Are the missed weeks in there as blanks or dropped entirely?
Disagree with daily weighing. You are logging fluid, and the emotional cost is real for very little information.
a log is not a plan and it is not advice for anybody else
a log with no dates is a story
Agreed that consistent conditions matter more than frequency. Daily weights under varying conditions are noise.
the column you will wish you had is sleep
What are you actually recording each week?
Disagree with daily weighing.
Disagreeing with this bit: daily weighing gives you noise and costs you something.
Wrote the concentration into the log as well as on the vial. Have referred back to it more than once.
Correction: those two entries are 3 weeks apart, not consecutive, which changes how the middle of that series reads.
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