someone explain dose history to me like I have not read a paper in years
someone explain dose history to me like I have not read a paper in years, and I want the answer with the reasoning attached rather than just the conclusion.
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.
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.
Contemporaneous records do not drift; reconstructed ones do, and the drift is systematic rather than random because memory smooths.
I will update this if the picture changes rather than quietly leaving it up.
best — the order this archive was captured in
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.
Kept one line a week for 8 months. It was pointless for the first eight weeks and then it was the most useful document I owned.
Kept one line a week for 8 months.
Adding the column everyone adds late — sleep. Start with it.
a log is not a plan and it is not advice for anybody else
Reconstructed six weeks from memory once and later found receipts that contradicted my own log. Never again.
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.
Push back: a log with four variables changing at once cannot attribute anything to any of them.
Flair set to Log. Dates are the one required field here.
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.
Disagree with daily weighing. You are logging fluid, and the emotional cost is real for very little information.
log what you did, not what you meant to do
Correction: those two entries are 2 weeks apart, not consecutive, which changes how the middle of that series reads.
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