tried tracking for 20 weeks. here is what happened.
tried tracking for 20 weeks. here is what happened, which sounds obvious until you try to state the evidence for it.
To save the first four comments: 20 weeks.
Reconstructed six weeks from memory once and later found receipts that contradicted my own log. Never again.
Built an elaborate spreadsheet, abandoned it by week nine, restarted with four columns and have kept it ever since.
Screenshot none of this. Read the whole thread, including the parts where I am told I am wrong.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Contemporaneous records do not drift; reconstructed ones do, and the drift is systematic rather than random because memory smooths.
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.
The attribution problem, which is the reason most logs on this board cannot answer the question their owner is asking.
If dose, training, intake and sleep all changed in the same fortnight, no analysis of the resulting numbers can tell you which one moved the outcome. That is not a limitation of your spreadsheet; it is a limitation of the design.
The fix is unglamorous: change one thing at a time, leave it long enough to see, and annotate the weeks where something else intruded anyway — because life will intrude. A log with honest annotations answers questions. A log with four simultaneous changes and a confident conclusion is the most common thing posted here, and it does not.
one line a week beats a spreadsheet you abandon
I would not draw a trend line through that. Two points and a gap is not a series.
A log is a record of what you did.
Adding the column everyone adds late — sleep. Start with it.
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waist monthly, weight weekly, notes whenever
record the dose, the day and one number, that is enough
Not convinced by the retrospective reconstruction. Memory smooths things and the smoothing is systematic.
Added a sleep column late and immediately understood two of my worst weeks.
Same conditions each time for the weigh-in?
Left up. Dates, consistent conditions and annotations, which is the standard here.
annotate the weeks where something else changed
Left up.
This is the whole discipline in one line. Contemporaneous, consistent, minimal.
Missing entries recorded as blanks preserve the shape of the series. Dropping them silently makes the remaining points look more regular than they were.
Annotated the fortnight I changed training. Without that note the numbers around it would look like a mystery.
This. Annotating the weeks where something else changed is what makes the log interpretable later.
the boring logs are the useful ones
What are you actually recording each week?
log what you did, not what you meant to do
What is the one column you added late and wish you had from the start?
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