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…
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.