tried weight for 3 weeks. here is what happened.
Something I keep coming back to: tried weight for 3 weeks. here is what happened.
Since the title puts numbers in the shop window: 3 weeks.
Logged the missed weeks as blanks rather than skipping them. The gaps turned out to be the informative part.
Added a sleep column late and immediately understood two of my worst weeks.
Corrections welcome, especially the pedantic ones. Pedantry is how this board earns its reputation.
best — the order this archive was captured in
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.
Reconstructed six weeks from memory once and later found receipts that contradicted my own log. Never again.
a log with no dates is a story
Careful — posting a log as a schedule for other people to follow is not what this board is for.
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 column you will wish you had is sleep
Retitled — a log is a record, not a protocol, and the original read as a schedule for others to follow.
the boring logs are the useful ones
What are you actually recording each week?
What is the one column you added late and wish you had from the start?
consistent conditions or you are logging noise
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
Yes — log what happened rather than what you intended. My retrospective entries were quietly wrong every time.
Contemporaneous or reconstructed?
How long have you been logging?
Same conditions each time for the weigh-in?
Are the missed weeks in there as blanks or dropped entirely?
annotate the weeks where something else changed
annotate the weeks where something else changed
ipamorelin_i is right about blanks. Silent gaps make the series lie.
ipamorelin_i is right about blanks.
Adding the column everyone adds late — sleep. Start with it.
Adding the column everyone adds late — sleep.
Agreed — and the payoff genuinely arrives in month six, not week two.
That template is elaborate enough that you will stop using it by week ten. Mine was.
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.