dose history is the most under-discussed thing on this board
dose history is the most under-discussed thing on this board. Change my mind, genuinely — I have no stake in being right about this.
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.
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.
I will update this if the picture changes rather than quietly leaving it up.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Annotation is what makes a log survive contact with your future self. A single note beside an unusual week saves an hour of puzzled reconstruction later.
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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.
Right, and the payoff arrives around month six when a pattern becomes visible that nobody could hold in their head.
How long have you been logging?
a log is not a plan and it is not advice for anybody else
Added a sleep column late and immediately understood two of my worst weeks.
Did anything else change in the window you are asking about?
the column you will wish you had is sleep
What is the one column you added late and wish you had from the start?
Correction: those two entries are 16 weeks apart, not consecutive, which changes how the middle of that series reads.
Small fix — that is a reconstructed entry rather than a contemporaneous one, and the post presents it as the latter.
Contemporaneous records do not drift; reconstructed ones do, and the drift is systematic rather than random because memory smooths.
Agreed. One line a week that actually gets written beats an elaborate template abandoned in month two.
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.
Yes — write the concentration in the log as well as on the vial. Belt and braces and it costs nothing.
Are the missed weeks in there as blanks or dropped entirely?
a missed week is data, write it down
That is a waist figure in the weight column. Easy mistake and it makes the chart look dramatic.
one line a week beats a spreadsheet you abandon
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