why does nobody talk about waist
why does nobody talk about waist, 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.
Tell me where this is wrong. That is the useful part of posting it.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Missing entries recorded as blanks preserve the shape of the series. Dropping them silently makes the remaining points look more regular than they were.
the value of a log is in month six, not week one
Disagree with daily weighing. You are logging fluid, and the emotional cost is real for very little information.
Contemporaneous or reconstructed?
Contemporaneous or reconstructed?
Adding the column everyone adds late — sleep. Start with it.
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Exported the whole thing to a plain text file after nearly losing it in an app that shut down.
annotate the weeks where something else changed
What are you actually recording each week?
Disagree with daily weighing.
rosa_sandvik is right about blanks. Silent gaps make the series lie.
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.
I would not draw a trend line through that. Two points and a gap is not a series.
a log is not a plan and it is not advice for anybody else
one line a week beats a spreadsheet you abandon
Reminder: no dose recommendations for other members, however the post is framed.
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.
Choose a format you will still be able to open in two years.
This is the whole discipline in one line. Contemporaneous, consistent, minimal.
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