[Discussion] we are measuring weekly update at the wrong time and calling it noise
we are measuring weekly update at the wrong time and calling it noise. Making the case below, and I expect to lose some of it in the comments.
Annotated the fortnight I changed training. Without that note the numbers around it would look like a mystery.
Exported the whole thing to a plain text file after nearly losing it in an app that shut down.
Wrote the concentration into the log as well as on the vial. Have referred back to it more than once.
If somebody has the same thing measured a different way, post it next to mine and we will see whether they agree.
best — the order this archive was captured in
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.
annotate the weeks where something else changed
Logged the missed weeks as blanks rather than skipping them. The gaps turned out to be the informative part.
Disagree with daily weighing. You are logging fluid, and the emotional cost is real for very little information.
What are you actually recording each week?
Agreed that consistent conditions matter more than frequency. Daily weights under varying conditions are noise.
Agreed that consistent conditions matter more than frequency.
This is the whole discipline in one line. Contemporaneous, consistent, minimal.
Added a sleep column late and immediately understood two of my worst weeks.
Added a sleep column late and immediately understood two of my worst weeks.
Agreed — and the payoff genuinely arrives in month six, not week two.
Added a sleep column late and immediately understood two of my worst weeks.
Disagreeing with this bit: daily weighing gives you noise and costs you something.