help me understand waist, I have read the wiki twice
help me understand waist, I have read the wiki twice, 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.
If two or three other people have done the same thing we might actually learn something. Alone it is an anecdote.
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.
write the concentration in the log too
the value of a log is in month six, not week one
That is a waist figure in the weight column. Easy mistake and it makes the chart look dramatic.
export it somewhere you will still be able to read in two years
consistent conditions or you are logging noise
That template is elaborate enough that you will stop using it by week ten. Mine was.
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.
Agreed. One line a week that actually gets written beats an elaborate template abandoned in month two.
Disagree with daily weighing. You are logging fluid, and the emotional cost is real for very little information.
Disagree with daily weighing.
Disagreeing with this bit: daily weighing gives you noise and costs you something.
The four columns that survive, after several people here have tried and abandoned much more elaborate systems.
Date. Dose. One number measured under consistent conditions. A short note when anything unusual happened. That is it. Anything more and you will stop, and a log you stop keeping is worth less than a crude one you maintain.
Add a waist measurement monthly if you can be bothered, and a sleep column if you want the one variable that explains the most confusing weeks. Everything else can be reconstructed from those, and nothing can be reconstructed from a log you abandoned in week nine.
Missing entries recorded as blanks preserve the shape of the series. Dropping them silently makes the remaining points look more regular than they were.
Missing entries recorded as blanks preserve the shape of the series.
formulary_fighter is right about blanks. Silent gaps make the series lie.
a log with no dates is a story
log what you did, not what you meant to do
record the dose, the day and one number, that is enough
The four columns that survive, after several people here have tried and abandoned much more elaborate systems.
This is the whole discipline in one line. Contemporaneous, consistent, minimal.
Same. Waist monthly was the column I added late and wish I had started with.
Left up. Dates, consistent conditions and annotations, which is the standard here.
Are the missed weeks in there as blanks or dropped entirely?
Kept one line a week for 17 months. It was pointless for the first eight weeks and then it was the most useful document I owned.
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.
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.
Correction: those two entries are 8 weeks apart, not consecutive, which changes how the middle of that series reads.
Yes — write the concentration in the log as well as on the vial. Belt and braces and it costs nothing.
Is the concentration recorded anywhere in the log?
annotate the weeks where something else changed
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