stalled for 8 weeks at 15mg and I refuse to panic this time
Something I keep coming back to: stalled for 8 weeks at 15mg and I refuse to panic this time.
Figures up front so nobody has to dig: 8 weeks and 15mg.
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.
Ask me anything specific. Anything general I will probably get wrong.
best — the order this archive was captured in
The attribution problem, which is the reason most logs on this board cannot answer the question their owner is asking.
If dose, training, intake and sleep all changed in the same fortnight, no analysis of the resulting numbers can tell you which one moved the outcome. That is not a limitation of your spreadsheet; it is a limitation of the design.
The fix is unglamorous: change one thing at a time, leave it long enough to see, and annotate the weeks where something else intruded anyway — because life will intrude. A log with honest annotations answers questions. A log with four simultaneous changes and a confident conclusion is the most common thing posted here, and it does not.
Built an elaborate spreadsheet, abandoned it by week nine, restarted with four columns and have kept it ever since.
Is the concentration recorded anywhere in the log?
Yes — log what happened rather than what you intended. My retrospective entries were quietly wrong every time.
Left up. Dates, consistent conditions and annotations, which is the standard here.
Missing entries recorded as blanks preserve the shape of the series. Dropping them silently makes the remaining points look more regular than they were.
That is a waist figure in the weight column. Easy mistake and it makes the chart look dramatic.
Disagree with daily weighing. You are logging fluid, and the emotional cost is real for very little information.
retrospective logs drift, contemporaneous ones do not
a log with no dates is a story
Correction: those two entries are 7 weeks apart, not consecutive, which changes how the middle of that series reads.
export it somewhere you will still be able to read in two years
This. Annotating the weeks where something else changed is what makes the log interpretable later.
a log is not a plan and it is not advice for anybody else
Agreed. One line a week that actually gets written beats an elaborate template abandoned in month two.
record the dose, the day and one number, that is enough
Contemporaneous records do not drift; reconstructed ones do, and the drift is systematic rather than random because memory smooths.
What is the one column you added late and wish you had from the start?
one line a week beats a spreadsheet you abandon
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.
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