reading log threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly
reading log threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly. It is the sort of thing everyone half-believes and nobody writes down. Exported the whole thing to a plain text file after nearly losing it in an app that shut down. Annotated the fortnight I changed training. Without that note the numbers around it would look…
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.
Same conditions each time for the weigh-in?
annotate the weeks where something else changed
That is a waist figure in the weight column. Easy mistake and it makes the chart look dramatic.
That is a waist figure in the weight column.
flair_enthusiast is right about blanks. Silent gaps make the series lie.
Same conditions each time for the weigh-in?
This is the whole discipline in one line. Contemporaneous, consistent, minimal.
Did anything else change in the window you are asking about?