5 months in and weight is still the thing I get wrong
5 months in and weight is still the thing I get wrong. Posting the boring middle of the process, because the internet is full of the start and the end and nothing else. Figures up front so nobody has to dig: 5 months. The attribution problem, which is the reason most logs on this board cannot answer the question…
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.
Contemporaneous or reconstructed?
annotate the weeks where something else changed
Reconstructed six weeks from memory once and later found receipts that contradicted my own log. Never again.
Is the concentration recorded anywhere in the log?
Did anything else change in the window you are asking about?
Reconstructed six weeks from memory once and later found receipts that contradicted my own log.
This is the whole discipline in one line. Contemporaneous, consistent, minimal.