[Update] week 12 — the honest version, including the two missed doses
Update, and the title has the headline: week 12 — the honest version, including the two missed doses.
Contemporaneous records do not drift; reconstructed ones do, and the drift is systematic rather than random because memory smooths.
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.
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
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.
Annotation is what makes a log survive contact with your future self.
This is the whole discipline in one line. Contemporaneous, consistent, minimal.
Disagree with daily weighing. You are logging fluid, and the emotional cost is real for very little information.
Correction: those two entries are 9 weeks apart, not consecutive, which changes how the middle of that series reads.
nobody else needs your log to be pretty
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.
Reminder: no dose recommendations for other members, however the post is framed.
the value of a log is in month six, not week one
That template is elaborate enough that you will stop using it by week ten. Mine was.
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.
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