the log question that gets asked weekly, answered properly
the log question that gets asked weekly, answered properly. I have gone back and forth on this for months.
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.
Wrote the concentration into the log as well as on the vial. Have referred back to it more than once.
Exported the whole thing to a plain text file after nearly losing it in an app that shut down.
Please do not ask me what dose you should be on. I genuinely do not know and neither does anyone else here.
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.
The attribution problem, which is the reason most logs on this board cannot answer the question their owner is asking.
Disagreeing with this bit: daily weighing gives you noise and costs you something.
Small fix — that is a reconstructed entry rather than a contemporaneous one, and the post presents it as the latter.
Correction: those two entries are 9 weeks apart, not consecutive, which changes how the middle of that series reads.
Agreed. One line a week that actually gets written beats an elaborate template abandoned in month two.
nobody else needs your log to be pretty
consistent conditions or you are logging noise
Retitled — a log is a record, not a protocol, and the original read as a schedule for others to follow.
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.
Same. Waist monthly was the column I added late and wish I had started with.
annotate the weeks where something else changed
record the dose, the day and one number, that is enough