my ferritin moved and I cannot work out whether tracking is why
my ferritin moved and I cannot work out whether tracking is why, and I am aware this is a minority view on this board.
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.
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.
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.
I will update this if the picture changes rather than quietly leaving it up.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Missing entries recorded as blanks preserve the shape of the series. Dropping them silently makes the remaining points look more regular than they were.
Same. Waist monthly was the column I added late and wish I had started with.
one line a week beats a spreadsheet you abandon
Exported the whole thing to a plain text file after nearly losing it in an app that shut down.
export it somewhere you will still be able to read in two years
Correction: those two entries are 10 weeks apart, not consecutive, which changes how the middle of that series reads.
record the dose, the day and one number, that is enough
Agreed that consistent conditions matter more than frequency. Daily weights under varying conditions are noise.
log what you did, not what you meant to do
A log is a record of what you did. It is not a protocol, and posting one as a schedule for other members is a different thing that this board does not do.
Small fix — that is a reconstructed entry rather than a contemporaneous one, and the post presents it as the latter.
What is the one column you added late and wish you had from the start?
Correcting my own log post above: I had the dose recorded wrongly for one fortnight and have amended it.
Contemporaneous records do not drift; reconstructed ones do, and the drift is systematic rather than random because memory smooths.
That is a waist figure in the weight column. Easy mistake and it makes the chart look dramatic.
A log is only interpretable if the conditions are consistent. Same day, same time, same state, same scale — otherwise you are recording measurement variability rather than change.
A log is only interpretable if the conditions are consistent.
hugo_pires is right about blanks. Silent gaps make the series lie.
waist monthly, weight weekly, notes whenever
waist monthly, weight weekly, notes whenever
Disagreeing with this bit: daily weighing gives you noise and costs you something.
the boring logs are the useful ones
Added the Log flair and a date range to the title so it is findable later.
Not convinced by the retrospective reconstruction. Memory smooths things and the smoothing is systematic.
a log with no dates is a story
Careful — posting a log as a schedule for other people to follow is not what this board is for.
Are the missed weeks in there as blanks or dropped entirely?
Are the missed weeks in there as blanks or dropped entirely?
Adding the column everyone adds late — sleep. Start with it.
a log is not a plan and it is not advice for anybody else
Yes — log what happened rather than what you intended. My retrospective entries were quietly wrong every time.
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