small win: dose history stopped being a problem at week 6
Here it is: small win: dose history stopped being a problem at week 6. One person, one log, no control group, so read it accordingly. 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…
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.
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Agreed that consistent conditions matter more than frequency. Daily weights under varying conditions are noise.
What are you actually recording each week?
retrospective logs drift, contemporaneous ones do not
export it somewhere you will still be able to read in two years