u/ruben_brandt

Are the missed weeks in there as blanks or dropped entirely?

Started buying small deliberately, tested every lot for the first four, then stopped testing every lot because there was nothing to find.

the boring logs are the useful ones

waist monthly, weight weekly, notes whenever

Disagreeing with this bit: daily weighing gives you noise and costs you something.

Not convinced by the retrospective reconstruction. Memory smooths things and the smoothing is systematic.

going up too fast is the most repeated regret on this board

Adding the thing that would have caught it earliest — buy small and test before committing.

Escalating faster than the schedule allows is the most frequently described regret on the site, and the mechanism is straightforward: tolerance is the limiting factor and it does not care about impatience.

Right, and the payoff arrives around month six when a pattern becomes visible that nobody could hold in their head.

Bought small, tested identity first, and only then thought about anything else. That order felt right.

Six orders across two years from SWB. Same packaging, same paperwork, same lead time. The most boring supplier relationship I have and I mean that as praise.

a directory entry is a record, not a recommendation