One year of tracking, and only two columns correlate

Today at 12:43 AM 178 views 1 post

Didn't plan a milestone post. I just crossed 371 days of continuous logging and exported the file.

n=1 summary: 14 kg down. The more useful part is what actually tracked. I kept seven fields.

Two of them — protein grams (target around 140) and bedtime consistency, call it plus or minus 30 minutes — line up with the weekly trend. Step count, hydration, mood: noise.

Appetite suppression was real but too variable to use as a progress metric, so I dropped it from the dashboard around month five.

Keeping: daily weights, weekly averages, logging the boring fields even when nothing changes.

Dropping: reacting to a single morning reading after bad sleep.

Last 5 kg are slower than the first 15. Fine. Rate isn't the point; direction is.

Curious whether anyone else's own data has embarrassed their assumptions the way mine did.