How much tracking is too much

How much tracking is too much

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There is a real cost to measuring things, and it is not just time. Tracking closely enough can make a treatment occupy more mental space than it should, and daily weighing in particular has a way of turning ordinary fluctuation into a weekly verdict on yourself.

The test I use is whether a field answers a question I will actually ask. Dose and date, yes, constantly. Vial details, yes, at supply time. Weight, weekly, because that is the frequency at which it means anything. A daily mood score that I will never analyse, no.

Frequency is where most over-tracking lives. Measuring something more often than it changes does not give you more information, it gives you more noise plus more opportunity to react to noise.

If checking the log has started to feel like checking a score, that is a signal to reduce the fields rather than to stop entirely. The dose and date record has a safety function and is worth keeping whatever else goes.

It is also worth setting a rule about when you look. A weekly review at a fixed time is enough for every decision you will make, and it removes the reason to open the thing repeatedly.

A structured dose tracking tool helps here mainly by being boring: fixed fields, quick entry, nothing that invites elaboration. The log should be a record you keep, not a project you maintain.

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