Once I started to lose weight I also had to start tracking the progression, at the beginning only the weight was recorded, in the past I also tracked food (which I now do but I’ll explain later) but the first few months of this journey I was way too anxious about it so I decided to ignore it and just think about the thing I was eating day by day being the most precise, looking back having a journal could have helped me to have a healthier progression.
I created a simple spreadsheet with the following schema and started to track the weight
| Weight (Kg) | Date | Time | Where | Min | Max |
Min and Max are good indicators to quickly see the progress. The Where column was useful to track where the weight was recorded, every balance is different so I wanted to know if the weight was recorded at home with my balance and or in the hospital where the nutritionist use a different scale. Date and Time are splitted so in case I had to export only the weight and the date it would be faster, in the end like 90% of the use cases I had in mind were never used, Weight and Date were and still are the most important cells.
I also added the following cells
| Until 72Kg | 3.9 |
Useless to say this helps quite a lot to see the goal.