A 40-week log with the measurement method stated

On the subject in the title: A 40-week log with the measurement method stated Working notes rather than a conclusion.

Asking about 40-week log directly, because I have read four threads on it and each answered a slightly different question.

The version I want answered is the narrow one: given the method stated below, is the result within what anyone else has seen? I am not asking what it means yet.

Method, numbers and the two assumptions I am aware of making are below. If the assumptions are wrong that is more useful to me than agreement.

Whatever the answer on 40-week log turns out to be, the method for getting there is the same: state the assumption, do the arithmetic in public, invite the correction.

Appreciated. The plain phrasing does more work here than a longer post would.

On the opening post — agreed on the reasoning, with one qualification.

One caution on 40-week log: everything above assumes the underlying documentation is what it claims to be. That assumption is doing real work and is rarely stated.

Weighing daily and reporting weekly is a better protocol than weighing weekly, because it separates the measurement frequency from the reporting frequency.

The short version is the first sentence; the rest is why.

Marking my uncertainty on 40-week log explicitly. I am confident about the direction, much less confident about the size, and not confident at all that it generalises past the case in the first post.

Post #6 is right about the mechanism and I think understates the practical bit.

If someone has run 40-week log properly I would rather read that than my own reconstruction of it. Posting mine only because the thread has gone quiet.

Thank you — that answers what I came here to find out.

Maintenance series are the ones this subcategory needs most and receives least. The interesting questions all change once loss stops.

I would put this at better than even and not much better.

Helpful, and easy to find again, which is half of what a good reply is.

On post #7 — agreed on the reasoning, with one qualification.

On 40-week log: the maintained page in the documentation commons covers the general case with citations and a review date, which is more reliable than any reply here including this one.

This is the sort of exchange that makes the archive worth searching.

A plateau over two weeks is usually measurement. A plateau over two months is usually energy balance. The timescale is what distinguishes them.

Small correction to my own earlier position on 40-week log. I had the units the wrong way round, which changes the conclusion by an order of magnitude and therefore changes it entirely.