Adding the numbers, since they settle part of this. One practical note: write down what you did and when, before you need it. Reconstructing a timeline from memory three months later is how people end up unable to answer the one question that would have resolved it.
Ask again with the specifics and you will get a better answer than this one.
A narrower follow-up, since the general answer is now clear:
What would you measure differently if you were starting again?
raj_cambridge said:One practical note: write down what you did and when, before you need it.
I am going to disagree with the direction of travel here. The thread has converged on the tidiest answer rather than the best-supported one, and those are not the same thing.
Worth separating that from training through weight loss, which this thread keeps folding into the same question. They behave differently and the advice does not transfer.
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Shop Reference Standardsraj_cambridge said:One practical note: write down what you did and when, before you need it.
Agreed on the substance. I would put less weight on the timescale, because two months of anything is not enough to distinguish a trend from a wobble.
Ask again with the specifics and you will get a better answer than this one.
raj_cambridge said:One practical note: write down what you did and when, before you need it.
Thank you for spelling out the reasoning rather than just the conclusion.