Weighing-in

[xela]

I only weighed once while I was in the not-a-cast, three weeks ago: I'd put on 3 kg since 6 weeks earlier, before the injury. Hardly surprising, given the enforced inactivity and that I had fallen back into my old habit of eating out of stress and boredom. I slapped myself about some over that, and have made some effort over the past three weeks to not be actively stupid about eating --- but I've hardly been rigorously avoiding carbs.

But when I weighed this morning those 3 kg were gone: I weigh exactly the same now as before the injury. Far better than I could have hoped for. Though it does make for an unwanted bump in my weight plot:

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[yakshaver.livejournal.com]

gnuplot, which is a bletcherous language, but the only thing I was able to find when I went looking for a tool to do this with. I have a python script that parses my weight log and generates the gnuplot script and a data file for the script to read. Here's a version of the script, with y-axis stuff stripped out; the first three lines of the script are responsible for the dates in the x-axis. (It's probably easier to read if you know that the data file format is <iso_date><tab><weight>.)

set timefmt '%Y-%m-%d'
set xdata time
set format x '%Y-%m'
unset grid
unset key
set style line 1 linetype 3 linewidth 1 pointsize 2 pointtype 3
set term png
set output '/tmp/weight.png'
plot '/tmp/weight_xela_1201966148.39.dat' using 1:2 with linespoints ls 1

You can get finer control, in a really ugly way. For another data set, where I've decided I want the x-axis labeled with the monday of every other week, this snippet of python generates the datafile and the xtics variable for the gnuplot script:

for record in table_data:
    gp_datafile.write(f_list2line(record))
    # Label every other Monday
    if i % 14 == 0:
        xtics = '%s"%s" %d, ' % (xtics, f_day_month(record[0]), i)
    i += 1

gp_datafile.close()

(I'm not sure that's enough context to make sense; if you care I'm happy to share that script and the data it's parsing.)