How to compare a week with different fasting targets

When a week contains different targets, compare each session with its own intended goal and also look at actual duration. A single completion percentage cannot describe both the timing and the ambition of the plan.

Use a worked example

The first two sessions have identical actual durations but different completion results. The third is longer than either, yet still falls below its target.

The actual average is 41 divided by three, or 13 hours and 40 minutes. Target completion is one of three sessions, approximately 33%. Neither figure contradicts the other.

Keep three questions separate

What happened? Read actual start, end and duration.

What was intended? Read the stored target.

Was the routine suitable? A timer cannot answer that clinical or nutritional question.

This separation is particularly useful after changing a preset. A lower completion rate can result from a higher target even when actual timing barely changes.

Correct mistakes, not appearances

Check the target before starting a session or saving a new manual entry. Reset 1.1.0’s existing-session editor preserves the stored target, so an incorrectly selected target needs to be considered when interpreting the result. Correct inaccurate times, but do not change truthful times to compensate for the target.

In any tracking method, assigning every target retrospectively to match the finished duration makes completion uninformative. It no longer tells you whether the original plan fitted the day.

Review the practical pattern

Ask whether the differences relate to late dinners, fixed work breaks or missing entries. Those observations may suggest a simpler recording habit or a timetable worth reconsidering with appropriate advice.

The average-duration guide explains the arithmetic, while the completion guide explains the percentage. Reset displays both because they describe different aspects of the same history, not because one is a score that should always rise.