Daily Habits #

Food #

Schedule #

Breakfast: Avoid grains/beans. Eat a small amount of vegetables with oil. Eat eggs/fish. Don’t eat too much; overeating at breakfast is a good way to derail energy for the rest of the day.
Lunch: eat one, but try to wait until hungry again from breakfast. This could be 5+ hours later. Eat a mixed variety, with more carbs than breakfast. Still avoid grains/beans if possible. Eating only fats/greens (e.g. salad) can lead to low energy and continued hunger.
Dinner: eat only if hungry OR if I worked out in the afternoon/evening. Focus on mainly whole grain carbs, fruit, some legumes, avoid fat and salt! This is to avoid disturbing sleep (I find whole grains make me sleepy, digesting fat/salt keeps me awake).
- Enforcement mechanism: I have a calendar event every day starting at 5:30 that reminds me of this item.

More food notes.

Staple Foods #

See Cooking. Foods here are roughly ranked in the order I consume them.
Raw vegetables and fruits for snacking (apples, cabbage)

Food Reactions #

How I personally react to different foods in 2025.

Animal Products #

Fish: Often make me feel tired/sleepy when digesting. Not great to overeat on. I like to eat regularly for the omega-3s.
Dairy: Makes me gassy and generally not feel great.
Eggs: No issues, although can take longer to digest than other foods; not great to eat them if my next meal will be soon.

Legumes #

Tofu: No issues digesting.
Beans/Chickpeas/Lentils: When I eat these plain, I tend to stay hungry for a while and eat a lot of them. This invariably leads to me feeling very overfull and tired, as they are also hard for me to digest.
Peanut Products: Good in small quantities, but very easy to overdo.
- Peanut Butter: Very easy for me to overeat and feel really bad for many hours afterward as I digest.
- Peanuts: Generally make me feel ok when I eat them.
- Peanut Protein Powder: I tolerate this really well even in higher quantities, making me think that the oil in peanuts is the main thing I react poorly too.

Grains #

Rolled Oats: I love oats and even eat them raw. I don’t have any issues eating/digesting them.
Brown Rice: Good in small quantities, too much can make me feel bloated.
White Rice: Similar to brown rice, but I can eat more of it.

Fruits #

Apples: No issues here!
Bananas: For some reason, eating bananas alone can give me a short-lived headache and seems to mess with my energy.

Vegetables #

Pickled Onions: Upset my stomach. I should avoid them generally.
Cabbage: I love cabbage, and it seems to be very easy for me to digest.
Broccoli: Good in smaller quantities, too much can make me feel bloated.

Nuts/Seeds #

Nut Butters: Very easy for me to overeat and feel really bad for many hours afterward as I digest.
Chia Seeds: I love chia seeds and have no issues eating them.
Almonds: Good, just don’t eat too many.
Walnuts: Good, just don’t eat too many.

Supplements #

I take vitamin D (2000 IU) daily.

I recently stopped taking fish oil after I noticed a pretty minimal impact on my omega-3 index score.
Enforcement mechanism: I have a recurring daily task to take these in the morning.

Exercise #

When using a computer #

I try to move around regularly, via walking around or doing some light physical-therapy-style exercises like https://www.momentumphysicaltherapy.ca/blog/okotoks-physiotherapy-posture-exercises.

Enforcement mechanism: I have a recurring daily task to do this in the afternoon.

Tasks #

All things I need to do should be tracked in a “reminders” task list in Google Tasks with an associated date/time. When that date/time occurs, I should get a notification on my phone. At this point I will immediately either:

Do the task or
Reset the task date/time for when I think I can do it or
Delete the task if it is obselete or
Remove the date/time and move the task to another task list like “Stuff to Try” (this list has hundreds of items for me that most of which I will likely never do).

I should never have any task notifications “sitting around” or any obselete tasks.

One of the reasons why this works so well for me is that I often look down at my phone when I am bored or in between tasks. This is the perfect time to do or reassign tasks; otherwise I would likely just browse Reddit.

This applies for recurring tasks as well: if I get a recurring task that I want to do later, I will mark it as complete, then make a new task with the new name with a different date/time.

Lifelogging #

See more at Lifelogging / What and Why.

Try to write a couple notes of what happened during the day in my momentodb activity journal, which syncs to this Google Sheet. I specifically try to note at least one thing about work, and one other thing.

Enforcement mechanism: I have a recurring daily task to do this.

https://github.com/kovasap/autojournal-on-gas

TODO: try making my own version of https://weeks.ginatrapani.org/ based on my activity log data. It should be possible to do this by writing a script that downloads activity log data from the google sheet with the gdrive command line tool and formats it to the proper format for the weeks website.

This Page #

This page should be kept up to date via a recurring Google task

Categories: Important, Lifestyle Optimizations

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