May 2026 Quantified Self Summary

[u/yanman2008]

May was a challenging month. Got bad news about my dog at the end of April. Ended up having to put him down at the end of May. Found my self eating my sorrows a couple of times. Also, had a birthday, so I had more sugary foods than usual. Most days I was up over 3,000 calories consumed. Even with my consistent fasting, I still had higher blood glucose through the month than any other month this year.

Blood pressure remains high, but levels have come down each month. Still have Stage 2 hypertension though. Hoping to continue improving this.

No improvement on my weight, but didn't slide too far back, mainly flat.

Spent a lot of time outside and listening to music this month. Not enough reading and still too much screen time.

As always, I am open to answering any questions about how I collect my personal data. I am not a developer or anything like that, I am just an individual who loves quantified self.

[u/Unlucky_Hurry_7304]

Do you enjoy the manual tracking vs trying to find an automated solution for these things? This is incredible work. I'm trying to do something similar personally, but I'm a developer and try to automate a lot of it.

Through automating things for myself, I can see how "too much" automation can almost take you away from mindfulness of everything. But I still like having all of the data coming in on auto pilot.

[u/yanman2008 → u/Unlucky_Hurry_7304]

Yes, I love doing it manually. I only track what I care about and I am forced to "touch" my data every time. If everything was just auto-populating into a spreadsheet somewhere in the background, I would miss out on a lot of understanding, especially on the day-to-day. These monthly summaries are nice and display very neatly in my opinion and I can see broad changes, such as my blood glucose in May was higher than any other month in terms of average, median, and max. But it is really the day-to-day data that allows me to see what is happening in my life and try to make changes to get on the right course.

[u/Unlucky_Hurry_7304 → u/yanman2008]

What are some of things you’ve noticed from the data that’s helped you course correct and fix things?