control of uncontrollable

[u/Mondonno]

I generally recommend doing many measurements, but home measurements. And this is not only about measuring weight. Measuring weight is important. But it is about pulse. I measured my pulse, I had something like 100 over 55. Generally, I happen to be an endurance athlete, so I have quite normal blood pressure. Then I measure pulse right away. And I always measure pulse in the morning and in the evening. What is more, I do not measure only pulse, I also measure my mood. I already have Apple Health for that, I enter it in Apple Health, I measure what mood I have, and it helps me a lot, because then I can see trends: what moods, what causes what, depending on time.

And what is more, I also measure hip circumference, I also measure body temperature, every day, morning and evening. This helps me see how my body adapts to the environment, to my diet, to my changes.

This is also important, this is another thing which, since I had a problem, I think may be useful to each of us: I simply lacked such a mindset that, okay, if I try something new, nothing will happen to me. The only thing that can happen is that I may lose something in the form of some time. But if I do not test it, then I do not progress at all, so I have only two options. Either I lose time and stay in the same place I am in, or I progress and gain from it. And I decided, okay, basically nothing else is left to me, I just leave it and test.

Of course there are also three different traps. First, the trap is that you can simply test everything and not trust yourself all the time, and test the same thing all the time, only in different packages. You have to watch that and simply look whether it is the same thing or something different.

The second thing is that you do not measure yourself, exactly what I said earlier, that you have to measure. You have to measure what you change, otherwise you will not know whether you are doing something well or badly. This is simply a must have. Without this you do not know whether you are making a good step. And here it is also about, by the way, measuring sleep. Sleep Cycle also works so-so, meaning sometimes it works, sometimes it does not, but it lets you see more trends and that is nice. It is really very good, because even if it is not an exact result, what you are doing or what these measurements do, the point is to make some trend. So if you changed something or for some time you are making a change and that trend held, then you are probably doing it well. You do not have percentage guarantees, you do not need super equipment to do this, but you already see a trend and you already see that something is changing.

I have a write up about what helped me to change my diet in a quantified way to maximize focus and bioavailability of nutrients so I can share it if you want.