Self tracking
December 19th, 2008 by rbanks
Quantifying myself
“As[...] I track myself – 40 things about my body, mind, and activity – every day. The fact that I do this tracking seems to interest people. [...] I found two interesting trends or patterns in my data, one of which surprised me. The first trend was that my mood went up significantly on days that I did more exercise. My highest mood days were during Tai Chi workshop weekends, when I did 5-6 hours of Tai Chi each day. The second, more surprising one for me was that on days when my mood was down, I ate a lot more – up to 3,170 calories one day instead of my usual average of about 2,050! This suggested to me that I use eating to process emotional upsets, which I always knew subconsciously but had never been forced to face.”
The Quantified Self
