Eclectic Living
I'm in my fourth month of time-restricted intermittent fasting - primarily eating in a six-hour window between 2 and 8 p.m. Along the way, I've been getting my cholesterol tested (results forthcoming). In addition to intermittent fasting, I've instituted three different diet phases. After the initial whatever/whenever diet (not so good for my cholesterol or... Continue Reading →
A few years ago I embarked on a three-day fast after reading a Harper's article by Steve Hendricks, Starving your way to vigor (sorry, you have to subscribe to Harper's to read it), about the many potential health benefits of fasting. I wrote about my experience on the Mr. Money Mustache blog. It was a fun challenge; enough... Continue Reading →
As an eclectic, I wear many hats. So I've found it useful to keep track of how much time I put into my many projects in a spreadsheet. Some of these projects make me money and some don't. It's nice to have an idea of whether I might be devoting too much time, or not... Continue Reading →
2014 was the year of self-tracking for me. I created a mood tracking spreadsheet (download it for free), to which I also added my data from MyFitnessPal. Now the results are in, and what they reveal will shock you (not so much). The primary purpose of building my mood tracking contraption was to see which variables in my life... Continue Reading →
A note from Poppa: I currently have 31 tabs open in my Google Chrome browser, and another few in Safari. A plurality of these are articles from Science Magazine - when I come across something interesting, or when I'm doing research, I'll keep the tab open until I can incorporate it into a post or otherwise... Continue Reading →
You are not yourself today. In fact, you are not yourself any day. Neither am I. We are collectives of trillions of selves, and most of these selves are not our selves: of the 130 trillion or so cells that make up our bodies, about 30 trillion are human and the other 100 trillion are bacteria,... Continue Reading →
If you'll recall from the timeless post How to Be Happy, one of the steps to achieve happiness is to Be Healthy. As it happens, Poppa's been working on just that (with occasional lapses*). One of the primary barometers of health is girth, of which most of us in the U.S. could stand to lose a little. We... Continue Reading →
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