Observation: I’ve been back home for a little over a week, and my productivity and over all not-bleh declined rapidly.
As of ~36 hours ago, I’ve had the place to myself, and will until around Thursday evening. I’ve had similar breaks over the past couple years, and they’re inevitably the best weeks of the year, but last year at least, there were a couple days of bleh before I managed a productivity burst.
Something I noticed while at WSB, and unable to break out of being mostly nocturnal, is that going several hours after waking without access to food was extremely beneficial in terms of mood and productivity and my ability to stick to good habits for general health. Being back at home, I can eat pretty much whenever I want, so replicating those conditions requires effort when it didn’t previously.
This suggests that a good strategy for when I’m responsible for my own food would be to only buy what I’m going to eat in a given day, but that strategy has plenty of holes (what about days when the weather is awful? What about the increased cost of transportation?). Bleh.
Perhaps you can buy food that requires several hours of advance preparation. Wake up, dump some beans in the slow cooker, and you won’t have easily edible food until lunchtime.
Observation: I’ve been back home for a little over a week, and my productivity and over all not-bleh declined rapidly.
As of ~36 hours ago, I’ve had the place to myself, and will until around Thursday evening. I’ve had similar breaks over the past couple years, and they’re inevitably the best weeks of the year, but last year at least, there were a couple days of bleh before I managed a productivity burst.
Something I noticed while at WSB, and unable to break out of being mostly nocturnal, is that going several hours after waking without access to food was extremely beneficial in terms of mood and productivity and my ability to stick to good habits for general health. Being back at home, I can eat pretty much whenever I want, so replicating those conditions requires effort when it didn’t previously.
This suggests that a good strategy for when I’m responsible for my own food would be to only buy what I’m going to eat in a given day, but that strategy has plenty of holes (what about days when the weather is awful? What about the increased cost of transportation?). Bleh.
Perhaps you can buy food that requires several hours of advance preparation. Wake up, dump some beans in the slow cooker, and you won’t have easily edible food until lunchtime.