What do you eat for productivity?
I feel like despite a popular believe, sweet things are not really helping your brain. Interesting proposition... I grew up in a health-food family-religious culture and didn't find that it helped me much. In fact later on I found that sweet things really seem to help my productivity sometimes. I went all Warren Buffett on my diet and lost 36% of my body weight by eating meals that were just a handful of chocolate bars, things like that. At a certain level of cutting for extreme weight loss, it's important that food can be reverse-psychology, pouty food if it needs to be. Overall the best thing I do for productivity is prepare my meals (completed projects) in advance. It's a metaphor but that's the most direct path I can draw from food to creativity. I feed on completed-project energy, so I prepare my stages, communications, and techniques in advance and keep them ready in an organizational system. This prevents me from overeating (workaholism) and emotional eating (procrastination). OK my metaphor is breaking now. :-) Chemicals & hydration, ergonomics and own-software though...those seem like another matter and really do seem to help with productivity. I also like veggies while on a cut. I love how much cabbage I can eat. Pickles, cabbage, cauliflower...OK the latter makes me want to hurl these days but I used to eat a LOT of that... How about you? What is really helping your brain these days and what's that feel like? Eating on the same schedule, keeping the same portions and eating 4 times a day helps me. If I miss my window, I can feel my brain shutting down. Also I can't function on low carbs diet, so there's plenty of carbs in mine, but I try to exclude all things with high GI. I also eat plenty of protein rich products, but I don't think it affects my brain in any way. Works pretty good so far for me. I eat nootropics like smarties. I eat nuts. Not sure how healthy they are in large quantity but thats my goto snack between meals. Nothing. Fast til your evening meal.