Today was the first "real" day of my biohacking experiment, and I think it went pretty well. Of course, the first day is always the easiest...

Breakfast was delicious and filling; lunch too; and dinner finished me off nicely. I got some exercise in; not much, sure, but "some" is more than "none" and it's best to take it easy. I didn't eat too many calories, but didn't feel hungry either (and the exercise just may have burned more than I consumed). I had plenty of water and even tried a cold shower an hour before bed.

There are a few tools I'm using at the moment; I'm sure the list will change with time, but for now I'll stick with the following:

I mentioned Tomboy as my preferred note-taking app; similiarly I've been using red notebook as a 'personal journal' type thing. Journaling is reputably good for your brain, and good for sleep aps you can "unload" the cares of the day into a trusted source -- yep, it's just like "closing the open loops" in GTD-speak, with perhaps a wider scope than just "doing stuff". (Like metathought: thoughts about thoughts. Feelings. Guff.)

For tracking food (and some exercise) I've been using fatsecret and their corresponding Android app Calorie Counter. It's pretty nice, although searching is sometimes slower than I'd like and the barcode scanner doesn't understand many Australian (or UK for that matter) barcodes. The "exercise tracking" is a bit limited, with only a handful of different exercises to choose from, but a good HRM like my Suunto T3 should let me enter custom exercise estimates.

I'm going to try uploading foodie pics to twitpic; not sure how that will go, but if I can do it from my phone then maybe it's a habit I can get into. I haven't decided whether to upload biometrics to Daytum and/or a shared Google Spreadsheet that a friend and fellow experimenter has created. He's also recommended some Android/iPhone apps (such as RunKeeper) -- and I found that the C25K one looks good, once I get around to attempting that.

Other than that, I only have a few pieces of exercise equipment: a skipping rope stolen from my sister; some twisty handley things for pushups; an old exercise-bike; and a pull-up bar that I'm afraid to put up in case it tears the wall down. (Best wait 'til we're in our own place for that.) Oh, and an old-fashioned analogue timer that I use when I want to (e.g.) skip for 5 long minutes, or cycle for 15.

It's a short list, but a good one for now. Once we're in our own place I'll get a few "free weights" (i.e. dumbbells) and a bench, but that should be about it.