Entry 22.5
Weeks until average life expectancy: 2725 (80th birthday)
Day 487: No Useless Videos
Day 1321: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 1361: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 63: Being in bed before 23:15

3 Things I did well, no matter how small
-Long morning jog
-Making a library card
-Doing one set of cleaning the mold in the kitchen

1 Thing I could do better
- Get out of bed at 6 30, when the alarm clock rang


Sleep documentation for the week
May 17-18 7 30 -15 - 10 - 11 - 15 = 6h 39m
May 18-19 6 24 - 8 - 7 - 3 - 5 - 15 = 5h 56m
May 19-20 9 14 - 10 -10 - 3 = 8h 51m
May 20-21 4 39 - 16 = 4h 23m
May 21-22 7 30 - 15 - 19 = 6 56
3 hrs 45 minutes in between meals at least. Day 10
6 hrs in between meals at least. Day 0 (again long jog.....)

Fell asleep earlier than scheduled - 78
Going to sleep in 1 bulk without falling asleep premmaturely in an unplanned manner - 61

Gaming (Death, Slavery, Regret, Disease) - 5
Yan (Life, Individuality, Freedom, Purpose, Self-Fulfillment) - 497

Entry 23.5
Weeks until average life expectancy: 2725 (80th birthday)
Day 488: No Useless Videos
Day 1322: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 1362: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 64: Being in bed before 23:15

3 Things I did well, no matter how small
-Cleaning the mold in the kitchen once more
-Avoiding peas at dinner
-4 Concentrated units of progress on studies towards the job I aim at

1 Thing I could do better
- Stick to exactly an hour while helping my landlord clean around the house


Sleep documentation for the week
May 17-18 7 30 -15 - 10 - 11 - 15 = 6h 39m
May 18-19 6 24 - 8 - 7 - 3 - 5 - 15 = 5h 56m
May 19-20 9 14 - 10 -10 - 3 = 8h 51m
May 20-21 4 39 - 16 = 4h 23m
May 21-22 7 30 - 15 - 19 = 6h 56m
May 22-23 6 47 - 15 - 13 -7 = 6h 12m
3 hrs 45 minutes in between meals at least. Day 11
6 hrs in between meals at least. Day 1

Fell asleep earlier than scheduled - 79 (Fell asleep on the table for 40 minutes. I've been thinking whether to include it in the red and I decided to indeed do so, because even though I didn't go to bed, it is still falling asleep prematurely)
Going to sleep in 1 bulk without falling asleep premmaturely in an unplanned manner - 61

Gaming (Death, Slavery, Regret, Disease) - 5
Yan (Life, Individuality, Freedom, Purpose, Self-Fulfillment) - 498

Entry 24.5
Weeks until average life expectancy: 2725 (80th birthday)
Day 489: No Useless Videos
Day 1323: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 1363: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 65: Being in bed before 23:15

3 Things I did well, no matter how small
-Cleaning the mold in the kitchen for the third time
-Avoiding peas at dinner the second day in a row. Although I still experienced the eczema symptoms, but they're milder. Maybe the next thing to try to replace is tomatoes with cucumbers, and meanwhile return the peas... Shall decide after tomorrow hopefully
-8 Concentrated units of progress on studies towards the job I aim at

1 Thing I could do better
- Set myself a limit of 10 minutes of being late to the items on schedule and try to stick to it. while documenting all the beginning times


Sleep documentation for the week
May 17-18 7 30 -15 - 10 - 11 - 15 = 6h 39m
May 18-19 6 24 - 8 - 7 - 3 - 5 - 15 = 5h 56m
May 19-20 9 14 - 10 -10 - 3 = 8h 51m
May 20-21 4 39 - 16 = 4h 23m
May 21-22 7 30 - 15 - 19 = 6h 56m
May 22-23 6 47 - 15 - 13 -7 = 6h 12m
May 23-24 48 + 6 54 - 15 - 20 - 10 - 5 = 7h 02m
3 hrs 45 minutes in between meals at least. Day 12
6 hrs in between meals at least. Day 2

Fell asleep earlier than scheduled - 79
Going to sleep in 1 bulk without falling asleep premmaturely in an unplanned manner - 62

Gaming (Death, Slavery, Regret, Disease) - 5
Yan (Life, Individuality, Freedom, Purpose, Self-Fulfillment) - 499

On 5/20/2026 at 10:29 PM, Yan said:

- I guess now is the point to reduce German studies and concentrate more on the long"ish" term job, as was originally planned. I've been delaying it because it's painful to reduce the German studies amount, but it is time. At least until I somewhat settle in. Meanwhile I can keep it on low fire, maybe 15-30 minutes a day, along with maintaining spanish and learning a little bit of arabic. I mean I'm going to come accross German a lot anyway... Especially if I am to read profession literature now, and to deal with the profession I originally planned to deal with

Hey Yan, have you figured out what to do here yet?

My students often ask me: "How did you learn English so well?" To which I only answer with a smile: "I started teaching it 20 hours a week." It takes a long time (months, but more likely years) to get really good at a language. It also depends on the destination where you want to take your skills. I besides my mother tongue and English, I manage some basic Spanish (from high school) and a mix of Russian/Polish. I used to use Duolingo in the past, but it's impossible to learn a language in just 5 or 10 minutes a day, it's just too little...

On 5/24/2026 at 10:32 PM, Yan said:

Sleep documentation for the week
May 17-18 7 30 -15 - 10 - 11 - 15 = 6h 39m
May 18-19 6 24 - 8 - 7 - 3 - 5 - 15 = 5h 56m
May 19-20 9 14 - 10 -10 - 3 = 8h 51m
May 20-21 4 39 - 16 = 4h 23m
May 21-22 7 30 - 15 - 19 = 6h 56m
May 22-23 6 47 - 15 - 13 -7 = 6h 12m
May 23-24 48 + 6 54 - 15 - 20 - 10 - 5 = 7h 02m

Are you OK with sleeping this much/little? I know it's a struggle for some people to manage a balanced sleep schedule.

Entry 25.5 (Written on 26.5)
Weeks until average life expectancy: 2724 (80th birthday)
-Getting two books on the subject of researching my longer term job. One from the library and one ebook online
-Trying out the reduction of peas and how it affects eczema
-Visiting Uber offices to have them change my phone number
-Visiting the consulate to get a signature on closing my bank account abroad.

Day 490: No Useless Videos
Day 1324: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 1364: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 66: Being in bed before 23:15

3 Things I did well, no matter how small
- 5 units of reading the above mentioned book (e-book not from the library)
- afternooon workout
- 20 minutes approximately in the sun

1 Thing I could do better
- Try eating a cucumber instead of the tomato in the evening a few times, to see if the effect is because of the tomato(and return to eating peas)


Sleep documentation for the week
May 17-18 7 30 -15 - 10 - 11 - 15 = 6h 39m
May 18-19 6 24 - 8 - 7 - 3 - 5 - 15 = 5h 56m
May 19-20 9 14 - 10 -10 - 3 = 8h 51m
May 20-21 4 39 - 16 = 4h 23m
May 21-22 7 30 - 15 - 19 = 6h 56m
May 22-23 6 47 - 15 - 13 -7 = 6h 12m
May 23-24 48 + 6 54 - 15 - 20 - 10 - 5 = 7h 02m

Weekly sleep average 42h(2520) +239m=2759/60=6.56 =6h 33m (60x0.56)

May 24-25 2 16 + 5 50 = 8h 6m
3 hrs 45 minutes in between meals at least. Day 133
6 hrs in between meals at least. Day 3

Fell asleep earlier than scheduled - 80
Going to sleep in 1 bulk without falling asleep premmaturely in an unplanned manner - 62

Gaming (Death, Slavery, Regret, Disease) - 5
Yan (Life, Individuality, Freedom, Purpose, Self-Fulfillment) - 500

Note: 22 minutes looking at thumbnails in YouTube of Gaming and entertainment channels after the heavier meal (MrBeast, Tarko, Aaron Robson, Pewdiepie)

Entry 26.5 (Written on 27.5)
Weeks until average life expectancy: 2724 (80th birthday)
Day 491: No Useless Videos
Day 1325: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 1365: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 67: Being in bed before 23:15

3 Things I did well, no matter how small
- Morning 75 percent effort run
- About 50 minutes devoted to re-planning the food plan
- At the very least 3 conc. units of reading the e-Book
1 Thing I could do better
- If I have a game-watching urge after dinner - Do 30 walks up and down the stairs, preferably without clothes so as to sweat as little as I may.


Sleep documentation for the week
May 24-25 7 47 - 20 - 15 - 12 - 3 =6h 57m
May 25-26 2 16 + 5 50 = 8h 6m (Messed up the dates and wrote it in the previous entry as 24-25 accidentally, but it truly was 25-26)
3 hrs 45 minutes in between meals at least. Day 134
6 hrs in between meals at least. Day 0 (Didn't make it by a little bit... Ended eating around 12 15, and began again at around 17 30 - 18 00. What's the lesson? That I could have eaten a bit faster in the morning I guess, I think I could have managed to finish 15 minutes earlier if I would.)

Fell asleep earlier than scheduled - 80
Going to sleep in 1 bulk without falling asleep premmaturely in an unplanned manner - 63

Gaming (Death, Slavery, Regret, Disease) - 5
Yan (Life, Individuality, Freedom, Purpose, Self-Fulfillment) - 501

Note: 35 minutes +- looking at websites of gaming. Directly after finishing dinner once again. I surfed through samp-rp forums, mechs.su, samp-rp onlines, gta v rp onlines, gta sa purchasing options, external dvd rom purchasing options.
WARNING/DANGER: Two days in a row is not something to be taken lightly, that is already a possible beginning of a habit, and such a habit of watching these websites increases the likelihood dramatically of falling into opening a game. If I am to feel this urge again after dinner, the plan is to do 30 walks up and down the stairs, preferably without clothes so as to sweat as little as I may. Then if I still really want I can give in and surf. Although of course it'd be optimal not to, and reduce the volume, but this is the plan for now.

Entry 27.5
Weeks until average life expectancy: 2724 (80th birthday)
Day 492: No Useless Videos
Day 1326: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 1366: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 68: Being in bed before 23:15

3 Things I did well, no matter how small
- Getting out of bed in a timely manner
- Sending an Email to the Immigration authorities
- At the very least 3 conc. units of reading the e-Book once more
1 Thing I could do better
- Stick to the workout timeframe, there's no need to do 9 sets of the harder exercises, unless I write that in in the schedule. At the end of the day I want to accomplish what is written in the schedule, which is supposedly the closest to my long-term values


Sleep documentation for the week
May 24-25 7 47 - 20 - 15 - 12 - 3 =6h 57m
May 25-26 2 16 + 5 50 = 8h 6m
May 26-27 7 23 - 15 - 12 - 11 - 6 = 6h 39m
3 hrs 45 minutes in between meals at least. Day 135
6 hrs in between meals at least. Day 1 (Fast day)

Fell asleep earlier than scheduled - 80
Going to sleep in 1 bulk without falling asleep premmaturely in an unplanned manner - 64

Gaming (Death, Slavery, Regret, Disease) - 5
Yan (Life, Individuality, Freedom, Purpose, Self-Fulfillment) - 502

On 5/26/2026 at 8:38 AM, Ikar said:

Hey Yan, have you figured out what to do here yet?

Yep, after I wrote this I just followed what was written. Got some profession literature and went on with concentrating on it.

On 5/26/2026 at 8:38 AM, Ikar said:

My students often ask me: "How did you learn English so well?" To which I only answer with a smile: "I started teaching it 20 hours a week." It takes a long time (months, but more likely years) to get really good at a language. It also depends on the destination where you want to take your skills. I besides my mother tongue and English, I manage some basic Spanish (from high school) and a mix of Russian/Polish. I used to use Duolingo in the past, but it's impossible to learn a language in just 5 or 10 minutes a day, it's just too little...

I'm not sure I understand what you're alluding to. Is the main point that "it's impossible to learn a language in just 5 or 10 minutes a day"? If so, I agree. But I have now been studying Spanish for 10 years and German for about 8 years. My point is to maintain those languages. Mostly Spanish in the form of changing some of my routine parts to Spanish, since the last 8 months or so I've been doing German "Full time" in preparation for a Goethe Certificate. I also listen to quite some literature in German now, and am physically in Germany. Which means I am more predisposed to using it.
Arabic I do Indeed want to slowly learn(Already learning it to some degree for about a year or so now). As I already have experience with German and Spanish, I do believe that 15-30 minutes a day should bring me to a level where I can maintain a conversation in 1 or two years, so long as I remain consistent

On 5/26/2026 at 8:38 AM, Ikar said:

Are you OK with sleeping this much/little? I know it's a struggle for some people to manage a balanced sleep schedule.

Are you asking if I'm Ideally okay with it in theory, as an ideal? Or how I feel myself as a result, and whether I perform optimally?

3 minutes ago, Yan said:

My point is to maintain those languages.

@Ikar But more than that, there's another main focus I need to take up now. And not be a jack of all trades, which Is why I said I would like to reduce the language learning "a lot". Because It has been taking quite a chunk of my day, but now is time to change focus. And again, since my new focus is in German literature mostly anyway, German progress would likely not "extemely" suffer. Even though it will, of course, once it takes a secondary priority, reduce progress to a degree.

On 5/14/2026 at 12:09 PM, Yan said:

I weighed myself on monday with absolutely no clothes or watches. Net weight 53.8 kg height 174. BMI 17.8 (Underweight) (18.5 is the under limit of normal weight)
So I increased 20g almonds and 22g coconut oil per day.
Besides that tomatoes are allowed to be eaten 1.5 a day instead of 2 to reduce volume
cucumbers 0.5 a day instead of 0.66



Additional changes are to be considered once I go to the store, as today all the shops were closed because of a holiday
Besides that all the foods that I need to "get up to speed" on rollover from last week, because I do not want to lose that many calories.

Edit 16.05 - 11:50 am
I just came back from the store.
-cashews are to be eaten 115g, almonds 80g. If they both run out because I bought a little less then needed, I may then document it here and replace them with a relevant amount of avocados or coconut oil

-Oranges are to be eaten as previously until they run out, then - no replacement is needed
Figs are to be replaced with dates, because there were none at the store.
-Additional changes are allowed in case I forgot something until Thursday afternoon

Edit 17.05 - 08:19 am
1. Apples in the new bag are to be weighed and if they're approximately 100g and not 150, to be eaten a whole one instead of 2/3. (Documentation is to be added when the other bag runs out, probably around the end of the foodplan period)
2. Avocados are to be eaten 1 and 3/5 approximately in bags of small ones and 2 avocados in bags of 5 interchangeably with 1.5 big avocados.
At the end there might not be exactly 1 3/5 left, because I might approximately cut 1.5, in this case the small rest(~0.5) is simply to be eaten on top of the other two.
3. The remaining figs are still interchangeable with dates 1g per 1g. I mean after that just dates, but the remaining ones are interchangeable until they run out.

Edit 25.5 7:52 am Apples are to be eaten one at a time because it weighs around 100g, in contrast to previous 150f as described before.

The small avocados I got mixed up.

So for clarification Im setting an upper limit of 200g This was the idea to begin with ( 1 and 3 fifths of 4 avocados which equal 500g)

Or 2 out of 5 which equaled 500g

Note: The bigger ones are still at a limit of 1.5 (which is equal to 250g approximately) why so? Because when I was talking about the smaller ones I miscalculated it at 200g approximately because of lack of attention, but they were meant to represent the same amount as the 1.5. but since I miscalculated it, I'm leaving it as is.

Edit 25.05 4:14 pm
For clarification purposes - the new apples are to be eaten 1 currently, but for purposes of recovering apples they're to be considered as two thirds

Weight on Monday (25. May) 55.4 kg before pee, 53.3 after pee and then a little afterwards after moving the scale 52.9.
So one way or the other it is underweight. I also highly doubt I peed 2 litters, so the scale must be somewhat off, but the previous measurement was on the same scale, so in comparison to earlier it is probably a decrease (53.8).
Food plan 28.5 - 11.6 not including 11.6
Everything remains the same except for
Apples - In case they run out are to be eaten two thirds again most probably ( I shall measure them and report here whether they're 100g or more and decide accordingly
Tomatoes - are now one per day
Cucumbers - are now a third per day
Brazil nuts - replace 10g cashews
Lentils - after they run out to be cooked 60g a day instead of 100g
Quinoa - after it runs out to be cooked 90g a day instead of 60g
Avocados - 1.5 a day. The smaller ones are to be limited at 250g. Now the "2" avocados I have in the recovery list are equal to 333g roughly in the small ones or just 2 big ones

Additional changes may be documented up to saturday night, in case I forgot something.
After the first party of Lentils and Quinoa, I shall see how I feel and if it is still extremely heavy on me - possibly adjust the quantities.

*All the food that I need to "recover" rolls over from the previous cycle

Edit 29.05 - 08:18 am

Clarification: Lentils reduction and quinoa increase are to be undertaken the same day, so I shall wait until both run out, before rerucing or increasing one or the other accordingly

Edited May 29May 29 by Yan
Edit 29.05 - 08:18 am

19 hours ago, Yan said:

Yep, after I wrote this I just followed what was written. Got some profession literature and went on with concentrating on it.

Great!

19 hours ago, Yan said:

I'm not sure I understand what you're alluding to. Is the main point that "it's impossible to learn a language in just 5 or 10 minutes a day"? If so, I agree. But I have now been studying Spanish for 10 years and German for about 8 years. My point is to maintain those languages. Mostly Spanish in the form of changing some of my routine parts to Spanish, since the last 8 months or so I've been doing German "Full time" in preparation for a Goethe Certificate. I also listen to quite some literature in German now, and am physically in Germany. Which means I am more predisposed to using it.
Arabic I do Indeed want to slowly learn(Already learning it to some degree for about a year or so now). As I already have experience with German and Spanish, I do believe that 15-30 minutes a day should bring me to a level where I can maintain a conversation in 1 or two years, so long as I remain consistent

19 hours ago, Yan said:

@Ikar But more than that, there's another main focus I need to take up now. And not be a jack of all trades, which Is why I said I would like to reduce the language learning "a lot". Because It has been taking quite a chunk of my day, but now is time to change focus. And again, since my new focus is in German literature mostly anyway, German progress would likely not "extemely" suffer. Even though it will, of course, once it takes a secondary priority, reduce progress to a degree.

Sounds good! You're surrounding yourself with the language (German) and that's the correct way to go. I was rather referring to the trend where people study 5-10 minutes a year or two (just through e.g. Duolingo) and then are unpleasantly surprised that they can't say anything besides very basic vocabulary and sentences.

20 hours ago, Yan said:

Are you asking if I'm Ideally okay with it in theory, as an ideal? Or how I feel myself as a result, and whether I perform optimally?

Well, both really, that's why I laid the question in that way :) For example, I sleep about 7 hours and a few minutes on top of that on average, but I'd prefer to be close to 8. Sleep deprivation sucks.

Entry 28.5 (Finished on 29.5 - Only the sleep time. The rest on 28.5)
Weeks until average life expectancy: 2724 (80th birthday)
Day 493: No Useless Videos
Day 1327: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 1367: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 69: Being in bed before 23:15

3 Things I did well, no matter how small
- Morning jog
- Completing a 41 hour-ish fast
- Sending in my yearly tax report to the tax authorities
1 Thing I could do better
- Pre-plan the way I should pack things, as I planned the daily schedule the day before. It is the biggest time sucker when purchasing groceries apparently, or at least one of the biggest.


Sleep documentation for the week
May 24-25 7 47 - 20 - 15 - 12 - 3 =6h 57m
May 25-26 2 16 + 5 50 = 8h 6m
May 26-27 7 23 - 15 - 12 - 11 - 6 = 6h 39m
May 27-28 6 03 - 15 - 11 - 4 = 5h 33m
3 hrs 45 minutes in between meals at least. Day 136
6 hrs in between meals at least. Day 0 (Came back home late again

Fell asleep earlier than scheduled - 80
Going to sleep in 1 bulk without falling asleep premmaturely in an unplanned manner - 65

Gaming (Death, Slavery, Regret, Disease) - 5
Yan (Life, Individuality, Freedom, Purpose, Self-Fulfillment) - 503

Entry 29.5
Weeks until average life expectancy: 2724 (80th birthday)
Day 494: No Useless Videos
Day 1328: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 1367: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 70: Being in bed before 23:15

3 Things I did well, no matter how small
- Afternoon workout
- 6 Units of book reading
- 30 times going up and down the stairs when started feeling eczema symptoms. It didn't magically go away, but I think it eventually helped me avoid diving into reading about gaming. At least for today
1 Thing I could do better
- Redirect my payments to the national insurance from my bank directly and cancel the credit card


Sleep documentation for the week
May 24-25 7 47 - 20 - 15 - 12 - 3 =6h 57m
May 25-26 2 16 + 5 50 = 8h 6m
May 26-27 7 23 - 15 - 12 - 11 - 6 = 6h 39m
May 27-28 6 03 - 15 - 11 - 4 = 5h 33m
May 28-29 1 12 + 7 10 - 10 - 10 - 7 = 1 05+6 50= 7h 55m
3 hrs 45 minutes in between meals at least. Day 137
6 hrs in between meals at least. Day 1

Fell asleep earlier than scheduled - 80
Going to sleep in 1 bulk without falling asleep premmaturely in an unplanned manner - 66

Gaming (Death, Slavery, Regret, Disease) - 5
Yan (Life, Individuality, Freedom, Purpose, Self-Fulfillment) - 504

Free text: Gaming thoughts came after dinner, but I somehow managed to overcome them by going up and down the stairs and then learning in Memrise for 30 or 40 minutes. I am pretty sure it is just because the meal volume is too large, although in the morning it is larger... Maybe the reason is the time of the day... Or maybe it is the chlorella...

On 5/28/2026 at 5:29 PM, Ikar said:

Sounds good! You're surrounding yourself with the language (German) and that's the correct way to go. I was rather referring to the trend where people study 5-10 minutes a year or two (just through e.g. Duolingo) and then are unpleasantly surprised that they can't say anything besides very basic vocabulary and sentences.

I guess it depends on the performance. If you can fit 5 Duolingo lessons in 10 minutes a day. That is enough to be able to speak somewhat, it will just take longer than otherwise often, because I guess the more you do in one session, the deeper you go, sort of in an exponential manner. Although I'm not completely sure about where the top and bottom limits where the curve starts and stops being exponential... Let me know if that makes sense.

On 5/28/2026 at 5:29 PM, Ikar said:

Well, both really, that's why I laid the question in that way :) For example, I sleep about 7 hours and a few minutes on top of that on average, but I'd prefer to be close to 8. Sleep deprivation sucks.

I guess after listening to "The Sleep Revolution" by Ariana Huffington about 6 years ago I started believing 8 hours were the needed amount. Nevertheless I discount 15 minutes from the time I close my eyes supposing it is the time it takes to fall asleep and usually at least 2 pauses of 10 minutes at night for peeing and water drinking, sometimes 3.
So even If there were 8 hours from the moment I closed my eyes and until the moment I woke up, it could easily end up in 7h 25m or 7h 15m, or more if I drink water aswell and move slowly.

In any case I do not feel sleep deprived, as far as I'm aware, mostly. If I do sleep 4 hours or have a day where I plan to not sleep for some 20 hours straight, I try to plan in a nap, or compensate the next day. But one such day really doesn't have such consequences on the feeling throughout the day as far as I noticed. The problem is when it repeats itself.

Having 6.5 + hrs a few days in a row also doesn't cause me much drowsiness...

If you have any more specific questions, feel free to fire away.

8 hours ago, Yan said:

I guess it depends on the performance. If you can fit 5 Duolingo lessons in 10 minutes a day. That is enough to be able to speak somewhat, it will just take longer than otherwise often, because I guess the more you do in one session, the deeper you go, sort of in an exponential manner. Although I'm not completely sure about where the top and bottom limits where the curve starts and stops being exponential... Let me know if that makes sense.

That's the thing, it's about being consistent, but I don't know if it's reasonable and realistic to expect that from most people. If I took your example of spending 50 minutes (I'll make it an hour) per day on an activity, then besides basic biological functions (sleep, food), I can say I consistently do only walking, working, various type of exercise (workout, running, gym, hiking cycling all lumped together). And it makes sense, because there isn't much more time during the average day. Sleep 8, food 2, walking 1, working 5, exercise 2... I'm at 18 hours and I haven't even mentioned hobbies, my girlfriend or hygiene. And those are things that are important too :D

8 hours ago, Yan said:

I guess after listening to "The Sleep Revolution" by Ariana Huffington about 6 years ago I started believing 8 hours were the needed amount. Nevertheless I discount 15 minutes from the time I close my eyes supposing it is the time it takes to fall asleep and usually at least 2 pauses of 10 minutes at night for peeing and water drinking, sometimes 3.
So even If there were 8 hours from the moment I closed my eyes and until the moment I woke up, it could easily end up in 7h 25m or 7h 15m, or more if I drink water aswell and move slowly.

In any case I do not feel sleep deprived, as far as I'm aware, mostly. If I do sleep 4 hours or have a day where I plan to not sleep for some 20 hours straight, I try to plan in a nap, or compensate the next day. But one such day really doesn't have such consequences on the feeling throughout the day as far as I noticed. The problem is when it repeats itself.

Having 6.5 + hrs a few days in a row also doesn't cause me much drowsiness...

If you have any more specific questions, feel free to fire away.

Ah, I see, so you probably have an "extra" hour of "sleep" as most people would understand it. I read somewhere you can get used to not having enough sleep over long periods of time. (Basically in the same way we used to play games for hours on end without finding it abnormal.) Though the main thing is whether you feel good during the day which it seems you do :)

Entry 30.5
Weeks until average life expectancy: 2724 (80th birthday)
Day 495: No Useless Videos
Day 1329: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 1368: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 71: Being in bed before 23:15

3 Things I did well, no matter how small
- Afternoon workout
- Recovering morning routines of previous days (except for 1 meditation thatI need to get up to speed on)
- 30 times going up and down the stairs once more
1 Thing I could do better
- Avoid setting any expectations from the fridge prospect for a sale. Until it doesn't happen it doesn't happen. Period. The same about any other thing in life.

Sleep documentation for the week
May 24-25 7 47 - 20 - 15 - 12 - 3 =6h 57m
May 25-26 2 16 + 5 50 = 8h 6m
May 26-27 7 23 - 15 - 12 - 11 - 6 = 6h 39m
May 27-28 6 03 - 15 - 11 - 4 = 5h 33m
May 28-29 1 12 + 7 10 - 10 - 10 - 7 = 1 05+6 50= 7h 55m
May 29-30 7 08 - 15 - 15 - 11 - 11 = 6h 16m
3 hrs 45 minutes in between meals at least. Day 138
6 hrs in between meals at least. Day 2

Fell asleep earlier than scheduled - 80
Going to sleep in 1 bulk without falling asleep premmaturely in an unplanned manner - 67

Gaming (Death, Slavery, Regret, Disease) - 5
Yan (Life, Individuality, Freedom, Purpose, Self-Fulfillment) - 505

Free text: Today as I got my expectations regarding the fridge not met, I went on to binge on all the "surplus" of food, that I had accumulated for some time now. Well not all of it, but much of it.
This was a move of lack of discipline. I even ate some sal which I didn't for maybe a million years or so.
Though I do remember I had a rule back when starting the food plan, that water and salt are free. However, things changed since then, and I no longer want to eat salt as of now. If this happens once more, I'll need to throw out the salt we have.

14 hours ago, Ikar said:

That's the thing, it's about being consistent, but I don't know if it's reasonable and realistic to expect that from most people. If I took your example of spending 50 minutes (I'll make it an hour) per day on an activity, then besides basic biological functions (sleep, food), I can say I consistently do only walking, working, various type of exercise (workout, running, gym, hiking cycling all lumped together). And it makes sense, because there isn't much more time during the average day. Sleep 8, food 2, walking 1, working 5, exercise 2... I'm at 18 hours and I haven't even mentioned hobbies, my girlfriend or hygiene. And those are things that are important too :D

I actually meant 5 duolingo lessons of two minutes each. In 50 minutes I guess you could complete 25 lessons if you're on turbo mode. ;) Probably not however. It's like a sprint. Sprints are for shorter distances usually. (At least the 95-100% ones. Somewhere around 80 to 85% I guess is also manageable for longer distances if you train yourself long. I guess not so much for 95-100. Although never say never.

Regarding your day hour spending estimates: Some people also work 8 hours.

Besides all that I think one can devote 1 hour, 2, 3 or 12. Maybe even 14-15 on some days. Maybe even more if you're inclined to sleep less. It is all a matter of what is the price you're willing to pay, and what is your main purpose. In fact, the most successful people so far as I can see, are the ones that are willing to sacrifice all else, and devote themselves completely to one thing, leaving absolutely everything else at a minimum, and doing that for years. That is what is required, but of course, most people won't do that. That is why most people are average. The extent we do it with usually correlates with their amount of mediocrity(stagnation)(I say stagnation because that is what happens when we try to go in all directions at the same time)/performance I guess :)

It is really the most reasonable thing to do, and the most effective one. (I mean to give most of the things up) But we keep telling ourselves some dumb, unreasonable, unobjective s***, to avoid changing habits, or losing the knowledge we gathered in some areas or "insert excuse ______" Myself included of course to some extent(We are all on the spectrum there)

14 hours ago, Ikar said:

I read somewhere you can get used to not having enough sleep over long periods of time. (Basically in the same way we used to play games for hours on end without finding it abnormal.)

Getting used to something, or not feeling that it's abnormal doesn't mean of course that it is healthy :)

It is hard to really say how it affects health.

But I guess you are probably right that in a certain amount the body does reduce the requirement for sleep, when it's a little bit less than the "perfect optimal", so like on 7-6.5 hrs it can still compensate with some hormones which build longer term dealing mechanisms with the temporary lack of sleep somehow... However I don't think it will work on 4 hrs. It is also a question whether it will on 6.5 - 7 hours. I guess both are possible, but I find the 7-6.5 hrs intuitively more likely to be possible.

Entry 31.5 (Only "Free Text" added on 1.6, the rest written on 31.5)
Weeks until average life expectancy: 2724 (80th birthday)
Day 496: No Useless Videos
Day 1330: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 1369: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 72: Being in bed before 23:15

3 Things I did well, no matter how small
- 75% effort long run
- Surfing the urge and 30 times going up and down the stairs once more
- Nap
1 Thing I could do better
- Make less thoughts about whether to cancel the card or not and just do it. It is supposed to expire next month anyway.

Sleep documentation for the week
May 24-25 7 47 - 20 - 15 - 12 - 3 =6h 57m
May 25-26 2 16 + 5 50 = 8h 6m
May 26-27 7 23 - 15 - 12 - 11 - 6 = 6h 39m
May 27-28 6 03 - 15 - 11 - 4 = 5h 33m
May 28-29 1 12 + 7 10 - 10 - 10 - 7 = 1 05+6 50= 7h 55m
May 29-30 7 08 - 15 - 15 - 11 - 11 = 6h 16m
May 30-31 4 55 - 15 - 15 = 4h 25m
3 hrs 45 minutes in between meals at least. Day 139
6 hrs in between meals at least. Day 3

Fell asleep earlier than scheduled - 80
Going to sleep in 1 bulk without falling asleep premmaturely in an unplanned manner - 68

Gaming (Death, Slavery, Regret, Disease) - 5
Yan (Life, Individuality, Freedom, Purpose, Self-Fulfillment) - 506

Free text: A result of dwelling so long on the card is the suffering of the amount of progress on my longer term profession studies. Take that into account possibly in the "1 thing better" entry of tomorrow

10 hours ago, Yan said:

I actually meant 5 duolingo lessons of two minutes each. In 50 minutes I guess you could complete 25 lessons if you're on turbo mode. ;) Probably not however. It's like a sprint. Sprints are for shorter distances usually. (At least the 95-100% ones. Somewhere around 80 to 85% I guess is also manageable for longer distances if you train yourself long. I guess not so much for 95-100. Although never say never.

Regarding your day hour spending estimates: Some people also work 8 hours.

Besides all that I think one can devote 1 hour, 2, 3 or 12. Maybe even 14-15 on some days. Maybe even more if you're inclined to sleep less. It is all a matter of what is the price you're willing to pay, and what is your main purpose. In fact, the most successful people so far as I can see, are the ones that are willing to sacrifice all else, and devote themselves completely to one thing, leaving absolutely everything else at a minimum, and doing that for years. That is what is required, but of course, most people won't do that. That is why most people are average. The extent we do it with usually correlates with their amount of mediocrity(stagnation)(I say stagnation because that is what happens when we try to go in all directions at the same time)/performance I guess :)

It is really the most reasonable thing to do, and the most effective one. (I mean to give most of the things up) But we keep telling ourselves some dumb, unreasonable, unobjective s***, to avoid changing habits, or losing the knowledge we gathered in some areas or "insert excuse ______" Myself included of course to some extent(We are all on the spectrum there)

You're correct that the right question to ask is "What do I want to give up?" Everybody's answer will be different. I think I also prefer quality over quantity (in the total number of things I'm involved in). Tough I think I have it in the back of my mind to not narrow it down too much, as I remember how it was with gaming, when I had no life outside of it.

(Just a clarification - I had these estimates averaged out during the whole week. So, I don't exercise for 2 hours every day of the week, but weekend rides and hikes add up. Same principle with my work, but inverted. I'd also argue that many people don't spend 8 hours working, but 8 hours in the office, but that's another discussion :))

Entry 1.6
Weeks until average life expectancy: 2723 (80th birthday)
A few highlights that come top of mind:
-Progress towards a short term job(Sending in two applications, I believe the one to Wolt was this week, I'm pretty sure it was. The one to Uber definitely was however.)
-Finally handing in a financial report
-Progress on health insurance as a part of finding a short term job
-Changing up the meal plan to try more quinoa
-Continuing to learn toward the mid-term "sales" direction, although it is significantly reduced because of all the surrounding tasks, and a separation of focus(possibly should restrict myself to just emails, but I feel the floor is on fire as I already want to start earning some sort of money, not to find myself at a point of money deficiencies for later possible studies for the mid term job)
Day 497: No Useless Videos
Day 1331: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 1370: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 73: Being in bed before 23:15

3 Things I did well, no matter how small
- Afternoon workout
- Surfing the urge and 30 times going up and down the stairs once more
- 8 Units of learning towards a longer term occupation
1 Thing I could do better
- Before starting any chat with any customer service representative, ever, always ask for an email first if there is any, and save myself a million years of time. I chatted for more than an hour with an audible representative, just to have them tell me, well "yeah, this is not really a promotion, just a bug, sorry" if I would have wrote them an email it would have taken maybe 10 minutes to write and 5 minutes more to read the answer later. If they had one... Maybe they do in fact... I just didn't ask

Sleep documentation for the week
May 24-25 7 47 - 20 - 15 - 12 - 3 =6h 57m
May 25-26 2 16 + 5 50 = 8h 6m
May 26-27 7 23 - 15 - 12 - 11 - 6 = 6h 39m
May 27-28 6 03 - 15 - 11 - 4 = 5h 33m
May 28-29 1 12 + 7 10 - 10 - 10 - 7 = 1 05+6 50= 7h 55m
May 29-30 7 08 - 15 - 15 - 11 - 11 = 6h 16m
May 30-31 4 55 - 15 - 15 = 4h 25m
Weekly average 42+231. 2520+231=2751. 2751/60/7=6.55. 60x0.55=33 6h 33m
May 31-June 1 1 09 + 7 13 - 15 - 10 - 10 = 8 24- 35 = 7h 49m
3 hrs 45 minutes in between meals at least. Day 140
6 hrs in between meals at least. Day 4

Fell asleep earlier than scheduled - 80
Going to sleep in 1 bulk without falling asleep premmaturely in an unplanned manner - 69

Gaming (Death, Slavery, Regret, Disease) - 5
Yan (Life, Individuality, Freedom, Purpose, Self-Fulfillment) - 507

Free text: Should still consider yesterdays Free text in tomorrows entry

Entry 2.6 (Written on 3.6)
Weeks until average life expectancy: 2723 (80th birthday)
Day 498: No Useless Videos
Day 1332: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 1371: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 74: Being in bed before 23:15

3 Things I did well, no matter how small
- morning jog
- Keeping going up and downstairs when sleepiness sets in
- 8 Units of learning towards a longer term occupation
1 Thing I could do better
- Stick to the timeframes written in the schedule, instead of cleaning the trash cans for half an hour instead of the planned 10 minutes
Sleep documentation for the week
May 31-June 1 1 09 + 7 13 - 15 - 10 - 10 = 8 24- 35 = 7h 49m
June 1-2 6 22 - 15 -13 - 1 = 5h 51m
3 hrs 45 minutes in between meals at least. Day 141
6 hrs in between meals at least. Day 0 [I've let myself off th hook, at at a leisurely pace and finished at around 12 15... If I would have eaten a bit faster I would have managed it... Why didn't I? (To be researched/investigated) ]

Fell asleep earlier than scheduled - 80
Going to sleep in 1 bulk without falling asleep premmaturely in an unplanned manner - 70

Gaming (Death, Slavery, Regret, Disease) - 5
Yan (Life, Individuality, Freedom, Purpose, Self-Fulfillment) - 508

Free text: Should still consider the text of the day before yesterday in tomorrows or after tomorrow's entry(I mean already today or tomorrow as I am writing this post, because I'm writing it at 3.6.)

Entry 3.6
Weeks until average life expectancy: 2723 (80th birthday)
Day 499: No Useless Videos
Day 1333: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 1372: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 75: Being in bed before 23:15

3 Things I did well, no matter how small
- Renewal of my staying permit in Germany in a pretty sudden manner.
- 75% effort run
- 6 Units of learning towards a longer term occupation
1 Thing I could do better
- Give sufficient time in the timeplan for writing an Email to my bank. Otherwise I'm losing trust with myself when I go over that limit. That is also the "1 thing better" that I think should be written in regards to the notes at the bottom of the posts in the last few days
Sleep documentation for the week
May 31-June 1 1 09 + 7 13 - 15 - 10 - 10 = 8 24- 35 = 7h 49m
June 1-2 6 22 - 15 -13 - 1 = 5h 51m
June 2-3 7 32 - 15 - 9 -7 -4 = 6h 57m
3 hrs 45 minutes in between meals at least. Day 142
6 hrs in between meals at least. Day 1 (fast day)

Fell asleep earlier than scheduled - 80
Going to sleep in 1 bulk without falling asleep premmaturely in an unplanned manner - 71

Gaming (Death, Slavery, Regret, Disease) - 5
Yan (Life, Individuality, Freedom, Purpose, Self-Fulfillment) - 509

On 6/1/2026 at 9:34 AM, Ikar said:

Tough I think I have it in the back of my mind to not narrow it down too much, as I remember how it was with gaming, when I had no life outside of it.

I think gaming is not the same as devoting yourself completely to what you see as your life's purpose.

Though in both cases you give everything else up, but with gaming you were giving your arguably life's purpose to the extent you were occupying yourself with it. Whereas when you'd do it in the direction of your life's purpose, say like Elon Musk, to make human settlements on mars, you'd be feeling that the pain of avoiding everything else is more than justified, so I assume.

On 6/1/2026 at 9:34 AM, Ikar said:

(Just a clarification - I had these estimates averaged out during the whole week. So, I don't exercise for 2 hours every day of the week, but weekend rides and hikes add up. Same principle with my work, but inverted.

Thanks for the clarification

On 6/1/2026 at 9:34 AM, Ikar said:

I'd also argue that many people don't spend 8 hours working, but 8 hours in the office, but that's another discussion :))

What I was trying to say here originally, is that our chosen timeplanning in which we are used to complete things (our time allocation) is not at all obvious. It doesn't have to be 8 hours or 5 hours of "working"
People can go for years without working out and probably weeks without food.

The key is to remember that none of those things must be as they are, and most probably could be improved quite a lot, unless you're not Thomas Edison, Barrack Obama, Nicola Tesla, Elon Musk etc. etc. Those guys definitely can/could(the deceased ones) improve their schedules, but they already had quite a bit to show for their work, because of their overreaching focus on a certain subject.

On 6/1/2026 at 9:34 AM, Ikar said:

You're correct that the right question to ask is "What do I want to give up?" Everybody's answer will be different. I think I also prefer quality over quantity (in the total number of things I'm involved in).

Yep, as painful as it is, the more things we get involved in, the less effective we become in each.

It's a bit like the guy who got on the horse and galloped in all directions. (Hint: he didn't. Because when you gallop in all directions, you actually gallop in no direction and just stay still =| )

17 hours ago, Yan said:

I think gaming is not the same as devoting yourself completely to what you see as your life's purpose.

Though in both cases you give everything else up, but with gaming you were giving your arguably life's purpose to the extent you were occupying yourself with it.

Well yeah, that's the thing. My purpose is what I do. My purpose was what I did. We can today argue whether "gaming" was a good purpose for me back then, but it was my purpose back then. A few years ago, I decided to change my purpose and started doing other things.

17 hours ago, Yan said:

Whereas when you'd do it in the direction of your life's purpose, say like Elon Musk, to make human settlements on mars, you'd be feeling that the pain of avoiding everything else is more than justified, so I assume.

I mean, again giving myself as an example, I think I had a purpose of "gaming" attached to me since being (let's say) 10, but unknowingly and without being able to really choose. If anything, for a long time, I was unable to change my purpose from "gaming" to branch out to something else. But we don't need to get hung up on wordplay and philosophical details 😅

17 hours ago, Yan said:

The key is to remember that none of those things must be as they are, and most probably could be improved quite a lot, unless you're not Thomas Edison, Barrack Obama, Nicola Tesla, Elon Musk etc. etc. Those guys definitely can/could(the deceased ones) improve their schedules, but they already had quite a bit to show for their work, because of their overreaching focus on a certain subject.

You're right. I think they were all hyper-effective and organized. I also think it's worth noting that they got lucky. They were at the right place at the right time. There have been dozens of Edisons, hundreds of Obamas and thousands of Musks that we've never heard of, because the competition at the top is brutal :)

17 hours ago, Yan said:

Yep, as painful as it is, the more things we get involved in, the less effective we become in each.

It's a bit like the guy who got on the horse and galloped in all directions. (Hint: he didn't. Because when you gallop in all directions, you actually gallop in no direction and just stay still =| )

Agreed 😄