UPdATED 23rd March 2025. PUBLIC LIVE DRAFT The following is a sneak-peek draft Answer to a feature Question; for the pending Manuscript entire re-write and rebranding to sufficiently complete. Live-it-forward ~ AW.
So how do I individualise this way-of-eating to my preference, needs or circumstances?
Firstly, the importance of defining “Individualisation”. “Individualisation” in this context of health and optimisation ~ refers to autonomous decision.
By the self – to adjust, or to tinker towards a desired result or intent.
Insights, irrespective guided or through self-discovery ~ helps provide anchors for which we then base our individual decision to act upon. If there is no prior insight, be it metrics, nor anything quantifiable ~ or even holistic subjective experiences which we can draw or infer from ~ then sadly there’d be nothing meaningfully anew .
Any findings or “inputs” is after all better, than nothing at all. So here are two (2) possible ways how we can address our decision making to individualise – our way of eating.
Two (2) possible “routes”.
First is simply looking at the results (biomarkers or nutrigenomics). Then assess their relevance with conditions that which we sense, and feel, day to day.
The first approach is arguably most “intuitive”, and what This Author (AW) resorted, throughout his years of his own scrutiny. Here, we simply reflect on current insights both objective metrics and subjective (surrogate markers ~ feelings of well being, sufficiency, satiety, psyche/composure, and fitness / training sustainability).
- Observe the results. These could be the objective sides – statistics, numbers, bio markers, Nutrigenomics phenotyping, etc.
- Then Reflect ~ upon their impacts. Sleep quality. Nutrition sufficiency / satiation. Psychological composure – emotional and stress handling. Training / fitness ~ sustainability, and recoverability.
Evaluate. Do they “make sense” with our own day to day – motion of living?
If somethings adds up, but not in others ~ scrutinise. Cumulatively, we would have enough evidences to base and inform how we should make changes or alteration on this WOE / Way of eating from there onwards.
Alternatively – a (repurposed) SMART criterion approach is another option. This provides a map of questions, to help us chart our decision.
Here we are slightly rewording the (famous) SMART acronym. More or less similar in their intention in this context of “management” however more towards anchoring our decision to that of nutritional and psychosocial criterias.
- SPECIFIC ~ am I changing this diet or nutrition – to any specific basis or reasoning? Do I have a readily or intuitively ~ specific reason to make this alteration over a period of time?
- MANAGEABLE ~ am I able to manage or maintain this overall plan of prospective changes, overtime?
- ADAPTABLE ~ in turn, am I able to adapt to more unforeseen circumstances, if any that may arise?
- REALISTIC ~ Are these actually doable? Am I confident making and living with – these changes? Can I contain or “damage control” any unwanted events? If so, on the topic of contingents ~ what supplements if any would I need to consider? And;
- TIMELY ~ in retrospect from all prior months (or years) of “dieting” or exclusion / reinclusion experiences – am I comfortable at staying patient?
Conclusion
In all realms of health and wellness, making “changes” is synonoymous with forming an internal rapport, (or “pledge” as one may say) as an exercise in autonomy.
Making “Changes”, irrespective is not one way ticket towards one (1) experience of just positive, without their negatives.
Which ever way or “route” one base their decisions to individualise ~ one thing is certain. Revise. Reflect. Repeat. Unlike machines or objects, us humans, or organisms – there is just no “substitute” to life than making the very best we’re dealt with. Genetics or not – it is only time that we should introspect on what we can do to attain our ownselves, “authenticity” for the lack of word, than be subjected to become ambivalent.
Live-it-forward
AW.