>- Eat a balanced diet >- Cut back on processed sugar >- Cut back on caffeine (or completely stop) --- Not everyone processes food the same, even normally f

>- Eat a balanced diet >- Cut back on processed sugar >- Cut back on caffeine (or completely stop) --- Not everyone processes food the same, even normally functioning bodies will have different responses to the same foods. Absolutely you should target healthy food and I would discourage anyone from eating cheeseburgers every day, but if salad makes you feel like crap: don't eat salad. There is no one most optimal way to eat. You need to learn and feed your body what it needs (and occasionally wants). Your productivity will (probably) not plummet because you caved and ate a cheeseburger for lunch. Neither will productivity cave because you had a bottle of Coke. I've been wearing a continuous glucose monitor (not diabetic, just curious) for the past few weeks and I've noted that some "healthy" meals are actually worse blood sugar wise than "bad" meals. McD's cheeseburger: pretty steady blood sugar. Small bowl of granola (not the shitty sugary kind): stupid huge spike.