current harder: diminish processed sugars

Summary: diminish processed sugars

Current harder is take a look at the stuff i put into my body and to reduce (or eliminate entirely processed sugars).

This is roughly something i've been trying to do ... either poorly or intermittently.

Thus, for me: cutting sugar is hard for me right now.

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Evidence / Proof:

E-1) Check blood sugar

E-2) No snacking between meals + at least 1 hour between meals

E-3) After a month of tracking, either reducing or eliminating the worst offenders

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Supplemental

E-1 I intend to check at the following times:

A - first thing - (roughly) immediately after I get up and before i brush my teeth or eat anything
B - before each meal
C - log my food (high-level - no recipe + no times + no ratios: just rough ingredients)
D - after each meal
E - last thing - (roughly) immediately before I go to bed

Public Tracking for accountability: https://somethingharder.blogspot.com/p/trackersh002.html

E-2

Normally, i don't sit and have a meal and then do stuff - i graze.
It is, thus, easy for meals to merge into one another.
This is simply the notion of giving my body time to respond to the stuff i put into it.

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Presumptive Duration:

This is a 2-month challenge, ending 01 March 2026.

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Noted Challenges:

I also know this is inherently more difficult than it should be due to multiple factors:

* education (i am certain there is stuff i need to learn)
* recognition (being able to recognize what has sugar is hard because companies be sneaky)
* change (i don't personally like being mindful of my intake)

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Disclaimer:

Some of the intent of this goal is to see if actually tracking matters - i'm not convinced it will help because i believe tracking sugars, while not a waste of time, only tracks the consequence or symptom of what is actually wrong - and that reducing the sugars only reduces how often there is a flare-up (or whatever you call my body's response to too much sugar). And that the real fix will be to address the reason why my body is responding this way ... but the simple act of reducing sugar has a wide variety of benefits - so it's worth doing, regardless.

current harder: local mongo

 Summary: purely local mongo

Current harder is getting a trivial local web app working connecting to a local mongo database.

I had previously spun up that part of mongo which allowed you interact with a local database via the CLI.

However, I had issues getting something with an API working - so it wasn't something I could interact with using the fetch API. I did confirm some of my (few) skills interacting with a Mongo database with the cloud offering - but my goal is something that works completely local: no internet access.

Thus, for me: getting mongo to work locally is hard for me right now.

Evidence:

If I can get it working, then my goal is to get it spun up and included in some sort of code that can work as part of a github-pages deployment - at which point I will not only have achieved my goal but have a way to prove it works.

Supplemental:

In the event I do all of the above, it would not be something I'd release as a production tool of any kind for several reasons - in particular becuase it would effectually be an unsecured API with no protection of any kind. But I love the proof of concept.

Presumptive Duration:

I anticipate this may take me two weeks, give take - so i'm giving myself until 01 January 2026.

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Noted Challenges:

* Authentication | When trying to download any of the tools, you need to use an Authenticator-type app. And I haven't set one up for my Mongo account - so I couldn't download it onto an available laptop.

* Tooling | When I tried this earlier this year, I was unable to find/download "mongod.exe" - which meant, although I could run mongo locally via the DOS cli, I couldn't make API calls against that same database.

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Disclaimer:

I might be wrong about all issues - but these are the notes and experiences I have ... hopefully, regardless, i'll make traction and learn something about this tool.