Aaron Stroot | astroot.info

With the start of a new year, I decided I wanted to do some data tracking to get a handle on some things as well as be able to quantify them. The first thing that came to mind was tracking my soda intake. I typically drink a soda per day, so I knew it wasn’t going to be pretty. I created a basic Google Docs spreadsheet that I could access anywhere and started entering data on January 1. Doing some data entry once per day wasn’t all that bad and I think I can keep up with it for the entire year.

Now that I have some data to refer to, I can start to make adjustments and set goals. The good news is that I had already started trying to drink diet soda whenever possible, but in practice I am not doing a great job at that. That will be one of my goals throughout the year.

After the first month, here is what the data for January said: