Attempted to improve my health a bit this year and aim for three portions of fruit or veg a day. Here’s how I did. [OC]

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1. Source: [me over the course of the year](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cNzNnW8XzVOn5ZvzbpvCvzKy4vaZjldJXtl5VjpG5so/edit?usp=sharing)

   Tool used: Google sheets 

   The result was an average ~3.1 portions a day with some obvious patterns forming that I could definitely work on, like lower numbers at the weekends or long streaks of zero when I’ve convinced myself it’s ok to ease up because I’m on holiday/celebrating/etc.

   For 2025, I am aiming to hit 4 portions a day and will also be tracking junk food consumption to (hopefully) reduce how much of that I eat.

2. is there a link to the data? what do the numbers mean?

3. I love Fruit. But they are the natures candy ya know?

4. Looks like you did a great job overall. Congrats for staying committed throughout the year!

5. Nice heat map, as a suggestion you should check out https://colorbrewer2.org/#type=sequential&scheme=BuGn&n=3 or look at some other resources on colour theory for data visualisation.

   I’m suggesting because the colour for 2 is more visually similar to numbers above 3, while 3 and 0 look alike which is confusing to look at

6. Did you see any health improvements?

7. Awesome. Have you done any tests or noticed any changes?!

8. cool idea! I will try this in 2025 as well

9. Something very funny about the fact that it took you over a week to actually have some fruit.

10. I am so happy i naturally like to eat apples, pears, bananas, persimmon etc. Just love to snack some over the day.

11. 3, 1, and 0 all kinda look the same. I would suggest changing your colors to differentiate better

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