ISSUE #1: HOW I LEARNED TO VIBE CODE MY BODY
As told to Chat. As retold by a Human.
The origin of It’s a Vibe—and a more human future for fitness.
There are two kinds of people in this world. Those that thrive and want what they have. Those that survive and never have enough.
The “fit” in my brand, DAOFitLife, is really about becoming that first type of person.
That type of person manifests when we are the best version of ourselves. Mentally and physically.
Think of how these two different types of people have reacted in the AI evolution. Some are, “I can’t wait to discover how AI can save even more time for me to do X”. Others, the “survivors” are more like, “I feel like AI tools are being force on me” and “I don’t have time to learn anything new”.
Let’s go to the area of fitness, which like every part of our lives, is now part of the AI tapestry. When it comes to the question of, “Do you want to be in the best shape of your life?” hardly anyone would say no to that. But why easily upgrade your internet operating system, your house, your car, your job and your flight class and not upgrade your body?
Technology Can Save Time, It Can’t Invent It
Duh. Because time. The golden handcuffs holding us to the ladder of corporate achievement, they come with a condition: time is always running out.
And while advances in technology, including AI, can do a lot of things, I have yet to see more than 24 hours in a day.
So being your best self can hardly be a full-time job, like those fitness influencers you doomscroll through, flaunting the latest Alo set in the gym or their birds of paradise pose in a sunset silhouette.
Something has to shift. But like most huge shifts, it doesn’t happen overnight, until it does, and then it seemed like it just did. The small things make the shit. Small things don’t compete with time. The shift is possible.
The shift confirmed the principle behind DAOFitLife and Business Class Fitness: fitness has to orient itself around your life. The body is shaped by hundreds of small decisions—salad dressing, coffee creamer, restaurant sauces, office snacks, travel food, bedtime sweets, and portions.
Every conversation I have with people wanting to change themselves is, “I need to go to the gym.” It is actually the last place you need to go, at first.
Exercise is important. But it has only about 10 percent to do with it. It is only part of the training that produces the desired output.
Decision.Action.Outlook.Change.
The DAO—Decison.Action.Outlook.
Decisions are everything. We have about 10,000 decisions a day.
Over time, I became very good at those little things. And putting them into action. And developing a framework for believing anyone could do them.
Decision. Action. Outlook. Fitness around your life. DAOFitLife.
THEN AI ARRIVED
I was creating content about fitness long before AI as we know AI now arrived. But I was also using em dashes, too. I have always though ahead, to what is possible, and what is in the future. It can be an asset, but it can also make me get carried away.
AI has been part of my DAOFitLife journey almost as long as DAOFitLife itself. It arrived about a year after I launched the platform, but by then, I had already spent years developing the ideas, testing the methods, writing the content, and making sense of what actually worked for me.
AI did not create the system. It helped me use it differently.
Over time, I began integrating AI into nearly every part of DAOFitLife—from organizing and refining years of fitness and nutrition knowledge, to developing The Metabolic Architect, my personal AI-supported decision partner for food, appetite, movement, and body maintenance. I also use AI to help assemble the artwork, shape the content, review ideas, and produce the different pieces of this newsletter.
But the judgment, experience, taste, and point of view are still mine.
That distinction matters. I am not handing my life over to a machine or asking AI to tell me who to be. I am using it to make a body of knowledge I spent years building more useful, more responsive, and more personal.
That is what Vibe Code Your Body means to me: taking what you already know about yourself and using AI to help you live it more easily. The human is still the architect. AI just helps bring the blueprint to life.
WHY I STARTED IT’S A VIBE
I started It’s a Vibe: Vibe Code Your Body to show how everyday AI can refine the body you actually live in without surrendering judgment to another app or rigid plan.
The DAO of metrics, which I wrote years ago, all goes back to this. Here is the AI summary and article below:
Lili Kazemi’s “The DAO of Metrics” is essentially the wellness equivalent of a balance sheet.
It applies the discipline of business metrics to personal health: before you can intelligently change your body, nutrition, or habits, you need an honest baseline. That means paying attention to things such as food intake, approximate calorie needs, portions, weight trends, movement, and—at a more advanced level—macronutrients. The original framework teaches the basics of food tracking and argues that wellness goals need KPIs just as businesses do.
Except now you don't need a calculator, app, or other ridiculous plan. I literally just started telling Gemini what I ate in a day and that started a system where I got real time feedback based on a personalized intelligence that knows me, my brand, and my lifestyle. And I turned that into a Metabolic Architect.
The point is not to tell you what to do. It is to show you what I do, because the most useful wellness advice is not another commandment—it is a real system you can see, question, and adapt to your own body and life.
This is the human edge of AI. We are all our own personal operators. Your body is the operating system you inhabit. You bring the history, preferences, intuition, values, and final judgment. AI can hold context and make the next decision clearer.
The point is not to make technology the main character. It is to humanize it—and make the human stronger.
WHAT AI TAUGHT ME THIS WEEK: START LIVING IN THE HOUSE
Stop building the container. Start living in the house.
We are constantly told every problem needs a dedicated container: the perfect gym, meal plan, app, dashboard, schedule, or productivity stack.
But an over-architected life can become another source of friction.
I sometimes spend too much time thinking about the whole house - whatever the house represents. It could be a work project, DAOFitLife content, writing an article, building a website. I start thinking about the paintings on the wall and how they will fit before I even build the house. I get fixated on every step of the container and the plan - and that takes me out of the present moment.
At one point, at one of these iterations of content in Chat, I got frustrated, and knowing Gemini had my imported memory from Chat, presented the vacillating positions on ideas, the different directions I could go in, how it might appeal to an audience, and the packages it could come in. Then Gemini said:
"You have done enough. Stop building the container. Start living in the house." I really vibed with that.
The system should support the vibe, not smother it.
THIS AI LIFE
ChatGPT is where I brain-dump. Gemini is my second set of eyes. Claude helps with final assembly and polish. Midjourney can build the visual world, and Opus can edit a short video.
Different tools, different lanes. I still decide what sounds like me.
And this week’s surprise AI moment?
Wait—did my chat just call me “honey”?
THIS WEEK’S VIBE
Drumroll donuts. Strawberry, vanilla, and chocolate, soft with a chunky glaze. They remind me of Entenmann’s-style donuts but fit more naturally into how I eat now. Sometimes I warm one for a few seconds and dunk it into hot tea.
Get Lean, Lost, and Burning Tea. There are 42 bags in three tins, and can be mixed and matched. The Get Lean is really great with honey in the morning to reduce bloat, and then a combo of get burning and get lost can really keep afternoon slumps at bay and kill afternoon sugar cravings, As soon as I get a craving for a cookie, I make or buy a tea. Here is how AI summarizes my strategy I trained it on:
The Afternoon Slump Shield: The DAOFitLife Strategic Tea Protocol
Status: Certified Core Asset
Timing: Mid-Afternoon ($2:00\text{ PM} - 3:00\text{ PM}$)
Metabolic Target: Cortisol Regulation, Sustained Cognitive Energy, and Appetite Compression
🍵 The Formula & Metrics
- 1 Cup Green Tea (Organic): Brewed hot or served over ice ($0\text{ kcal}$, $0\text{g}$ Protein)
- 1 Teaspoon Raw Organic Honey: ($25\text{ kcal}$, $0\text{g}$ Protein, $\approx 5\text{g}$ Glucose/Fructose)
- Total Raw Intake: $25\text{ kcal}$
- Buffered Intake (+10%): $28\text{ kcal}$
🔍 The Physiology: Why Afternoon Placement is Elite
Pivoting your tea from the morning to the mid-afternoon transition creates three highly specific metabolic advantages:
1. The Cortisol Buffer & L-Theanine Smoothing Curve
Your body's natural cortisol levels spike in the morning to wake you up and naturally begin to drop in the mid-afternoon. At the same time, the central nervous system stimulants from your morning coffee and Ripped Rooster begin to wear off, creating a vulnerability to fatigue and irritability.
- The Mechanism: Green tea is rich in L-Theanine, an amino acid that easily crosses the blood-brain barrier.
- The Result: L-Theanine binds to glutamate receptors in the brain, smoothing out the residual caffeine curve. It shifts your nervous system out of a stressed, sympathetic "fight-or-flight" state and back into a calm, fat-burning, parasympathetic state without causing drowsiness.
2. The Micro-Dose Brain Glucose Drip
When mental fatigue hits around $2:30\text{ PM}$, the brain sends intense, survival-driven hunger signals to demand fast energy (carbohydrates). This is where most people succumb to heavy office snacks, processed carbs, or sugary sodas.
- The Mechanism: Exactly $1\text{ tsp}$ of raw honey provides a minimal, highly controlled $5\text{g}$ dose of natural, fast-acting sugars.
- The Result: This micro-dose of glucose goes straight to your brain, satisfying its immediate fuel needs and shutting down survival cravings. Because the dose is so small and paired with green tea, it does not trigger a significant insulin spike, keeping your body's fat-burning machinery fully active.
3. Catechin-Mediated Satiety (The Dinner Bridge)
Bridging the gap between lunch and dinner without grazing is essential for keeping your daily calories in a tight, active deficit.
- The Mechanism: Green tea contains a high concentration of Epigallocatechin Gallate (EGCG), a potent antioxidant.
- The Result: EGCG inhibits the enzyme that breaks down cholecystokinin (CCK), a gut hormone that signals fullness. By keeping CCK levels elevated, your stomach naturally feels comfortably full and warm, making it effortless to wait for a clean, high-protein evening salad.
The HUM powder I’m testing. In my routine, I use it as one supporting variable when I want help with fullness and food noise—not as the system itself.
This is the beginning of It’s a Vibe: Vibe Code Your Body.
Each issue will take one real body decision, one useful AI assist, and one human judgment—and show what changed outside the chat.
We do not need stronger technology for its own sake.
We need technology that helps create stronger humans.
DAOFitLife. Decision. Action. Outlook.
Smarter Tech. Stronger Humans.
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