Round 2, Day 43 – Alive Again: Work, Routine, and Fasting Brought Me Back to Me

🛌 Seven hours. No alarm. Just peace.
This morning, I woke up naturally after a full night’s sleep—and it hit me: working again after more than a decade off has changed more than just my schedule.

For years, weekends meant nothing. Public holidays? Just another day. The lines between Monday and Sunday had blurred so much I could barely tell one from the next. And if I’m honest… I wasn’t really living—I was just drifting.

But now? I get it. The rhythm of a workweek has brought back a sense of contrast, of balance. There’s something sacred about Friday afternoons again. There’s meaning in a break after effort. Structure didn’t steal my freedom—it amplified it.

“Too much leisure is a slow death in disguise.”

That might sound harsh. But when the days blur and nothing challenges you to grow, progress gets lost in the fog. Work has put edges back on my life. It gave the rest of the week a reason to matter.

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⚖️ Daily Progress:

Here’s how I’m doing today.

Weight Loss

📅 Date	⚖️ Weight (lbs)	🥅 Goal Status
Weight Goal	176.4 (80.0 kg)	Future Day
8 May 2025	207.2 (94.0 kg)	Worst Day
10 May 2025	203.5 (92.3 kg)	Day 1
16 May 2025	198.2 (89.9 kg)	Week 1
23 May 2025	195.3 (88.6 kg)	Week 2
30 May 2025	192.5 (87.3 kg)	Week 3
6 June 2025	195.1 (88.5 kg)	Week 4
13 June 2025	190.3 (86.3 kg)	Week 5
20 June 2025	191.8 (87.0 kg)	Week 6
21 June 2025	188.9 (85.7 kg)	Today

📉 Today’s Change: -2.9 lb (1.3 kg)
📉 Total Loss (in 43 days): -18.3 lbs (-8.3 kg)
📉 Average Loss Per Day: -0.43 lbs (-0.19 kg)

🔥 Big drop today! But it only brings me back to where I was a week ago. That’s the nature of plateaus—they’re frustrating, but not failures. The real test? I didn’t give up. I fasted, tracked, and stayed disciplined. That’s progress you can’t measure on a scale.

💡 I’ll likely take a break tonight and all day tomorrow—just one and a half days off to reset. I’m also considering testing a new supplement said to aid weight loss (possibly just clever marketing, but worth experimenting with).

Thanks to the solid structure COMAD gives me, I can introduce one variable at a time—and test it with clarity, not chaos.

Blood Pressure (BP)

📅 Date	📉 Best of 3	📈 Worst of 3	📊 Average
BP Goal			120/80
Worst days	134/86	161/88	147.5/87
10 May 25 – Day 1	151/86	168/88	159.5/87
16 May 25 – Wk 1	133/83	150/94	141.5/88.5
23 May 20 – Wk 2	125/86	134/88	129.5/87
30 May 25 – Wk 3	132/79	138/81	135/80
6 Jun 25 – Wk 4	146/85	157/97	151.5/91
13 Jun 25 – Wk 5	133/83	143/81	138/82
20 Jun 25 – Wk 6	132/90	138/87	135/88.5
21 Jun 25 – Day 43	128/79	134/80	131/79.5

💪 Today’s Systolic Change (1st number): -4
💪 Today’s Diastolic Change (2nd number): -9

📍I’m calling it: Fasting is my BP secret weapon.
One food-free day = major drop in numbers. I’m not on meds today, and I still clocked an excellent reading. That’s not coincidence—it’s cause and effect.

Blood Glucose

📅 Date	🍬 Glucose (mmol/L)
Blood Glucose Goal	4.2
23 Apr 2025 – Worst day	7.4
10 May 2025 – Day 1	6.4
17 May 2025 – Week 1	4.4
23 May 2025 – Week 2	5.3
24 May 2025 – Week 3	4.4
6 June 2025 – Week 4	5.2
13 June 2025 – Week 5	3.9
20 June 2025 – Week 6	4.6
21 June 2025 – Day 43	4.2

📊 Today’s Change: -0.4 mmol/L
📊 Days in Normal Range (3.9–5.6 mmol/L): 30 out of 43

I’m well within my healthy range now, and maintaining it easily. And every fast day? My glucose snaps right back to target. That’s proof: this isn’t a fluke—it’s a system that works.

🎯 Reflection: The Power of Intentional Days
You know what surprised me most this week? It wasn’t the numbers. It was the feeling.

This lifestyle—tracking, fasting, showing up—doesn’t just change my body. It restores me. I started feeling like someone I can trust again. Someone who keeps promises to themselves.

And that… that’s the win of a lifetime.

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🔄 This Week’s Wins

✅ I honored my fast—even when it got tough.
✅ I stayed consistent with tracking.
✅ I didn’t chase quick results—I stayed the course.
✅ I slept well, woke early, and didn’t need an alarm as often.
✅ I said “no” to caffeine late in the day (again).
✅ I remembered that every boring piece still matters.

🧩 “The final puzzle piece often looks plain—but without it, the picture is incomplete.”

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See You Tomorrow! 😊

Warmly,
Paul