Author Archives: Neil Milligan
Same Weight Again? Not Stuck
Day 24. Weight: 13 stone 7. Again. I keep bouncing back to this exact number [...]
Woke at 5:15am Starving: What Sleep Debt Does to Fasting
Day 23: When Your Body Wakes You Up Demanding Food Here’s what’s odd about fasting [...]
10 Days Same Weight, Still Shrinking
Day 22. I stood in front of the mirror this morning — neck tighter, waist [...]
Always Hungry? Not Anymore: The Metabolic Fuel Switch
The Day I Stopped Being Controlled by Hunger Day 21. Three weeks into The Rhythm [...]
Always Want It? Not Anymore: Permission Without Need
The Ice Cream Test: When Permission Becomes Enough Day 20. I bought ice cream on [...]
Weight Up? Not Worried
The Scale Went Up — And I’m Not Panicking Day 19. Woke at 6:30am after [...]
One Night, Six Days Broken: The Sugar Reset Timeline
The Cost of One Night One evening. Cake, chocolate, wine. Six days to feel normal [...]
Sugar Cravings? 5 Days Later.
The Five-Day Echo One afternoon of biscuits and cake. Five days later, I’m still thinking [...]
Ate Fat, Glucose Spiked? Body Repair Logic
When the Numbers Don’t Make Sense Day 16. I broke a 26-hour fast with pure [...]
One Cheat Day, 72 Hours Regret
When Saturday’s Sugar Hijacks Monday’s Fast Twenty-six hours into a fast. Freezing cold. Irritable. Staring [...]
Weight Up? Don’t Panic (Reset After Travel)
The Scale Went Up — And I Didn’t Spiral 13 stone 9. Up from where [...]
23 Hours Awake → Midnight Burger: Empty Tank Emergency Fuel
When the Motorway Wins Day 13. Saturday. Cheat day. Twenty-three hours without sleep. Five hundred [...]
Exhausted? Body Still Works (Sleep Resilience Discovery)
When Everything Should’ve Fallen Apart (But Didn’t) Four and a half hours sleep. That’s all [...]
Bad Sleep → Good Day: Metabolic Flexibility Active
When Your Body Runs Clean, It Handles Deficit Better Five and a half hours sleep. [...]
100 Squats with 28 Kilos: My Former Weight
Carrying What You Used to Be I strapped 28 kilos to my back this morning [...]
42 Hours? Switch Flipped: What Happens at the Fuel Mode Transition
The 42-Hour Myth vs Reality Everyone says you need three days to get into deep [...]
Body Repair? 26 Hours
Everyone talks about autophagy like it’s some magic switch. Forty-eight hours. Seventy-two. That’s when the [...]
The Swap That Stuck
Everyone thinks you quit bad foods by sheer willpower. I’ve got a better idea — [...]
Always Hungry? Not Anymore: Day 6 Fuel Switch
When Your Body Stops Taking Orders from Hunger Two hours to eat. Planned four. Body [...]
Wake Up Tired? Night Crew Issue
When Sleep Breaks, Everything Gets Harder Four hours of sleep last night. That’s all it [...]
You Can’t Eat Your Way Out of Stress
The Awareness Gap I ate an entire family bag of crisps yesterday. Not because I [...]