Author Archives: Neil Milligan
I Fasted 21 Days and Still Overate (What Broke)
Twenty-one days of water fasting. Completed it. Felt incredible. Day twenty-two, I broke the fast. [...]
3.5 Hours Sleep Destroyed My Entire Fast
Day fifty-seven of my seventy-day Rhythm Reset. I woke up absolutely knackered after 3.5 hours [...]
One Fake Christmas Scrambled My Hunger for 48 Hours
Day seventy of my Rhythm Reset. Brain wouldn’t shut up about food. “Wonder what’s for [...]
46 Years of Daily Inhalers. 18 Months Later: Twice.
The Number That Changed Everything Forty-six years. That’s how long I used an asthma inhaler [...]
I smoked 100 cigarettes a day (then stopped forever)
One hundred cigarettes. Not 20. Not 40. One hundred cigarettes every single day. Five packs. [...]
Your Hand Has a Forty-Year Route. Your Brain Wasn’t Consulted.
640 calories. 10 minutes. 8 chocolate digestives. I didn’t taste a single one. It was [...]
Box of Chocolates. Same Day. I Am an Animal.
I don’t eat one sweet. I eat the entire packet. Box of chocolates? Not one [...]
Chocolate 61% of Days (Still Lost a Stone)
Seventy days tracked. Chocolate or crisps on thirty-eight of them. That’s sixty-one percent of my [...]
I Ate These Every Day for 70 Days (Lost a Stone)
The Daily Habit That Shouldn’t Have Worked Seventy days tracked. Sixty-four eating days. Finn Crisps [...]
My Doctor Prescribed Daily Coca-Cola at Age 5
When Medical Advice Creates the Problem I was five years old when a doctor prescribed [...]
I Stopped Eating for 21 Days (What Happened Shocked Me)
The Number I Didn’t Expect to See 12 stone 14 pounds. Lightest I’d been in [...]
I smoked 100 cigarettes a day (then quit cold turkey)
One hundred cigarettes. Not 20, not 40. One hundred a day. That’s five packs. Every [...]
I Lost 5 Stone Without Counting a Single Calorie
Everyone told me the same thing: eat less, move more. Simple maths, they said. So [...]
I Hit My Lightest Weight and Didn’t Feel Weak
Day 21 of an extended fast. Stepped on the scales. 12 stone 13 and 7/8ths. [...]
My GP’s Note After I Reversed Chronic Inflammation
CRP. C-reactive protein. An inflammation marker that tells you how much your body is fighting [...]
Poor Diet Is Now Worse Than Smoking
Professor Brian Elbel studies population health. His assessment is blunt: poor diet has overtaken smoking [...]
Twenty One Days No Food Made Perfect Sense
Twenty one days. No food. Just water, electrolytes, black coffee. Everyone’s first reaction is the [...]
My Cholesterol Improved After I Stopped Statins
PWhat My GP Said When He Saw My Cholesterol Results Sat across from my GP. [...]
Red Meat Stopped Triggering My Gout Overnight
I ate a massive ribeye at a client dinner. Went to bed waiting for the [...]
Cholesterol Isn’t the Criminal — It’s the Firefighter
The GP Said I’d Need Them for Life Eight years on statins. Total cholesterol stuck [...]
I Ate Chocolate and Still Lost Weight
Can you really eat chocolate and still lose weight? It sounds like clickbait. But after [...]