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 I woke up today feeling optimistic, and my early Welltory readings backed that up. At 11:22 a.m., my stress was light (38%), energy was high at 79%, and my health resilience clocked in at a perfect 100%. HRV score was 100% and my nervous system was dominated by a calm parasympathetic tone. Everything pointed to a smooth, productive Monday. By midday, however, things shifted sharply. At 1:42 p.m., stress skyrocketed to 96% while energy crashed to 19%, even though my health metrics remained resilient. I was running on fumes. My nervous system flipped, with my sympathetic system surging. Despite great satiety from Friday’s 12.5 mg Zepbound, which is still working beautifully, my body clearly signaled: pause, regroup, breathe. My glucose remained stable all day with a gentle upward bump after lunch (roast beef and mayo) and another slight climb with my early evening dinner. By 7:44 p.m., I was showing signs of depletion again: stress at 84%, energy at 20%, but—remarkably—health resili...

 It’s been nearly a year since our last update here on the  22minutesaday  blog, and let me tell you—it’s time for a fresh restart. If you’re new here,  22minutesaday  was inspired by the 150-minute weekly movement goal from the Surmount-4 clinical trial. When you break that down? It’s just  22 minutes a day —totally doable, even if you’ve been out of the game a while. I’m Robby—and it’s time we reconnected. I’m 60 now and have been battling obesity for nearly 25 years. The last 12 of those years were the most frustrating. Despite running, exercising, eating clean, and staying in a caloric deficit, my weight refused to budge. What many didn’t see behind the scenes was the silent storm: I’ve been living with  Hashimoto’s thyroiditis  and  insulin resistance , both of which made weight loss nearly impossible no matter how hard I tried. But everything began to shift on  August 19, 2022 , when I started  Tirzepatide . With it—and the di...