Every morning, the switch flips.
And I can hear it.

I didn’t start any of this to lose weight. I did the same small things at the same times for ten months, and somewhere in there 71.1 kg became 61.7 kg — 157 lb to 136 lb. That was never a diet. It was ten months of one routine, and my own condition moving back toward where it ought to be.

My name is Tatsuya Ozu. I’m forty and I run a small property company in Tokyo. If you carry a payroll too, the weight is the part I care about least. It’s a by-product. What I actually want to tell you about is the morning.

I weighed myself and wrote the number down — fifty-five readings across those ten months. It’s all below, along with everything else that was changing at the same time. The eating window. The food. The light weights and the jogging, both of which started long before the mate did. I can’t separate them, and I won’t pretend to.

Tatsuya Ozu at home in Tokyo, holding a glass of Unimate

01 — For anyone carrying a payroll

What I only understood
once the company was mine.

At twenty-nine I quit fitting window sashes and moved to the Philippines on my own — officially to train as a casino dealer, actually because of a teacher I’d met on a two-week language trip six months earlier. We married in 2018. In between came a language school in Guatemala, buses across Latin America, then Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and a few years behind a sushi counter. Now I sell property in Tokyo.

Running a company is arithmetic you’re not allowed to put down. Payroll lands on the same date whether the month worked or not, and the revenue has to keep coming however fast the world changes underneath you. Staff, their families, my own — all of it sits on one side of a number I’m responsible for.

There are mornings that start closer to dread than to confidence, and you talk yourself up and go and fight the day anyway. That is most of the job. I can recite the company’s monthly figures going back years. I couldn’t have told you my own weight within five kilos. At some point that stopped being funny.

Everything else in the business gets a number and a date. The one thing nobody sends you a report on is how you feel at six in the morning. Nobody schedules that for you either.

The mate came from a client I’d looked after years earlier, back when I was selling property for somebody else. Drink it first thing. That was the whole instruction — and for the first two months, the whole routine as well.

It still starts the same way. The first mouthful, standing at the counter before I look at my phone. Right — let’s go. The switch flips, and I can hear it. Ten months on, that is the part I’d actually be sorry to lose. The nine kilos are a by-product. How the day starts is what I kept it for.

02 — The routine I settled on

It isn’t a diet.
Losing weight was never the point.

Nothing I take promises to melt anything off you while you sit still, and I’d be suspicious of anything that did. What I was after was duller than that. Years of eating richly at odd hours leave your condition somewhere it doesn’t need to be, and a small thing repeated daily is the only lever I’ve ever found that moves it back.

The number on the scale followed from that. It wasn’t the target and I wasn’t chasing it — it just turned up in the log, which is where I noticed it.

Nothing about what I do is clever. In my thirties I tried the clever kind — the training block, the Sunday of meal prep, the list of things cut out — and anything that runs on willpower loses to the calendar in the end. This one had to be simple or it wasn’t going to survive the first week I didn’t plan. I take the same things at the same times, and I’ve done it long enough now that it runs without me.

The weight came off unevenly. Five of those kilos went in the first month, then came months where the line climbed back up before it went down again, and I noticed the whole thing in a photograph before I saw it in the mirror. Those facts sit next to each other because that’s the order they happened in, not because I can join them up.

In December I added Balance and Stronghold, and moved my meals into an eight-hour window. In April I added Energy and Super Greens. Five Unicity products in all across the ten months, and only two of them are in the set the link at the bottom sells. I can’t tell you what the other three contributed, because I never ran it any other way. So the line below isn’t one thing held steady for ten months. It’s several, added at different times, on top of training and food I’d already changed. I’m showing you the whole log rather than the good parts, including the weeks the line went the wrong way. Taking those out would have made a better-looking graph and a worse page.

What actually happened

Weight −9.4kg 71.1 → 61.7 kg
157 → 136 lb Last reading July 27, 2026.
“Body age” −10yrs 38 → 28 The scale’s own estimate, not a medical figure. I’m 40.
Every weigh-in, plotted as recorded Oct 2025 – Jul 2026

Readings from an Omron HBF-214 bathroom scale, plotted on a real time axis exactly as recorded — nothing averaged, smoothed, trimmed, or tidied. Fifty-five weigh-ins across 298 days, at whatever interval I actually managed: most of them a day or two apart, one gap of more than a month. The flat stretches are flat because I stood on the scale that often, and the days it went the wrong way are still in the line.

Skeletal muscle

36.0→37.9%

Body fat

20.3→17.6%

BMI

23.2→20.1

Weigh-ins plotted

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Tatsuya Ozu photographed at home in October 2025, before he began taking Unimate
October 2025 Before any of this It’s my face I keep looking at, not my body.
Tatsuya Ozu photographed at home in July 2026, after ten months of recorded weigh-ins
July 2026 At forty At forty, this is the best shape I’ve ever been in.

Both photographs were taken at home on the same phone, unedited beyond cropping.

These numbers came off a consumer bathroom scale, not clinical equipment. Body fat and muscle readings from a device like this are estimates, and they move with hydration and time of day. One of them needs saying plainly: skeletal muscle is a percentage of body weight, and in kilograms mine went down, not up — about 25.6 kg to 23.4 kg. The percentage rose because the body it is a percentage of got smaller. Over the same ten months I moved to an eight-hour eating window, changed what I eat, and kept up the light weights and jogging I’d been doing before any of this started. I can’t tell you which did what. The products were one strand of several. These are my numbers. There’s no reason to expect they’d be yours.

The routine

No rules to remember. Same time, same thing, every day.
I decided once, then stopped deciding.

A glass of Unimate poured over ice, with Unimate and Balance stick packs beside it
01

First thing in the morning

Unimate, taken neat

Standing at the kitchen counter, before I look at my phone. This is where the switch flips, and it is the reason the whole routine survived. It’s built on yerba mate — the leaf South Americans have been drinking for centuries and still call a salad in a cup. The label says to mix it with water, and most people do. I take mine straight down, the way you’d take a powder. That’s a preference, not advice — follow the label. It’s a mate extract, so it does contain caffeine, and I have it twice a day.

02

Before the biggest meal

Balance in a shaker

A fiber drink, shaken with water, right before the first thing I eat — which, after sixteen hours without food, is usually the biggest thing I’ll eat all day. Getting that much fiber into an ordinary week is something I had never once managed on my own. Paired with the sixteen-hour gap, this is the rhythm the whole routine is built around. When I’m out, I shake it at the table and get on with the meal. Nobody has ever asked.

03

Six in the evening

Unimate over ice

Cold water, plenty of ice, a proper glass. The switch flips a second time — a nod to the day I’ve just put in, and a line drawn under it. Client dinner or an evening at home with my wife, it happens either way, and I look forward to it. I like the taste. That, more than any discipline, is why it has lasted.

See the set I take ↓

On the eating window and the caffeine. I eat between about noon and eight — an eight-hour window, which is the same thing as leaving sixteen hours without food. The morning Unimate sits outside that window: it’s a mate extract in water, not a meal, and that’s how I’ve counted it throughout. The second one is at six in the evening, so that is caffeine twice a day. All of that is my schedule, not a recommendation. Time-restricted eating doesn’t suit everyone, and neither does caffeine late in the day — and it isn’t appropriate if you’re pregnant or breastfeeding, have any history of disordered eating, have diabetes or take anything that affects blood sugar, take medication that has to be timed with food, are under eighteen, or are managing an ongoing condition. Ask your doctor before you copy any of it.

03 — What I rely on

Why these two,
and not the next thing on the shelf.

The world is not short of supplements. I quietly stopped taking almost every one I ever tried. These two are still on the counter ten months later, and here is everything I can say about why, without guessing.

Unicity Unimate and Balance stick packs photographed beside a yerba mate field
01

The leaf, and the label

Straight off the Unimate panel: green mate leaf extract powder, citric acid, natural flavors, sodium gluconate, stevia leaf extract. That is the entire list — and being able to read the entire list is most of why I trust it. Unicity processes the leaf itself rather than buying the extract in finished. Whether that matters is a judgment I’ll leave to you; the composition is printed on the box.

02

Both are in the PDR

Unimate and Balance both appear in the Prescribers’ Digital Reference, the database US clinicians consult. That carried weight with me: it means the product has had to be set down on paper somewhere clinicians read, not only on a marketing page. It is a listing compiled from information the manufacturer supplies — not an approval, and not a finding that anything works. I’m pointing at the listing, not its contents. Read it and judge it yourself.

Unimate in the PDR → Balance in the PDR →

03

And where I stop

I can’t tell you what these do inside a body. I’m not qualified to, and in most of the countries where they’re sold, someone in my position isn’t permitted to. What I can tell you is that this is not the shelf I used to buy from, that I’ve read what’s on the box, and that ten months on it is the one thing I never quietly dropped. That is the endorsement I’m in a position to give, and it’s an honest one.

Nothing here is a promise about your body.
It’s why I’m confident about mine.

04 — The part founders skip

Build all of it, and none of it counts
if you’re the one who goes down.

You can build the company, take real money out of it, buy your own time back — and every bit of it is worth precisely nothing in the week you can’t get out of bed. Everyone knows this. Almost nobody acts on it while things are still fine.

Being well is the one thing you only price correctly after it’s gone. It has no market, no replacement, and no line in the accounts, which is exactly why it is the first thing to get pushed off the week.

So I’ll say the thing I actually believe: if a company leans on you, keeping yourself in working order is not self-care. It’s part of the job, and it is the part most of us are quietly skipping. That is the whole reason I bother with a routine at all — not because of what’s in the glass, but because ten months of the same small decision is the only kind of maintenance I have ever managed to keep up.

Read Unicity’s own explanation of Feel Great

05 — Before you click anything

Unicity is a direct-selling company.
I’m not going to dance around it.

If you run something, you already know how a page like this ends: somebody is getting paid. So before the button, here is exactly what I get if you copy any of this.

I’m an independent Unicity distributor. If you order through the link on this page, Unicity credits points to my account — PV, their internal currency. Not cash, not a commission check. Points — and I spend them on my own boxes. That is the whole of it: no team, no call, nothing from me on the other side of this page. If the stuff suits you, buy it again. If it doesn’t, close the tab.

01

Nothing to join

Plenty of people hear “direct selling” and stop listening, which is fair, and Unicity built a plain retail channel for exactly those people. That’s the one this link uses. You order, they ship, and nothing follows — no membership, no application, no team, nobody calling you afterward. One thing worth knowing before the checkout: in some markets it opens with a monthly subscription already selected, because it’s the cheaper of the two. The one-time purchase sits directly underneath it. Take whichever you want — neither needs an account.

02

It ships from Unicity

You’ll see these listed on the big marketplaces. Unicity prohibits resale, and there’s a good reason for that: this goes directly into your body, and with a reseller you have no idea how old the box is or how it’s been stored. The link below goes to Unicity’s own store, so the box comes from them, with whatever return policy your country’s store carries.

06 — The questions I’d ask

The questions I’d ask,
if I were you.

Is Unicity a pyramid scheme?

Unicity is a direct-selling company, and yes, I’m a paid distributor — I said as much a section ago. But the link on this page isn’t the business side. It’s Unicity’s ordinary retail store: no membership, no downline, no meeting to attend. If you only ever use it to buy Unimate and Balance, that’s the entire relationship.

What exactly do you get if I buy through your link?

Points, not money. PV are Unicity’s own units — they don’t convert to cash, and mine go on my own boxes, so what your order actually buys me is next month’s Unimate. Nothing else comes from me after that. What Unicity’s own store sends you about your own order is between you and them.

Will this help me lose weight?

I’m not going to tell you that, because I don’t know it, and nobody selling a supplement is in a position to promise it. What I can tell you is what happened to me over ten months — alongside a change in diet, an eight-hour eating window, the training I was already doing, and three other Unicity products that aren’t in the set on this page. Individual results vary, and none of this is medical or nutritional advice.

Is the eating window, the caffeine, or any of this safe for me specifically?

I can’t answer that for you — only your own doctor can. Time-restricted eating and a twice-daily mate extract don’t suit everyone, and they aren’t appropriate if you’re pregnant or breastfeeding, have a history of disordered eating, have diabetes or take anything that affects blood sugar, take medication that needs to be timed with food, are under eighteen, or manage any ongoing condition. Ask before you copy any of it.

What if I order it and don’t like it?

Returns and guarantees are set by Unicity market by market, so the only terms that apply to you are the ones printed on your own store’s checkout page. Read them before you order. I’m not going to quote you a policy I can’t keep.

Can I check the listings myself, rather than take your word for it?

That’s the point of linking to the PDR entries above rather than describing what’s in them. They’re directory listings, not verdicts. Read them, read the box, and draw your own conclusions — I’m not qualified to interpret any of it for you, and I’d rather you didn’t take a stranger’s summary over the primary source.

If you want to run the same routine

Feel Great

Unimate ×2  +  Unicity Balance ×1

Sixty Unimate stick packs and thirty of Balance — about a month of the routine on this page. I take the lemon; most stores let you choose your flavors at checkout. Some countries ship a different ratio — the UK pack comes the other way around, two Balance to one Unimate, so it won’t run the routine above as written. Check the box contents on your own store before you order.

Unicity sets the price in your own currency. You’ll see it on their store, before you enter anything. It differs by country, and so does what comes in the box.

Before you check out: in some countries Unicity’s store opens with the monthly subscription already selected, because it is priced lower. The one-time purchase sits directly underneath it. Take whichever you actually want — neither one needs an account.

Paid link. I’m an independent Unicity distributor, and if you buy through this button Unicity credits my account in product points rather than cash.

Buy it on Unicity’s store →

This link opens Unicity’s own store in your country — Japan, the United States, the United Kingdom, Singapore, the Philippines, the UAE and most other markets Unicity serves. If yours isn’t one of them, the link will say so.

No membership needed Ships direct from Unicity Priced in your own currency

This page describes ten months of one person’s experience — mine. It is not medical, nutritional or health advice, and it is not a claim about what these products will do for anyone else. Individual results vary. During the recorded period I also moved to an eight-hour eating window, changed my diet, continued the strength training and jogging that began before I ever used these products, and added three further Unicity products that are not in the set sold through the link above. These did not all start at the same time; the dates are in the page.

I’m an independent Unicity distributor (member no. 108599081). The purchase link on this page is a referral link, and Unicity credits me in product points rather than cash. No business opportunity, team or income program is offered anywhere on this page.

If you are pregnant or breastfeeding, taking prescription medication, or managing any health condition, speak to a qualified healthcare professional before changing how you eat or adding any supplement.

These statements have not been evaluated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.

Product availability, pack contents, pricing, formulation and permitted claims differ by country. Unicity, Unimate, Balance and Feel Great are trademarks of Unicity International, Inc. This page is not produced, reviewed or endorsed by Unicity International.

Published by Tatsuya Ozu, Tokyo, Japan. Last updated August 2, 2026.