Yesterday went well. I had a lot of self-doubt about jumping straight back in to keto with the Dr Boz sardine fast and 18:6 intermittent fasting but I made it through. And I did blow the dust off the rowing machine and row for 10mins at a decent pace without it killing me. I found the hand weights too as I have a HIIT routine stuck in the bookmarks of a browser on a machine somewhere that I want to try. And I need to find my rowing gloves.

It didn’t quite carry on into today though. I ditched the sardines (sorry Dr Boz) and had sausage, egg and avocado with butter for breakfast (I forget where the weekly menu that that came from went) and sirloin, broccoli and asparagus for the later meal again drenched in butter. I find the sardines tough, even though I like fish and I figured that with the weekend coming up so quickly it made more sense to stick to more enjoyable keto meals and if I wasn’t producing decent keytone levels by Sunday I could go for “3 days of the ‘Dines” then.

So no signs of ketones when testing yet. Not tested the blood pressure either, although I have historical data to act as a baseline. And the weight? 107.5kg! Thank you Santa Claus! Sleep was pretty good mind.

I was up at 4am this morning though. Decided to meditate. It was a really energising meditation. 30mins of guidance and what I though was another 10mins of clarity but when I checked the clock 90mins had passed. I hadn’t gone back to sleep at any point so not sure what to make of it other than it put a smile on my face for most of the day.

It’s not the first time I’ve experienced a difference between actual time passing and perceived time passing whilst meditating. There have been at least of couple of meditations in the early days where my perception of time was both faster and slower than the clock suggested. Long experiences occurring in the blink of an eye and chunks of real time whizzing past in what felt like mere seconds.

It’s nice to actually have a worthwhile session once again. I’d been thinking that the medication I’m on had totally blunted the benefits I’d experienced prior to starting them. That was rather soul destroying as I had developed a heart warming connectedness with the world and found nothing much annoyed me anymore. Think “I am he as you are he as you are me. And we are all together…” It was great. Even terrible and inconsiderate drivers didn’t invoke the usual road rage. We were all connected and they were just another part of me having a bad day.

I can’t say the last session bought that feeling back in full, which is no surprise as it took about a year of daily meditation to get there, but it’s nice to know that I’m still capable of clearing my mind, especially with all the crap that’s going on in the world at the moment (I’m writing this as of 8 January 2026 so think Venezuela, Renee Good in Minneapolis, threats about Greenland).

Strangest thing to happen so far this year? The fact I’m trying to cultivate healthy eating and exercise habits and a regular writing discipline and I stumble across a video on YouTube on Rudolf Steiner’s view on why the first 90 days of each year is fundamental to the rest of it. Maybe it wasn’t synchronicity. Maybe the algorithms are just pretty good and we’re all being surveilled far more closely than we realise.