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 60.9 kg
— 157 lbs to 134 lbs. That was never a diet. My eating window and my
food were changing over the same months, on top of the training I was already doing
— and somewhere in all of it, my body found its way back to where it should be.
My name is Tatsuya Ozu. I’m 40, and I run a real estate company in Tokyo.
The weight is the part people notice; it’s the least interesting part to me.
What I want to tell you about is my mornings.
Yerba mate — a South American drink, sipped from a gourd through a metal straw.
01 — The pressure nobody warned me about
What I only understood once the company was mine.
At 29, I moved to the Philippines on my own. Casino dealer, then a trip around the world, then a stint training as a sushi chef — it has not been a straight line.
Nothing prepared me for the pressure that came with owning the company. However fast the world changes, the revenue still has to come in, and other people’s lives are tied to whether it does. That doesn’t switch off at night.
So I go all in, every day, mostly to stay ahead of the anxiety. That’s the stretch of my life where Unimate turned up.
From the very first sip each morning, my mind clears and a surge of energy takes over. It’s a feeling like a switch physically flipping inside me, saying, “Alright, let’s do this.” For me, any physical changes are just a bonus — the real value lies in the tangible boost it gives my daily performance.†
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. Modern irregular lifestyles and high-calorie diets leave your body far from the design your genes drew, and small daily habits are the only way I’ve found to work back toward it.
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.
What actually happened
Weight−10.2kg71.1 → 60.9 kg 157 → 134 lbLast reading August 16, 2026.
“Body age”−10yrs38 → 28The scale’s own estimate, not a medical figure. I’m 40.
Every weigh-in, plotted as recordedOct 2025 – Aug 2026
Readings from an Omron HBF-214 bathroom scale, plotted on a real time axis exactly as recorded — nothing averaged, smoothed or trimmed. 56 weigh-ins across 318 days, at whatever interval I actually managed — one day at the shortest, thirty-four at the longest, with two gaps of about a month early on. Over the same months my eating window and my food were changing too, on top of the training I was already doing.
Skeletal muscle (% of body weight)
36.0→37.1%
Body fat
20.3→18.0%
BMI
23.2→19.9
Weigh-ins plotted
56
Skeletal muscle fell in kilograms as well — the percentage rose only because the body it measures got smaller.
October 2025Before any of thisIt’s not the body. It’s how worn out I look.
July 2026At 40The best shape of my life.
Both photographs were taken at home on the same phone, unedited beyond cropping.
The routine
No rules to remember. Same time, same thing, every day. I decided once, then stopped deciding.
01
First thing in the morning
Unimate, taken neat
Standing at the kitchen counter, before I look at my phone. 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, but I take mine straight down, the way you’d take a powdered medicine. This is where the switch flips, and it’s the reason the whole routine survived.
02
Before the biggest meal
Balance in a shaker
I shake up the fiber drink right before my first meal after a 16-hour fast — usually the biggest meal of my day. Honestly, I’ve never managed to get this much fiber into my diet on my own. On the road I skip the shaker and just wash it down.
03
Six in the evening
Unimate over ice
I pour it over ice in a proper glass. The switch flips a second time — my signal that the workday is done, whether I’m at a client dinner or home with my wife. I actually like the taste, and that, more than any discipline, is why it has lasted.
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 what I can say about why, without guessing.
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’s 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 in a finished extract, and has been formulating its own products for decades, with US patents somewhere in that history. That’s a statement about the company, not about what’s in your glass.
02
Both are in the PDR
Unimate and Balance both appear in the Prescribers’ Digital Reference, the database US clinicians consult. It carried weight with me that they’re written down somewhere clinicians read, not only on a marketing page. It’s a listing compiled from what the manufacturer supplies — not an approval, and not a finding that anything works. Read it and judge for yourself.
I won’t pretend to explain what happens inside a body — I’m a real estate guy in Tokyo, not a medical expert. What I know is simple: ten months in, these two are still on my counter.
Nothing here is a promise about your body. It’s why I’m confident about mine.
04 — The part we all skip
Build all of it, and none of it counts if you’re the one who goes down.
You can build something real, take 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, which is exactly why it is the first thing to get pushed off the week. So I’ll say what I actually believe: if anything leans on you, keeping yourself in working order isn’t self-care. It’s part of the job, and it’s the part most of us are quietly skipping.
05 — Before you click anything
Unicity is a direct-selling company. I’m not going to dance around it.
You already know how a page like this ends: somebody is getting paid. So: if you buy through my link, I earn points as an independent Unicity distributor — not cash. No team behind me, and you’ll hear nothing from me after you buy.
01
No MLM to join
Plenty of people hear “direct selling” and stop listening. Fair enough — so Unicity built a plain retail channel, and that’s the one this link uses. You order, they ship, and nothing else starts: no distributor application, no downline, no team, and nothing from me afterward. The order itself does continue — in most markets it is set up as a monthly subscription — and you manage or cancel it from the customer account the checkout creates. That account is not the business side, and it doesn’t make you a distributor.
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.
If you want to run the same routine
Feel Great
Unimate + Unicity Balance
In most markets this set is 60 Unimate sticks and 30 Balance packets — about a month of the routine on this page. The UK set is built the other way round, with more Balance than Unimate. Your own store shows what’s in the box, and which flavors it offers, before you order.
On the US store: $159 a month.Checked August 2026 — $159 on the monthly subscription, or $169 as a one-off. Every other market is priced separately, in its own currency: Unicity’s own store shows yours, along with what comes in the box, before you enter any of your details.
Paid link — I’m a Unicity distributor and earn points, not cash, if you buy through it.
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 MLM to joinShips direct from UnicityPriced in your own currency
Is Unicity a pyramid scheme?
No. Unicity is a direct-selling company, but the link on this page goes to its ordinary retail store, not the business side. If you only ever use it to buy Unimate and Balance, that’s the entire relationship.
Is the 16-hour fast mandatory?
Not at all — it’s just a recommendation, not a requirement. In fact, I often have days where I can’t manage a full 16-hour fast, like when I have dinners with clients. I do try my best to stick to it when I can, though. My wife takes the same product as well, and she doesn’t do the 16-hour fast either.
Can I cancel the monthly subscription?
Yes. It’s managed from the customer account the checkout creates for you. Unicity’s own terms for the US store say you can cancel there at any time, ahead of the next shipment. Terms are set market by market, so the ones that bind you are the ones on your own store’s page.
What if I order it and don’t like it?
Returns and guarantees are set market by market, so the terms that bind you are the ones on your own store’s checkout page — read them before you order. I’d rather point you at the policy than quote you one I can’t keep.
Will this help me lose weight?
I don’t know, 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 8-hour eating window, and the training I was already doing.
What are the specific details of the FG program’s approach?
You can learn more from the official Unicity video.
Why is someone who runs a real estate company recommending a supplement?
Since around the time the pandemic began, I’ve thought that in a world like this one, having nothing but your main business is a risk. So I asked myself what else there was — something outside real estate that I could put in front of someone I know and recommend with real confidence. Unicity’s products were the only answer I had.
What if my question isn’t answered here?
Then send it to me. The practical side is what I can actually help with — what I eat when the window opens, what I do on the days the whole thing falls apart. The wider question of how I live now, and how something like this ended up sitting alongside the company I run, is fair to ask too. I read them myself, and between the time difference and the company, a reply takes days rather than hours.
This page describes ten months of one person’s experience — mine. It is not medical, nutritional or health advice, and individual results vary. Over the same period I moved to an 8-hour eating window, changed my diet, and continued the strength training and jogging I had been doing beforehand. These changes did not all begin at the same time, and I can’t separate one from another. The figures come from a consumer bathroom scale, not clinical equipment; body-fat and muscle readings from such a device are estimates.
I’m an independent Unicity distributor (member no. 108599081). The purchase link on this page is a referral link, and Unicity credits me in points — their internal currency — rather than cash. No business opportunity, team or income program is offered anywhere on this page.
Unimate is a mate extract and contains caffeine; I take it twice a day. Time-restricted eating and caffeine don’t suit everyone. 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.
Returns, guarantees, product availability, pack contents, pricing, formulation and permitted claims differ by country; the terms that apply to you are the ones on your own store’s checkout page. 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 18, 2026.
One last thing
Unimate is made from yerba mate, and I was drinking yerba mate long before I ever heard of Unimate. I still am — loose leaf, every morning, in a gourd I carried back from Argentina. So when somebody first told me about Unimate, my honest reaction was that I already drink mate and I don’t need this. I tried it anyway, mostly because of the mate connection. Ten months on, both are still part of my day, and neither one has replaced the other.
I wrote up how I found yerba mate in the first place, as two short stories. Read them if you’d like.
