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 twelve months, and somewhere in there 71.1 kg became 60.4 kg
— 157 lbs to 133 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 I come into tune. 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 life runs on irregular hours and heavy meals, and the only thing that has ever worked for me is a daily rhythm plain enough to keep.
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−10.7kg71.1 → 60.4 kg 157 → 133 lbLast reading October 9, 2026.
“Body age”−11yrs38 → 27The scale’s own estimate, not a medical figure. I’m 40.
Every weigh-in, plotted as recordedOct 2025 – Oct 2026
Readings from an Omron HBF-214 bathroom scale, plotted on a real time axis exactly as recorded — nothing averaged, smoothed or trimmed. 61 weigh-ins across 372 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→37.8%
Body fat
20.3→17.3%
BMI
23.2→19.7
Weigh-ins plotted
61
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.
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 swallow a powder in one go. 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
The last one of the day is for me. Unimate in water, over ice, and I take my time with it — I like the taste, and that is the whole reason it has lasted. Client dinner or a night in with my wife, either way I get to the evening in a good mood.
03 — What I rely on
Why these two actually stuck.
The world is not short of supplements. I quietly stopped taking almost every one I ever tried. These two are still on the counter twelve months later, and here is what I can say about why, without guessing.
These are the boxes I buy in Japan. Unicity packages Feel Great market by market, so what arrives at your door may look different — and in a few countries the products carry different names.
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.
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: twelve 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.
I’m writing this part for whoever’s reading it in the States. I’ve never lived there; what I know is Tokyo. I started my own company so I could own my time — only to find that the deciding never pauses. You may have a team, a board, a floor of people counting on you, and a market that moves faster than mine. It doesn’t change the arithmetic: a business can be rebuilt and money can be earned again, but you’re the one asset with no backup.
Health is the one thing you only price correctly after it’s gone, which is exactly why it’s the first thing to fall 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.
If you want to run the same routine
Feel Great
Unimate + Unicity Balance
On the US store: $159 a month.Checked August 2026 — $159 on the monthly subscription, or $169 as a one-off. Unicity’s own store shows the price, and 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. This page is written for readers in the United States, and the price above is the US store’s. Open it from another market and the store will show that market’s price and pack instead.
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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.
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.
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. The terms that bind you are the ones on the store page you check out from.
What if I order it and don’t like it?
The US store sets its own returns and guarantee terms, and they’re on the checkout page — read them before you order. I’d rather point you at the policy than quote you one I can’t keep.
Can I buy it on one of the big online marketplaces instead?
I wouldn’t. 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 store link on this page goes to Unicity’s own store, so the box comes from them, with the return policy the US store carries.
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 twelve 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 come to believe that in a world like this, relying solely on your main business is a risk. So I asked myself what else was out there—something outside of real estate that I could recommend to someone I know with genuine confidence. The only answer I arrived at was Unicity’s products. The reason I continue this work on a global scale is my desire to deliver accurate information to as many people as possible, hoping it serves as a starting point for someone to step into a better life.
What if my question isn’t answered here?
If you’d like to know more about how I live, or have any other question, you can reach me here.
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This page describes twelve 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.
On the US store this set is 60 Unimate sticks and 30 Balance packets — about a month of the routine on this page. Unicity sets the standard pack market by market, so ordering from outside the United States can bring the mirror image: across Europe the default is 30 and 60, and the version that matches this page is listed separately as “Feel Great (2x Unimate)” at the same price. The store shows what’s in the box, and which flavors it offers, before you order.
This page describes the US store. Returns, guarantees, product availability, pack contents, pricing, formulation and permitted claims differ by country; if you order from outside the United States, the terms that apply are the ones on that 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 October 9, 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. Twelve 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.
