【EN】 ”One Meal a Day: Rewriting My Relationship with Life”

By Senon Wakamiya
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1. Why I Chose an Unusual Path

For years, I lived with a quiet sense that something inside me was out of tune.
My body felt heavy. My sleep was shallow.
Sometimes I even heard myself snoring awake—
a sign of the sleep apnea that had been silently growing.

I wasn’t afraid.
But I knew the way I lived was no longer sustainable.

That’s when the idea of eating only once a day began whispering to me.
Not as a diet.
Not as discipline.
Just… a possible way back to myself.

2. The Quiet Breakthrough

When I began eating one meal a day, I expected hunger, frustration, maybe dizziness.
None of that happened.

What arrived instead was clarity.

My mornings became lighter.
My mind stopped jumping from thought to thought.
My breath settled deeper into my lower abdomen—
a place I would later learn to call the tanden, the center of the body.

I realized something simple and profound:

My body had been waiting for this.

3. What Changed — Body and Mind

The physical changes came first.
My weight began to drop, my body fat decreased,
and the mirror reflected someone I hadn’t seen in years.

But the deeper shift was internal.

A quiet confidence appeared.
My heart slowed.
My days no longer felt like something I needed to “push through.”

I rediscovered the pleasure of moving slowly,
of noticing small details,
of hearing my inner voice again.

This was not self-control.
It was self-returning.

4. The Morning Drink That Supported Me

Every morning I mixed a simple drink:
• Aonori green powder
• Soy milk
• Fruit vinegar
• Roasted soybean flour (kinako)

It was earthy, fragrant, and strangely calming.
Over time, it became my ritual—
not a substitute for a meal,
but a reminder to begin the day gently.

Even now, I associate its taste with stability.

5. What I Learned

Eating once a day didn’t restrict my life.
It expanded it.

I learned:
• that hunger is often a habit, not a need
• that clarity grows in empty spaces
• that my body is wiser than I imagined
• that simplicity can be a doorway to freedom

This journey wasn’t about food.
It was about listening.

6. A Gentle Disclaimer

This is my experience, not medical advice.
One meal a day is not for everyone,
and each person’s body speaks a different language.

But this is the language mine chose.

7. Closing Message — Not a Diet, but a Dialogue

Today, I no longer think of this as fasting or discipline.
It feels more like a conversation—
a slow, sincere dialogue between my body and my life.

And in that dialogue, I finally learned something essential:

I don’t need more.
I just need to be in tune.

SENON ARCHIVE -まとめのまとめ-

Contents (EN)
① Gogyouka (Five-Line Poems)
② Transformation Begins in the Body (walking / meals / notebook)
③ Sergei (dialogue series)
④ Dialogues & Inner Comedy
⑤ Declaration / Meta

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