2025-W24 — Budapest: The Week Fasting Became Practical

Where it really started

What happened this week

This week takes me back to the start of my fasting journey—when the idea still felt uncertain and a little risky.

I was on a business trip to Budapest with Crouzet, and the schedule was hectic in the way work travel often is: early starts, shifting plans, long days, and limited control over meals. Instead of fighting the chaos, I used it.

During the trip, I transitioned from regular meals to one meal per day, mostly because it was easier to skip meals than to coordinate them. And to my surprise, it worked better than I expected.

The travel + wellness thread

Before this trip, I was genuinely worried I wouldn’t be able to do it without problems—low energy, bad focus, irritability, or just crashing and eating whatever was closest.

But the opposite happened. The structure of travel created accidental simplicity. I didn’t have to negotiate with meal decisions all day. I worked, moved through the schedule, drank water and coffee, and ate once.

It didn’t feel like deprivation. It felt like a new default.

Why I started in the first place

Part of what gave me the courage to try was my wife. She had already started the Unicity experiment and was seeing success. I wanted to support her—and I also wanted to see what was possible for me if I took the experiment seriously.

Budapest became the first week where fasting stopped being a concept and became a practical tool.

What I learned

You don’t need perfect conditions to start changing your habits. In some ways, travel is the perfect place to start because it breaks the old patterns automatically.

Budapest taught me that fasting can work in real life—especially when life is busy—because it reduces decisions instead of adding more.

Next week’s tiny focus

Pick one busy day and practice a simpler default: delay the first meal later than usual, hydrate early, and keep it uncomplicated.