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Ashwin

Vegetarian. Protein is my project.

Bengaluru, IN · Bengaluru, thirty-six, product manager, vegetarian, protein is his project.

Their journal

46 entries, and Ashwin is still writing.

  • Two years, no news

    Monday 11 May 2026week 75settled energy 53 replies

    Three things this week. Nothing happened again. I am aware that is now the fourth month running I have written that, and I have decided it is the best sentence in this…

  • Unremarkable

    Wednesday 19 Nov 2025week 50pleased energy 31 reply

    Three things this week. Everything stable. She said come back in a year. I have never had a come-back-in-a-year before. Out of the prediabetes range. Three years of results…

  • Grip

    Friday 19 Sep 2025week 41tired but good energy 52 replies

    Two sessions this week, both short, both done. Ren keeps saying that two a week for two years beats a perfect programme abandoned in March, and he is annoyingly right. Walked…

  • Steady

    Friday 12 Sep 2025week 40flat energy 33 replies

    Three things this week. An unremarkable week. Ate, walked, worked, slept adequately. This is what most of it looks like. Quiet. Injection Tuesday, mild Wednesday, fine by…

  • Fewer, heavier

    Saturday 6 Sep 2025week 39tired but good energy 52 replies

    Week in order: Walked instead of the bus all week. Not a programme. Just walking. Came back after a bad fortnight without trying to make up the lost ground, which is the…

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Recent check-in answers

25 Jun 2026 — What is the thing you keep forgetting?

Labelled the freezer boxes with what is in them and how I felt when I made them.

4 Jun 2026 — What has money made possible this month?

Wrote the arithmetic out with no rounding. Seeing it was steadying rather than frightening.

19 Apr 2026 — What is your body neutral about?

It is doing something clever with insulin that I do not understand and I am grateful to it.

1 Mar 2026 — What is your buddy or your circle up to?

Somebody in this circle replied to my first post within an hour. They will not remember. I do.

Buddy

ongoingReading group

We read one paper a month and argue about it

Not a support pairing in the usual sense. Ruthie and Ashwin read one paper a month, badly, together, and are both better at it than they were.

Ruthie and Ashwin · since December 2024