The opposite of everything I expected
How 6 years of Apple Watch data told me to eat more, slow down, and stop punishing myself — and why I built My Revelation to give everyone the same answer.
I'm 51. For years, I'd been doing spin classes that pushed my heart rate above 190 bpm, eating around 1,400 calories a day, and wondering why I couldn't shift stubborn belly fat.
I was doing everything the fitness industry told me to do. It wasn't working.
Then I tried something different. I exported 6 years of Apple Watch data — every heartbeat, every workout, every night's sleep — and dug into the numbers. The goal was simple: tell me what my own body's data reveals about how to lose weight.
It took 2 weeks. Breaking apart export files, working out which measures actually mattered, figuring out how to ask the right questions of the right data. It wasn't something you could do in an afternoon with ChatGPT. But when the answer came back, it was worth every hour.
The answer was the opposite of everything I expected.
3 weeks after following the plan, measurable improvement across almost every metric. Weight down. Heart rate variability (HRV) up. Resting heart rate dropping. Not by starving myself or destroying my body in a dark room on a stationary bike — by doing the exact opposite.
The data was clear. My spin classes were pushing my heart rate so far above my fat-burning zone that my body was running on stress hormones, not burning fat. The calorie restriction was making it worse — my body had adapted to the gap and was holding on to everything it could. I was overtraining and undereating at the same time.
The answer was more protein, lower-intensity training, and actual recovery. Steak and slippers, not spin class and starvation. That was my Revelation.
The answer was in my data all along. 6 years of signals that nobody — not my PT, not MyFitnessPal, not the spin class instructor — had ever helped me read.
That experience stuck with me. Not just because the advice worked, but because of how obvious it was in hindsight. The patterns were sitting in my Apple Watch data for years. Heart rate trends showing long-term overtraining. Sleep data showing my recovery was compromised. Weight data showing a plateau that perfectly matched increasing training intensity.
All the signals were there. I just couldn't read them — and no product on the market was designed to read them for me.
My Revelation was about overtraining and undereating. Yours will be different.
For a marathon runner, the Revelation might be that 80% of their running is in the wrong heart rate zone — too hard to recover from, too easy to build speed.
For a new mother returning to HIIT, it might be that her recovery capacity has halved since pregnancy but her training intensity hasn't adjusted.
For someone who doesn't “exercise” but walks daily, it might be that their bedtime has drifted 70 minutes later over 6 months — and that single change is dragging every other metric down.
For a recently retired 58-year-old, it might be the opposite of what everyone else hears: your body is ready for more. You're undertraining. Add a third session and watch what happens.
This product isn't built around my Revelation. It's built around yours. And all it takes is a few minutes to get it.
Hugo
Founder, My Revelation
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