Day 1 — 35, zero supplements, and a boxing habit that humbled me

The honest starting point. I'm 35. Until yesterday, I had taken exactly zero supplements in my life — not a single pill, ever. So this whole thing is new territory for me.

What changed. A few years behind a desk quietly drained my fitness, and I didn't really feel how much until I started boxing. Turns out boxing is a lot harder than it looks from the outside. Since I started, I wake up most mornings with deep muscle soreness and a fatigue that trails me through the day.

So for the first time, I decided to actually try supplements that fit my life — one at a time, in sequence, instead of dumping ten things in at once. That's the only way I'll have any chance of telling what does what.

Where I'm starting. Yesterday I began with two: **creatine** and **vitamin C**.

What it feels like so far — basically nothing, and I'll say so. It's day one, so of course I can't claim any real effect yet, and I'm not going to pretend I can. The only thing I'll note: I think I slept well, no dreams I can remember. That could easily be placebo, or just a hard week finally catching up with me. I'm logging it anyway — that's the whole point of writing this down instead of trusting my memory later.

What my friends say (take it for what it's worth). My friends disagree about most supplements, but the one they all swear actually did something for them is vitamin C. That's anecdote, not evidence — their word, not a result. We'll see whether mine matches over the next few weeks.

What's next. Hold these two steady, log how the mornings feel, and only add the next thing once I've got a real baseline to compare against.