Every few months, it's time for another health report — the same kind that once completely caught me off guard. And I've started noticing what I actually do in the days before it: I wait. I don't spend that time working on what the last report flagged. I don't check in on myself, notice what's actually shifted since then. I just wait for the numbers to tell me — as if the report itself is the only proof that counts, not anything I might have felt or noticed on my own in betwe