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The primary reason I do not take "cheat days" when I'm in a fitness routine is that it takes more days to get back on the path than the one I spent wandering from it.  My Labor Day cheat day turned into two weeks of weight gaining, stomach gurgling, blister busting delay.  I started with a Labor Day doughnut binge. Krispy Kreme had a buy a dozen get a second dozen for $2 deal. I mean, if you're going to cheat, go big or go home.  However, the short diversion into a sugar coma came with a longer recovery. I added five pounds to 182 that week. The week after that I was down with a mild illness after also getting a nasty skating blister on my ankle bone.  I haven't skated for 10 days.   This week has been a return to the drill. I've been walking every day and keeping a 20 hour fasting schedule.  I hope I'll be back on my skates this weekend.  

30.6 pounds to go.

 

The Apple Watch is a highly motivational little device. There is not a chance that I would have walked and skated a combined 32 times in July without it.  Weight lost in July: 10.8 pounds.

When I think back to 1999, the first time I lost 60 pounds, the program was pretty straightforward. My diet was very strict: bacon, eggs, steak, water and NO caffeine. The exercise? Skating. Hours and hours per day of skating. But, that was 1999.  I haven't skated in about 15 years. This morning was my eighth time out on my new skates. If it's supposed to be like riding a bike, well, I may not have forgotten but there are definitely a few things for my muscles to relearn. The first few times out I thought maybe I should have gotten a bike. But, no bike. If it worked in '99, it will work now. I am gifted with a foundation of good health. The only thing different this time is the calendar. I'm committed. And skates are faster than shoes.  

 

  This is a great opportunity to prove that if I did it once , twice, I can do it a third time. Here is my TikTok video update.