Vaughn Estrada writes down health choices as they actually happen: in restaurants, in supermarket aisles, on the road, and in weeks that did not go to plan. Every piece is dated to the day the situation happened, including the ones he got wrong.
A single detour past the far end of the store on a slow Saturday turned into a habit of adding a lap I did not need, just to move a little more while I was already there.
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