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.
I canceled workouts, skipped meal prep, and let the apartment get messy just to sleep more one week. It took me a while to stop treating that as a failure.
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Six hours into a nine hour drive, I realized every stop so far had ended with chips and a soda, and it…
During a stretch with early mornings, Vaughn simplified breakfast down to one repeated option instead of trying to vary it, and it…
Four short nights in a row left me convinced one big weekend catch-up would even things out. It helped less than I…
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I stood outside a restaurant in Austin for ten minutes before I could make myself walk in and eat alone at the…
A dead elevator on the fourth floor forced me to take the stairs, and the ten minutes that followed taught me more…
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