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S: December is coming up, and with

it brings all the chocolate, turkey
dinners, roasted ham, and seasonal beers
of the holidays—basically making it the
worst possible month to attempt getting
back into shape.

Of course, after that comes January,
the go-to month for all the people
inspired by feeling shitty about their
hungover selves on January 1 to get back
into the gym, and yes, this is finally
the year they stick to their resolution...
Meaning that gyms are going to be hella
full starting in January, which makes it
a terrible month to start working out, as
well.

Basically, when it comes down to it,
I’m forever convincing myself that there’s
a reason why it won't be this month that I

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finally buy that YMCA membership, why
it won't be today that I go for that run
(a literal jog around the block), and why
it’s totally okay that I spent all Sunday
playing video games and watching
YouTube videos because | totaaaaally did
a few dozen push-ups throughout the
day.

And I know that it’s all complete
bullshit as much as the next person.

used to be in fairly good shape,
and I’m still some ways away from being
completely incapable of physical exertion,
but in the past few months since I landed
myself a nine-to-five-sitting-in-an-
office-chair job, I can feel—and see—my
general fitness deteriorating.

It’s an easy thing to let happen. I
work two jobs, I’m a pretty busy guy, so

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when I do have some free time, I feel I
deserve to spend it doing something a bit
more relaxing than labouring away on a
treadmill.

But one bad choice leads to two, a
series of decisions becomes a full-fledged
habit, and the next thing you know you're
sitting around the house for an entire
Sunday because you “have to get around
to writing that Lettitor at some point.”

I’m not saying everyone has to go
out and start getting totally swole by
stocking up on pre-workout and protein
shakes. It’s just that I’ve just noticed
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down to making the same decisions over
and over again.

Whether they're decisions that will
better your physical fitness down the line,
or if you instead choose to do something
a bit more relaxing that will improve
your mental well-being, it’s entirely up to
you... and to me.

And I basically wrote this damn
Lettitor to myself, didn’t I.

Fuck it, I’m going for a run.

Cheers,

Che. he Wal h—

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first time in my life, I’d never really
realized: Your life is just a culmination of

scheduled habits, and those habits come Chandler Walter

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