As I told you a couple of months ago
here: (https://steemit.com/funny/@onceuponatime/vanity-got-the-best-of-me)
(1)
Vanity got the best of me,
so I was determined to get back into shape
after years behind a computer screen
and virtually no exercise.
Did I stick to it,
like a New Year's resolution,
for a few weeks,
then begin to taper off
(2)
and back to indolence and old bad habits?
(3)
Nope!!!
Two months later, I'm still at it,
Five days a week in the gym......
and eating healthier than ever!
The moral of this story?
Vanity trumps will power.........
.....every time!
- images (1), (2) and (3) are from pixabay.com
- the other images are my own
(and the one of me in the gym was taken today!)
ouzo and out,
@onceuponatime
You got the eye of the tiger!
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I have some rather heavy battles on the near horizon :-)
Let's hope I can transcend them :-)
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@onceuponatime,
No matter how much money we have or crypto either! Health is the most precious of all! So hat off for the decision! Keep it up!
Cheers~
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Hat's off to you too!
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@onceuponatime,
Cheers~
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You are doing very well sir !!!
Great decision, but you will feel much better and stronger !!! I hope not to cut.....ouzo and out...!!!!
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Well, I actually haven't had any alcohol for two months. But I was too lazy to change it to: "ouzo is out" while I am in training :-)
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Hahaha...of course not, but when you are taking "days off" of the gym, some times an "ouzo" is very good...!!! Have a nice time sir @onceuponatime !!!!
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Karma kobucha???is it a good one???
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It is very good! Made in France. Available now (intermittently) at my local Loutraki health food store.
But I'll bet yours is better!
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Apologies for not being able to deliver it myself. Our kombucha is frizante and needs to be kept in fridge otherwise the bottles burst. I would have sent it via post but can' t be kept out of the fridge for long. I apologise because I like to keep my word.
If you come to Athens come visit us at Cafe Boheme and most probably we ll have plenty kombucha 🤩🤩🤩
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You are not alone.
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Oh? Is @twiceuponatime back?
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Then you should listen to this one.
... and move it.Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
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Shake it till you make it! LoL
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Always one to get me warm up or go for a walk. :-)
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Cor, look at that, like a lemon kombucha quaffing gym machine!!
Seriously though, good on you. I am on a kick myself, the older I get the harder it gets but it has to be done!
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There has to be some exponentially more appropriate word for it than ""harder" it gets" :-)
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Or even a more appropriate word!! :0)
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We don't realize it but vanity can be a powerful motivator sometimes. I like to think of people as being made of different feelings and emotions and in the end we all have a little of everything.
Even vanity and things like ego are there and very much a part of us. I think successful people just learn to channel all these emotions towards what they want to achieve and make even the negative aspects of themselves work for them.
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Ya got to use what ya got :-)
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That's for sure :-)
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The only things "for sure" are taxes and death. At least that's what I have heard :-)
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LOL!
Then consider this a new addition :-)
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I wish I could stick to my personal development resolutions, I really sound like 5a broken record thEse days.
Am happy for you though, keep at it
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I told you! You have to somehow engage your vanity :-)
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So you are telling me there is hope for us old timers after all?
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No! I don't want to give you an false hopes. Absolutely everyone you know, including yourself, is going to die.
“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.” – C. S. Lewis
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Oh yes I knew that! I was just hoping for a bit of fun before the bitter end lol
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Wait, wait, wait. I will give you some hope after all. The end does not have to be bitter! It can be sweet for some.
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So you are telling
Me there is hope for us old
Timers after all?
- old-guy-photos
I'm a bot. I detect haiku.
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Ok... i get what eating healthier means, but what are those bottles? I mostly drink water, and sometimes some green tea because it is healthier, but never saw those bottles before...
Well, still, congrats on sticking with your goals, most people quit the gym after a couple of weeks, people too thought i was going to quit after a couple of weeks... well it's been 5 years, i think... it's been so long that i forgot when i first started... I'm quicker, faster, slimmer, stronger, better, and even saw some of the improvements in my mental focus, so yeah, gym life is great!
Again congrats to you and stick with your goals and don't listen to the haters, because haters gonna hate!
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In the bottles is a delightfully healthy liquid called "kombucha" which is a fermentation product with many nutrients which some of my friends call "weird tea".
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Ok, now i gotta try some of that... i'll see if my local market sells some of that "weird tea", i'm always on for some extra nutrients!
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In Canada it was even available in grocery stores, although here it is only available in some health food stores. The brand pictured is produced in France.
Apparently it is fairly easy to make at home (I am far too lazy). Here is a steemit post with a recipe:
https://steemit.com/food/@tikotiko/who-likes-kombucha-the-process-of-making-kombucha-beverage
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Who invented this tea... it looks like someone just had too many ingredients at home and decided to put everything in water to see what it turned out to be...
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I recommend a google search for that kind of info. I don't know myself offhand :-)
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Wikipedia says the place of origin isn't know, it can be 200-2000 years... regardless of tha, look at this, it has 0.5% alcohol in it xD don't be too healthy or you might get drunk on kombucha
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What part of the U. S. Constitution allows the Federal government to regulate food? (Hint: any power not specifically given to the Federal government is retained by the individual States or by the People. -
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I started lifting again this summer but these beers aren't that heavy.
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They soon will be (once they have settled into your waistline and you have to weight lift them up the stairs)
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My legs could probably use the workout. Aside from the cigarettes, I'm still in relatively good shape. I can do one handed chin-ups, but I think I cheat because it's easier when you hold your wrist with the free hand for some reason.
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You? Cheat?
Oh, Lord, say it isn't true. Life loses all meaning. My moral compass, my shining northern star, my reason for any remaining faith in humanity.......gone, gone, GONE!
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LOL! You'll survive. I've done it to show off a couple of times (because why not?) and people always say I'm cheating placing that free hand there, yet when they try it, they can't pull themselves up! LOL! Maybe it's magic? I dunno...
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It's great habit to get into. 20 pushups every morning when I wake up for the past 3 months, now I do think it is time I stopped smoking and hit a gym proper ...
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Yes, some habits are definitely better than others!
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I think you just came for the picture after taking a shower in cloths :)
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You must be in marketing! LoL
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Well you don't look so bad working out in the gym, keeping looking healthy and eating healthy too
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Amazing what exercise can do.
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WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW THIS IS WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR. THUMPS UP!!!
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THUMBS UP!!!
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Oh my goodness.....How old are you man??????
I guess you're only 18 years old:D
Yeah that's true..... I prefer to take time with drinking vodka :)
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Vodka and dragons. Sounds dangerous!
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Glad to see you doing well and rightly so get maximum results, but look what the guy did ...
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Friend of yours? :-)
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It's my friend, and send your greetings to him hihihihi ... Lol!!
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With friends like that, who needs.......
(fill in the blank LoL)
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With a friend like that, who needs (rejection.) 😂😂
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HAHAHA
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Hey @onceuponatime, Appreciated your fitness task. It's better to be like as be you younger lol. Really....you're true younger with gym exercises.
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Yes sir!
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But it's a torture chamber too! LoL
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WAAAOOO, congratulations, I always say that I will go to the gym ... and weeeeell ... hahaha I leave it for the next week ...
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That's OK. But it is next week now. So go today!
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Wow 5 days in a week with gym! Definitely you will get best result, very nice to see your concern about health, this is the good spirit. Looking so perfect,fit body and young in your gym photography. Best of luck.
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Well, thank you for describing it as my "concern about health" (when I thought that it might be just vanity).
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Sometimes I wonder what am I going to achieve with such a physique. I dont know what drives me everyday to the gym, I feel incomplete without it!
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Maybe you will become a movie star :-)
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Eat healthily and keep it up with exercise. I presume you haven't been there due to the @twiceuponatime's grief? :(
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Sorry, I still can't bring myself to talk about @twiceuponatime.
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Wow!!! Keep it @onceuponatime. I have already got inspiration from this.
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Inspiration is the first step :-)
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Yeah
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1st one is the best one!!
its too good!!
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The best is yet to come!
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From sweat it seems that you are working out very hard!!! and it seems to me that you have become very muscular since the last time I saw you :)
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When do you think I will be able to do beach commercials?
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of course you are ready for commercials!!!
look this.... :P
it is so simple now!! :)
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Kick ass and take names !!!
Looking Good Man!!!!
Keep it up.
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That sounds too much like bookkeeping.
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Crap ... you figured out I was involved in accounting and economics , lol.
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Welcome back to the world of fitness! I remember you once said you haven't been into a gym for some years or so!! :D So are you feeling better now??
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How am I supposed to feel better? Wherever I go...........there I am :-)
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you are looking more younger then before ;)
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looking damn cool and handsome sir stick to your routine😎😎
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Compliments help! (to stick to my routine) LoL
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That's a weird looking ouzo you got there :/
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I like weird. And I always assumed that you did too.
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I do, I just don't like ouzo. Tsipouro one the other hand... <3
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Good work, what's those drinks?
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kombucha
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Got massive sugar spoon bad habit man. Don't use again extra. If you use again I wanna go to by gun for killing you :D
Inside gym you had scary mood. Why????
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No scary mood. You are projeccting :-)
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Well done! You are really sweating it out in the gym!
I bought my new pair of running shoes and had been to the gym only once during the past two weeks!!
You look ten years younger already!!
Oh! No! I have to catch up with you!!
You are tenacious and looking very handsome.
I am not going to be left behind!!
See me in the gym next week!
Cheers.
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I'll believe it when I see it :-)
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Wow. Well done @onceuponatime. I'm impressed!
Sadly vanity hasn't trumped will power in my world yet. I still spend way too much time in front of a computer screen and move too little. 😢
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Maybe it will kick in for you, like me, when you look down and can't see your shoes :-)
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Ha, ha, ha @onceuponatime. Maybe. But I'm more likely to go down the healthy eating route rather than the exercise one. 😊
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Why not both? I do both and I think they are both necessary to optimize health.
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Simply because I hate exercising @onceuponatime. I also think they are both necessary to optimize health but I'm not very disciplined. 😊
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I can't remember that I said anywhere that I "like" exercising. And you may need to engage vanity too to overcome lack of discipline :-)
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Congrats! I made a similar commitment to myself and have really fallen behind. I get in stages of following it really well and then life happens. It's really hard to stick to; especially during the middle of a heat wave. Good for you though! You're inspiring me to get back on it
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I guess priorities always come into play.
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congrats on managing to stay in program although you had the high temperatures of summer to deal with!
Don't lie to people tell them your secret in these bottles! the new protein-steroid mix :P
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Never know what you're going to find at the bottom of a bottle :-)
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not sure when was the last time i worked out xD
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If ever?
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ever! xD haha
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Your posts are full of everything.
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Including the kitchen sink!
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It takes years for a coal piece to turn into diamond. Immense stress and pressure is needed for this transformation. I am happy that you went through it successfully.
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I'm hardly a diamond yet :-)
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Congratulations. The difference is easily noticeable. Keep going!!!!!!! 💪💪💪
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Thank you.
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I would call that fear ... more than vanity! From my point of view, maybe for you is vanity.
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Whatever floats your boat (I hope that your boat floats).
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Yes, of course...is all that matters. Thanks for the reply.
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Nice write-up
#thanks for sharing this
#enjoy your day
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Impressive. I've never been able to stick with any kind of structured workout program for more than a short while. Guess I'm not vain enough... :)
Either that, or I get worn out enough by maintaining our yard...
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Excellent friend! Exercise is HEALTH!
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this is just my third week in gym, thou enjoyed it
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Well done, keep on going!!!
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💪💪💪💪💪💪💪
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No life without gym 💪💪💪💪💪💪
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Congratulations @onceuponatime!
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still doing pretty amazingly well not easy at all :)
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ll I am in that phase of sitting in front of the monitor ;)
Well keep doing it buddy !
You sure are looking brighter as time passing by ;)
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conchale, how nice this, I like the publication
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gd job
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Looking good ... bravo!!!
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Nice! Calories in, calories out bro! That's the key if you ask me.
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Nice! Calories in,
Calories out bro! That's the
Key if you ask me.
- aldentan
I'm a bot. I detect haiku.
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you are absolutely right, vanity trumps power, it makes you to think of life beyond the present moment. Look into future that is yet to come. exercise is only the key to a better shaped body physically.
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Wow you loss too much water in this pic, so that's mean you worked so hard and that's great, and you drink Karma so you have the good things in your back hehehe. Regards
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You have my admiration. Vanity can be a motivator to encourage will power to change. Keep up the great work @onceuponatime
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