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The Secret to Personal Improvement

don’t let gradual growth discourage you from achieving your goals

David J. Meyer
3 min readAug 13, 2019

I had two old friends come to town to visit this weekend, which is always fun! However, I made the fatal mistake of ditching my whole diet altogether. Let me explain…

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For the past 6 months, I have been eating a clean paleo type diet pretty consistently. I might have a cheat meal once a week, an occasional dessert, or maybe even some popcorn and candy at the movies. But nothing like this weekend. Let me see if I can recap real quick.

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I had pancakes, a ton of Italian food (loaded with carbs), beer and wine, a ton of french fries, two huge breakfast tacos, more pasta, a big juicy burger with fried cheese, and to top it off we went to a Brazillian steak house where I ate a huge waffle and way too much meat! To make matters worse, throughout the weekend I was also constantly snacking on fudge!

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Fast forward to today and I wake up feeling awful! I am sluggish, have a crazy

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David J. Meyer
David J. Meyer

Written by David J. Meyer

Husband. Writer. Founder of Biblit. Creator of short stories, poetry, blogs, and more. More info at: davidjmeyer.press

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