Today's 10 minute walk is helping you keep your fitness promise and adds another link to your growing fitness chain.

And as we begin walking, I actually need to just take a quick drink of water. I don't know if I would call it a fitness promise,

a health promise, which I started earlier this year and that is to drink more water

and I have a specific amount, that water bottle, fill that up three times over the course of a day and drink all that.

I will be candid with you that not a single day has been easy. Not a single day.

Have I thought, I am loving this. I love this. I love the benefits of it.

Drinking the right amount of water is a huge part of health and wellness. By the way, I'm not a doctor. I'm not a licensed personal trainer. This podcast is for education and entertainment purposes only. I realized earlier this year that I just wasn't drinking enough. And I need to be intentional about that as much as I'm intentional about fitness. And so I carry this water

bottle with me pretty much everywhere I go. The last couple of days I've been talking about

Angie and three lessons that Angie has learned.

Just a quick recap, she's been listening to this podcast from the very beginning and has been on a fitness journey.

One of the things about journeys is they're rarely a straight line.

There are twists and turns.

There are high points. there are low points.

There are mountaintop experiences and there are challenges. And Angie has experienced all of that.

She's a teacher in Maryland. And this past summer, she set a fitness promise to walk 10,000 steps, at least 10,000 steps every day during summer break.

And at the end of that fitness promise, Angie sent me an email, letting me know what she had done,

and also three things that she has learned. Not just from the 67 days of,

that's how long her break was, not just from the 67 days of walking 10,000 steps every single

day, but also the previous year and a half, almost two years when she began this fitness journey,

her first fitness chain that went over 250 days and then had to be broken because of an injury. It was a short pause,

and then she went after it again, finished last year, lots of momentum. So it had a big goal for

2023, and I think it was within the first week of the new

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