I'd have preferred for this to be a race day post. As I had deleted the race's original SVG design, last night, I grabbed a screenshot off Cricut so that I could trace bitmap an approximate to post here.

It's a simple design and CLEARLY DERIVATIVE of STRANGER THINGS, which IT SHOULD BE for it couldn't be anything else! Sure, it's in terms of taking place on Halloween, but more significantly, it marks not only a 500-day diet streak, but the successful streaks that came before it via the shirt's back.

front of shirt:

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STRANGER THINGS has been a companion across this weightloss ride, whether my playing the synthwave genre throughout or even season 3's, "One Summer Can Change Everything" poster that once hung in my gym.

It seemed befitting that for Race 1, the event I looked toward to for YEARS, would feature a STRANGER THINGS theme. When I kicked a keto diet off in June 2020, I didn't know where I would land 500 days later or that it would EVER be CARNIVORE for in context, my absolute PRIDE at that point was a low-calorie vegan diet that got to 116 days, breaking the previous record by 22 days, something special before it was squashed by this MONSTER TRUCK RALLY BIGFOOT BEHEMOTH MEGA-DIET—this current streak OBLITERATES all of my past high scores COMBINED.

back of shirt:

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At what point does a diet become: it's just what I do?

Well, it's food for thought...for now, we're on to Cincinnati. Up next: Thursday's weigh-in for The 24th Expedition's results.