Chapter 19: The day I want to cheat

The day when I started cheating came faster than expected.

I started gaining weight and not logging it, in hope that I can regain momentum later on, without anybody noticing.

The truth is – even if nobody noticed – I did.

And no, I could not get back on track.

I let my work taking hold of me; I stopped dying my hair, forgot to change the dead battery in my scale and eventually stopped exercising.

Coco traveling the Mexican shores was beyond any reach and again I was planning to pick up my journey by tomorrow.

Every day was a new tomorrow.

Until one day the strong Eastern wind reached out through the opened windows and dropped down my papers from the black wooden shelf.

I ran home through the heavy rain to meet them.

Middle in the living room, among the papers dancing in the wind there they were: the Yellow and the Blue Envelopes given to me by Coco.

– Open the Yellow one on the day you want to cheat and the Blue one on the day you want to quit. – Coco’s words echoed in my mind.

Who would have known that cheating and quitting are coming together?

I opened the Yellow envelope…