First Step

June 8th, 2020. At half past eleven, the box was sitting on the staircase. By five in the afternoon, the treadmill was in the living room.

€944.90. A hundred and ten kilograms of iron capable of going twenty-two kilometres an hour.

I knew I had to do something about myself. But I didn't want to start exercising again. So I took the easiest path I was capable of at the time. Fifteen minutes of walking a day. Nothing more than that was within my reach back then. Three days later I stepped on the scale. 155.3 kg.

In the first three months, nine kilograms came off. In the following eleven months, three.

I write about this treadmill in the book — chapter "Rise from the Shadow of the Past", subchapter "Every Step Has Its Meaning".