A habit that helps me stay lean

Alexei Sorokin
4 min readDec 5, 2021

I shared one of my other tips in this story. And if you want to see my narcissistic before and after weight loss pics you can see them in this story!

So, after losing about 30 pounds (I went from 185 to under 160 pounds) in 2020, I’ve stayed very focused on maintaining my lean weight, not only for the sake of weight management itself but for my running, which has become my true passion and a non-negotiable daily habit, as I like referring to it. In October of 2021, I ran a sub-three-marathon and I recently signed up for Chicago in 2022, targeting sub 2.50.

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A Russian immigrant in America, father of 4, Cambridge and Harvard Business School alum. I run and write every day. More here: https://linktr.ee/alexei.sorokin