Outline a stroke......?

hello, thanks for advise in advance, my problem today is i needed to stroke some text to thicken up for vinyl work. so then i select all,create outlines, then object-path-outline stroke........ but when i looked closer i got two outlines the one from original border and one from the stroke that i outlined. so then i tried to direct select paths i did not need seem to work but went i sent work to cutter still got both outlines. any advise would be great thanks again. -nick

All you had to do is Create Outlines there was no need to also outline the stroke.
So what you might have now is actually a compound path
Something like this
you would want to first determine if you want the outer or inner path to use for the cutline.
And you can delete the say the interior path, the fill will become probably black which you can change as well
What you probably had before was actually three paths the original path left because you had a fill as well as a stroke
like this

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> I created an art brush of two parallel black lines two different ways (two black lines and two black lines with a white line between them) and am getting the same result when I apply the Object>Path>Outline Stroke command.
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