05/31/17
Day 78 Extreme Accountability Challenge
Starting weight 304 pounds
Destination weight 175 pounds
Total weight loss to date 53.0 pounds
76.0 pounds to go
Are you selling your birthright?
Once when Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the open country, famished. He said to Jacob, “Quick, let me have some of that red stew! I’m famished!” (That is why he was also called Edom. ) Jacob replied, “First sell me your birthright.” “Look, I am about to die,” Esau said. “What good is the birthright to me?” But Jacob said, “Swear to me first.” So he swore an oath to him, selling his birthright to Jacob. Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and some lentil stew. He ate and drank, and then got up and left. So Esau despised his birthright.
Genesis 25:29-34 NIV
The parallel between eating my way to an untimely death and Esau selling his birthright to Jacob for a bowl of soup is pretty interesting. One thing is for sure, if I’ve destroyed my health what good will my birthright be?
I was clearly on my way, eating myself all the way to 304 pounds, but I realized what I had to do. “What’s that?” You may ask. The answer was and still is, WHATEVER IT TAKES TO LOSE THIS WEIGHT! If putting myself out there on Facebook and make a complete fool of myself was what it took, so be it. I’m pretty useless dead. So that’s what I did and am doing every day. One thing I haven’t talked about is, I make it a priority to tell someone new every day about this journey. It adds more fuel to this fire, and yes makes me even more accountable. I will get this weight off and be in the most incredible shape of my life.
Why bother?
I have so much to do, become, see, experience, and give. Angie, Blake, Adam, Joshua, and Ashley ( My wife and 4 children) for starters. That’s why.
This may sound like a bunch of Bible mumbo jumbo, it’s not. I believe we’re all hear for a reason, you might call it your birthright.
Let me ask you a question, if I told you that I would give you $100,000,000 and all you had to do to keep it is to go live out that which you have always dreamed of, do that thing you’ve always dreamed of, what would it be?
It’s probably your birthright.
Are you selling it off for some present comfort? Are you afraid of what people will say? For all that money, could you ignore the critics and the temporary inconveniences? I bet you could.
Do whatever it takes.
It’s more valuable than the $100,000,000.
Press forward.
175 pounds here I come!!!