Archives for May 2017

05/07/17
Day 54
Extreme Accountability Challenge
Starting weight 304 pounds
Destination weight 175 pounds
Total weight loss to date 41.8 pounds
87.2 pounds to go.

About 4 years ago, my wife Angie came across a bargain at Beall’s, one of her favorite stores here on Amelia Island. It was a pair of citrus green casual shorts in my size at the time. When she brought them home and I tried them on they were pretty tight but at the time I weighed around 275 pounds and knew that I could wear them if I just lost 10 pounds or so.

They got folded away in a drawer with some other clothes too small for me. Instead of losing 10 pounds I kept gaining weight. About a year ago in one of my many “I’ve got to do something about my weight” moments, I came across those bright green shorts and tried them on. At the time, I weighed in around 290 pounds, it was really ugly, I could barely get them over my hips, not a prayer of buttoning them. But on that day, I did something different, I hung the shorts in my closet where I had to face them every single day.

Since then I’ve tried them on many times, if they could talk, they would’ve been laughing hysterically at me over the last year, until yesterday. Yesterday when I reached for those green shorts it was different. It wasn’t me wishing anymore. It was game day. And yesterday the citrus green shorts fit! I had never taken the tags off, but yesterday I did, I conquered the green shorts. They taunted me for years but if you saw a man with a beautiful woman, Angie, gorgeous teenage daughter, Ashley, walking around the Fernandina Beach Florida, Annual Shrimp Festival in a pair of citrus green shorts that actually fit a little loose. That would’ve been me.

Last night as I folded the green shorts away, it hit me, these will not fit me in a few weeks, the green shorts will be too big.
I’ve found some other smaller clothes to look forward to wearing, to take the place of the green shorts.
For the first time in my life, thanks to the Extreme Accountability Challenge, the healthy lifestyle plan that my coach, John Davisson, is teaching me, and you, everyone watching and reading about our weight loss journey and holding us accountable, I know that I will get this weight off and live a longer healthier life.

175 pounds here I come!!!

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05/06/17
Day 53
Extreme Accountability Challenge
Starting weight 304 pounds
Destination weight 175 pounds
Total weight loss to date 40.8 pounds

Even though it took me decades to gain my 129 pounds of fat, I want it off now! Crossing over 40 pounds of weight loss is a big milestone for me, but an even bigger one is my conviction that I am going to be 175 pounds before the end of November. I set a lofty goal in the beginning. To reach 175 pounds by Thanksgiving, not so I could pig out on Thanksgiving day, but so that my life would be forever changed.

Before I jumped into this journey of posting my scales daily to Facebook, when it was just some silly idea, that me, a desperate fat guy had, to force myself to once and for all stick to a healthier lifestyle and forever get this weight off, I had no idea that so many would jump in and join me in this journey. I was hoping, but completely blown away by the encouragement and support of those that post your scales daily to Facebook with me and many that are liking, commenting, and maybe privately doing your own weight loss journey.

But going into this, I took it seriously, guys I’m posting my weight to the world, so I had a plan of action.
I couldn’t just wing it.

1- I got a health coach, John Davisson, who helped me plan my meals down to the bite.

2- Extreme Accountability, posting my weight every day to everyone.

3- Moderate exercise in the beginning, I like biking or walking.

4- If it didn’t work to change plans after 30 days or so.

Number 4 is the biggest, if it wasn’t working I would change my plan. But it did, 30 days in I was down 27 pounds!

Just posting my weight loss journey was important but having a plan that fit me and got results was equally important.

The thing that posting my weight loss journey on Facebook assured was that if what I was doing wasn’t working I would find something that did, everyone would be watching.

So if you’re struggling, I’m not telling you what to eat or how to exercise, that’s for the experts. All that I’m saying is doing the same thing the exact same way over and over and expecting a different result, well I think that’s the definition of insanity.
I’m speaking primary to those of you watching us post our scales, not to the brave souls that join me every day and are posting their scales to Facebook. I know they will get it done and achieve their health goals.

175 pounds here I come!!!

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05/05/17
Day 52
Extreme Accountability Challenge
Starting weight 304 pounds
Destination weight 175 pounds
Total weight loss to date 39.6 pounds

Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t—you’re right.

Henry Ford

For so many years I told myself that I was the fat guy, even when I was not really fat. I kept making jokes about myself. I did that until March 15, 2017. I would have looked pretty foolish posting my weight loss journey on Facebook everyday and still making jokes about myself and how fat I was.
My story changed that day, the day Hyo Kim, challenged me to post and declare to the world that no matter what it took I would get to a healthy weight of 175 pounds. It became my new story. You’ve probably read that I said it was like jumping off a cliff. Now the story is not if I reach 175 pounds, but when.

I don’t make fat jokes about myself anymore, because even though I have a lot of weight yet to lose, that fat guy is gone, he doesn’t live here anymore. My weight loss is as certain as gravity bringing the cliff diver to a safe landing. It may look uncertain to you but not to me.
Funny how our thoughts and words change things.

Where there is no vision, the people perish
Proverbs 29:18 KJV

175 pounds here I come!!!

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