Archives for May 2017

05/03/17
Day 50
Extreme Accountability Challenge
Starting weight 304 pounds
Destination weight 175 pounds.
Total weight loss to date 38.2 pounds

This is my 50th post of my scales to Facebook. For those of you that haven’t unfriended me yet because you’re tired of looking at my feet every morning, thank you for all of your comments and likes each day.

What has made this such a powerful tool for me and everyone that has come along for this journey is all of what my health coach John Davisson calls, structural tension. Each person that watches, comments, likes, or that I talk about this Extreme Accountability Challenge with gives a little more strength and willpower to this 55 year man, that could never seem to get full enough to stop eating just one more bite.

I know this probably doesn’t make sense to a lot of you but if you have ever had a bad habit or an addiction, maybe you can relate. Most habits and addictions you can go “cold turkey” and completely leave it behind, but food and overeating is different, you still have to eat. Since I gained my first 5 pounds of fat I’ve been trying to find that balance, the only problem was that I never was willing to do whatever was necessary, and I mean whatever was necessary to lose weight. This silly idea of posting my scales daily to Facebook was a huge part of my answer, family and friends coming along side of me to lose weight or just encouraging me is even more important. My wife Angie, wow, what a woman, she has tried for so many years to help me get my weight under control, never nagging, just helping whatever I asked, and now even posting her scales daily too. All of the scales that are posted and the comments are fuel in my tank that keep me on course towards 175 pounds.

After losing over 38 pounds in less than 2 months, I can honestly say that I’m glad that I’ve had this challenge with obesity. Even though I’ve got over 90 pounds to go to reach my destination weight of 175 pounds, I’m positive I will get there. You see on March 15, the first time that I posted my scales and my commitment to reach my destination weight of 175 pounds, that was when I conquered my obesity. That day I became a 175 pound healthy man, the only thing left to do was get rid of the weight. It was already over when I started.

 

175 pounds here I come!!

05/02/17
Day 49
Extreme Accountability Challenge
Starting weight 304 pounds
Destination weight 175 pounds.
Total weight loss to date 38 pounds

The scales move little by little. Some days they stay the same or even jump up when you’ve done everything possible to stick to your program and still no weight loss. It can be frustrating changing the course that took years if not decades of overeating to add extra pounds. We want the weight to be gone today or better yet how about yesterday?
It would be so much easier to quit and forget about this weight loss thing. Oh wait a second… You’re posting everyday on Facebook, you can’t quit!

Oh I guess I could but no I’m not, that’s why I’m posting, I’m locked in, but what about when I reach my destination weight of 175 pounds? That’s when the real long term fight begins. I haven’t decided exactly what that will look like but you may want to unfriend me now, there’s a pretty good chance you’ll keep seeing these scales after the weight is gone. You see the battle I’m in with my weight I’m realizing, is a battle for my life, and I can’t give up ever.
Yesterday while listening to a business podcast, I was reminded of this scene in the movie “Rudy”. It applies to so much, I’ve added the link. Rudy was playing for the glory of playing for Notre Dame football, the Extreme Accountability Challenge, well we’re playing for our lives, that’s really it. It’s that big. What are you playing for?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qoh3YkxuwVo

175 pounds here I come!!!

 

05/01/17
Day 48
Extreme Accountability Challenge
Starting weight 304 pounds
Destination weight 175 pounds.
Total weight loss to date 37.8 pounds.

For so many years I’ve carried this extra weight around. I didn’t wake up at 304 pounds one day……maybe I did.

The waking up really occurred every single day that I was overweight. From 5 pounds to over 125 pounds. I knew what to do but how do I get it done? How do I give up those tasty morsels calling for me, no calling to me, every single day? Excuse the language but, that’s pure BS,
Sure I wanted to be thin but wasn’t willing to do whatever it took to get the job done. The Extreme Accountability Challenge was me going all in. It was me posting my scales daily to Facebook in front of friends from elementary school, junior and senior high school, college friends, church friends, neighbors, family, acquaintances, and you name it. The choice morsels don’t even matter anymore, I can see the faces of so many of you reading this every time I consider cheating on my program. It would be like Will Smith’s sky diving experience, but for me to cheat, would be like jumping out of the plane then flapping my arms trying to get back in, that’s nuts!

The daily experience for me has been nothing short of miraculous. I wonder if someone is reading this now and maybe you are desperate to lose weight. You’ve tried everything, you say you have anyway. You’re watching the Extreme Accountability Challenge quietly wondering if you could lose weight doing something like this too. I don’t know the answer for you. But you say you’ve tried everything, none of the diets ever worked long term, you’ve even considered or had surgery to get thin. You feel defeated. I know where you are. I have laid in bed so many mornings crying out to God for an answer to this weight problem.
What would you be willing to do to be there for your family, your spouse, who knows who else. Go watch the movie “It’s a Wonderful Life” and imagine your family’s world without you. The weight could kill you, it could do so much harm in so many ways.

I know we have something here, if you want to get well, healthy, thin, message me. We can tandem jump from this cliff together( metaphorically speaking). I jumped alone praying others would join me, and they have and we’re all succeeding together. The Extreme Accountability isn’t a parachute, it’s it’s how you grow wings. You’re going to fly!

 

175 pounds here I come!!!