06/30/17
Day 107 Extreme Accountability Challenge Starting weight 304 pounds Destination weight 175 pounds Total weight loss to date 64.8 pounds 64.2 pounds to go Cheat days are something curious to me. I’m sort of an expert on them. You see to get to 304 pounds, you have to experience a lot of cheat days. Big meals, seconds, and thirds, desserts, snacks, first breakfast, second breakfast, first lunch, second lunch. Just one more bite, that’s all, it’s a special occasion, the ” you fill in the blank day” only happens once a year. I have used more manipulation, excuses, sound reasoning, you name it, I used it only to justify my unwillingness to make my health a priority. So let’s you and me reframe what a “cheat day” is, let’s create a new definition, a new paradigm. Now a “cheat day” is When I cheat the doctor out of extra appointments, I’m too healthy I’d love to hear from you and what you will be gaining instead of weight on your “cheat days” I know that all of our days are numbered, but I also know that God gave you and me something called free will, we get a little bit of say so in the numbers. Sticking to my program of healthy eating isn’t convenient all the time, I would love to cheat most days, but I choose my new definition of a cheat day. I choose to live. I hope you will too. It won’t be easy or comfortable but it will be worth it. Remember comfort and safety are overrated. Press post then press forward. 175 pounds here I come!!! |
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Day 106, June 29, 2017
06/29/17
Day 106 Extreme Accountability Challenge Starting weight 304 pounds Destination weight 175 pounds Total weight loss to date 65.6 pounds 63.4 pounds to go I woke up right between my elbows this morning just like the previous 20,329 mornings that proceeded today. That’s a whole bunch of days, wow! 55 years and several months worth. When I think about all of the days past, I can’t help but wonder what the future holds. That really is the reason that I started posting my weight loss journey on Facebook on March 15, 2017. The days ahead. I want more of them if I can have them. If you haven’t figured out up to this point, I write lengthy posts sharing my thoughts because I am a dreamer. I dream of what is possible for my family and me, and when I weighed 304 pounds, I knew that while there are no guarantees, it would most likely be a short dream. Find a man over 65 that is 5’11” and 304 pounds or more. With all of the obesity around us, you would think that you could reach out and find one just anywhere. If you are able to find one, how’s his health, what kind of quality of life does he have? I think that you and I both know the answer to these questions. It’s rather obvious. I’m not searching for the fountain of youth, I just don’t want to take the gift of today for granted anymore. I dream and have dreamed of a full life of successes, loving relationships, accomplishments, and on and on. What I need is runway, time. To have a chance at that time, I would have to fill this massive gap in my health and lose 129 pounds. None of us are promised tomorrow but we have the ability to do our part. Today could be your last day or mine or it could be the day you create a plan to change and do what you can to live out what you dream of, in your heart, the chance that maybe… just maybe you could oovercome just one challenge, not all of them, to get around or through that challenge to do what you dream of…. BUT YOU NEED TIME. If it’s accountability you need, here you will find it, if It’s something else, go after it with all of your strength. Remember comfort and safety are overrated. Press post then press forward. 175 pounds here I come!!!
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Day 105, June 28, 2017
06/28/17
Day 105 Extreme Accountability Challenge Starting weight 304 pounds Destination weight 175 pounds Total weight loss to date 65.6 pounds 63.4 pounds to go Waking up to 304 pounds in March 2017 was no surprise. It wasn’t like I weighed 175 pounds the day before and “poof” I gained 129 pounds overnight. That would be ridiculous. Fortunately, and yes that’s not a typo, fortunately the weight does not come off overnight. While losing over 65 pounds in 105 days is moving incredibly fast, it is happening because of small incremental changes, my health coach, John Davisson, refers to as “habits of health.Knowing everyday before my day starts, what I will eat, drink, how I will exercise, how much sleep I will get, and so on that day. Then sticking to it day after day after day after day. That’s where you guys come in, you’re the secret weapon, my accountability partners in this journey, you are tougher than any drill sergeant or coach. You are there 24 hours a day 7 days a week, watching, cheering, encouraging me. John calls that “structural tension”.But what does it really boil down to really, all of the words and yata yata yata about weight loss. Well every minute of every day, I have a choice to be this incredibly healthy, fit man or to be the out of shape, morbidly obese man. It’s really my choice, it’s that simple, yes really. I choose healthy and fit and by taking months to get this 129 pounds of fat off, I’m learning new habits of and for my health.
Weight and health are such great metaphors for so many areas of life. When I woke up that morning in March I had had enough. I did what was necessary to change. When you woke up this morning, I hope everything was rainbows and unicorns for you but most likely not, there’s probably some area or areas of your life that you want and need change, maybe they’re not obvious like my 304 pounds size was to me and the rest of the world, maybe it’s your job, a relationship, smoking, where you live, alcohol, or a myriad of other challenges. You want and know that you need to change. By making the choice to do nothing about your situation you are choosing the results by default. Ouch! Think about it. Reread it. If nothing changes, then nothing changes. Most likely, just like my 129 pounds of fat, it won’t change overnight, that’s okay, you have learn new behaviours, new habits, just like me. But by doing nothing, you are taking this opportunity that you have been given by the creator of the universe to live this amazing, incredible life and throwing it away by your inaction. I know, I did it for years. I don’t know your situation, I know that it may look impossible, my 129 pounds did to me. Make a decision, not by default, on purpose. Seek wisdom and council and guidance. Then, are you ready for this, look around and do it again in another area of your choice and remember to enjoy this life and the journey you are on, you are in the exact best place to make a change today. You are where you are, see it as a gift. Remember comfort and safety are overrated. Press post then move forward. 175 pounds here I come!!! |
Day 105, June 27, 2017
06/27/17
Day 104 Extreme Accountability Challenge Starting weight 304 pounds Destination weight 175 pounds Total weight loss to date 65.0 pounds 64.0 pounds to goFor the first time in this public weight loss journey, I can say that I’ve lost more weight than I have to lose. Of the Extreme Accountability Challenge Participants that are travelling with me on this public weight loss journey, I was the most overweight. Many of them started with much less weight to lose than I still have to lose, 65 pounds gone forever, 64 pounds to go. John Davisson, my health coach, who knows me pretty well, found that picture of a duck jumping off of a cliff. He nailed it, I felt clumsy, unsure, and most of all frightened at the thought of posting my weight everyday to Facebook for my world to see. Half of my weight is gone, not for a while, forever, really, it’s gone forever! Every day when I write these posts, while I hope everyone that reads them enjoys them, I write to the man or woman like me, who has lost hope. While I could remorse over the decades of battling my weight, the literally tens of thousands of dollars that I spent on weight loss, the agony in my heart that I felt when I looked in the mirror, what was worst of all was the shame that Angie and my children felt when I was introduced to someone new, they would try to hide it, but I was not only hurting myself I was hurting them too. You don’t easily hide 129 pounds of fat. I could go on and on with the remorse, but today is a new day. I write these lengthy, wordy, preachy, banterings for the man or woman that has given up. Food has taken over and has gone from being a blessing to being a curse. You eat to forget how bad you feel and how hopeless that you have become. You have lost the will to fight, you believe there’s no use and you have given up. You my friend are wrong. I was and I believe you are too. Whether it’s posting your scales daily or whatever it takes, there is hope. Message me, call me, or call someone, but don’t give up. It’s too important, you are fighting for your life and so much more. Besides you might be clumsily jumping of a cliff like me only to find out that there is greater strength inside you than you remembered having and you end up flying like that eagle. Make this a must, not a should, do what’s necessary, not what’s comfortable… Remember comfort and safety are overrated. 175 pounds here I come!!! |
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