06/05/17
Day 83 Extreme Accountability Challenge
Starting weight 304 pounds
Destination weight 175 pounds
Total weight loss to date 55.2 pounds
73.8 pounds to go
The last few days I’ve written about the frustration of sticking to a weight loss program and hitting a plateau. Today the scales rewarded my perseverance with a reading of under 250 pounds. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen the 240’s. I like to show a weight loss everyday, especially since I’m posting my weight loss journey on Facebook, but really did it make a difference what the scales said?
Yes and No.
No because I’m not stopping posting my scales daily until I reach my destination weight of 175 pounds. Yes because the scales not moving down could mean that I am missing something. I could be eating something that is hampering my weight loss. It caused me to pause and examine if I was completely following the plan that my health coach John Davisson designed for me. In the past, I never did this self examination of what I was eating, when I had lost 10 or 20 pounds and the weight loss stalled, I would immediately give up and go back to my old ways of eating again. Accepting my weight rather than confronting it. In other words, whenever it got tough, I gave up. That kind of weakness can cost big. It caused me to reach 304 pounds, and could have costed me my life, literally.
I did find some things about my eating plan that I was not following exactly, not big things, but really important as I move towards the halfway point of this 129 pounds weight loss journey.
So I guess I should really be thankful for the plateaus, they cause me to strengthen my resolve and align my habits to ultimately achieve optimal health.
Most of all I’m thankful for the Extreme Accountability Challenge, it’s participants, and all of you that follow this journey every day. I know that I would have given up without you. Thank you for helping me to lose this weight but really thank you for helping to save my life.
Press forward.
175 pounds here I come!!!