06/12/17
Day 90 Extreme Accountability Challenge
Starting weight 304 pounds
Destination weight 175 pounds
Total weight loss to date 58.4 pounds
71.6 pounds to go
Early on in this weight loss journey on Facebook, I wrote about comparison being the seed of all discontent. It occurred to me this morning that it’s also the seed of mediocrity.
I’ve been on so many diets that I lost count a long time ago. The pattern that I’ve followed up to this point is to stop before I reached my goal weight. Really is it about a goal weight or about having incredible health? I think it’s the latter. Certainly I couldn’t have incredible health and be 129 pounds overweight, but if I compared myself, as I’ve done so many times before, to other people that I see, or the best comparison of all, compared to me at my starting weight, I could easily be content with the results. 10, 20, 30, or like now almost 60 pounds down would be enough.
When I was in my late 40’s, Jairek Robbins coached me in business and life. He was about half my age and had incredible insight. One of the things that he told me through coaching was that I should be competing with no one but myself because I could end up with a result far beneath what I am actually capable of if I was satisfied just beating the other guy. I should always ask, “is this my best?”
I am on my way to some incredible weight loss, but more importantly to incredible health. My destination weight of 175 pounds sounds pretty good, but look out I’m heading towards the health and stamina that’s my best. Not someone else’s definition, mine. I own the choices that I make, and guess what, so do you. Whether you are chronologically very young or in your mature years, set your course for your personal best and…
Press forward.
175 pounds here I come!!!