Archives for June 2017

06/02/17

Day 80 Extreme Accountability Challenge
Starting weight 304 pounds
Destination weight 175 pounds
Total weight loss to date 53.6 pounds
75.4 pounds to go

As I was riding my bicycle this morning along North Fletcher Avenue in Fernandina Beach, my thoughts went to undertow. When the water’s current pull you out and away from the safety of the shore. Whether it’s weight that you’ve gained or some other

challenge that you’re facing, you’ve been pulled for a reason. It might not make sense today, but it will. The currents of your life may be easy like they are in the picture of the ocean that I took this morning, or you may be facing challenges that you’re not sure how you will survive. Either way you’re being pulled for a reason.

A friend of mine, Captain Jeff Andrechyn, who flies around the Globe in an Airbus, wrote a blog that really spoke to me and continues to, I keep an excerpt from it on my computer’s desktop, it is comforting and true. I’ve included it for you.

“I want to say to every financial disaster out there, every divorce, every disease you have, every untimely death that has touched your life with profound loss, every career disaster and personal bankruptcy, every journey into the unknown, they are all leading you home. All of your suffering will simply merge you with Jesus, your Captain, who is stronger than all of the adversity. He has been given the job by His Father to bring you safely home. You are never alone in this.”
From the blog, The Never Ending Dream of Home, by Jeff Andrechyn

Press forward.

175 pounds here I come!!!

06/01/17

Day 79 Extreme Accountability Challenge
Starting weight 304 pounds
Destination weight 175 pounds
Total weight loss to date 53.8 pounds
75.2 pounds to go

The Wisdom of simplicity and the simplicity of wisdom.

For decades I’ve made the thought of weight loss into this complex process that I could never seem to grasp. My 18 year old son Joshua, who stays in great shape, when he was about 13 told Angie and I “It’s really simple, keep a caloric deficit until you reach your goal weight.”

Nah!
It’s much more complicated than that!

But it’s really not, it’s the behavior that gets in the way of the desired results.

Go figure, The Wisdom of a 13 year old.

So here’s the plan if you really want results.

1- Pick an eating plan that works for you and will almost certainly yield results over time if you stick to it.
2- Stick to it. 100%. Find a way to stay as motivated on day 100 as on day 1.
The way I came up with is the Extreme Accountability Challenge, posting my weight daily so that I don’t get off track. I am tempted most days to get off track and cheat, but I committed to posting my weight loss journey on Facebook everyday, so it gives me a big stick to beat those cravings back with and stay the course.
3- Find an exercise that you would rather do than to not do. I think this doesn’t make me lose weight much faster but it gives me more energy and overall health.
4- Press repeat until you reach your goal!

Keep it simple and..

Press forward.

175 pounds here I come!!!