06/15/17
Day 93
Extreme Accountability Challenge
Starting weight 304 pounds
Destination weight 175 pounds
Total weight loss to date 59.4 pounds
70.6 pounds to go

After posting my scales daily to Facebook for 93 days, one thing is clear, when you know that you’re going to be weighing tomorrow morning, then the next day, then the next, and posting it for the World to see, it’s extremely motivating to find good tasting recipes that are easy to prepare, like Rush’s Hamburgers in South Carolina says, Fabulous Food Fast. Unfortunately, the 3 piece fried chicken meal with fries, slaw, a roll, a diet coke, and a hot fudge nut sundae for dessert, won’t give me the weight loss that I seek.

So I need a plan. With John Davisson’s, my health coach, help, I have created several simple meals that work and won’t leave you with a weight gain in the morning.
Here’s one example.
The picture above is simple

6 ounces smoked chicken breast
(From a few nights ago)
1/2 cup sauteed spinach separately
1/2 cup sauteed asparagus separately, seasoned with Montreal Steak Seasoning
Heat about 2 tablespoons of olive oil in pan
2 tablespoons minced garlic sauteed (or more in case of Vampire invasive!)
Add paprika then chicken stock and lemon juice
Combine chicken, spinach, and asparagus in garlic, lemon, and chicken stock mixture for a few minutes over medium heat.

Serve!

PS
I also add Red Pepper Flakes to mine, if you want it spicier.

Get a plan and execute it daily!

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175 pounds here I come!!!

06/14/17

Day 92 Extreme Accountability Challenge
Starting weight 304 pounds
Destination weight 175 pounds
Total weight loss to date 58.6 pounds
71.4 pounds to go

I just finished “The Dip”, a book by Seth Godin. In it he makes some obvious, but usually ignored points about becoming the “best in the world” at something.

The Dip, as he calls it, is the period of time where someone has to sacrifice and pay the price of becoming the “best in the world” at something. For example, almost everyone wants the life of a Fortune 500 corporate CEO, as Godin puts it, “who wouldn’t want to have the life of modern day royalty?”
Being a CEO is rather easy, becoming a CEO, well that’s the hard part. Very few are willing to pay the price that it takes to reach the level of CEO of a major corporation. It normally takes decades and decades of long hours and personal sacrifice.

I think there is a real parallel between, “the Dip” and how I looked at becoming healthy.

For me to become the “Best in the World”, my World that is, in regards to my health and fitness, I have to make sacrifices. Planning my meals, not eating every time that I feel like it, making better choices regarding what I eat, getting up earlier to exercise, staying out of situations that I am likely to fall off the wagon, and on and on.

This quest to my destination weight of 175 pounds takes a lot of sacrifice, “the Dip” is likely at least 7-8 months to get 129 pounds off, then a lifetime of making better choices. Why? Do I really need to point out what living a longer healthier life is worth?

I would submit that I can hide many shortcomings that I’ve had throughout my life, but optimal health and fitness isn’t one of those that can be hidden. If I’m the healthiest that I can possibly be, it’s pretty obvious by my waistline. If I’m not, well all I have to do is look in the mirror, pretty simple, but I ignored it because of “the Dip”, it’s hard to get there, but oh it will be so worthwhile.

Join me in becoming the “best in the world”, your world, in regards to your health and fitness and..

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175 pounds here I come!!!

06/13/17
Day 91 Extreme Accountability Challenge
Starting weight 304 pounds
Destination weight 175 pounds
Total weight loss to date 58.2 pounds
71.8 pounds to go

I think I may have the record for latest post to the Extreme Accountability Challenge yet. Crazy busy day, I weighed early this morning like normal but never got it posted. I will be surprisingly brief.

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175 pounds here I come!!!

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…

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175 pounds here I come!!!