05/06/17
Day 53
Extreme Accountability Challenge
Starting weight 304 pounds
Destination weight 175 pounds
Total weight loss to date 40.8 pounds

Even though it took me decades to gain my 129 pounds of fat, I want it off now! Crossing over 40 pounds of weight loss is a big milestone for me, but an even bigger one is my conviction that I am going to be 175 pounds before the end of November. I set a lofty goal in the beginning. To reach 175 pounds by Thanksgiving, not so I could pig out on Thanksgiving day, but so that my life would be forever changed.

Before I jumped into this journey of posting my scales daily to Facebook, when it was just some silly idea, that me, a desperate fat guy had, to force myself to once and for all stick to a healthier lifestyle and forever get this weight off, I had no idea that so many would jump in and join me in this journey. I was hoping, but completely blown away by the encouragement and support of those that post your scales daily to Facebook with me and many that are liking, commenting, and maybe privately doing your own weight loss journey.

But going into this, I took it seriously, guys I’m posting my weight to the world, so I had a plan of action.
I couldn’t just wing it.

1- I got a health coach, John Davisson, who helped me plan my meals down to the bite.

2- Extreme Accountability, posting my weight every day to everyone.

3- Moderate exercise in the beginning, I like biking or walking.

4- If it didn’t work to change plans after 30 days or so.

Number 4 is the biggest, if it wasn’t working I would change my plan. But it did, 30 days in I was down 27 pounds!

Just posting my weight loss journey was important but having a plan that fit me and got results was equally important.

The thing that posting my weight loss journey on Facebook assured was that if what I was doing wasn’t working I would find something that did, everyone would be watching.

So if you’re struggling, I’m not telling you what to eat or how to exercise, that’s for the experts. All that I’m saying is doing the same thing the exact same way over and over and expecting a different result, well I think that’s the definition of insanity.
I’m speaking primary to those of you watching us post our scales, not to the brave souls that join me every day and are posting their scales to Facebook. I know they will get it done and achieve their health goals.

175 pounds here I come!!!

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05/05/17
Day 52
Extreme Accountability Challenge
Starting weight 304 pounds
Destination weight 175 pounds
Total weight loss to date 39.6 pounds

Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t—you’re right.

Henry Ford

For so many years I told myself that I was the fat guy, even when I was not really fat. I kept making jokes about myself. I did that until March 15, 2017. I would have looked pretty foolish posting my weight loss journey on Facebook everyday and still making jokes about myself and how fat I was.
My story changed that day, the day Hyo Kim, challenged me to post and declare to the world that no matter what it took I would get to a healthy weight of 175 pounds. It became my new story. You’ve probably read that I said it was like jumping off a cliff. Now the story is not if I reach 175 pounds, but when.

I don’t make fat jokes about myself anymore, because even though I have a lot of weight yet to lose, that fat guy is gone, he doesn’t live here anymore. My weight loss is as certain as gravity bringing the cliff diver to a safe landing. It may look uncertain to you but not to me.
Funny how our thoughts and words change things.

Where there is no vision, the people perish
Proverbs 29:18 KJV

175 pounds here I come!!!

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05/03/17
Day 50
Extreme Accountability Challenge
Starting weight 304 pounds
Destination weight 175 pounds.
Total weight loss to date 38.2 pounds

This is my 50th post of my scales to Facebook. For those of you that haven’t unfriended me yet because you’re tired of looking at my feet every morning, thank you for all of your comments and likes each day.

What has made this such a powerful tool for me and everyone that has come along for this journey is all of what my health coach John Davisson calls, structural tension. Each person that watches, comments, likes, or that I talk about this Extreme Accountability Challenge with gives a little more strength and willpower to this 55 year man, that could never seem to get full enough to stop eating just one more bite.

I know this probably doesn’t make sense to a lot of you but if you have ever had a bad habit or an addiction, maybe you can relate. Most habits and addictions you can go “cold turkey” and completely leave it behind, but food and overeating is different, you still have to eat. Since I gained my first 5 pounds of fat I’ve been trying to find that balance, the only problem was that I never was willing to do whatever was necessary, and I mean whatever was necessary to lose weight. This silly idea of posting my scales daily to Facebook was a huge part of my answer, family and friends coming along side of me to lose weight or just encouraging me is even more important. My wife Angie, wow, what a woman, she has tried for so many years to help me get my weight under control, never nagging, just helping whatever I asked, and now even posting her scales daily too. All of the scales that are posted and the comments are fuel in my tank that keep me on course towards 175 pounds.

After losing over 38 pounds in less than 2 months, I can honestly say that I’m glad that I’ve had this challenge with obesity. Even though I’ve got over 90 pounds to go to reach my destination weight of 175 pounds, I’m positive I will get there. You see on March 15, the first time that I posted my scales and my commitment to reach my destination weight of 175 pounds, that was when I conquered my obesity. That day I became a 175 pound healthy man, the only thing left to do was get rid of the weight. It was already over when I started.

175 pounds here I come!!