06/27/17
Day 104 Extreme Accountability Challenge Starting weight 304 pounds Destination weight 175 pounds Total weight loss to date 65.0 pounds 64.0 pounds to goFor the first time in this public weight loss journey, I can say that I’ve lost more weight than I have to lose. Of the Extreme Accountability Challenge Participants that are travelling with me on this public weight loss journey, I was the most overweight. Many of them started with much less weight to lose than I still have to lose, 65 pounds gone forever, 64 pounds to go. John Davisson, my health coach, who knows me pretty well, found that picture of a duck jumping off of a cliff. He nailed it, I felt clumsy, unsure, and most of all frightened at the thought of posting my weight everyday to Facebook for my world to see. Half of my weight is gone, not for a while, forever, really, it’s gone forever! Every day when I write these posts, while I hope everyone that reads them enjoys them, I write to the man or woman like me, who has lost hope. While I could remorse over the decades of battling my weight, the literally tens of thousands of dollars that I spent on weight loss, the agony in my heart that I felt when I looked in the mirror, what was worst of all was the shame that Angie and my children felt when I was introduced to someone new, they would try to hide it, but I was not only hurting myself I was hurting them too. You don’t easily hide 129 pounds of fat. I could go on and on with the remorse, but today is a new day. I write these lengthy, wordy, preachy, banterings for the man or woman that has given up. Food has taken over and has gone from being a blessing to being a curse. You eat to forget how bad you feel and how hopeless that you have become. You have lost the will to fight, you believe there’s no use and you have given up. You my friend are wrong. I was and I believe you are too. Whether it’s posting your scales daily or whatever it takes, there is hope. Message me, call me, or call someone, but don’t give up. It’s too important, you are fighting for your life and so much more. Besides you might be clumsily jumping of a cliff like me only to find out that there is greater strength inside you than you remembered having and you end up flying like that eagle. Make this a must, not a should, do what’s necessary, not what’s comfortable… Remember comfort and safety are overrated. 175 pounds here I come!!! |
Day 104, June 26, 2017
06/26/17
Day 104 Extreme Accountability Challenge Starting weight 304 pounds Destination weight 175 pounds Total weight loss to date 64.0 pounds 65.0 pounds to go As I approach the halfway point of this journey, I am within 1/2 pound of what I now call my destination weight of 175 pounds. The journey that I planned would take 36 weeks to complete, today I’m 16 weeks in and ahead of schedule. I think that it is appropriate to look back at the first post on March 15, 2017. It helps to see how far I and everyone that has publicly joined me on this journey, have come. While there are millions of obese people in America today there is no way that I could ever completely explain what this journey has been like. It is so easy to get so focused on the results and to forget the “joy” of the distance travelled. For example, in my original post I was too afraid to own up to weighing 304 pounds less than a week before. I was still fat at 298 pounds, just ashamed to admit 304, go figure. I take time to reflect every day, I may share more than most want to read, but I am savoring this journey. Maybe for you, maybe there is still hope. Whatever your struggles, there is strength beyond your comprehension waiting to be harnessed. You can do it. Enjoy the journey! Originally posted March 15, 2017 I am writing this post really for 2 reasons, first as a declaration and second as an invitation. As anyone that has known me for any length of time should know I clearly have a weight problem. I have struggled with being overweight most of my adult life but over the last 10 years or so it has completely gotten out of control. It hasn’t been sudden, sure I’ve had the occasional 10 or 20 pound weight loss but then put that weight back on and continued my gradual assent upward. Gaining weight and becoming obese cannot be hidden, although by not really stepping up and taking responsibility for my health I have been behaving as though my size is normal. Well I am 5’11” and when I stepped on the scales yesterday morning it read 298 pounds. That is not normal. I am declaring to everyone that reads this that I have set a goal to lose 123 pounds by November 22, 2017. Wow! that’s hard to write! But I know that 8 days, 8 weeks, or 8 months from now I will remember this and it will keep me on course. What a day that was, it was not comfortable! Remember comfort and safety are overrated. 175 pounds here I come!!!
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Day 103, June 25, 2017
06/25/17
Day 103 Extreme Accountability Challenge Starting weight 304 pounds Destination weight 175 pounds Total weight loss to date 63.4 pounds 65.6 pounds to go 103 days of posting since my original weight manifesto. Actually what it was, was a cry for help. I mean really, who posts their scales on Facebook for everyone to see? Well as I have said it many times, someone in total desperation. The 304 pounds reading that I post everyday now for a reference point, was my scales about a week before my first post on March 15, 2017. The idea was there, but the courage to post had not arrived yet. I knew what to do, stick to an eating program that my friend and now health coach, John Davisson lost 65 pounds in 4 1/2 months and had kept it off 10 years. I knew that it was right for me because I had attempted it a few times before and had lost weight, but the temptations of all my favorite foods had derailed me over and over, just like every other plan to lose weight that I had tried. John would say, “Alan, if you would just stick to the program for 6 or 7 months you would get there” I knew that he was right, but I just didn’t believe that I had the willpower. Until this Facebook Extreme Accountability Challenge idea popped into my head. The idea for the challenge was there, the courage to push post not so much, that’s where Hyo Kim and I crossed paths. I have heard it said, ” When the student is ready, the teacher appears.” He got me to push post. I’m not promoting any weight loss plan, most of them are fine, the problem for me, and I believe literally millions of Americans, is staying the course, sticking to the plans. I read comments on my posts and several others, ” slow and steady wins the race” Let me be clear, I appreciate all the encouragement for me and all of the participants of The Extreme Accountability Challenge, but for several of us that have a lot of weight to lose, we are moving very fast, I mean blazing fast. Summers Duffie, Mike Wrabel, Angie Thomas ( my wife), myself, and many others are absolutely crushing this weight loss. Do the math. The participants that have a plan and are sticking to it are absolutely not moving slowly, maybe steady, but not slowly! 103 days, add a week back for me, since I was too afraid to post until March 15th, over 62 pounds down. Steady yes, slow no. The Extreme Accountability Challenge has made all the difference. I hope this doesn’t come off egotistical, but my fellow Extreme Accountability Challenge Participants, are rocking this, just saying. We are staying the course, we will get there, faster than anyone ever thought was possible. Steady yes, slowly no. Remember comfort and safety are overrated. 175 pounds here I come!!! |
Day 102, June 24, 2017
06/24/17
Day 102 Extreme Accountability Challenge Starting weight 304 pounds Destination weight 175 pounds Total weight loss to date 63.4 pounds 65.6 pounds to go Today while driving to a business appointment, I listened to Dan Miller’s 48 Days weekly podcast, Dan is a long time mentor that continues to have a positive influence on my life and countless others. He was discussing several situations that could have been looked at as ” bad” things and asked a simple question, “What does this make possible?” As I can attest, being overweight, and in my case extremely over, is not something that I would have ever considered to be a good thing. When I began this journey in March, I couldn’t have imagined what would be possible with this act of crowd sourcing my accountability on Facebook everyday. I’ve been amazed at how powerful posting my scales daily to Facebook has been for me and many others. So maybe being overweight made a lot of good possible, I sure hope so. Whatever you are going through, don’t look at it as all bad, take a step back and ask, “What does this make possible?” You may be surprised at what good can come from the challenges that you are facing. Remember comfort and safety are overrated. Press post then move forward. 175 pounds here I come!!! |
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