Day 72 Extreme Accountability Challenge
Starting weight 304 pounds
Destination weight 175 pounds
Total weight loss to date 51.6 pounds
77.4 pounds to go

Boundaries get our attention. Whether the boundaries are real or whether the boundaries are just in our mind, they serve a purpose. Boundaries stop us.

Growing up most of us learned to appreciate the boundaries that our parents warned us not to cross, they are intended to keep us safe.
The boundaries of the dangerous areas like when your parents said ” don’t play in the busy street”, that one makes sense.
We learn to respect these boundaries, they keep us safe.

But as we get older, what about the boundaries that we create in our mind, the boundaries of artificial safety that supposedly protect us from what we fear. Those boundaries don’t protect us or serve us. They make us feel safe but they are the boundaries that can destroy our futures.

These boundaries we often create so that we don’t have to face our fears. They ultimately hold us back from experiencing life abundantly.

Have you ever told yourself, I can’t do that because ” blank”. Question those boundaries, behind it may be something, the life, the hope, the dream that you’ve always wanted.

Losing weight was always on the other side of a boundary for me.

That boundary was, “in order to lose this weight I’m going to have to give this food that I love up, my bad habits of eating way more than I need.”

That wasn’t a boundary for my safety, it was a boundary for my comfort.

I know that sounds silly, but think about it, I have always had the ability to lose weight, so do you, but there was always an excuse, a boundary, that stopped me. Maybe a special occasion or whatever reason kept me from taking action. But the whole truth, I didn’t want to stop the behavior to cross that boundary, so I stayed safely with my overeating. Safely where I didn’t have to change, but where there is no safety at all, right smack dab in the middle of my obesity. Being comfortable can be the enemy of being our best.

When I created a new boundary, posting my scales daily to Facebook, this new boundary, not eating outside of the weight loss boundary, real safely occurred and the pounds began falling off. The accountability that this creates is powerful, and is moving me quickly to the safety of a healthy weight, where I can enjoy so much that my boundaries of comfort kept me from enjoying.

Ask yourself some serious question about your boundaries.

1-Is this boundary serving you or holding you back
2- Is this boundary one that you created to make yourself feel safety, but ultimately put you in long term danger.
3-Would crossing that boundary bring you freedom in some way
4- Are you trying to stay safe or comfortable?

Get uncomfortable and break through the artificial boundaries now, while you still can.

Press forward.

175 pounds here I come!!!

05/24/17
Day 71 Extreme Accountability Challenge
Starting weight 304 pounds
Destination weight 175 pounds
Total weight loss to date 49.8 pounds
79.2 pounds to go

When I started on this journey of posting my scales daily to Facebook, it was a little over a week after taking the picture of my scales at 304 pounds pictured above. I had this idea of posting my scales daily to Facebook for maximum accountability, but I was hesitating, not hesitating to change my eating habits, but hesitating to go “all in”. It took, as I’ve written about several times, Hyo Kim, giving me a push, to get accountability. I had been on dozens if not hundreds of weight loss plans, even the one that I am using now, I had used 3 or 4 times before. So something must have been wrong with the plans, right? Wrong!

My level of commitment was the problem, always had be, and potentially always would be if I didn’t face it head on.
Facing this giant that haunted me was scary.

Sometimes people comment to Extreme Accountability Challenge Participants that we are brave to do this. As for me, I can tell you it was scary, I don’t consider myself brave in posting my weight, humbling, to not be strong enough to get the job done without this public admission that I haven’t been able to get the weight off on my own.
But when I pushed post, this mountain got smaller, the mountain of willpower that I lacked, got a lot smaller. When I get tempted to cheat, or discouraged that it’s taking so long, this posting of my scales, gives me that extra strength that I never had before. The refrigerator is smaller, the fast food signs are dimmer, the only thing that I can clearly see is 175 pounds up in the distance. I will get there.

If you’re watching wanting the courage to join us, you’ll never have enough. I heard someone say that courage is just the willingness to take action despite the fear. Take action now
Join us, and…
Press forward.

175 pounds here I come!!!

05/23/17

Day 70 Extreme Accountability Challenge
Starting weight 304 pounds
Destination weight 175 pounds
Total weight loss to date 49.8 pounds
79.2 pounds to go

NO DIET OR EXERCISE AND STILL LOSE WEIGHT!!

I received an email with this title this morning. These kind of advertisements always have a picture of some man and/or woman that have the “perfect” physique. I am so sure that these individuals got their perfect shape from taking these pills and never reduced their eating and didn’t exercising once. They were probably morbidly obese 2 months ago.

YEAH RIGHT!

As ridiculous as this is, I am sure that the sender of this message sells a bunch of this magic potion. Why because it implies, no change of eating habits and no increased activity and magical results.

I don’t know about you, but I’ve fallen for these types of advertisements. Because I didn’t want to change, I just wanted the results.

Well I put those magical formulas in my backyard with my pet Unicorn right beside my money tree.

The truth, if it sounds to good to be true… it probably is. You’re probably never going to find any extremely healthy people on these magical formulas. Just like you’re probably never going to see Mark Cuban or Warren Buffett playing the Mega Powerball, super duper lottery.

Most long term successful results come at a price. Self discipline, not as much fun as the magic pills, but it works every time if you apply the principles.

Last night, the refrigerator was calling my name but I couldn’t hear it as well as I used to, this Extreme Accountability Challenge was on my mind, it silences my late night cravings.

1-Make a plan, a reasonable proven eating and exercise plan.

2-Stick to it, no cheating.

Get accountability!

Press forward.

175 pounds here I come!!!

05/22/17

Day 69 Extreme Accountability Challenge
Starting weight 304 pounds
Destination weight 175 pounds
Total weight loss to date 50.6 pounds
78.4 pounds to go

Through this 68 day journey, if one thing has been made crystal clear to me, that me posting my weight loss journey on Facebook is less about me and more about how this might help someone else just like me. Sure I have lost weight and still have a lot of weight to lose but what about you? Have you been watching this wondering how you could get up the courage to post your scales on Facebook to your entire world?

I am not wondering, I know you have the courage. You’re the same person you were as a teenager, with the same hopes and dreams. Maybe you’ve achieved some or all of those dreams, maybe not. This weight thing that you have been struggling with, it just seems to own you at times, you put it off, you say I’ll get to it later. I know I have to lose the weight but after the birthday cake, special dinner, vacation, you fill in the blank. The point is you have put it off for so long the pounds have just accumulated to the point that you don’t even think it’s possible to lose the weight now.

I’m here to tell you you can. Period.

I’m the worst of the worst when it comes to not sticking to my eating program…..until now. This accountability is powerful, it gives me strength that was not there before. Yesterday, the day before, and the day before that. I will be 175 pounds before Thanksgiving. You can do this too.

No I’m not on commission here, but I am on a mission. If you’re reading this and don’t think that you can do this, you can.

What will it matter if someone laughs at you, they think you’re a fool for posting your scales. When you have lost the weight, they all stop laughing, but more importantly, you get your life back. You get to win, the secret is I don’t hear anyone heckling or laughing. I only hear what it sounds like when I’m 175 pounds again.

Your time is now.

Message me if this is your story that I am writing about. I believe that you have a new story to tell. One of health, fitness, activities, long life, and most of all joy. The joy that you get from facing this giant and winning.

Press forward.

175 pounds here I come!!!