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!!

05/02/17
Day 49
Extreme Accountability Challenge
Starting weight 304 pounds
Destination weight 175 pounds.
Total weight loss to date 38 pounds

The scales move little by little. Some days they stay the same or even jump up when you’ve done everything possible to stick to your program and still no weight loss. It can be frustrating changing the course that took years if not decades of overeating to add extra pounds. We want the weight to be gone today or better yet how about yesterday?
It would be so much easier to quit and forget about this weight loss thing. Oh wait a second… You’re posting everyday on Facebook, you can’t quit!

Oh I guess I could but no I’m not, that’s why I’m posting, I’m locked in, but what about when I reach my destination weight of 175 pounds? That’s when the real long term fight begins. I haven’t decided exactly what that will look like but you may want to unfriend me now, there’s a pretty good chance you’ll keep seeing these scales after the weight is gone. You see the battle I’m in with my weight I’m realizing, is a battle for my life, and I can’t give up ever.
Yesterday while listening to a business podcast, I was reminded of this scene in the movie “Rudy”. It applies to so much, I’ve added the link. Rudy was playing for the glory of playing for Notre Dame football, the Extreme Accountability Challenge, well we’re playing for our lives, that’s really it. It’s that big. What are you playing for?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qoh3YkxuwVo

175 pounds here I come!!!