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!!! |
