Day 213 10/14/17

Today has been a bit unusual. I am an early riser. Typically I get up sometime between 5am and 6am, often even earlier than that. My family is normally asleep still and it gives me time to think and write. I make my coffee and an ice water with lemon, for a few hours the world is quiet.

I’ve felt that I should be writing for the last few years but honestly I didn’t know where to start. The Extreme Accountability Challenge has given me a voice, really a funnel to process my thoughts through. I don’t know if that makes sense but I think that you get the idea.

In order for me to lose 129 pounds, I had to become a different person. I’ve written every day to give you a glimpse of that happening. I have said it before, I want you to have hope. I needed it for decades and really I was searching for the wrong solution. It was never the food or the exercise, it was me.

I was listening to a mentor this week that was talking about lottery winners and how so many end up broke. Often in worse shape financially than they were before winning the lottery. At a glance,  it doesn’t make sense, but really they weren’t ready to handle that kind of money. If Warren Buffett won a lottery he would have turned the millions into hundreds of millions. The lottery winners, while having millions were still that same broke people inside, it took 3 to 7 years for their bank accounts to match who they are.

Transforming yourself physically is no different, you have to change, the outside of you will eventually match what’s inside.

Think of it this way, are you eating for nutrition, for entertainment, or for addiction? That same mentor brought that up to me as well. Wow!

It’s perfectly fine to eat for nutrition and occasionally even for entertainment, but never eat for addiction. I promise you that the 304 pounds were made up of a lot of addiction eating.

Start feeding your mind, it’s how change begins. It’s interesting that we got rid of cable and a month later I’m on course to lose 129 pounds. Angie and I still watch a little television, but about 10% of what we used to watch. Television typically doesn’t feed my mind it numbs it.

Shake things up and start changing what’s inside you may end up a much healthier person inside and outside.

It may feel uncomfortable at first but….