Monthly Archives: April 2017

Day 47, April 30, 2017

04/30/17 Day 47 Extreme Accountability Challenge Starting weight 304 pounds Destination weight 175 pounds. Total weight loss to date 36.8 pounds. Last night Angie and I watched the original “Rocky” with our 15 year old daughter Ashley. It’s hard to believe that I was 15 when I saw the movie for the first time in 1976. Honestly in a lot…

Day 46, April 29, 2017

.   04/29/17 Day 46 Extreme Accountability Challenge Starting weight 304 pounds Destination weight 175 pounds. Total weight loss to date 36.2 pounds. Yesterday I was talking with my older brother Randy trying to explain what it was like starting this weight loss journey. Posting my weight on Facebook everyday probably seemed absurd to most people, but I was so…

Day 45, April 28, 2017

04/28/17 Day 45 Extreme Accountability Challenge Total weight loss to date 35 pounds I’ve been thinking about how for so many years I allowed myself to buy into the belief that it was okay to just halfway get my weight off and get healthy. I liked the idea that when I was “trying” to get healthy and lose weight in…

Day 44, April 27, 2017

04/27/17 Day 44 Extreme Accountability Challenge Total weight loss to date 34.4 pounds The scales stayed the same today, I’m just sticking to my plan without wavering one bit, some days the reading on the scales doesn’t move. When I started posting my weight loss journey on Facebook everyday I knew that keeping a good record of daily posts would…

Day 43, April 26, 2017

04/26/17 Day 43 Extreme Accountability Challenge Total weight loss to date 34.4 pounds Today’s scales read a number under 270 pounds. Not by much, just 4/10 pounds, but in territory that I have little memory of. I honestly don’t remember the last time that I weighed under 270 pounds. As I was reflecting on this process, with a lot of…

Day 42, April 25, 2017

04/25/17 Day 42 Extreme Accountability Challenge Total weight loss to date 34 pounds I could have used the picture of my scales from yesterday, but I didn’t, the weight is the same. Sometimes victories are immediately evident from the reading on the scales sometimes it’s just the satisfaction of knowing that I made it through another day, sticking to my…

Day 41, April 24, 2017

04/24/17 Day 41 Extreme Accountability Challenge Total weight loss to date 34 pounds Yesterday my family celebrated my Mom’s 87th birthday. Family events are fun but filled with caloric landmines for anyone that is sticking to a weight loss program. Since starting on this public weight loss journey,this is the 3rd birthday party that I’ve been to, and once again…

Day 40, April 23, 2017

04/23/17 Day 40 Extreme Accountability Challenge Total weight loss to date 33.6 pounds since starting this public weight loss journey on Facebook March 15, 2017, I get a lot of questions regarding what I’m eating and how much I’m exercising. The short answer is that I’m sticking to a program that I’m guided by my personal health coach John Davisson.…

Day 39, April 22, 2017

04/22/17 Day 39 Extreme Accountability Challenge Total weight loss to date 32.0 pounds to date Thanks to posting my weight loss journey on Facebook everyday and the program that I’m following with my health coach John Davisson, I’m taking off a lot of weight in a short period of time. But as anyone who’s ever lost weight can tell you it…

Day 38, April 21, 2017

04/21/17 Day 38 Extreme Accountability Challenge Total weight loss to date 31.2 pounds For so many years, I’ve tried so many diets. Losing 10 or 20 pounds, only to gain it all back and more. Once I lost 43 pounds, but fell off the wagon there also and gained and gained and gained to my peak weight of 304 pounds.…