Monthly Archives: May 2017

Day 78, May 31, 2017

05/31/17 Day 78 Extreme Accountability Challenge Starting weight 304 pounds Destination weight 175 pounds Total weight loss to date 53.0 pounds 76.0 pounds to go Are you selling your birthright? Once when Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the open country, famished. He said to Jacob, “Quick, let me have some of that red stew! I’m famished!”…

Day 77, May 30, 2017

05/30/17 Day 77 Extreme Accountability Challenge Starting weight 304 pounds Destination weight 175 pounds Total weight loss to date 53.0 pounds 76.0 pounds to go While I was riding my bicycle yesterday I was listening to “Already Gone” by the Eagles, and caught a phrase of the lyrics, “Already Gone” “So often times it happens that we live our lives…

Day 76, May 29, 2017

05/29/17 Day 76 Extreme Accountability Challenge Starting weight 304 pounds Destination weight 175 pounds Total weight loss to date 51.8 pounds 77.2 pounds to go The last few days have been a little frustrating. Sticking to my program and not seeing the scales move. I am frustrated but not one bit discouraged. If this public weight loss journey has taught…

Day 75, May 28, 2017

05/28/17 Day 75 Extreme Accountability Challenge Starting weight 304 pounds Destination weight 175 pounds Total weight loss to date 52.0 pounds 77.0 pounds to go For those of you watching these scales, no I’m not posting the same photo of my scales over and over, I’ve been stuck at 252.0 pounds for the last 3 days. Ugh! When I get…

Day 74, May 27, 2017

05/27/17 Day 74 Extreme Accountability Challenge Starting weight 304 pounds Destination weight 175 pounds Total weight loss to date 52.0 pounds 77.0 pounds to go I was listening to a podcast earlier this week and heard a sound clip of a Will Smith interview. He was talking about his work ethic. I love the metaphor that he used, “I am…

Day 73, May 26, 2017

05/26/17 Day 73 Extreme Accountability Challenge Starting weight 304 pounds Destination weight 175 pounds Total weight loss to date 52.0 pounds 77.0 pounds to go Summer is approaching, the kids will be out of school soon, if not already, and thoughts of vacations, will be dominating our thinking. Rest for the weary. Most of us feel entitled to a break,…

Day 72, May 25, 2017

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…

Day 71, May 24, 2017

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…

Day 70, May 23, 2017

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.…

Day 69, May 22, 2017

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…