06/15/17 Day 93 Extreme Accountability Challenge Starting weight 304 pounds Destination weight 175 pounds Total weight loss to date 59.4 pounds 70.6 pounds to go After posting my scales daily to Facebook for 93 days, one thing is clear, when you know that you’re going to be weighing tomorrow morning, then the next day, then the next, and posting it…
06/14/17 Day 92 Extreme Accountability Challenge Starting weight 304 pounds Destination weight 175 pounds Total weight loss to date 58.6 pounds 71.4 pounds to go I just finished “The Dip”, a book by Seth Godin. In it he makes some obvious, but usually ignored points about becoming the “best in the world” at something. The Dip, as he calls it,…
06/13/17 Day 91 Extreme Accountability Challenge Starting weight 304 pounds Destination weight 175 pounds Total weight loss to date 58.2 pounds 71.8 pounds to go I think I may have the record for latest post to the Extreme Accountability Challenge yet. Crazy busy day, I weighed early this morning like normal but never got it posted. I will be surprisingly…
06/12/17 Day 90 Extreme Accountability Challenge Starting weight 304 pounds Destination weight 175 pounds Total weight loss to date 58.4 pounds 71.6 pounds to go Early on in this weight loss journey on Facebook, I wrote about comparison being the seed of all discontent. It occurred to me this morning that it’s also the seed of mediocrity. I’ve been on…
06/11/17 Day 89 Extreme Accountability Challenge Starting weight 304 pounds Destination weight 175 pounds Total weight loss to date 56.8 pounds 72.2 pounds to go Each day as I get on my scales for another entry in the Extreme Accountability Challenge Post on Facebook, I try to share what’s going through my mind, my determination, my doubts, my joy, and…
06/10/17 Day 88 Extreme Accountability Challenge Starting weight 304 pounds Destination weight 175 pounds Total weight loss to date 57.2 pounds 71.8 pounds to go For most of you that are following this Extreme Accountability Challenge, the thought of having to lose 30, 40, 50, 100, or in my case 129 pounds probably makes you want to gasp. It certainly…
06/09/17 Day 87 Extreme Accountability Challenge Starting weight 304 pounds Destination weight 175 pounds Total weight loss to date 56.8 pounds 72.2 pounds to go This dieter’s lottery mentality (finding some magical diet that you eat as much and whatever you want and lose 10 pounds a day) that I have written about in several of my previous posts continues…
06/08/17 Day 86 Extreme Accountability Challenge Starting weight 304 pounds Destination weight 175 pounds Total weight loss to date 56.8 pounds 72.2 pounds to go As I move towards the halfway point of this public weight loss journey, the thought of this being like a Marathon comes to mind. So far I have the distinction of having the most weight…
06/07/17 Day 85 Extreme Accountability Challenge Starting weight 304 pounds Destination weight 175 pounds Total weight loss to date 55.6 pounds 73.4 pounds to go For me eating, overeating, and then eating some more has been a comforter. Sometimes it’s true physical hunger, sometimes it’s boredom, sometimes it’s worry, or sometimes it just tastes so good and I want to…
06/06/17 Day 84 Extreme Accountability Challenge Starting weight 304 pounds Destination weight 175 pounds Total weight loss to date 56.6 pounds 72.4 pounds to go After 84 days of this “public display of weight”, and beginning this journey of posting my scales daily to Facebook, I can say accountability works for me. I cannot speak for anyone else, but it…