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 my frustrations.
Since I’m already putting a picture of my daily scales reading, I might as well share my heart. I do this so that someone, anyone, that has felt as hopeless as I have regarding controlling their eating and getting healthy might be encouraged. Being obese has felt like the biggest failure of my life. For so many years I’ve tried and failed at getting this stinking fat off, until now.
I’m the worst of the worst whenever it comes to sticking to a diet, until now. Frame this any way that you want, diet, eating program, lifestyle, blah blah blah. Reality and results are what really matters, I know that I have a lot of weight to lose still but it will come off forever. This accountability works.
If you have been watching all of us posting our scales daily, never liking, never commenting, it’s okay. I know that you are afraid to be noticed paying attention to this journey, but you are the one that I write to today. Just you. You may be 50 pounds, 100 pounds, 200 pounds overweight, maybe more, maybe 129 pounds overweight like me. It doesn’t matter, it really really doesn’t matter.
This whole journey may have been just to get your attention, all of us participating in the Extreme Accountability Challenge unknowingly, perfectly positioned, to get your attention before it’s too late. Maybe our weight gain was allowed to continue, just to get your attention as we lose the weight.
Your story may be like the story of the man that God told in a dream that his town was to be flooded but not to worry, he would save him, God would save him.
The story goes like this.
The rain came and the streets were filling with water, a policeman knocked on the door and said come with me to safety the waters are rising. The man said no, God told me he would save me.
The waters continued to rise.
The man moved to his second floor waiting on God. A rescue boat came by his second floor window and they said, come with us to safety the waters are rising. The man said no, God told me he would save me.
The waters continued to rise.
The man had to climb to the peak of his roof to wait for God. A helicopter came and from a loud speaker they yelled, come with us to safety the waters are rising before the house is swept away. The man said no God told me he would save me.
The waters continued to rise and the man was killed in the flood.
Upon arriving in heaven, the man saw God and asked, why did you not save me, God looked at the man and said, I sent a policeman, a boat, and even a helicopter for you but you refused.
The waters are rising, come with us to safety.
Press forward.
175 pounds here I come!!!