05/04/17 Day 51 Extreme Accountability Challenge Starting weight 304 pounds Destination weight 175 pounds. Total weight loss to date 38.6 pounds There is a common theme that seems to be occurring this week. The theme of being thankful for your struggles. I believe it’s where our greatest blessings are. This morning at 5:30 am as I was lying in bed…
05/03/17 Day 50 Extreme Accountability Challenge Starting weight 304 pounds Destination weight 175 pounds. Total weight loss to date 38.2 pounds This is my 50th post of my scales to Facebook. For those of you that haven’t unfriended me yet because you’re tired of looking at my feet every morning, thank you for all of your comments and likes each…
05/02/17 Day 49 Extreme Accountability Challenge Starting weight 304 pounds Destination weight 175 pounds. Total weight loss to date 38 pounds The scales move little by little. Some days they stay the same or even jump up when you’ve done everything possible to stick to your program and still no weight loss. It can be frustrating changing the course that…
05/01/17 Day 48 Extreme Accountability Challenge Starting weight 304 pounds Destination weight 175 pounds. Total weight loss to date 37.8 pounds. For so many years I’ve carried this extra weight around. I didn’t wake up at 304 pounds one day……maybe I did. The waking up really occurred every single day that I was overweight. From 5 pounds to over 125…
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…
. 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…