06/17/17 Day 95 Extreme Accountability Challenge Starting weight 304 pounds Destination weight 175 pounds Total weight loss to date 59.6 pounds 70.4 pounds to go I’m posting late again today. In case you are wondering, regardless of what time I post, my weigh in daily is typically before 7am. It’s before I’ve eaten anything or had anything to drink. Some…
06/16/17 Day 94 Extreme Accountability Challenge Starting weight 304 pounds Destination weight 175 pounds Total weight loss to date 58.4 pounds 71.6 pounds to go There is freedom waiting for you, On the breezes of the sky, And you ask “What if I fall?” Oh but my darling, What if you fly? Erin Hanson Someone posted this quote yesterday, forgive…
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…