Day 107, June 30, 2017

Alan Thomas's photo.
Alan Thomas's photo.
06/30/17
Day 107 Extreme Accountability Challenge
Starting weight 304 pounds
Destination weight 175 pounds
Total weight loss to date 64.8 pounds
64.2 pounds to go

Cheat days are something curious to me. I’m sort of an expert on them. You see to get to 304 pounds, you have to experience a lot of cheat days. Big meals, seconds, and thirds, desserts, snacks, first breakfast, second breakfast, first lunch, second lunch. Just one more bite, that’s all, it’s a special occasion, the ” you fill in the blank day” only happens once a year. I have used more manipulation, excuses, sound reasoning, you name it, I used it only to justify my unwillingness to make my health a priority.

So let’s you and me reframe what a “cheat day” is, let’s create a new definition, a new paradigm.

Now a “cheat day” is

When I cheat the doctor out of extra appointments, I’m too healthy
When I cheat the pharmaceutical companies out of all that medication that I won’t be buying
When I cheat the heart surgeon and hospital out of the bypass surgery or angioplasty that I won’t need
When I cheat life into giving me more days than my previous path was taking me and I get more time with Angie and my children
When I get to meet my grandchildren
When I get to be here and live a full and healthy life

I’d love to hear from you and what you will be gaining instead of weight on your “cheat days”

I know that all of our days are numbered, but I also know that God gave you and me something called free will, we get a little bit of say so in the numbers.

Sticking to my program of healthy eating isn’t convenient all the time, I would love to cheat most days, but I choose my new definition of a cheat day. I choose to live. I hope you will too.

It won’t be easy or comfortable but it will be worth it.

Remember comfort and safety are overrated.
Get uncomfortable and take a chance and…

Press post then press forward.


175 pounds here I come!!!