Day 110, July 3, 2017

It’s a relatively short word but packed with a massive amount of meaning. It should have a lot more letters and syllables.
The meaning that I assigned the word “hope”‘ in the picture of the scales when I looked down and saw the 304 pounds reading back in March earlier this year and the meaning of the word hope this morning when the scales read 237 pounds. Only a little over 3 months in time but light years apart in meaning.

Hope is so funny and fickle. When you have little or none, you want it so badly, just to hope again to believe that something is possible. When you are sure and have that thing, that dream, desire, “hope” that you have longed for as long as you can remember, hope is something that you want to give away, at least I do.

I “hoped” to be healthy and thin for so long that I actually had lost almost all hope. That’s how I felt when I looked down and saw 304 pounds, completely hopeless.
This morning when I looked down and saw 237 pounds I didn’t need hope any more, at least not much, I have certainty. Hope is not nearly as important when certainty arrives. Even though I still have over 60 pounds of fat to lose, I’m certain that I will get there.

I don’t write any of this to brag or boast, but to offer someone, maybe you, some hope. I sorely needed it that morning of 304 pounds.
I could write and talk about this forever. Let me suffice it to say, wherever you are, whatever your situation, no matter how hopeless it looks, no matter how hopeless you feel. It’s not hopeless.
I could get into all of the logistics and details of how to do this thing or that thing, but without hope, none of it will ever happen. It keeps you going, moving when others have given up.

For me, the answer to getting this weight off, was and is Extreme Accountability, posting my weight loss journey on Facebook everyday. A simple tweek, pushing post to a picture of my scales to Facebook, turned my hope into certainty. I know it sounds crazy, but it’s true.
Don’t lose hope, your answer may be as simple as mine, and right in front of you.
Keep hoping.

Remember comfort and safety are overrated.

Get uncomfortable and take a chance and…

Press post then press forward.