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 day.
What has made this such a powerful tool for me and everyone that has come along for this journey is all of what my health coach John Davisson calls, structural tension. Each person that watches, comments, likes, or that I talk about this Extreme Accountability Challenge with gives a little more strength and willpower to this 55 year man, that could never seem to get full enough to stop eating just one more bite.
I know this probably doesn’t make sense to a lot of you but if you have ever had a bad habit or an addiction, maybe you can relate. Most habits and addictions you can go “cold turkey” and completely leave it behind, but food and overeating is different, you still have to eat. Since I gained my first 5 pounds of fat I’ve been trying to find that balance, the only problem was that I never was willing to do whatever was necessary, and I mean whatever was necessary to lose weight. This silly idea of posting my scales daily to Facebook was a huge part of my answer, family and friends coming along side of me to lose weight or just encouraging me is even more important. My wife Angie, wow, what a woman, she has tried for so many years to help me get my weight under control, never nagging, just helping whatever I asked, and now even posting her scales daily too. All of the scales that are posted and the comments are fuel in my tank that keep me on course towards 175 pounds.
After losing over 38 pounds in less than 2 months, I can honestly say that I’m glad that I’ve had this challenge with obesity. Even though I’ve got over 90 pounds to go to reach my destination weight of 175 pounds, I’m positive I will get there. You see on March 15, the first time that I posted my scales and my commitment to reach my destination weight of 175 pounds, that was when I conquered my obesity. That day I became a 175 pound healthy man, the only thing left to do was get rid of the weight. It was already over when I started.
175 pounds here I come!!