05/07/17
Day 54
Extreme Accountability Challenge
Starting weight 304 pounds
Destination weight 175 pounds
Total weight loss to date 41.8 pounds
87.2 pounds to go.
About 4 years ago, my wife Angie came across a bargain at Beall’s, one of her favorite stores here on Amelia Island. It was a pair of citrus green casual shorts in my size at the time. When she brought them home and I tried them on they were pretty tight but at the time I weighed around 275 pounds and knew that I could wear them if I just lost 10 pounds or so.
They got folded away in a drawer with some other clothes too small for me. Instead of losing 10 pounds I kept gaining weight. About a year ago in one of my many “I’ve got to do something about my weight” moments, I came across those bright green shorts and tried them on. At the time, I weighed in around 290 pounds, it was really ugly, I could barely get them over my hips, not a prayer of buttoning them. But on that day, I did something different, I hung the shorts in my closet where I had to face them every single day.
Since then I’ve tried them on many times, if they could talk, they would’ve been laughing hysterically at me over the last year, until yesterday. Yesterday when I reached for those green shorts it was different. It wasn’t me wishing anymore. It was game day. And yesterday the citrus green shorts fit! I had never taken the tags off, but yesterday I did, I conquered the green shorts. They taunted me for years but if you saw a man with a beautiful woman, Angie, gorgeous teenage daughter, Ashley, walking around the Fernandina Beach Florida, Annual Shrimp Festival in a pair of citrus green shorts that actually fit a little loose. That would’ve been me.
Last night as I folded the green shorts away, it hit me, these will not fit me in a few weeks, the green shorts will be too big.
I’ve found some other smaller clothes to look forward to wearing, to take the place of the green shorts.
For the first time in my life, thanks to the Extreme Accountability Challenge, the healthy lifestyle plan that my coach, John Davisson, is teaching me, and you, everyone watching and reading about our weight loss journey and holding us accountable, I know that I will get this weight off and live a longer healthier life.
175 pounds here I come!!!
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