Day 72 Extreme Accountability Challenge
Starting weight 304 pounds
Destination weight 175 pounds
Total weight loss to date 51.6 pounds
77.4 pounds to go
Boundaries get our attention. Whether the boundaries are real or whether the boundaries are just in our mind, they serve a purpose. Boundaries stop us.
Growing up most of us learned to appreciate the boundaries that our parents warned us not to cross, they are intended to keep us safe.
The boundaries of the dangerous areas like when your parents said ” don’t play in the busy street”, that one makes sense.
We learn to respect these boundaries, they keep us safe.
But as we get older, what about the boundaries that we create in our mind, the boundaries of artificial safety that supposedly protect us from what we fear. Those boundaries don’t protect us or serve us. They make us feel safe but they are the boundaries that can destroy our futures.
These boundaries we often create so that we don’t have to face our fears. They ultimately hold us back from experiencing life abundantly.
Have you ever told yourself, I can’t do that because ” blank”. Question those boundaries, behind it may be something, the life, the hope, the dream that you’ve always wanted.
Losing weight was always on the other side of a boundary for me.
That boundary was, “in order to lose this weight I’m going to have to give this food that I love up, my bad habits of eating way more than I need.”
That wasn’t a boundary for my safety, it was a boundary for my comfort.
I know that sounds silly, but think about it, I have always had the ability to lose weight, so do you, but there was always an excuse, a boundary, that stopped me. Maybe a special occasion or whatever reason kept me from taking action. But the whole truth, I didn’t want to stop the behavior to cross that boundary, so I stayed safely with my overeating. Safely where I didn’t have to change, but where there is no safety at all, right smack dab in the middle of my obesity. Being comfortable can be the enemy of being our best.
When I created a new boundary, posting my scales daily to Facebook, this new boundary, not eating outside of the weight loss boundary, real safely occurred and the pounds began falling off. The accountability that this creates is powerful, and is moving me quickly to the safety of a healthy weight, where I can enjoy so much that my boundaries of comfort kept me from enjoying.
Ask yourself some serious question about your boundaries.
1-Is this boundary serving you or holding you back
2- Is this boundary one that you created to make yourself feel safety, but ultimately put you in long term danger.
3-Would crossing that boundary bring you freedom in some way
4- Are you trying to stay safe or comfortable?
Get uncomfortable and break through the artificial boundaries now, while you still can.
Press forward.
175 pounds here I come!!!