06/10/17
Day 88 Extreme Accountability Challenge
Starting weight 304 pounds
Destination weight 175 pounds
Total weight loss to date 57.2 pounds
71.8 pounds to go
For most of you that are following this Extreme Accountability Challenge, the thought of having to lose 30, 40, 50, 100, or in my case 129 pounds probably makes you want to gasp. It certainly made me gasp.
Most people that need to lose weight probably just need to lose 10 or 20 pounds. The amount of weight that some of the participants have lost is nothing short of amazing.
Almost everyday, I read in my posts and others, ” slow and steady wins the race” I’m not so sure that’s true. What?? The tortoise always beats the hare or does he?
If you remember the hare got overconfident, “cocky”, he clearly wasn’t performing at his best. He lost sight of his goal. I believe that the hare can win the race.
Many of the participants of the Extreme Accountability Challenge, while it may not seem like it, are moving at blazing speed through the fat that they have accumulated over a lifetime. When watching the scales daily it just seems slow, it’s not. Think about it, like I told Summers Duffie a few weeks back, if he gained weight at the rate that he is losing weight, the ambulance would be showing up, sirens blaring, sending him to the hospital. When there, the best doctors would be called in to figure out how he could be gaining half a pound per day. By the end of a year, if we were talking about weight gain, it would be an unbelievable 182.5 pounds gained!! Completely unacceptable. But because it’s going in the other direction, weight loss, it’s slow and steady. Hogwash!
Many of us are moving at blazing speed, not overconfident, not “cocky”, doing our best every single day, staying completely focused on our destination. No tortoises to be found. Just humble hares blazing to victory.
Press forward.
175 pounds here I come!!!