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Day 97
Extreme Accountability Challenge
Starting weight 304 pounds
Destination weight 175 pounds
Total weight loss to date 62.6 pounds
66.4 pounds to go
If you haven’t noticed I tend to write long posts as I walk out this 129 pounds public weight loss journey. I write to those that are in the middle of the the struggle with food and being over weight, not to suggest that I have all of the answers, because I know more than anyone, that I do not. I write to encourage you if you struggle that there is hope. I’m not a doctor so I don’t give medical advice. I’m not a nutritionist, so I don’t give nutritional advice. I’m not a physical trainer, so I don’t give physical training advice. I have received advice from all of the above, doctors, nutritionists, and physical trainers as I slowly became morbidly obese. The advice I received was all good and well intentioned, but it never worked for me for any length of time. The problem was always me, and this one basic fact, I wanted to eat more than I wanted to be healthy and fit. It was a simple problem that only I could address.
I write to you as someone that was a complete and total failure concerning my health. I was just as much a failure when I was 1 pound overweight as when I was 129 pounds overweight. The operative word in the previous sentence is “was”. Today I am not a failure concerning my health, through this public weight loss journey, I have conquered it. Yes it says conquered, because just like when I was 1 pound overweight and didn’t know what to do, when I was 129 pounds overweight and knew what to do and did something about it, I conquered my obesity. The only thing standing in my way is time. It won’t be long before I’m there.
So as I write these lengthy posts, bare with me, I may not be writing to you, I may be writing to someone you know, someone that struggles to the point that they just don’t know what to do or how to change. It sounds so crazy writing it but it was so true for me. I just didn’t know how to change, how to stop the just one more bite, how to dodge the special occasion and holiday overeating, and most of all how to stay the course.
Someone said to me a few weeks after beginning this public weight loss journey on Facebook that I was doing the “public humiliation diet”. Maybe that’s how it seems, but not to me, before this, before I started losing this weight, that was public humiliation. A grown man that wouldn’t or worse couldn’t control his appetite. That’s humiliating.
If I’m writing to you, be encouraged, there is hope and believe me, if I can do it, so can you.
Press forward.
175 pounds here I come!!!