05/01/17
Day 48
Extreme Accountability Challenge
Starting weight 304 pounds
Destination weight 175 pounds.
Total weight loss to date 37.8 pounds.

For so many years I’ve carried this extra weight around. I didn’t wake up at 304 pounds one day……maybe I did.

The waking up really occurred every single day that I was overweight. From 5 pounds to over 125 pounds. I knew what to do but how do I get it done? How do I give up those tasty morsels calling for me, no calling to me, every single day? Excuse the language but, that’s pure BS,
Sure I wanted to be thin but wasn’t willing to do whatever it took to get the job done. The Extreme Accountability Challenge was me going all in. It was me posting my scales daily to Facebook in front of friends from elementary school, junior and senior high school, college friends, church friends, neighbors, family, acquaintances, and you name it. The choice morsels don’t even matter anymore, I can see the faces of so many of you reading this every time I consider cheating on my program. It would be like Will Smith’s sky diving experience, but for me to cheat, would be like jumping out of the plane then flapping my arms trying to get back in, that’s nuts!

The daily experience for me has been nothing short of miraculous. I wonder if someone is reading this now and maybe you are desperate to lose weight. You’ve tried everything, you say you have anyway. You’re watching the Extreme Accountability Challenge quietly wondering if you could lose weight doing something like this too. I don’t know the answer for you. But you say you’ve tried everything, none of the diets ever worked long term, you’ve even considered or had surgery to get thin. You feel defeated. I know where you are. I have laid in bed so many mornings crying out to God for an answer to this weight problem.
What would you be willing to do to be there for your family, your spouse, who knows who else. Go watch the movie “It’s a Wonderful Life” and imagine your family’s world without you. The weight could kill you, it could do so much harm in so many ways.

I know we have something here, if you want to get well, healthy, thin, message me. We can tandem jump from this cliff together( metaphorically speaking). I jumped alone praying others would join me, and they have and we’re all succeeding together. The Extreme Accountability isn’t a parachute, it’s it’s how you grow wings. You’re going to fly!

175 pounds here I come!!!

04/30/17
Day 47
Extreme Accountability Challenge
Starting weight 304 pounds
Destination weight 175 pounds.
Total weight loss to date 36.8 pounds.

Last night Angie and I watched the original “Rocky” with our 15 year old daughter Ashley. It’s hard to believe that I was 15 when I saw the movie for the first time in 1976. Honestly in a lot of ways it was like seeing it for the first time again, there are so many things that I had forgotten about the movie. Not the plot or basics of Rocky, but a lot of the heart of movie. What really caught my attention was that Rocky initially turned down the promoter that brought the champ, Apollo Creed’s, offer to Rocky for a “shot at boxing’s heavy weight championship of the world”. Rocky initially mumbled no. He just thought they wanted him to be the champ’s sparing partner. He believed he was disqualified and washed up.
Adrian hid her beauty behind her glasses, frumpy clothes, and hat. She believed she was disqualified.
Are you asking, what the heck does this have to do with weighing everyday and getting healthy? Well maybe nothing, but maybe something.

Everyone loves the underdog. The rags to riches. But what about that point in between when the decision has to be made, when you have to stop hiding behind your failures, your past, or maybe even your weight? The point where the guy you’re jumping out of the plane with starts to count( see yesterday’s post) when you jump into the unknown. Most people put on the breaks, the what ifs hit and paralysis sets in.
If you’re reading this, and you’ve been thinking about getting healthy, but you haven’t mustered the courage to post your scales. Do it anyway. We’re going with or without you.

For some of us, This Extreme Accountability Challenge is about much more than weight loss. There is something really empowering about this process. I’m not on commission here, but if you really want to change, maybe it’s time to go public with it, and join us in the Extreme Accountability Challenge. Some of us are done hiding. I believe that all of us are being called for our shot at the title. Stop telling yourself that you are disqualified. Getting healthy is a big part of the process, you’re going to have to be in great shape for your shot at the title.

175 pounds here I come!!!