The Humiliation Diet - or the Accountability Diet....

I really just want your thoughts and opinions...

Have you heard about the humiliation diet? If I understand it correctly you announce through social media that you are going on a diet.  You post your weight to your chosen social media and then you continue to post your weight as often as you commit to.  By posting it, theoretically, it makes one more likely to stick to the process of losing the weight since it would be super HUMILIATING to fail.

What do you think of this idea? Is it something you would be willing to try?

Here are some of my thoughts...

I do not like that it is called the Humiliation Diet. It has such a negative vibe. I thought I might like the Accountability Diet better.  But I really just don't like the word "Diet" at all. "Lifestyle" I love - because if we want to make this weight loss and health permanent we have to choose a new Lifestyle.  Humiliation Lifestyle is still really not a phrase I would like to associate myself or my lifestyle with.  Accountability Lifestyle is a little better.  

Beyond that - NO, I will not be posting my weight to face book.  Yes, that would be humiliating and I think self defeating.  However, I have thought about doing a separate blog about my journey to health.  Since I love to write and I believe writing really helps us to grow as individuals, it's an idea I am really considering. I need some extra motivation to move this journey in the right direction quite a bit faster than what I am going! I would post pics that would currently be very embarrassing to me....I do not like my size at all.  But by posting them, it would be a motivation to me...I think.  New recipes with pics and nutritional information, maybe my food log, anything that has to do with this journey! Additionally, what if my story would help someone else?  I do best when I feel I am helping some body else on their journey....regardless of what the journey is. I have even kicked around titles, "In Search of Onederland", "Losing What should Never be Gained", "Losing to Gain"...

I believe God created us to be healthy, completely!  If He is for us, who can be against us! I have only come across one fitness blogger that is heavy on the spiritual side of the battle.  Her story is not about weight loss, it is about overcoming anorexia and bulimia to be fit and healthy.  Even though I can't relate to those two illnesses at all, I love her posts and am encouraged by them.

So, tell me what you think! I can't wait to hear!

Lots of love,

D. J.