I recently did something completely terrifying - I recorded a video asking all of my Facebook friends for their help on my weight loss journey. Nothing could have prepared me for their reaction. If you want to join me on this weight loss journey, find me on MyFitnessPal (username: ProjectRebootScott);or on Jawbone UP: (email:scott@project-reboot.com).

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Hey what's up guys, it's Scott coming at you today from my beautiful mobile vlogging studio.

I wanted to take a couple of minutes today to talk about the importance of asking for help.

So yesterday I did something that I had been thinking about doing for a while, but I just frankly never really had the guts to do.

Before I get into that, let me give you a little bit of context. You see, I know that part of the reason that I have been unsuccessful in sustaining any kind of meaningful weight loss is because I have refused to put myself out there. I refused to ask for help, I refused to make myself accountable to anyone but myself.

The problem is that when I'm too weak to motivate myself, then I end up just falling off the band wagon and I've got nobody chanting in my ear that I need to get up, I need to dust myself off and I need to keep going.

On the flip side, I didn't have anybody in my corner to celebrate with when small victories would come. I myself am terrible at celebrating the small victories. I am so focused on the end goal that I find myself just breezing back significant accomplishments on a day to day or even a week to week basis and I just focus too much on how far I have left to go.

Really I feel like that's why I just keep burning out and failing to achieve my goal is because my eyes are set so far on the horizon that I'm not living in the moment and I'm not celebrating the things that I'm accomplishing today.

So I decided to do something that I've never done before, I decided to ask for help.

I recorded a video and I posted it on my Facebook page.

To be honest, I was just hand ringingly terrified.

I couldn't even tell you what I was more scared of. I mean a part of me was scared that I'd go through the exercise of recording this intensely personal plea for help and nobody would respond. A part of me was equally terrified that people would respond and that I would then be on the hook to actually follow through with my goals this time.

Well it turns out that people did respond and they responded in a huge way. I spent almost the entire day just culling through comments, replying to people, engaging people on Facebook Messenger and on text message and through phone calls. I honestly had no idea how much everybody cared and how willing people were to help in my moment of need.

Honestly I spent most of the day just at the verge of tears because I was just so moved by the people in my life and I was feeling so blessed to have their support and their encouragement. I gotta tell you throughout the entire day I was in this emotional place where I was feeling so full of positivity and energy and commitment and confidence. I was amazing. It's like nothing that I've ever felt before.

I think the most interesting thing about it was that I found that I was so full of positive emotion and positive energy that I naturally didn't eat all that much yesterday. It wasn't something that I thought consciously about I just really wasn't hungry.

I think that confirms something that I've known all along it's that my tendency to overeat is not a head issue, it's a heart issue. It's not a matter of logic and education, it's a matter of feelings and emotion. For the first time in forever I felt like I was able to heal emotionally so that I can now focus on healing physically.

For those of you that came alongside my yesterday and provided encouragement, I want to say from the bottom of my heart, thank you. Thank you so much.

You know, a lot of people commented on my video and said that they thought what I did was brave. I just kind of chuckled at that because at no point in the entire process did I feel anything even close to resembling bravery. I was scared out of my mind the entire time.

I think the best way to really describe what happened is I just reached the point where my fear was outweighed by desperation. I knew I had to do something and so I put myself out there and I'm really really glad that I did.

I think one of the most amazing things about putting myself out there that was completely unexpected was that it opened up opportunities for me to chat with other people who are struggling either with the same thing as me or with completed unrelated things. It's almost like me being really honest about my weakness made it okay for them to admit that they have struggles too.

We're social creatures. We live in communities. We are designed to rely on each other. I think the great thing about social media is that it makes it easy to engage that community from wherever you're at in the world.

So I have reviewed everybody's comments and it looks like most people are using some combination of My Fitness Pal and some activity tracker to track their fitness progress. I've created a My Fitness Pal account. You can find me. My user name is Project Reboot Scott. The email that it's under is Scott@project-reboot.com and for right now, the fitness tracker that I'm going to be using is the Jawbone UP Move.

I think that Jawbone's UP platform is one of the best fitness tracking platforms that I have seen. It's really social and it's really built around encouragement so I think that's a great place to start. The UP Move itself is a really affordable tracker. It only costs about $50 so it's a really low barrier to entry. If you don't have a fitness tracker or you want to get on the UP platform. They have a free version of their app that you can use if your phone has an accelerometer so you can track your steps and you can track your food and you can integrate My Fitness Pal into the UP app and track it that way. So you get the social component of the UP app, but you still get the robust reporting of My Fitness Pal. You can find me on the UP App at Scott@project-reboot.com. So the same email address as before.

Hopefully we'll get a group of people going there and we can encourage each other and peak in and see how we're progressing on a week to week basis. I've already talked to a few of you and we're going to be having weekly chats back and forth and sharing progress and keeping each other motivated. If you want to get in on that subscribe to the channel, leave me a comment below and go ahead and friend me or add me on My Fitness Pal and the UP app.

I'm really excited to see what we can accomplish together. Thank you guys so much.

The Importance Of Asking For Help On Your Weight Loss Journey

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