About · what “under” means
Micheal Ray Berry is under public accountability
This record documents an accountability system Micheal Ray Berry voluntarily established by written agreement and deliberately placed outside his day-to-day discretion.
Once the agreement is counter-signed, the Accountability Partner administers the official record and the requirements, and determines whether documented requirements have been satisfied.
What follows is Micheal Ray Berry in the first person. It is his account. He does not administer the record.
My name is Micheal Ray Berry. This website documents a voluntary accountability arrangement between adults I asked for in writing: a weight-loss commitment from a declared 340 pounds, kept under inspection, corrective requirements, and a public record retained for the life of the project. The goal is 200 pounds, held 28 days. The record began on August 31, 2026; the agreement is pending the Accountability Partner’s counter-signature, so its requirements are proposed until that verification is complete. I file the packet daily anyway.
I want structure in real life that I do not get to pick up and put down. Someone else holds the rules, the record, and the consequences. I asked for that because private promises kept failing.
What submission means in this project
I chose this structure because I want more than a private promise to do better. I want to follow another adult’s agreed direction, have my compliance reviewed, and be held to the standards I accepted.
Submission here means reporting as required, presenting myself for inspection, following the written protocol, and completing the agreed correction when a failure is confirmed. Obedience means following those instructions consistently — not treating inconvenience as permission to rewrite them.
Once an Accountability Partner is engaged, that will be concrete rather than abstract: asking before an optional purchase and accepting the answer; accepting that a new app, device, or subscription is not permitted without approval; wearing the required uniform when directed; presenting myself for inspection on schedule; and completing a corrective requirement after a confirmed failure. I deliberately chose a structure in which I am not always the person who gets the final say over my discretionary choices.
The uniform, collar, and inspection routine express that choice. Some elements make the records consistent; others symbolize my submission to the agreed structure. I do not need to pretend they serve only a photographic purpose.
The authority I am choosing is specific and limited by the agreement. I retain the right to raise concerns, contest an incorrect finding through the review process, and withdraw consent. Visitors may observe the record; they do not acquire authority over me.
How the Record Is Administered
This project is meant not to be self-directed. The Accountability Partner position is currently open; until it is filled I administer the record myself, held to its published rules. Once a Partner is engaged and the agreement is counter-signed, the Partner administers the official record. I do not.
I built this project and this website; control of the official record passes to the Accountability Partner once one is engaged. Previous attempts had the same weakness: I set the rules, which meant I could also move them. An earlier agreement, TF060, failed — that record is here. Under this one, nothing binds until it is written into the agreement or logged as an amendment I have co-signed, and once it binds I do not get to renegotiate it on a bad day.
Real name. The record is attached to my legal name because anonymity would weaken it. In the past it was too easy to restart privately, hide a failure, or abandon the process without a lasting record. The point is not branding; it is consequence.
Uniform and collar. Every official recording is made in a plain black unitard from the same four angles, so records from different days are directly comparable and presentation cannot make a result look better or worse. The collar is different in kind: a plain steel or titanium neck ring, worn in every official recording, that I asked for as a standing physical reminder that I am under the agreement — on camera and off. It has no comparison purpose. It is the one thing I cannot take off when compliance becomes inconvenient. Its absence from an official recording is a Violation Event (§4.1).
Daily documentation. Once active, the packet is due every day by 10:00 PM Eastern: a four-angle inspection video, four photographs, the scale-synced weight, and the tracker update. Daily, because long gaps create room for avoidance. It is either completed or it is not.
Misses and corrections. The record system flags a missed requirement; the Accountability Partner (once engaged) reviews the evidence and any documented exception; the confirmed outcome is published to the Violation Log; a corrective session — corner time, recorded in one take, its length drawn by the server within the level’s range (Level 1 10–20, Level 2 20–40, Level 3 30–60 minutes) and never announced — becomes due within 72 hours and is published beside the entry. Entries are retained for the life of the record; the only exceptions are the documented safety/privacy takedown (§8.6) and logged factual corrections.
Progress and scope. Daily weigh-ins and documented thresholds at 320, 300, 275, 250, 225, and 200 pounds show whether the project is working. Weight fluctuation is progress information, never a violation; only missing or false documentation is. The project enforces documentation, not medicine — medical decisions are made with a physician and sit outside the record (§6.4, §9). Evening Supervision (§3.4) is a proposed requirement, not active, described on the Protocol page.
What can be added. I designed the structure that exists today; I did not design the limits of what can be added to it. The agreement allows further rules, routines, and authority to be set by the Accountability Partner, or by a future partner under a signed amendment — and once written and co-signed, they bind the same way these do. This record is evidence that I can live under rules. It is not a script for how someone else must hold them.
Voluntarily established and governed by the written agreement. The arrangement ends only by completion or its terms (§11, §13).
Statement — in his own words
Why It Is Public
This project is public on purpose.
Private promises were too easy for me to renegotiate, postpone, excuse, or quietly abandon. Public accountability removes that comfort. My real name, face, starting point, daily record, missed requirements, and final outcome are attached to the commitment I made, and that exposure is meant to be uncomfortable.
I know that coworkers, friends, acquaintances, strangers, and people I may meet years from now can find this record and see my weight, my photographs, my inspections, my violations, and whether I kept my word. I accepted that deliberately. Being recognized from it is not an accident of the design; it is part of the mechanism, because there is supposed to be a difference between telling myself privately that I will change and attaching my name to a commitment other people can verify.
I am free to stop. The project does not make withdrawal impossible. But I did not build an easy way to erase the commitment afterward: if I abandon it before the completion standard is met, the record is designed to say exactly that. Abandoned is not another word for completed. I chose a system in which quitting has an observable consequence, because without one quitting would always be the easiest option. If I abandon it, I give up any right to have the record removed, hidden, or presented more kindly; it stays up, labeled as abandoned. I am allowed to fail. I am not allowed to disappear.
That does not mean anything goes. What is public here is the record; nothing beyond it is invited. The discomfort comes from being seen clearly and held to the standard I chose — not from surrendering basic safety or dignity.
Anyone may link to this record, quote it unaltered, or repost its public material in context; the Share page has what an outside party needs. If I complete this, nobody will be able to dismiss the result as another promise or another restart. The same retention that makes failure uncomfortable is what gives completion meaning.
Questions, answered plainly
Also at /faq/
Yes. Real name, real face, documented daily from August 31, 2026, under an agreement I signed that is pending the Accountability Partner’s counter-signature. Every figure on this site traces to the public tracker, the photo archive, and the video archive.
Entirely. I designed the system, asked for it in writing, and signed it — precisely because voluntary private promises kept failing. The Accountability Partner will administer the structure once it is counter-signed; he did not impose it, and no new requirement binds unless I co-sign the amendment.
People who know me may come across this record. That visibility is intentional. A respectful acknowledgment is welcome, but visitors have no enforcement role.
If you notice a possible missed requirement or an error in the record, use Report a Record Issue; it is held for the Accountability Partner, who reviews it against the written rules once engaged.
Today, yes — and that is stated plainly. Until an Accountability Partner is engaged, Micheal administers the site, the domain, and the record sheet himself, and the record is held only to its own published rules. Published versions are archived and timestamped, so changing the live page would not erase them; it would make an attempt harder to hide, not impossible. When a Partner is engaged, control of the site, domain, and record passes to the Partner. Under the agreement, thirty days of silence or an attempt to take the record down converts the site to an abandonment record.
The project enforces documentation, not medicine; medical decisions are made with a physician and sit outside the record (§6.4, §9). Violations are documentation failures. Ordinary weight fluctuation is never a violation.
One way: 200 pounds, held for 28 consecutive days under the verification standard. Then the site converts to a completion record. Any other ending — abandonment or termination — is also recorded, publicly, under the agreement’s terms (§11).