So, today is the big day.  1000 days consecutive logging on MyFitnessPal (MFP).  Quadruple digits!  Seeing as I am a numbers nerd when it comes to logging my running miles and logging miles, I am pretty excited about today.

I was trying to decide how to commemorate 1000 days of logging and how much I have changed since I have joined MFP, I decided I would *gulp* post before and after pics.

Most people on MFP know me as the runner.  A lot of people don’t remember me from when I first joined.  That’s okay.  I’m not the same person I was 1000 days ago!

When I joined, I had already lost a substantial amount of weight but still had quite a ways to go.  I joined because my mom’s dietitian told me to.  I was supposed to keep tabs on her and to encourage her to eat right and exercise.  THAT was a fail.  She logs inconsistently and doesn’t eat well to this day.

That is neither here or there…

1000 days ago, I was involved in doing water aerobics three days a week and was just starting a lifting program.  The lifting was a mess.  Inconsistent.  Just and here and there hit and miss type of thing.  Then the gasoline prices started to climb and I had to switch gyms to help with the gasoline costs.

I was still doing water aerobics and also got serious with my lifting.  The pounds began to melt away.  I was still a chub, but I was trimming up!  I liked this!

Enter C25K.

My sister got me started on running by having me join the C25K program with her.  I fell in love with running.  I was seriously hooked!  Never looked back.  The more I ran, the less time I had for my lifting.  It came to where I had a choice to make.  Running or Lifting.  I simply couldn’t do both.

I chose running.

I have been running a little over three years now.  Absolutely love it!  Not just because running has helped me drop the rest of my weight but because of all the terrific friends I have made, literally across the globe, in the running community.  You will not find a better group of people that of those in running circles.

So, here are my two pics.  My heavier pic of me is not at my peak weight.  I refused to have my pic taken by that time.  It’ll give you a little bit of an idea of what I looked like before I started with MFP.  (That is me on the far right.  That is also MFH, #1 Daughter and #1 Son).