Two Years....

Well today is my Two Year MFP anniversary. A quick time for me to reflect on where I was and where I am...

It was just over two years ago and I was a miserable person. I do not know what I weighed because I refused to step on a scale... but I am guessing I was north of 320lbs. I had never been a small person, but I never would have pictured myself where I was then. One day in meeting a co-worker. Not a real close friend or anything like that, told me to meet him in my his office after a meeting. Expecting a project of some sort I went in and he gave me a small piece of paper that said Myfitnesspal.com. He told me to check it out and I needed to to something about where my weight was going.

I was outraged... but played it cool. Went back to my office and put that scrap of paper in my desk drawer and did not look at it... I knew he was right but I am way too stubborn to admit that so quickly. The weekend came... and as if my eyes had not been opened enough i was smacked in the face. I was a coach for my oldest son's football team. The coaches shirts came in.. the biggest size they had squeezed me like I was 10lbs of crap in a 5lb bag. I noticed other father running and playing with the kids, and there was no way I could do that.... Here I am in that shirt actually a couple of pounds down from my worst.



I hated that shirt.. i would stretch it over and over again so i could just put it on... But then I logged into MFP. Met some great supportive friends and I was logging every bite of food. What do you know... the weight started coming off. Slowly but surely it was going. So I knew it was time to step it up.. I went and joined a local gym and picked up a copy of the New Rules of Lifting. That book became my bible for a year. By time the spring came I felt like a new man... I added some running into routine, even trained myself for and completed my first 5k. I was 70lbs lighter then when I first stepped on the scale, and my new coaching shirt was a smaller size and fit MUCH better.



Come those Holidays I started to slip back into some bad habits... Back to enjoying my beer drinking, and lost focus with my eating. But I kept coming here, and being here helped push me to keep going to the gym, to keep running to keep working. yes I am 15lbs up this year, part I like to think is muscle but I no part of it is beer belly! LOL


Took this pic last week... this is my younger son and our game faces! LOL

I have made some amazing friends here, some I have had the chance to meet, some I look forward to meeting soon, some I get to go walking with on work days, some I get to message with in the wee hours of the morning when my day starts, so many who talk with me throughout the day all help me to keep working hard and kicking *kitten*! and some of you who help me when my crazy comes out and I need them. I thank all of them for the endless support and all the fun trouble we seem to find ourselves in.

I plan on staying here with my MFP friends, I have already been regaining my focus on eating and will hit my ultimate goal to get to 100lbs lost!