It’s called Optavia. There are coaches and such; of which I am not one. Just a focused way to go about the process. Has changed the way I incorporate food in my day to day life (more life focus/less food focus).

Erin – I can relate completely to your experience. Would you mind to share the eating plan that you mentioned?

So I say: day 1000 sounds perfect! Can you picture how you would feel without the pressure of the streak? I will say at least your steak is doable and you managed to not tighten to something crazy like 5 miles a day!!

@Haya – I’m definitely an upholder who tightens too! Like — don’t laugh — I actually run at least 1.1 miles per day, not 1.0, in case…I don’t know…I measured wrong? But yes, I have no doubt there will be some circumstance that will prevent my running some day. I could wait for that or just consciously end the streak prior to that happening.

I began the streak 2.5 years ago just to see if I could do it, since I don’t think I’d ever actually run 7 days in a row before (I’d had it drilled into me that rest days were necessary…but for me it turns out they aren’t). But of course I realize as a strict upholder, it probably wasn’t a real question of whether I’d be able to stick with it. Of course I would! How I will end it might be the more interesting question.

@Ana – that sounds like a great way to officially end a challenge, even if you did keep running afterwards. I really like the idea of consciously chosen endings!

@Ashley- Good question. It depends. Some days I’m really excited to go for my run. Other days I’m less so — though this isn’t so many days. One reason I keep doing the streak is I know it’s a way to make sure I exercise, and I can see from my phone’s step counter that without the run I don’t get a whole lot of physical activity in any given day. That’s probably something I should change, but it’s challenging to build it in with a home office.