What Is Your Weight Loss Blessing Today?

springlering62

I rolled out of bed and trotted down the stairs this morning to let the dog out, and at the bottom of the staircase, it just hit me like a brick.

I am so grateful to be able to go down the stairs without a death grip on the handrail on one side, and a hand pressed firmly to the wall on the other for support, without painfully taking one stair at a time, without sometimes having to aid a leg down or a hip to swing, without (as a last resort) sitting on my bottom and sliding down.

To have the ability to use stairs without a second thought, to try to beat cats to the kitchen (as if!!!), to do it without pain, without carefully “engineering” every step is a blessing beyond measure.

Thank you MFP, Community, friends, trainer, instructors, husband, and me for helping me arrive to the point of casual indifference.

I don’t ever want to lose the heartfelt appreciation for this simple gift.

What is your weight loss blessing today?

Lietchi

I feel blessed that I was able to sit down, bend over and put on my shoes without having to breathe out/hold my breath, 'dive down', come up again for air and then dive down again for the second shoe.

Walkywalkerson

It's pretty hilly where I live and I always used to think twice about which way I was walking to avoid the hills.
Now I don't even think about it - I trot up them like a mountain goat 😂

AngWBald

Last night it was getting late and I really didn't want to work out. I'm lazy and a true couch potato. But I got myself off the couch and did a 20 minute workout. After my workout I went back to my couch and realized my breathing was much better and easier. Inhaling and exhaling air at full lung capacity felt wonderful and refreshing. Just 20 minutes made me feel so much better about myself even though the weight loss is slower than I want it to be. I'm trying to hold on to that feeling of Wellness when a workout is done. This carries me through to the next day.

Xellercin

I need major orthopedic surgery (having hip surgery and both legs broken), and my surgeon was so happy that I'm a healthy weight (BMI just under 23) because excess weight can have a significant negative impact on recovery.

Nikki542687

Going to the doctor for a check in for the first time on Tuesday since I decided to lose weight (late June 2021) and hearing the nurse and doctor compliment both me on my progress. AND that my BP was totally in check 122/78!! Woohoo!!! 43lbs down, with about 80ish to go. It feels so darn good.

Like you, I also had terrible knee pain and I havent had any in a few months. It feels so good to not feel like the steps are a death trap! I can even run up the stairs now without feeling winded and it honestly feels like I am gaining my life back!

Here is to more victories, even when they have nothing to do with the scale!! Woohoo!!

BrightEyedAgain

Love this thread topic. Now that I'm in maintenance I don't really have regular NSV's anymore, but I sure as heck have daily blessings to consider!!!

This morning, my weight loss blessing is waking up feeling GOOD instead of bleh. I used to dread mornings so much. I'd wake up groggy and stiff, often with real pain in my joints and muscles. My body took at least an hour to "wake up" and feel reasonably functional. Now I just wake up and get up without all the rigamarole. My joints are fine except for some occasional knee stiffness if I worked out hard the day before. My sinus headaches are mostly gone, too. I love being able to sleep without sinus meds and wake up clear-headed and ready for the day.

goal06082021

I walked about 3 miles to a local breakfast place this morning, like it was nothing. No foot pain, no hip pain, no knee pain, no labored breathing. I barely even broke a sweat. I could have walked back, I just didn't have another hour to do so (had to shower, take the cat to the vet and bring him back home, and then go to work).

dralicephd

1) I can fit into my work clothes again! Just in time, as I return to in-person work in January.
2) I feel like I've reversed the clock on my age. I'm only 47, but over the last couple of years, I'd been really starting to feel OLD. I had no energy, everything hurt, and I just didn't feel like myself anymore. Just a little bit of regular exercise has given me tons of energy and I'm sleeping better. I feel like myself again.

justanotherloser007

My blessings are numerous! Less hives (almost gone entirely), no prednisone since February, and... can I just say at 100 lbs down (and 30ish more to go) walking is just so much easier!! I walk every morning, and even when I was sick and obese I walked the dogs every other day. But now, it is just night and day difference. I couldn't walk on cement because it hurt so bad, I had constant heel pain - that is gone. My hips are getting so much better, they hurt sometimes - but they used to hurt all night every night so that I had to take muscle relaxers to go to sleep. Yeah, so that stopped - no more muscle relaxers. I can just stretch them out every day and walk! A week ago I hurt my foot wearing wellies, but even with that foot pain - I can still walk 5 miles a day. I find that entirely odd. When I was 100 lbs overweight, any foot pain was an absolute deal breaker. There just wasn't any relief, and walking always made it so much worse.

Let's talk about kneeling on pews at the Latin Mass. I can do it now! Before I was so big I couldn't kneel due to the sway back that my front bits caused. I could kneel on the cement without the kneeler (yeah it was painful)- but you are in a row with many people and all of them use kneelers. I love this so much! I would talk about fitting in booths, tables etc. but I haven't been going out to eat at all. But when I do I don't take that for granted either! I fit now. I can go up into my attic!! Yeah, that tag that says "Do not use the ladder if you weigh 250" doesn't stop me.

springlering62

GERD is completely gone.

No more terror I might die in my sleep from reflux. No more carrying wadded up grocery bags in my pocket for those unexpected horrors. No more not being able to catch my breath because my esophagus was on fire with a chemical burn. No more carrying a change of clothes because my bladder couldn’t withstand the force of it all. No more industrial size jars of antacids in the nightstand. They’d lost all effectiveness anyway.

I never knew when it was going to strike.

THE most embarrassing moment of my life was being violently “Exorcist” style ill in the middle of a very crowded tourist theme dinner.

And the time my adult daughter burst in tears and asked me if I had cancer because we had to pull over so I could be sick.

I tear up in gratitude at the relief and that it’s all in the past.

And am kicking myself for getting into the Christmas treats tonight. Brrrrrrrrr. Never ever want to go back there. Just remembering sobers me up. No holiday treat is worth going back there again.

Archcurl

Today I felt like going on a "seni-long" walk. Taking the dog, I did the walk. Near the part where I turn right to go home or straight to keep going I decided why not a bit further?
And then I asked myself the exact same question 3 more times. By the time we were nearly home again my poor dog had stopped in 3 places with grass to lay down and rest. 🙃 Maybe I overdid it with her but it felt so good to be walking again.
A year and a half ago I'd walk her twice a day but about 7 minutes. Now we usually go fr one walk a day but 20+ minutes. That's definitely a big difference. (Don't worry, she's tiny & can go potty in the backyard if she needs it)

dontlikepeople

I am alive!

I have to constantly remind myself to not celebrate the shallow aesthetics, and stay focused on what matters most: Health, athleticism, and longevity.

So every day is a blessing!

goal06082021

To round out the rest of 2021 I'm following the same series of workout videos I did when I first started exercising again around this time last year. This is week 3 of 6, and yesterday's workout went hard on the glutes and hamstrings (lotta squats and lunges, single-leg glute bridges, and some bird dogs for good measure), so when I tell you I am fee-ling-it now...

There was a time when I would have decided "actually, to hell with all of this," and just petulantly sat on the couch until my butt stopped hurting. Walking (stiffly) into work this morning, though, my thought was "Maybe I should give foam rolling a try." I don't remember what my thoughts were a year ago - probably a lot of swearing - but I didn't even know "foam rolling" was a thing at that point. So, thank you, Past Me, for not giving up, allowing me to learn and grow even as I shrank and continue to shrink. I'm my own blessing today.

springlering62

My weight loss blessing today is much quicker reaction times.

For those mornings when, you know, you shake the cashew milk with no cap on it.

🤦🏻‍♀️

coblujay

I look down and see legs that are thinner and my cankles are shrinking before my eyes. I've always been so self conscious about my thick ankles. While I can't really see the bones yet, I'm getting there.

QueenBee2018

My plantar fasciitis has disappeared with 10 pounds down!! I get out of bed and start walking without any knives poking my foot, I'm so excited.

goal06082021

coblujay wrote: »

I look down and see legs that are thinner and my cankles are shrinking before my eyes. I've always been so self conscious about my thick ankles. While I can't really see the bones yet, I'm getting there.

oh hell yeah for this! I did a lower-body focused strength program over the summer (Strong Curves Bootyful Beginnings, 12-week progression - I grabbed some free spreadsheets off of LiftVault dot com to track progress) and by the end of the summer my legs looked HOT and have only gotten HOTTER. Every time I put shoes on I'm distracted by how downright dainty my ankles look.

coblujay

@goal06082021 I can't wait until my legs look HOT!!

mjglantz

My cardiologist rating me as platinum for my exercise and maintaining and 80+ lb weight loss for over 8 years!

BrightEyedAgain

My weight loss blessing for today is realizing how hopeful and confident I am about the future. It's a bit of a mixed blessing because the way I realized it was by listening to a group of my friends talking and noticing that they all sound resigned to being old, fat, and helpless. Honestly, I have less and less in common these days with my own age group becaue I simply can't relate to the conversations anymore. They're sharing about their latest doctors visits while I'm psyched about my new PR at the gym. It makes me sad, but I also realize how blessed I am to have lost all the weight and gained this new level of fitness and health. When I think of the future, it's full of possibility and promise. I'm excited by all the things my body can do now. There are so many neat experiences I want to try in 2022, and they're all within reach. At 51yrs, I feel younger than I have in a decade, and I'm happy. I wish my friends would join me on this path, but they aren't interested, so I don't say much. Meanwhile I've started to hang out with younger people who share my interests. That in itself is another blessing. It's fun to be around such vibrant people, and I would have never met them if I were still stuck in my old lifestyle.