What's Your Most Recent NSV

YoYodejavu

I could run a mile for the first time in months

bisonpitcher

Posted my first shirtless selfie of my life today and felt good about it!

soufauxgirl

Deviette wrote: »

ceiswyn wrote: »

...err, MFP? That particular kitten is a perfectly good British term for a ditch and/or wall, often used to mark boundaries in the middle ages. In Scotland the word is used extensively to refer to walls, particularly drystane ones. Just so you know.

Hahaha, the best thing is there will be a bunch of people who will desperately want to know what that kitten was now!

lol rhymes with bike

Noreenmarie1234

bisonpitcher wrote: »

Posted my first shirtless selfie of my life today and felt good about it!

You look incredible!!! What an amazing transformation, wow.

Vonny198334

Today is my 365th day on MFP. I can honestly say I have logged every bite & glug to the best of my ability.
Have loved reading this thread regularly through it all..always gives me a boost of inspiration to see you all smashing it. Never believed I would make it to this point, but here's to the next year!




(Apologies if you've seen this collage before...just can't believe it's me *blush*)

AtLeastOnceMore

NSV's:

1. First ever plank - only lasted 10 seconds, but I have a starting point.
2. Going through a 'manic' phase of my bipolar, and successfully breathing through most of the panic attacks that come as part and parcel of that.
3. The dragon coat is nearly slain! I reckon another inch off my true waist and it'll be on, buttoned and worn to death.

deetails26

900 days logging!!

DoubleUbea

I have finally reduce my carbohydrate intake and my protein is up. Achieving this was difficult for me. My fat macro is higher than I would want but that is due to the avocados I eat.

R3d_butt3rfly

A pair of workout shorts that I bought 2 months ago look less sausagie (is this even a word? 🤔) on me. Another 10 lbs loss and they will fit like a glove.

hipari

coolchick207 wrote: »

NSV's:

1. First ever plank - only lasted 10 seconds, but I have a starting point.
2. Going through a 'manic' phase of my bipolar, and successfully breathing through most of the panic attacks that come as part and parcel of that.
3. The dragon coat is nearly slain! I reckon another inch off my true waist and it'll be on, buttoned and worn to death.

Congrats on the plank (and the other ones as well, of course)! I started right where you started, when I started working with my trainer Jan 2016. Sometime in the spring we made a bet, on our last training session of 2016 we’d start planking together, and he would have to plank double whatever I can last. I worked my *kitten* off the rest of the year because I just wanted to see him struggle with it. I lasted 2 minutes, and seeing him struggle through the 4-minute plank was soooo satisfying after having him make me work hard all year. If you have a trainer or a training buddy you could make that bet with, I highly recommend.

R3d_butt3rfly wrote: »

A pair of workout shorts that I bought 2 months ago look less sausagie (is this even a word? 🤔) on me. Another 10 lbs loss and they will fit like a glove.

Sausagie is definitely a word, or at least it should be! Also, congratulations on the shorts. I wish I could wear shorts for workouts, but the chub rub struggle is real.

I do have some personal NSV:s to report as well: I just returned from running an entire 5K. I’m not counting the two traffic lights I had to stop in, I ran the entire thing. It took 40 minutes, which is surprisingly fast for me, as I’m slooooow. I just checked my C25K app and although I skipped some workouts in the program and some weeks in the time, I did go from couch (April 22) to 5K (August 14). Slowly but surely. During my run today, the same woman passed me not one, not two, but three times. I reminded myself that I’m still lapping everybody who’s still on the couch, and kept going.

I went shopping with a friend today, and I tried on a dress that didn’t look sausagie. Instead, it was nightgownish and I didn’t buy it. I did buy two cardigans and a shirt, none of which were XL.

HDBKLM

bisonpitcher wrote: »

Posted my first shirtless selfie of my life today and felt good about it!

Congratulations! Not only is your transformation fantastic, you seem also to be blessed in the loose skin department so call it two NSVs?

workinonit1956

The size small pants I ordered a couple weeks ago are loose. I washed them and tried them on this morning and I’m gonna have to send them back for the x-small. I’ve never been an x-small.

ceiswyn

Last week I was less out of breath than the instructor during my 'STRONG' by Zumba workout. This week I had the same experience with BodyCombat. I have turned from someone who got hot and tired walking a couple of hundred yards, to someone who finds high intensity gym classes insufficiently challenging.

Would it be a terribad idea to do STRONG and BodyCombat back-to-back next week, do you think?

JaydedMiss

I have been struggling with my fitness/eating. I decided to make a health jar, When i walk a certain amount of eat well or go to the gym that day or whatever goals i set get done ill transfer a stone into the big jar. A Physical reminder of the work i put into my wellbeing Happy i got to make a craft and happy to have something new to focus my energy into to get me back on track. Going to get a different color stone specifically for good eating days, Will hold me more accountable on my main struggle to not have a sad amount of stones in the jar

DWBalboa

JaydedMiss wrote: »

I have been struggling with my fitness/eating. I decided to make a health jar, When i walk a certain amount of eat well or go to the gym that day or whatever goals i set get done ill transfer a stone into the big jar. A Physical reminder of the work i put into my wellbeing Happy i got to make a craft and happy to have something new to focus my energy into to get me back on track. Going to get a different color stone specifically for good eating days, Will hold me more accountable on my main struggle to not have a sad amount of stones in the jar

This is a cool motivation, I really like the idea of transferring the stone for reaching a goal/W/O, etc.

We all have down days, my work has been crushing my soul for weeks now and I find it hard to hit the gym as well.

I wish you luck and the best success.

JaydedMiss

DWBalboa wrote: »

JaydedMiss wrote: »

I have been struggling with my fitness/eating. I decided to make a health jar, When i walk a certain amount of eat well or go to the gym that day or whatever goals i set get done ill transfer a stone into the big jar. A Physical reminder of the work i put into my wellbeing Happy i got to make a craft and happy to have something new to focus my energy into to get me back on track. Going to get a different color stone specifically for good eating days, Will hold me more accountable on my main struggle to not have a sad amount of stones in the jar

This is a cool motivation, I really like the idea of transferring the stone for reaching a goal/W/O, etc.

We all have down days, my work has been crushing my soul for weeks now and I find it hard to hit the gym as well.

I wish you luck and the best success.

Thanks Im hoping to add it into my daily routine. Things like walk 10k steps...if i hit 16k it will motivate me to do 4k more. I may eventually get stones in different colors for all my problem areas (food/gym mainly lately) So i have an extra push to do those or face the sad lack of that stone color xD Im motivated by stuff like this, Plus i really missed crafting

allmannerofthings

@JaydedMiss I like your idea. I love crafting - so good for relaxing. I did something similar. I made myself jewelry. I added a bead for every work out and made a necklace and a bracelet. Now I am actually decorating my treadmill with them!

JaydedMiss

allmannerofthings wrote: »

@JaydedMiss I like your idea. I love crafting - so good for relaxing. I did something similar. I made myself jewelry. I added a bead for every work out and made a necklace and a bracelet. Now I am actually decorating my treadmill with them!

Thats such a cool idea lol. I did this because i really find the glass stones calming. Was hoping to think of a way to use them as a progress meter. This is what i came up with. Then at the end of each night i get to wind down and relax touching my stones and adding them. Im not sure why i find them so calming the smooth cool texture just does something to me

mountainmare

I have a stone jar for my weight loss. One was filled with the number of stones to goal--then ultimate (maybe) goal. The obese stones were red, the current stones are blue and the goal to ultimate are green. I LOVED getting rid of the red stones!!!

ssssanaaaa

Not getting the tortilla on the side. Getting a salad first. Non-fat milk instead of whole milk. Not eating the whole bun. Just a lot of cuts here and there that have been making me feel good about how I'm treating myself.