What's Your Most Recent NSV

angerlo

Mine is that I have the energy to keep up with my adult children.i remember when my daughter graduated and we went to Gatlinburg to hike trails. And I couldn't keep up thought I was dying I told them to go ahead so I could rest but just cried instead. Now they have to keep up with me

trudie_b

I've been lifting weights at the gym for just over 3 months now. Today the personal trainer came up to me and asked me if I do Crossfit. I said "no, but I'm flattered that you think I look like I could!" Turned out he used to run a Crossfit gym. I was pretty happy with that compliment!

thisonetimeatthegym

NSVs:

Inches off waist. Finally!

Maxed out the flexibility machine at my gym.

Nearly maxed out the thigh adductor machine also.

People at the gym tell me "I've seen you workout."

My kids are physically fit and enjoy their own strength gains (randomly bust out in push ups for fun). My mom and grandmother were huge examples to me about staying flexible as you get older (at 84 my grandmother could touch her toes without effort) and my mother overcame a bad back injury through exercise. And now I see, tears now, that I am also giving my kids a good example to follow. I don't sit on the bench watching my kids play. I play with my kids.

Although I realized my fitness level is way more than the average person, because I am not as slim as some other people, I still saw myself as getting there?

And even though I go to the gym and do calisthenics tricks and "next level" fitness stuff, and have some type of near daily exercise for years, it wasn't until yesterday - just yesterday, when I went swimming, and shot hoops, and tossed the football and passed the soccer ball and played and ran and.....realized I HAVE an "active lifestyle." Thank God!

fitoverfortymom

LilFoxtrot wrote: »

It's been a full week since I've had any soda. I haven't even had cravings or sugar withdrawals. This is the first time in my adult life i haven't had soda cravings.

I feel ya on that one! I had a nasty Pepsi habit before I started.

__TMac__

Crummy day yesterday. Threw my eating plan out the window. Didn't exercise. But I logged it, and I'm still OK for the week. Weighed in this morning, and I'm back on track. Life happened, and I didn't let it derail my long-term success.

keezo1

Surprise visit from my mom messed with my workout out routine. The next day would have been my rest day and usually i would just use that as an excuse to take the two rest days but instead i just decided to consider my day spent with my mom as my rest day and enjoy it and do my workout the following day. I do not know who this new person in my head is,but i like her.

greeneyedfurball

Today's my one-year anniversary on MFP. 365 straight days of logging!

Also, at my workplace, one of the conference rooms has chairs with built-in desks. Last week, I sat in those chairs, not having done so for about 5 months. I was amazed at how much more space there was between the desk and my stomach than there used to be!

sheseclectic

Seeing a difference between my leg and ankle. I've never had slim ankles ever - even when I lost 80lbs before. (gained most of it back) Since I've been weight training I'm seeing changes in my body I've never had before ankles being the thing I noticed last night.

katycapp

I have 2 that are kind of combined.
Until last week I lived 5 minutes from the gym in the same town where I work. This past weekend we moved 30 minutes away. I haven't made it to the gym all week even with good intentions because I was making excuses about needing to unpack and not being able to find things.
NSV 1: I got my stuff together last night so that as soon as I woke up I could head out the door and go to the gym then get ready for work at the gym. Then I actually did it!!

NSV 2: While getting ready at the gym I realized I forgot clean undies. I had to run to Walmart on the way to work to pick some up and I picked up a smaller size (8 vs the 10 I usually wear) just hoping they would sort of fit and would be better once I lost more. They fit great! I actually think that I forgot what well fitting underwear were supposed to feel like since my others have been saggy for quite some time.

Getting ready at the gym was quite stressful so I am really hoping that I can sort out the logistics and keep going. Surely it gets easier?

ladyreva78

Leg pressed my body weight at the gym today! (85kg) Never thought I'd reach that.

gullagr

Hitting my calories burned target four days in a row

IremiaRe

Got my first "I didn't recognize you!" today from my Dentist... she said she had to look on the chart to see who was in the chair before she came in. I have been going to her office for years...

And got the same from a co-worker I haven't seen in a while when I walked into the office today... She had to ask if it was me... Pretty cool.

kali31337

Went to trivia last night, after the gyms so I was late, and didn't drink or eat anything (luckily the bartender is a friend!)...I even took my own water bottle so I knew how much water I was drinking.

keezo1

Fell asleep on the couch lastnight. It used to be too cramped for me to lay in for a few minutes, last night i slept through the night. There is so much extra space now i can comfortably sleep there,good to know.

ladyreva78

keezo1 wrote: »

Fell asleep on the couch lastnight. It used to be too cramped for me to lay in for a few minutes, last night i slept through the night. There is so much extra space now i can comfortably sleep there,good to know.

The amazing expanding couch. I've got one of those too!

It shrunk for my dad and got sooooooo much bigger for me. Amazing isn't it?

Ewa877129

Got our bloodwork back. I was diagnosed with a fatty liver. In a month with just diet changes my AST/ALT have dropped considerably. One was over 50 points in a month's time! My partner went into DKA last month and got us both looking at our diet. He's always been good about managing his bloodsugars - but pizza when we didn't feel like cooking wasn't helping. His A1C went from 12.9 to 7.7 in one month! The doctor was even floored!

Madwife2009

The loose skin on my inner thighs appears to have tightened up a bit. This may, or may not, be due to strength training (I've only noticed this since starting).

Also, flabby underarm "bat wings" are improving.

Happy days . . . .

akindofmagick

>Getting ready at the gym was quite stressful so I am really hoping that I can sort out the logistics and keep going. Surely it gets easier?

Not really, IMO. I find it very stressful. Always forgetting something. And then there's the general "cleanliness of the gym" concept... rarely are they to my standards, when considering how many people's alien germs are in there, day in and day out... I find if I have a gym that's between work and home, I use it. Otherwise, I waste $$$ on membership.

PeachesNcreamgal

So my dad the nag and my biggest critic just complimented me by saying my body has finally come into shape and I am looking a little less chubby and that now I only need to work on flattening my belly. Its been too long since I heard something positive about my body from my dad.

rinigirl76

What does NSV Mean? sorry I don't know

Tacklewasher

Non Scale Victory. Something other than the number on the scale. Like I finished week 3 of C25K this morning and did not feel winded, despite doing it every day this week.

Feels better than reporting the scale went up a 1/2 lb.

PhedraJD

I went clothes shopping and fit comfortably in the next size down. Which is good because I needed thermal underwear and the next size down was the largest size they carried. I didn't need to make a special trip to the big women's store.

gullagr

Was able to up the weight on all but one machine on my circuit this morning

MikilouB

Moved from obese to "overweight"! When I started this journey in March 2016, I was morbidly obese...good feeling. Also, have run out of clothes...gotta hit the Goodwill.

Susieq_1994

PeachesNcreamgal wrote: »

So my dad the nag and my biggest critic just complimented me by saying my body has finally come into shape and I am looking a little less chubby and that now I only need to work on flattening my belly. It's been too long since I heard something positive about my body from my dad.

That makes me so sad. Reminds me of when I lost weight the first time around, my stepmother looked at a snack I was eating after dinner and said something like, "If you keep eating like that you'll just get as big as a house again." Uhhh... Thank you?

akindofmagick

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becca_rup23

Someone in my masters program noticed my weight loss and was very impressed and said I was inspiring!

KareninLux

Madwife2009 wrote: »

1) Just noticed that I hit "two million" steps on my Garmin. What I didn't notice is that this was three weeks ago. D'oh!

2) Despite the appalling weather recently, I have been out on my bike every day for the last nine days (I've missed just three days this year so far). Now, that's not bad considering that I've been out in wind, rain, snow, hail and the freezing cold. Sometimes a combination of more than one type of weather. Today's run was 23 miles and by the time I got home I was so cold that I could not undo the clip to remove my cycling helmet. Had to ask for help from my wonderful husband who just grinned at me. He (and my children) all think that I'm crazy but they are all SO supportive My husband's only comment was that wouldn't I do better to do some stationary cycling at the gym. Possibly, but outdoors cycling is SUCH fun, despite getting home completely frozen and feeling like Olaf. No wonder he longs for summer!

3) I have worn out the rear brake pads on my poor bike. I only use the rear brakes (I find it safer than using the front ones) and they are down to the metal, there's no pad left. Ooops. But the poor thing has done approximately 2500 miles since the middle of September. I totally my bike.

Wonderful post!
Go madwife!

angmarie28

my underwear that i havent been able to wear in a year because my thighs got to big, and they cut into my legs, fit perfectly comfortably this morning

everher

katycapp wrote: »

Getting ready at the gym was quite stressful so I am really hoping that I can sort out the logistics and keep going. Surely it gets easier?

For me, it did. I keep separate toiletries in my gym bag so I don't have to pack toiletries every day. Clothes I pack at night or in the morning and I just run through the list - underwear, bra, shoes, pants, shirt, etc. I leave early enough that I have x amount of minutes to get ready after my work out and I do not work out past x time because I know I need x amount of minutes to get ready for work.

It becomes routine.