What's Your Most Recent NSV
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Yesterday and today I walked and ran a little. I burned about 500 cal both days. I feel great, I hope I'll continue.21
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quiksylver296 wrote: »fitoverfortymom wrote: »I'm no longer obese.
You said that much too calmly. It should have looked like this:
I'M NO LONGER OBESE!!!!
CONGRATS!!!
I so very much needed this. My original post title was, "I'm not obese, *kitten*," but I didn't know how that'd go over.19 -
I went down the slides with my toddler at the park this weekend. Hearing her sweet little voice asking me to join her in various activities, like "Mama! Slide!" and being able to do it brought a tear to my eye. A year ago I would have gotten stuck on the slide if I'd even tried to get on. The swings would have dug into my sides and quite possibly/probably not have been able to hold my weight (and honestly I would have been afraid to try). Honestly, last year I would have been sitting down on a bench with various weight-related aches, pains, and avoidable ailments. Every single activity that I am able to enjoy with my little girl is worth any ache from an intense workout and definitely more than any sugary treat that I've passed up. My NSV was the realization that I am leading a quality life with my family.60
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New one for me, average resting heart rate has come down to around 65bpm
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brookielaw wrote: »I went down the slides with my toddler at the park this weekend. Hearing her sweet little voice asking me to join her in various activities, like "Mama! Slide!" and being able to do it brought a tear to my eye.
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Every single activity that I am able to enjoy with my little girl is worth any ache from an intense workout and definitely more than any sugary treat that I've passed up. My NSV was the realization that I am leading a quality life with my family.
This is so wonderful! Well done! 8 -
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brookielaw wrote: »I went down the slides with my toddler at the park this weekend. Hearing her sweet little voice asking me to join her in various activities, like "Mama! Slide!" and being able to do it brought a tear to my eye. A year ago I would have gotten stuck on the slide if I'd even tried to get on. The swings would have dug into my sides and quite possibly/probably not have been able to hold my weight (and honestly I would have been afraid to try). Honestly, last year I would have been sitting down on a bench with various weight-related aches, pains, and avoidable ailments. Every single activity that I am able to enjoy with my little girl is worth any ache from an intense workout and definitely more than any sugary treat that I've passed up. My NSV was the realization that I am leading a quality life with my family.
Congratulations! I hope to be able to say that I am living a quality life with my kiddos someday soon.
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I just took 6 pairs of shorts out of my wardrobe that no longer fit me (too big). Including the 2 pairs of American Eagle that I kept for so long saying..."one day I will fit in those again"(wicked out of style anyway AND no one wants to see an old guy in AE cargo shorts either!)
Only got pics of 5 pairs. Lost one of the pics along the way. You'll just have to trust me that there were six pairs.
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This!!!!! My journey started 4 months ago after I was told I either needed to get my cholesterol down or start taking meds.43 -
Been struggling with the scale the last month, but my NSV is that I'm still getting rid of old clothes that are too big!22
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I just took 6 pairs of shorts out of my wardrobe that no longer fit me (too big). Including the 2 pairs of American Eagle that I kept for so long saying..."one day I will fit in those again"(wicked out of style anyway AND no one wants to see an old guy in AE cargo shorts either!)
Only got pics of 5 pairs. Lost one of the pics along the way. You'll just have to trust me that there were six pairs.
Ditch the cargo shorts!! Men look so much better is nice fitting shorts.5 -
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canadianlbs wrote: »trying to figure out how to express this one made me laugh. ti's hard to describe but, well. i know what i mean.
that thing where you're sitting down and you look at your thighs and there's kind of a furrow all along the outside of your leg? like, the fat isn't deep enough any more to reach all the way up, so you get this demarcation-line thing.
i guess another way of putting it is: used to be when i sat down i was sitting in this puddle of my own self that was all the way deep. but the puddle is shrinking dramatically - to the point where it's visible where the fat-puddle ends and the 'me' part begins.
probably grossed out a lot of people. but like i said: i know exactly the thing that i mean.
I TOTALLY get this. I have that, now, too. Weirdly satisfying... LOL.12 -
I have two.
First: winning a (v. local- we're not talking Olympics here) competitive event in the hobby I returned to, as part of my weight-loss regime.
Second: my favourite cold-shoulder top that used to slip around on my shoulders has suddenly become tight enough around my shoulders and upper arms that it doesn't slip, and stays in place. It's almost like my arms are bigger!
Cold shoulder tops: http://www.next.co.uk/gl8460s4?gclid=CJbP87DO6NICFQMM0wodoBkIrA&gclsrc=aw.ds&dclid=CKWzs7HO6NICFTET0wod5IsIlw#L5242710 -
Annual physical today. Blood pressure, glucose, and cholestoral were PERFECT!43
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Bought shorts for work!
Size 18!25 -
A small one, but my pants have been feeling too tight lately for me to be comfortable tucking my shirt in. Not sure what the scale says, but today, my shirt is tucked in!21
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Today was W5D3 of C25K - which is the 20 minute straight run. I did a 5 minute walk warm up, began running and just wasn't mentally "there". So I paused it and walked a few more minutes, stretched some more, just did what I had to do to get "there". I started the 20 minute run, then accidently hit the e-stop on the treadmill. I started it back up asap (missed maybe 45 seconds) and then ran the rest of my 20 minute run (PLUS an extra minute to make up for what I missed). It wasn't easy but it was totally do-able!32
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Wearing size 12 jeans today for the first time (this time around)! They are a bit snug still but they work! It's also laundry day and I had nothing else to wear so these fit at the PERFECT time
Started at a snug size 18 on Jan 5th
QUICK! Donate them so you have nothing to grow back into!14 -
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belated posting about this, but during the winter holidays, I couldn't lend my brother any pairs of trousers, because finally, I'm smaller than him. All my life (yes including childhood), despite him being 4 years older and also taller, I was so fat that I was bigger and couldn't borrow his.19
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I have been going absolutely stir crazy as the weather has been too awful for cycle rides over the last four days. Wind, rain, hail, you name it, everything but snow and sun
Yesterday the sun made a brief appearance so I got kitted up, the clouds appeared and by the time I made it to the door, they were producing massive hailstones. I didn't feel like a facial massage so had to (miserably) shelve the idea of a bike ride.
Thoroughly annoying, and my mood over the last few days has been getting lower and lower as a result. The children are tip-toe-ing around me and aren't being overly-demanding.
At one point, DH
suggested another trip to the gym but cycling on a stationary bike is just so D-U-L-L . . . he didn't suggest it again.
Today, I decided that I didn't care what the weather threw at me, I was going out on the bike. Then it rained. And rained. And rained. Black clouds covering the sky, it looked like it was never going to stop. So, instead, I used the cycling time to take in all of the pairs of trousers I have that were too big.
So, I didn't get my bike ride. But I now have lots of trousers that fit (and won't slide down forcing that really attractive "let's-hitch-up-the-poorly-fitting-trousers-every-five-minutes" look) and none that I can grow back into. I have also figured out how to make trousers smaller, so when I hit the next size down I can just take them in again instead of buying more So I have saved a load of money as well.
I even had time to work out how to take in one of my favourite tops that only fit for a few weeks before I shrank out of it.
And the sun has just come out again, so if I can persuade DH to cook dinner, I may just get out on the bike today after all 21 -
After having to take off a week and a half, almost 2 weeks, because of a slipped disk in my lower back, I started C25K again today where I left off. Instead of turning around at the halfway point I kept going and turned around and walked home at the end of the last run (week 4 day 3). I'm so glad I did because we saw an amazing sand sculpture on the beach further up from where we would have turned around
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That is an amazing sand art3
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Madwife2009 wrote: »So, I didn't get my bike ride. But I now have lots of trousers that fit (and won't slide down forcing that really attractive "let's-hitch-up-the-poorly-fitting-trousers-every-five-minutes" look) and none that I can grow back into. I have also figured out how to make trousers smaller, so when I hit the next size down I can just take them in again instead of buying more So I have saved a load of money as well.
Awesome - please share your secrets! Is there a way to do this by hand? (I don't have a sewing machine.) The only pair of navy blue trousers I have for interviews is now sliding down and I'd love to fix that, but they have an elasticated waist (or just stretchy, I'm not certain)... I'm not sure how to tackle them without wrecking them! I thought about just adding belt loops, but I don't have a nice belt to wear with them anyway so I don't know how to save them...
And I hope you do get to go out for a ride today - I think we all know by now how much you enjoy it!! 5 -
Got home after a 15 hour day, realized I had only gotten in half of my step goal, and no considerable activity on my Fitbit. So I walked for about an hour and a half in the house to get my steps and activity in for the day. I really just wanted to go to sleep.16
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Madwife2009 wrote: »So, I didn't get my bike ride. But I now have lots of trousers that fit (and won't slide down forcing that really attractive "let's-hitch-up-the-poorly-fitting-trousers-every-five-minutes" look) and none that I can grow back into. I have also figured out how to make trousers smaller, so when I hit the next size down I can just take them in again instead of buying more So I have saved a load of money as well.
Awesome - please share your secrets! Is there a way to do this by hand? (I don't have a sewing machine.) The only pair of navy blue trousers I have for interviews is now sliding down and I'd love to fix that, but they have an elasticated waist (or just stretchy, I'm not certain)... I'm not sure how to tackle them without wrecking them! I thought about just adding belt loops, but I don't have a nice belt to wear with them anyway so I don't know to save them...
And I hope you do get to go out for a ride today - I think we all know by now how much you enjoy it!!
I am also curious to know how to do this. I do have a sewing machine and have done some alterations.
Sue, if you wear the trousers with an un-tucked shirt or jacket it is pretty easy to put a drawstring in any pair of pants that has an elastic waist. Just cut a small hole in the inside of the waist band and run a long string through. Mens shoestrings make great drawstrings. That will definitely tighten the pants up. If they are way too big they might bunch up at the waist, but if the waist is covered it isn't usually a problem.8 -
Madwife2009 wrote: »So, I didn't get my bike ride. But I now have lots of trousers that fit (and won't slide down forcing that really attractive "let's-hitch-up-the-poorly-fitting-trousers-every-five-minutes" look) and none that I can grow back into. I have also figured out how to make trousers smaller, so when I hit the next size down I can just take them in again instead of buying more So I have saved a load of money as well.
Awesome - please share your secrets! Is there a way to do this by hand? (I don't have a sewing machine.) The only pair of navy blue trousers I have for interviews is now sliding down and I'd love to fix that, but they have an elasticated waist (or just stretchy, I'm not certain)... I'm not sure how to tackle them without wrecking them! I thought about just adding belt loops, but I don't have a nice belt to wear with them anyway so I don't know to save them...
And I hope you do get to go out for a ride today - I think we all know by now how much you enjoy it!!
I am also curious to know how to do this. I do have a sewing machine and have done some alterations.
Sue, if you wear the trousers with an un-tucked shirt or jacket it is pretty easy to put a drawstring in any pair of pants that has an elastic waist. Just cut a small hole in the inside of the waist band and run a long string through. Mens shoestrings make great drawstrings. That will definitely tighten the pants up. If they are way too big they might bunch up at the waist, but if the waist is covered it isn't usually a problem.
This works,i have 3 yoga pants with elastic waistbands that i turned into drawstrings and they look great and i can now wear them a little longer.7
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