What's Your Most Recent NSV

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JamiePocai wrote: »

I’m now a size 6 bottoms and small tops. Down from a 22 and 2-3x tops this time last year

brava!

whosshe

Gaining a pound over the holidays and being totally cool with it. I got back on track no problem and I'm pretty friggin proud. This is my first time slipping a bit during this "journey" so I was really scared how I was going to react to the inevitable and I killed it. WOO! Bring it on 2018!

lancenuovo

solid work!

SusanDSME

I went to see our friends' super 80s cover band and started dancing...and my pants started falling off! I had to fold over the waistband!
Next goal: get into my old 'big' jeans, which I outgrew in October.

lancenuovo

i cannot wait for: belt (not suspenders); able to go swimming no shirt; most fit of my 3 brothers. can i future date a NSV?

lancenuovo

SusanDSME wrote: »

I went to see our friends' super 80s cover band and started dancing...and my pants started falling off! I had to fold over the waistband!
Next goal: get into my old 'big' jeans, which I outgrew in October.

so cool..what songs did they cover?

cjsacto

Today I was watching Dr. Oz and he was talking about waist to height ratio. He had an audience member up whom I thought looked quite slim, certainly smaller than I am. He measured her waist... and it was 2.5" larger than mine! It made me realize my perception of myself hasn't quite caught up.

(TBH I do think the woman on the show was thinner than I in areas, but still.)

HDBKLM

A friend recently described me as "a very good dancer" to another friend. This resonated with me in particular because one of the various reasons I decided I needed to take action about my weight was that I had I tried to dust off some Latin dance moves in front of a full-length mirror at home, but since I'd gained so much weight—especially through the middle—I couldn't detect my own hip action. I looked like a thick tube tipping this way and that. Such a sad sight

ROBOTFOOD

sofchak wrote: »

My most recent NSV:

Was secretly playing “race against the person next to me” on the treadmill yesterday at my gym. I knew I couldn’t really keep up with his speed, so I topped off about .5 speed slower than him and settled on bumping up the incline to get something equally challenging (in my head) going against this guy.

We both wrapped up at about the same time, so I leaned over afterward and said a quick “thanks - you motivated me to push myself today” to which he surprisingly responded “are you kidding? I saw what you were doing... your speed and incline together were nothing short of impressive. You were motivating ME to keep pushing.”

Wow... never thought my efforts would be seen as motivating to anyone short of maybe a turtle or a snail. Lol. Ended my 2017 on a high note

Love this. Can totally relate. Have had several faster and slower people motivate and push me at the gym. Out on the roads too. I love seeing people push themselves. Example: Yesterday’s 10k. Out n back course, 2 laps. I was high 5ing everyone. Glanced at my garmin maybe 2 Times.

dakotababy

For the first time in a long time, I completed a workout without cutting any corners or taking breaks...or worse, stopping all together when I have had "enough".

time2change1111

Back at work today after the festive break and I got a compliment from a colleague about my weight loss

beerfoamy

Just looking at my 'life spreadsheet' and the figures for my exercises for the year are quite shiny. I have:

Swam over 200 miles
Played squash x75
Gone for a run x45
Combat class x28
Pump class x45
StrongLifts in gym x66 sessions (I miss a few here and there cos of life stuff)
Pilates x21

I have averaged 8.83 hours a week of activity

scale shows me up 8lbs from holidays. However, NSV is that even if my logging was atrocious (don't think it was too inaccurate) I could double my excess and still it only comes to around a 3lb gain - so am going with the fact some is water weight and I will officially weigh in next week to give me a better idea of true 'damage'. Feel very chill about the whole thing!

yondaime8

Blew my own expectations in 2017 and walked not 1200+ miles in my 1k mile run/walk/crawl challenge.

mebelfanti

I bought a pair of size 16 jeans for the first time in over 7 years. I started in April at 20/22W and I still can't believe I can wear pants without a "W" in the size.

JillianRumrill

Just turned down cupcakes and brownies. I work in a school so this happens pretty regularly, even so, it can still be hard sometimes. But I did it, and I'll keep doing it. Just glad the kiddos still think of me

lancenuovo

started tracking food

kdbulger

I've been able to take photos of my face and self and feel fine about them. No special angles or make-up needed.

LindaGilpin59

Back in the gym today. 45 minute Fitness Fusion class and then 5 miles on the recumbent bike in 20 minutes. Was -15 this morning so biking outside has to wait awhile. We might get up to 32F on Sunday.

Illy_Mooncat

I’ve comitted to tracking macros the entire month of Jan and I’m not stressed about it! I’m excited for the month of “recalibration”

tammierlewis

Completed C25K W4D2 and continued until I completed 5k. 46 minutes. One of my goals this year is to participate in my first 5K before I turn 60 in Nov. Well, there is a run on March 31 in my neighborhood, that I am signing up for. I may not run it all, but I know I can finish it!

cjsacto

I have been wearing my size 14 jeans from when they were too tight til now having to wear a belt to keep them up about 30 lbs later. I decided I deserved some new jeans, and I looked forward to hopefully finding size 10s that fit. I came home with well-fitting size 8 in TWO different brands, and a third brand (Lee) was too loose in 8! Size. Eight. Was. Too. Big. A fourth brand was still snug and I know there's a lot of vanity sizing, but hey, my 14s were probably vanity sized, too.

I'm aware sizes have shifted and gotten larger, but I don't recall ever wearing size 8, possibly I did when I was 13 or 14. (I seem to remember size 10 when I was 15-16.) I'm 48.

lancenuovo

nice job! i passed up on candy during the movie today!

Thehardmakesitworthit

My NSV is that I started this process in February 2016 and here I am today, still eager to continue and learning more about myself every single day. I like me as it turns out.

DownsizingSam

W3D2 of c25k. My goal was to sit around 9Km/h for my jogging intervals. Dropped to 8.8 a couple times but managed to kick it back up to over 9. Even got up to 9.9 at one stage. There was a lot of breath catching going on, but I did it.
@tammierlewis well done!!! Week 4 scares the bejeezus out of me! I was actually meant to do it the week of Christmas but one thing led to another and well I didn't get out at all that week. So this week I started week 3 again to wean ack inti it.

tammierlewis

@DownsizingSam Thanks!

babybuddha06

Finding and loving a hobby that has been worth sticking around for and it isn’t centered around food.

Edit: it is my NSV because, in a way, it has helped fill in the void of ‘mindless eating.”

cenafan

My Frye boots fit comfortably over my calves and my size 16 gap jeans fit (down from a 24). And the best one is that my lululemon winter coat fits again!!! Bye bye North Face.

bikecheryl

alteredstates175 wrote: »

bikecheryl wrote: »

81 lbs down, 47 to go!!

Well done, Cheryl! You are an inspiration!

What is written on the back of your race bib in the second photo? I couldn't make it out.

81 lbs lost
47 lbs to goal

aeloine

150 day streak!

Mellykay88

Joined a gym last Thursday and have gone every single day since! A year ago I wouldn’t have believed you if you told me I’d actually enjoy getting up at 5:00 am to go the gym. This morning I woke up at like 4:15 ready to go and then realized I could sleep another 45 minutes so made myself go back to sleep, lol!