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What's Your Most Recent NSV
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I’m doing this.7
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Made a swap. Now using water to make my oatmeal instead of luscious vanilla almond milk!
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Sickness (flu?) has been "looming" all around me for the past month--I mean it seems everyone I know or have come into contact with for the past month has been sick with the "flu"--and of course, as we've all been trained, "this is the cold-flu season" so, just a day or so ago...it's tried to rear it's yucky head in me. All the usual suspects of the yuckiness of illness, nose blowing until it hurt, sneezing, sore throat, all the TMI mess associated with sickness/colds/flu. So why am I posting this as an NSV? Because I simply REFUSED to give this sickness ANY place at all--I REFUSE to bow down to it with feeling sorry for myself or anything negative at ALL. I'm drinking lots of water, teas, and good old fashioned homemade chicken soups--lots of liquids. What's amazing is, as I've refused to "give in" to the woe(s) is me and instead am pampering myself with fabulous rest and relaxation and JOY and gratitude (yep, even for this sickness), because I'm thinking about how much I can take for granted my usual and everyday good health and wellness, so this yuck sickness is helping me appreciate wellness all the more. PLUS my appetite is not what is usually is, so as this "thing" departs from me, I'm pretty sure the scale will reflect it, so BOOM--big ole NSV for me. Sickness? Bring it--all I got for you sickness is joy unspeakable, thankfulness/gratitude for being ready, willing and able to fight it off and the probable weight-loss I'll get, so there sickness, can't WON'T keep me down AT ALL and ALL the down time will be spent being even more joy-filled and positive and treating myself like a princess, period.
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My motivation win!
Everyday I go to the gym, on the way out I pick up a purple candy from their front desk, I dislike that little purple bowl of temptation,
But not anymore!
Everyday I go to the gym on the way out I still pick up a purple candy from their front desk,but not to eat but to put into my motivation jar.
When I hit my goal of 25 candies per month I am giving them to my daughter's work. (They have a community candy dish.)
When I don't get to the "purple candies " gym and work out elsewhere,I put $.50 in my jar. (For a Green Tea for myself every 2 months or so.)
So far this year I have $.50 and two purple candies!
So long nemesis candy dish...Hello, purple bowl of motivation!
Boom! Love this, you ROCK, period.4 -
Pulled up my wooly knee socks the whole way over my calf. No discomfort.12
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Pizza and movies with kids tonight - still managed to keep under my calorie goal - more or less. Yay.
Day by day.
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I almost had myself convinced to go get Chinese food. I decided I would stick with oatmeal (ate lunch for breakfast this morning) This is great because normally, Chinese takes all my daily calories in one meal.12
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I used to cross country ski years ago and then through my weight gaining years I let it go. But then I started enjoying it again at the beginning of my weight loss journey and it became part of my winter cardio. Fast forward a couple of years and I'm now in maintenance. I fell today while skiing and realized something. When I weighed over 200 pounds and fell, it was such a performance getting upright again. But today I just kind of bounced back up. There's so much less of me to haul up, plus I'm so much stronger. And it was my husband who noticed the change, not me!26
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Today I'm just proud I made it through another day.
Sticking to my healthy habits has been hard this week. Appetite has been out of control, scale hasn't moved in a week (normal fluctuation), and I haven't exercised in weeks due to an injury, waiting on rotator cuff surgery. I'm 141 days in, 33lbs down, 27 to go.
All week long I've reminded myself that it's ok that I don't feel motivated, because motivation doesn't cause weight loss. Eating at a deficit, consistently, causes weight loss. So that is what I will keep doing.
And that's a victory I'm proud of.39 -
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This week marks 2 years since I went gluten free due to a suspicion that I was gluten sensitive - my psoriasis is almost completely gone now and I haven’t needed the expensive topical ointment in almost a year now.
I am looking forward to my first beach holiday in 3 years because now people won’t be looking at me like I have a contagious disease when they see me in my bathing suit! Next Saturday starts vacation and I am ready to go!
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15 weighted chins 20lbs & 7 standing curls 125lbs
6' x 185lbs
I fought like hell for that last rep
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This week marks 2 years since I went gluten free due to a suspicion that I was gluten sensitive - my psoriasis is almost completely gone now and I haven’t needed the expensive topical ointment in almost a year now.
I am looking forward to my first beach holiday in 3 years because now people won’t be looking at me like I have a contagious disease when they see me in my bathing suit! Next Saturday starts vacation and I am ready to go!
Darn awesome button is gone! That is simply fantastic, so happy for you.
As a teenager (eons ago lol) on of my best friends suffered with psoriasis and I learned a lot about how she attempted (but as often as not failed) to keep it under control. It always seemed to know when would be the absolute worst time to flare up too. Nobody should have to deal with that and glad to hear you are doing so much better!7 -
Someone referred to me as the skinny one.
I cried tears of joy!!!!26 -
Ate popcorn, cookies and wine tonight for dinner. Now eating a Mint Milano cookie. Not a single green leafy vegetable anywhere. I don’t feel like some lousy dieting failure. I feel like a freakin’ rebel! I’m glad I discovered you don’t have to be perfect every single day.40
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It's really hot here today 40 C / 104 F - and as I've lost some weight I'm not as uncomfortable as I normally would be in this heat.25
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I chose to have ice cream. Not in a it's been a crap day I deserve it mentality but in a I really fancynso ice cream healthy relationship with food way.21
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My not-a-fitbit is loose. Used to not be tight, exactly, but snug. Now it flops around.16
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This week marks 2 years since I went gluten free due to a suspicion that I was gluten sensitive - my psoriasis is almost completely gone now and I haven’t needed the expensive topical ointment in almost a year now.
I am looking forward to my first beach holiday in 3 years because now people won’t be looking at me like I have a contagious disease when they see me in my bathing suit! Next Saturday starts vacation and I am ready to go!
I sooo know how you feel/felt. I have psoriasis and have had it for almost 40 years. 40 years of people staring, or shuffling sideways, or kids asking their parents "what's wrong with that lady's skin?". 40 years of various medications that sometimes worked and sometimes didn't.
Because I then developed psoriatic arthritis, I was on a medication that cleared my psoriasis up completely but I still had "shadowy" areas where the skin was still healing (had to stop the medication as it was damaging my nervous system but that's another story). My children wanted to go swimming so I went with them, reluctantly as I knew my skin wasn't completely healed, expecting the usual stares and gawping from those that don't understand that I am not going to contaminate them but there were none. For the first time in nearly 40 years, nobody looked twice at me.
It was so liberating! To be "normal" for the first time in my adult life. But it's sad that I was made to feel like that, and writing this just proves that my experience was not about ME and my genetic issues but about how awful society is to those who don't fit the mold.
Really, really enjoy your holiday!
Am off to look into dietary aspects of keeping auto-immune diseases at bay now . . .21 -
Thanks for the support @ryenday and @Madwife2009. I still get flare ups (mainly scalp, nose, elbows, and knees), but the extent to which I feel comfortable in my own skin now feels nothing short of miraculous some days.
Glad there are people on these forums who can appreciate this NSV in a meaningful way. 12 -
My sister's wedding is in June. Last night I went with the group to go bridesmaid dress shopping. I was convinced nothing would be in my size. There wasn't any in my size, but the next size down, several actually and I figured they might not zip but I could get an idea. They zipped AND hooked like they were suppose to with little to know effort. I am a size smaller than I thought!!!!! I got to try on pretty dresses like everyone else!!!!! It made me so happy cause I was really stressed about it.51
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I almost had myself convinced to go get Chinese food. I decided I would stick with oatmeal (ate lunch for breakfast this morning) This is great because normally, Chinese takes all my daily calories in one meal.
I feel you!! I DID have Chinese but had a lunch size & went with my daughter so we shared...otherwise I would have had it ALL!! Plus only water to drink!!11 -
This week I’ve stayed within calories (so far but plan to through the weekend!) and stuck with my 15hr fasting between dinner & breakfast! Usually stop eating at 7pm and have breakfast at 10am!11
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I saw my hair bouncing up and down as I walked past a shop window, as opposed to swinging side to side as I lumbered past. It was awesome.28
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time2change1111 wrote: »It's really hot here today 40 C / 104 F - and as I've lost some weight I'm not as uncomfortable as I normally would be in this heat.
It's absolutely frigid here today...I'm actually missing those 62 pounds of insulation. I'm freezing!!! Lol
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time2change1111 wrote: »It's really hot here today 40 C / 104 F - and as I've lost some weight I'm not as uncomfortable as I normally would be in this heat.
It's absolutely frigid here today...I'm actually missing those 62 pounds of insulation. I'm freezing!!! Lol
Things no one tells you about weight loss. Amen, sister!8 -
time2change1111 wrote: »It's really hot here today 40 C / 104 F - and as I've lost some weight I'm not as uncomfortable as I normally would be in this heat.
It's absolutely frigid here today...I'm actually missing those 62 pounds of insulation. I'm freezing!!! Lol
I feel you.
I'm bundled up with so many layers it's ridiculous. Almost 80lbs lost here... all of it insulation...8 -
Knee high boots that I could barely zip over my calves this time last year, I can now slide on and off without even opening!23
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My sister's wedding is in June. Last night I went with the group to go bridesmaid dress shopping. I was convinced nothing would be in my size. There wasn't any in my size, but the next size down, several actually and I figured they might not zip but I could get an idea. They zipped AND hooked like they were suppose to with little to know effort. I am a size smaller than I thought!!!!! I got to try on pretty dresses like everyone else!!!!! It made me so happy cause I was really stressed about it.
That is awesome So happy for you! 5
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