What's Your Most Recent NSV

motivatedmartha

littlegreenparrot wrote: »

I am doing a Trail half marathon 12th August, and training has been very lack lustre the last couple of weeks. It's been unnaturally hot here in the UK. Found a new route in the local country park this morning though, and did 8 miles. Feels like it's back on track.

It has indeed been pretty hot - good luck with the trail run!

CarvedTones

tammierlewis wrote: »

@FeelingAlive Isn't it great? I was looking at a video my husband made while I was on my SUP and noticed my back looking more defined.

Mine is doing that from SUP paddling also. When I flex, I have that muscle a few inches down from the shoulder that runs along the top of the shoulder blade really show some shape. I am not sure I have ever seen it so pronounced before, even when I was younger and in really good shape. Paddling is doing a lot for my upper body. I am typically paddling 5 to 10 miles twice a week on an inflatable all around that doesn't glide well, so it is a serious workout.

ecrosby512

Fit in my old size 14 office panrs for the first time in years. Fun to wear something less baggy!

New2ket0

Getting back into all my jeans and dresses I bought 2 years ago 💃🏻 just did a little dance 😝

Cerealsensei

Very random. But since I'm not so round anymore I can walk with my hands behind my back. It's the small things in life ya know.

motivatedmartha

After a week of bemoaning slow scale progress, this morning I tried on my red dragon dress. I wanted to look good in this dress for the Christmas party season. I have squeezed into it in the past few weeks and felt sad because I never thought it would look good on me again (last worn out in 2002! 🤤) Well, today it fits! In a wearable way! I mean, it will be greatly improved with another half stone off but ye gods - it fits and doesn't look awful. Who knows, I may even have shrunk out of it for the winter party season - and I hate, loathe and detest clothes shopping 😃 For anyone worried about slow weight loss, keep checking measurements and clothes.

DoubleUbea

Cerealsensei wrote: »

Very random. But since I'm not so round anymore I can walk with my hands behind my back. It's the small things in life ya know.

Actually, I think that is great.

23rochelle23

motivatedmartha wrote: »

After a week of bemoaning slow scale progress, this morning I tried on my red dragon dress. I wanted to look good in this dress for the Christmas party season. I have squeezed into it in the past few weeks and felt sad because I never thought it would look good on me again (last worn out in 2002! 🤤) Well, today it fits! In a wearable way! I mean, it will be greatly improved with another half stone off but ye gods - it fits and doesn't look awful. Who knows, I may even have shrunk out of it for the winter party season - and I hate, loathe and detest clothes shopping 😃 For anyone worried about slow weight loss, keep checking measurements and clothes.

I was playing dress up just the other day checking how different clothes now fit! great fun - and congrats on slaying your dragon!!

bigjonb4116

so... i had my over 50's health check at my new doctors surgery last week, they check, height, weight, blood pressure,risk of diabetes, cholesterol,how much you drink, whether you drink etc etc, and work out your risk of getting cardio vascular disease, they set an acceptable risk level of 12%.... and apart from being still over weight and my BMI being 39 (at my heaviest my BMI was 68) everything else was in the green..... and my risk of getting cardio vascular disease was 6.5%...so i was pretty pleased with that. x

Elo_getsfit

Feeling confident enough to wear this short of a 👗dress 😳💪🏻

rcreynol3090

A couple this week:
1 - yesterday at dinner I got full before I cleared the plate, and had to adjust my diary to account for what wasn't eaten. In my old life (pre-open-heart surgery), I would have eaten everything anyway, and been miserable afterwards.
2 - I apparently have a pulmonary embolism, and I'm still alive to tell about it...

DoubleUbea

I would like to give a thumbs up or Woo to everyone for their NSV! Congratulations.

mrschwarten

I completed the 102nd Vierdaagse!!!! It's a 4 day, 100 mile (160 kilometer) ruckmarch throughout the Netherlands. I never thought I could do it!!! But me and my husband did it!!!!! I was rather miserable for most of it and ready to quit constantly. But I was determined to get to tell my coworkers that I finished! I've been training for about 4 months. The views were incredible, the people were wonderful, and the ice cream and poffertjes well deserved! I am so very proud of this accomplishment!!!!

https://www.4daagse.nl/en/

motivatedmartha

AMAZING! So impressed. Congratulations on sticking at it! Perhaps you will be able to enjoy your next challenge a bi more

FeelingAlive

tammierlewis wrote: »

@FeelingAlive Isn't it great? I was looking at a video my husband made while I was on my SUP and noticed my back looking more defined.

It sure is! Congratulations on your success.

Kohanai

OMGGGGGG.

Last Thursday: I ran a mile in class, and though I didn't log to the second, I finished sometime within the 13 minute mark. Previous fastest time, like, end of last year, was in the 15:30ish range. I'm so so so so excited about that.

Also, I climbed the Coba pyramid in Mexico last Monday. I paused a couple times to just take a deep breath and look around, but I didn't *stop* during the ascent or descent. I was huffing pretty hard at the top, but so was eeeeeverryyoonnneee else. Doing this has been a dream of mine, and I've avoided making the trip and doing it because I didn't think I could.

sunny_d22

I won a t shirt in a raffle at a stand up comedy show. They only had the one shirt. It's a size small. It fits! I used to regularly buy men's xlarge shirts. Mediums have been fitting pretty well for awhile, but fitting into a small is new and exciting!

CarvedTones

I paddled SUP for 3 hours non stop (except for very short water breaks; like under 30 seconds every half hour or so). Distance was 9.6 miles, which isn't great but I have a short, slow SUP.

dhiammarath

motivatedmartha wrote: »

After a week of bemoaning slow scale progress, this morning I tried on my red dragon dress. I wanted to look good in this dress for the Christmas party season. I have squeezed into it in the past few weeks and felt sad because I never thought it would look good on me again (last worn out in 2002! 🤤) Well, today it fits! In a wearable way! I mean, it will be greatly improved with another half stone off but ye gods - it fits and doesn't look awful. Who knows, I may even have shrunk out of it for the winter party season - and I hate, loathe and detest clothes shopping 😃 For anyone worried about slow weight loss, keep checking measurements and clothes.

YAAAAAY!!! Slayin' the dragons!!!

mkculs

I had to get my walk/run workout in early so I could stay overnight in hospital with my sis who has breast cancer and had surgery. It was still much warmer (I usually run a few hours later when it’s a bit cooler) and the dew point was 79! At 3 miles, I just stopped. I had been averaging 4-5, but I wanted to be able to help my sis and pushing myself under the conditions would have rendered me almost useless, and crabby to boot. I knew my cal count for the day was fine, so I took a break and just let it go. Having faith in the process and the long view has made me a happier person.

1991court

I painted a bathroom in 3 hours today. I'll tell you what that beats most other workouts lol! Between the up and down, core muscle engagement and the stretching it was a great workout! Not sure a month ago I could have done that especially in only 3 hours!

ceiswyn

Yesterday I decided I couldn’t be bothered going on a hike - I was tired, my achilles was sore, TOM meant that being away from civilised toilet facilities might be frustrating - and I would just go back to bed.

Nobody was more surprised than me to discover me tromping along by Sengenydd *kitten* three hours later. It was a ten-mile hike, easily my longest yet (it was only meant to be 8 1/2, but I got lost and came the wrong way off the hill), but at the end I felt I could still go further. And today I feel fine (except for my achilles, which has unsurprisingly not been miraculously healed by the experience). Now I just need to find some more long hikes where the start and end points aren’t annoyingly distant from one another...

ceiswyn

...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.

Deviette

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!

Deviette

1 inch off my waist! And that skirt that's normally a little bit big for me (but recently have fitted perfectly) is a little bit big for me again!

ceiswyn

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!

And in the meantime, I am having all sorts of mildly traumatic mental images!

beerfoamy

Talking to a mate on Saturday about gothing up for a night out in Leeds in 2012. Found the photos and had to make a collage.
On the right - no clue just how overweight I was - perfectly happy apart from constantly being too hot and bleh whatever I wore.
Left, prior to the half marathon few weeks ago. Chosen because the pose is sort of the same. (clearly tis the pose to do to hide belly! haha)




I lay awake for quite a while that night just looking at the pic. I have been feeling like I have stalled recently and to see it in that large a change really helped. Plus, the one on the right...it doesn't look like me anymore in my brain. Big step. Very weird feeling though. Anyway, ramble over lol

motivatedmartha

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!

I suspect that is is the derogatory term for a masculine lady/lesbian. But for most of the UK it is also a perfectly acceptable word for a ditch or raised stone wall - google Offa and you will see.

CarvedTones

beerfoamy wrote: »

Plus, the one on the right...it doesn't look like me anymore in my brain. Big step. Very weird feeling though. Anyway, ramble over lol

It is weird; I have been going through the same thing for a while. FB memories pop up and if it has a picture of me, I generally don't share it. It's not shame as much as a feeling that the person in the photo isn't me. I also feel like I am stealth bragging when i post a "before" picture of myself. For a while I still felt like I was that person and barely recognized the person in the mirror. But at some point that flipped.

rheddmobile

I got a really good compliment the other day. My husband and I stopped in to a new restaurant, which has a deli counter, and he was ordering when the owner interrupted him to say to me, "I just wanted to tell you, you look very pretty and summery today. (To my husband) I hope you don't mind if I compliment your wife! I hope you compliment her often, she deserves it!" Then the two of them got into a bragging match about complimenting ladies, and the owner finished off by telling him he had to bring me if he ever came back in the restaurant, and if he showed up without me, he wouldn't get service! It was very funny and we were all laughing. I suspected that the owner, who is clearly a talker, does this to everyone, but from the stares we were getting from other patrons, maybe not!