What's Your Most Recent NSV

I just spent 45 minutes cooking bacon and sausage for my colleagues and I only ate 1 piece of each!

Last week I ran three miles in 31:13, this week I ran it in 29:38. Still pretty stocked about that.

I have a fair few, so here we go!

- My BMI has solidly dropped into the "overweight" rather than "obese" category.
- I tried on a bunch of stuff in the sale yesterday and my reaction when I looked in the dressing room mirrors is that I look really tiny! all is relative of course, but how often do you feel good about yourself in a dressing room??
- I ran into an old acquaintance last weekend and he said I "look really good, [your flatmate] mentioned that you've lost a lot of weight"
- I have a waist. And some pretty defined obliques even though there is still a big pudge centred on my stomach.
- The rehab for my knee injury is going really well. Saw my physio on wednesday and I have more movement in the right direction and less movement in the wrong (hyperextension).

It's been a good week

I started walking a dog about a year ago. We'd go around the block from her house, then down the street to the park. First thing I'd do when we got to the park was sit on the bench. The we'd walk around the perimeter of the park for another quarter mile or so and I'd hit the second bench for a few minutes. Then another quarter mile and another bench. Then back to the first bench to rest before walking her home--and it took 10 minutes to get to her house from the park.

Now we make a big rectangle for the first part of the walk (about 4 x 2 blocks), then around the perimeter of the park without stopping and THEN we stop for bull frog "hunting" walking up and down the tiny stream a couple of times. It takes about six minutes to get between the house and the park now. Last year I'd have to go straight home and rest on the couch after walking her. Now I go pay bills, do my grocery shopping, or return home to do some yard work. What a big difference 23 pounds and a year of walking three times a week makes!

I went rock climbing today. For the second time in my life. (The first time was like 12 years ago.)
Before my weight like loss, showing my butt to a group watching me from below would have been unthinkable. I felt FREE today because I do not have to think about appearances anymore. Swimming? Sure. Rock climbing? Why not! Clothes swap? I am in.

Ran my first 5K today and didn't finish last!!!!

Did the round kicks in heavy bag class on Thursday and survived my first ever yoga class afterward.
Didn't suffer manic sciatica afterward!!!
And lifted last night, pushed the weights up a bit and stretched afterward. Again, no sciatica.
This makes me SO happy!

in 2011 I went up a mountain that's consistently steep to the point that the 40 min hike gave me strong lower back pain, as well as left me very short of breath and aching at the muscles. I stayed clear of that mountain up until last autumn, and have since done it twice in the past month and a half or so. The last time I did it, a week or so ago, I felt like I'd done nothing of the sort the day after. I'd have been almost incapacitated for days before I started working out last summer

Mine was this morning, while helping my nephew move into his new place. My brother in law looked at me and said "well, how much skinnier are you going to get?"
(in reality I have about 30-40 more pounds to lose)