Some NSVs (and SVs)
maoribadger
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As of this week
-I weigh less than my husband. As wennim has said it doesnt feel like I should celebrate it because I should never have been bigger than him but since I was its good to not be in that place anymore.
-My wedding ring fits. Not the one I wore the day I got married, or the one he bought me when I got to my thinnest a year later. The cheap one I bought because both my others got too tight. So again, not a monumental victory because I should be wearing one of my other two but Ive been six months or more wearing none at all and I finally dont feel so uncomfortably bare without it
-I am within 2lb of my sisters weight. Ive always been the fat sister. But I am fighting back and determined just for once to actually if I were so inclined share clothes with her or just not feel like a failure in family photographs
-I have a BMI of 39.5. I am no longer morbidly obese (just regular old obese
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-I leg pressed 210kg just before busting my ankle, twice my own bodyweight
-I dropped into another stone bracket today. 15-13 meaning I now have seen the 19s, 18s, 17s, 16s and 15s
Maybe I shouldnt have gotten to where I did but all I can say is mental illness is a mofo and Im determined to note these achievements anyway.
-I weigh less than my husband. As wennim has said it doesnt feel like I should celebrate it because I should never have been bigger than him but since I was its good to not be in that place anymore.
-My wedding ring fits. Not the one I wore the day I got married, or the one he bought me when I got to my thinnest a year later. The cheap one I bought because both my others got too tight. So again, not a monumental victory because I should be wearing one of my other two but Ive been six months or more wearing none at all and I finally dont feel so uncomfortably bare without it
-I am within 2lb of my sisters weight. Ive always been the fat sister. But I am fighting back and determined just for once to actually if I were so inclined share clothes with her or just not feel like a failure in family photographs
-I have a BMI of 39.5. I am no longer morbidly obese (just regular old obese
)-I leg pressed 210kg just before busting my ankle, twice my own bodyweight
-I dropped into another stone bracket today. 15-13 meaning I now have seen the 19s, 18s, 17s, 16s and 15s
Maybe I shouldnt have gotten to where I did but all I can say is mental illness is a mofo and Im determined to note these achievements anyway.
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I'll say the same thing as on wennim's post. You should be proud that you have chosen to do all of those positive things for yourself. Many people try and give up. You could have chosen to keep on going exactly as things had been. But you bit the bullet, dug in, and accomplished lots of great things.0
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I always enjoy when we post victories and then spend half the time convincing ourselves that they might not really be victories.
Just giving you a hard time. Enjoy what you have accomplished, whether you should have been the weight you were is neither here nor their. Your accomplishments are real and wonderful.
I had one last night, I was lying in bead ready to go to sleep when I realized that on my back my stomach is flat. I can see from my nipples to my toes without straining to see over my belly.0 -
I love that sincere ability to see through our rationalizations as to why our successes aren't successes, Patrick. It is like success is more terrifying than remaining fat, which I know for me, that is irrationally true. I'm trying to accept each victory, no matter how small or how many times it is repeated... Let's all try to be a little nicer and more understanding to ourselves today. Treat ourselves like we would a stranger!!!0
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I am right there with you on the no longer being the fat sister! I still have one that is smaller than me but with a large family she is the only one that has always been oddly thin.
I have had a few the last few days to.
- My son drove my car and he had to move the seat back. I used to have the seat way back to fit by the steering wheel and my feet barely reach the pedals. Now he has to move it back so his legs fit. He hasn't driven it in awhile but he hasn't grown either.
- I was unrecognized at a kids event. One of the boys former teachers walked by about 10 feet away from me to ask him if I was there. So maybe I have changed a bit. She gushed about how she didn't recognize me and how I have lost a lot of weight. Made me a little uncomfortable so I tried to change the topic.
- My resting heart-rate is 58 which puts me in the athlete or very fit category. Guess all the biking and running is paying off!0 -
Those are awesome!!!! I'll never be the skinnier sister. I inherited the Polish stockier frame from my family, and she got the more slender German frame, plus she's 2" taller... When she got out of boot camp a few years back, she was down to a size 4... I've never been a size 4 and have no aspirations to be one. At her heaviest, I think she got up to a size 12 or so. The lowest size I remember in high school was a size 8. I'll just be thrilled when I can buy from the women's section, not from the plus sizes...lol. Now to weigh less than my mom who has a very similar frame to me (she's less than an inch shorter and has the same Polish side of the frame), that could be a goal. LOL Of course, it makes me want to drag her kicking and screaming with me!!!
Those are great above - but I do have a question. My resting heart rate is in the 60's, and almost always has been (I think briefly it was higher)... So does that mean despite all the excess weight, I'm still moderately heart healthy, or at least likely? I could google, but I wouldn't know what to look for!0 -
I am no expert and have no medical background but the way I understand it most people fall in the 60-100 bpm area. The higher the number the less effectively your heart is working. So a rate somewhere in the 60's would mean that you are at a lower risk of heart disease or other problems than someone who has a rate of say 95 bpm.0
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All victories in my opinion. Great job!0
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Mines regularly over 100. But even when I was doing martial arts 8 hours a week at blackbelt level it rarely went under 95. Just me I guess0
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Wow - my workout heart rate gets that high (and higher, depending), Lise, but my resting heart rate is lower...Now I want to go look it all up!0
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My workout HR goes between 130-168. Im not worried Ive had heart tracings done and I have a normal sinus rhythm with the odd ectopic beat or slightly irregular beat but is basically normal just fast. It was only when pregnant it caused me problems as it got so fast it made me short of breath. Normally its just what it is0
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Interesting...0
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Cheerfully it is a risk factor for an earlier death regardless of fitness levels so will simply have to work on everything else as that cant be changed.0
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How whack is that?? If that is your body's normal, and there are no underlying medical issues, I think medicine just needs to catch up. Even at my heaviest, I was fairly flexible, had normal blood pressure, and all sorts of things, so I was moderately fit-fat, unlike the skinny-fat folks out there who treat their bodies like dumping grounds... HUGS, regardless...Keep on keeping on with the boxing and weights and all the bad@$$ stuff you do, and me personally? I think you will be just fine.0
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Yeah I have low to normal BP and am very flexible. I also don't smoke, drink maybe twice a year and workout four times a week. Just need to up my fruit and veg as left unchecked I default to meat dairy and carbs0
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As long as you vary your meat to get most nutrients, you should be better than most. My body hardly tolerates fruit anymore... And veg, I get when I can. Just made an awesome batch of taco soup last night - I love my recipe! Lots of beans, tomatoes, etc. Top it with some cheese and serve with tortillas in some form (crisps or strips or whatever)...and you're golden. I make a double batch and it feeds my guy and I at least 4 solid meals. Can serve over lettuce for a taco salad...in a wrap for tortilla...the list goes on! It's fairly healthy, even macros wise, if I remember right. I recently found no salt added versions of most items, so totally dropped the sodium way down. 0
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Now that is what I don't understand. I have a good resting heart rate yet my blood pressure has been steadily creeping up. Dr told me to lose weight. So I did and the number has gone up even more since. Now I have to go in for bp checks for the next month and see if I need to go on meds for it. Seriously I watch my salt, don't drink or smoke, exercise regularly and lost weight...what more is a girl to do?0
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Do you take any sort of birth control/hormonal? This is the one and only thing that I take that makes me have high blood pressure. And I was seriously in healthy range without it. I was 110/70-120/75 even at 350. Now at 250, I spiked at 165/89 and that had already come down loads. I was 170/some ridiculous number once (I think it was 110), but I think they messed up that reading because of how they took it. Now I'm back around 125-135/75-80ish...but I had to get medicated...and it still spikes when I get really upset... But not taking the bcp is not an option... SIGH0
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Nope no birth control...it did spike my blood pressure when I was on it though and I had problems with my bp during all of my pregnancies as well. Mine this morning was 148/96 at least that was the lower of the two readings they took with ten minutes in between.0
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That upper number isn't as scary as the lower one...and even though I'm sure you don't want to get on meds, do it as soon as possible. High blood pressure weakens the walls of the blood vessels making strokes and stuff far more likely. It can do crazy damage. I put it off a year because they knew the cause, but I wish I hadn't after doing research as to what untreated it does to you...0
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Yeah I had pre eclampsia twice and at my worst was 225/115. Mind you I was also fitting so my bp wasnt my primary worry. It took 6 months to come down after my first and was on meds. Luckily has been back to normal ever since the birth of my second so no lasting damage done0
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Man it would be so much easier just being fat... of course not it the ways it matters but Its such a luscious idea.
I was standing it line at my grandparents retirement home looking at the hot food trays trying to decide between sausage and mac and cheese and I thought to myself how much easier this would be if I was still as fat as i was and didn't give a damn, then I had to shake my head at myself for thinking that... all because I wanted both the sausage and the mac and cheese...0 -
Well Pat don't leave us hanging...which did you get????
We went to lunch at a buffet place the other day and I had to talk myself out just piling my plate full. I knew I didn't need all that but for once I splurged and had a tiny taste of each thing I wanted. It is hard to get a small amount with the size of some of those serving spoons they use.0 -
I got the mac and cheese... It was disappointing...0
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I've noticed lately that it usually is. What always tasted so blasted good to us years ago often tastes like paste now. Ironic, no? I always wonder what foods taste like now...0
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I've noticed it too that somethings just don't taste the same. Some things I used to love now leave like a oily film in my mouth...yuck. We used to eat a lot of convenience foods and now they taste gross and I am much happier with the homemade version. I think part of it is I am a lot stingier with my calories now...if I am going to use my limited calories for it, it had better taste good.0
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Yeah definitely. Today I went out for lunch with the outlaws. I ended up ordering off the kids menu and my meal came in under 500 cals. Looked at pudding and decided at 400 cals upwards it simply wasnt worth it and left it. Did get some thorntons later though but thats always worth spending calories on
This weeks NSV. I can now lift myself out the bath. At my heaviest embarrassingly I couldnt push on the sides and lift my upper body as it was so heavy. I had to turn onto my knees and stand up. Now I can put a hand on each side of the bath and push my self out the water. Im even counting it as strength training by refusing to push with my feet until my arms are straight lol0
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