* Not eating ANY of the cookies or cakes that have been brought into the office over the last few months (even those that sit on the sign in sheet 3 feet from my desk)!

* Being able to walk up stairs without feeling like I'm going to keel over. This week I started doing my stair training again as well (walked up 20 flights to top of building and back down, 2 days this week).

* Finding 2 bins of clothes in the back of the closet that I can now fit again, and another bin that I will be able to fit in a few months at this rate.

* Having the wife politely tell me that I don't block out as much of the sunlight anymore when I'm standing in front of the window!

* I'm sure my next NSV will happen next month when I see the Doctors that told me to lose 30 pounds. The last time they saw me I had actually GAINED 10, so it should be really interesting when they see that not only did I hit their goal, but I passed it, 8^).

on2016 wrote: »

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* Being able to walk up stairs without feeling like I'm going to keel over. This week I started doing my stair training again as well (walked up 20 flights to top of building and back down, 2 days this week).

This is impressive enough on its own! Geeze! 20 flights! Wow, that's dedication and inspiration.

Tonight I was late to a meeting at a friends house and the electric gate was closed shut. Oblivious of the pedestrian access around the corner, I tried instead to push by the gate. There wasn't much space, but I was able to squeeze through the ten inches or so it gave in. #skin_and_bones

Paula

shballa wrote: »

I went away as a chaperone with my daughter's youth group this past weekend, and there were lots of pictures posted on facebook. Although I was still the largest person in the group, I wasn't horrendously large and the pictures weren't embarrassing to see posted on-line.

I still have not reached the point of being comfortable with pictures yet; I applaud you in this victory of confidence.

PaulaKro wrote: »

Tonight I was late to a meeting at a friends house and the electric gate was closed shut. Oblivious of the pedestrian access around the corner, I tried instead to push by the gate. There wasn't much space, but I was able to squeeze through the ten inches or so it gave in. #skin_and_bones

Paula

Congratulations! You have really done wonderful.

Okay...so I have been attending a Pilates class since March. It is a one hour, easy going, full body workout focused on core strength. I started going because it was something that could be adapted to what little I could do. I continue to go because it is now not only something I can do better than I could nine months ago, it is now also something I enjoy doing.

Today we tried a new exercise that involved holding our leg up in the air and holding the back of one thigh while moving the other leg in a particular way--people, it did not feel like MY leg-- stretched out and active, I could feel the muscles and sinews doing LEG MUSCLE STUFF and not the usual cluster of wobbles and skin that I associate with MY legs.

Someday--and it's not that far away a Someday--I am going to have very nice legs.

My main NSV was one pair of stretch jeans started fitting again. I have several more I can work into here shortly, and I can't wait.

ShrinkinMel wrote: »

My main NSV was one pair of stretch jeans started fitting again. I have several more I can work into here shortly, and I can't wait.

Oh! I love that!!! Congrats!!!
I got into a pair of pants that I'd saved for 15 years... as a goal. Found out I hated the design of them. lol!

Last week, I completed five hours of reformer Pilates, two hours of swimming lessons, an hour of deep water aquafit, AND 170,000 steps, mostly from purposefully marching my dog around.

My victory is not that I completed this much activity, it is that I ENJOYED this much activity.

So this is a totally different kind of NSV, but today I found out I am pregnant!!! I am so excited about starting this new chapter of my life