What's Your Most Recent NSV

I actually completed the second run of week one 'couch to 5k' instead of putting it off 'til tomorrow...

I also stuck to my plan to start some simple yoga, and *almost* managed a push up :')

Was feeling blah after work today and decided to go for a walk. Took the dog on a mile and a half walk in 93 degrees, got home, flopped in the couch and said, "That was fun!" And I meant it!

Couple of NSVs there. A month ago I would have used that blah feeling as an excuse to lie around after work and I never would have enjoyed a walk in the heat that much. Just in the past week I've started to understand just how good exercise makes me feel!

Way to go everybody! This topic is amazing and I love reading through all the great things we've accomplished!

I have a few of my own to add...

- kind of scale related... This is the least I've weighed since November 2012!!!

- someone noticed that I've lost today! I replied with "just a little bit!" (22 with 80 to go) and she said "not little, you more skinny!" (English is her third language )

- I went to a friend's wedding last week... In a form fitting dress and it looked good! My confidence is sky high! Even better... In my " what to wear" panic three weeks ago I bought three dresses.. Two of which I was more comfortable in than the one I ultimately wore... But they were at least two sizes too big by the night before the wedding!! The smile on my face when I returned them and had to tell the sales lady they were " much too big "...

Let's keep the NSVs coming!

It would have to be finally getting out of my pregnancy pants and being able to wear regular ones!

-To feel more space around my waist when I move my arms.
-To be able to sit more comfortably with my legs crossed.

I hurt me ankles and heels a year ago and could hardly walk for half a year. But slowly ooooh so slowly they got better, the pain lessened and I was able to walk further and further. Then I got plantar facilitis (spelling?) on top of it all in my left foot, but with a cortison shot (don't know if it actually helped a lot..), it slowly got better too. From walking slooowly less than 2 km with pauses and stretching I now walk close to 9km with out pausing. Best of all I enjoy these walks, hardly think about the pain as it is minimal and I enjoy having sore legs after a particular brisk walk. I still have flareups, but they are rare and I'm much better at reading my body to prevent them. Patience is key and not pacing myself compared to everyone else but myself.

I misplaced my iPod at a conference and it took two days, multiple people to contact, causing a company wide disruption, to finally find it and it won't get to me until after I need it for a class I teach. And because of a situation out of my control, it's costing me $20 to send it to me instead of my being able to find it while I was still on site.

I didn't eat, I didn't go ballistic (well, maybe a little), I didn't lose two days of other activities.

I normally work out when I wake up at 6. I was feeling particularly down today and just "didn't wanna" (excuse #1). It was raining (excuse #2). I couldn't get the TV to work properly to play my workout video (excuse #3). I found the workout on my phone, put on my big girl pants, and sweated it out. Months ago, I would have just gone back to bed. Go me! Unfortunately, I'm still feeling down though. Grrrr.

Umm... actually got up and did my 2 minute plank and most of my stretches this morning, despite getting up a little later than I intended, and even though various electronic gadgets did not work the way they are supposed to.

After 7 years of struggling with plantar fasciitis and recently a sprained ankle, made it through a whole dance weekend (hours of dancing plus a lot of walking), 48k steps over 2.5 days, and no pain at all!

NSV#1 I had to buy new shorts (36 waist) because old shorts (38) were too big. The other day I thought I accidentally grabbed a pair of my old shorts because they were feeling too baggy. I checked the tag and nope...this is a pair of my new shorts. Looks like I'm on my way to a 34.

NSV#2: A coworker had to have back surgery and Monday just returned to work after being out 6 weeks. The first thing he says when he sees me, "Holy *kitten*! You're skinny!". All I could do was smile.

I'm not quite skinny, but I've about 65% of the way to my goal and feeling like nothing will stop me from getting there.

I have been doing a plank challenge and am on week 3. The time I was supposed to do the plank for today was 2 minutes, which was the same as last week. Last week I made it 1:30 before my body gave out on me. Today I held for 1:45!!! 15 seconds longer and instead of getting shaky after 20-30 seconds it took almost a minute! 3 weeks ago, I could only hold it for 45 seconds and started shaking almost immediately. Not only that, I did a week of a different ab challenge before making the decision to do the plank one instead. On the first day of that challenge I took my waist measurement and I have since lost 1 inch!!

This is my favorite thread on MFP. Keep up the good work, everyone. It really is the little victories that keep us going.

NSV: Yesterday I bought my first "medium" sized top since about 1990! I know sizes have probably changed since then, but it's still the smallest size I own. Last year this time I was 2X-3X. True. PS-Got it at Goodwill, new or almost new, for $1.79 on pink tag Monday! I had just dropped off another bag of now-too-big clothes and of course had to go in and look for a great deal.

Took my monthly "progress pics" last night and saw a noticeable difference compared to two months ago. Scale hasn't moved a whole lot so I was kind of surprised by this, but I guess the workouts are paying off.

well, I can see my obliques now, and that makes me very happy.