What's Your Most Recent NSV

Dave_GettingFit wrote: »

I joined a local running club and went to my first meet tonight. It was at a track in a high school. I ran three miles.

That's great! Run clubs are a great way to stay motivated and have fun when running.

last hole on my belt
which is sad because i love this belt and i can't add more holes to this one.

and feeling comfortable in athletic gear. i feel healthy in it, not fraudlike

I cleaned a whole bunch of saggy, tired, unflattering fat clothes out of my closet and took them to Goodwill. I have space now for new clothes! I am now fitting into my smallest existing items (with one exceptional piece that will take a while to shrink back into), and will soon need to buy some new clothes. Not that I'm small now- still have a ways to go. But, I'm hoping by Xmas I'll be comparatively slender enough to need some new jeans.

Put on a pair of jeans that I haven't fit into in over a year this morning and they FIT!

Just hit the healthy bmi range of 25,hopefully i can go down a bit further,its odd considering i am taking a week off of training,and now i am hitting the healthy weight,good eating helps just as much as good training,takes me to 80lbs lost,maybe will look at another 10/15lbs perhaps.

Nsv- didn't touch the junk food spread out in front of me at a horrible, stressfilled meeting. Decided to repeat week 1 of cw5k because the second week was too difficult---in the past i woud have just given up and headed for the couch! Karen from ny

klanders30 wrote: »

Decided to repeat week 1 of cw5k because the second week was too difficult---in the past i woud have just given up and headed for the couch! Karen from ny

Oh! Please don't let yourself get discouraged about repeating as many weeks as you need on C25K. I did the same thing and then I had to stop myself from skipping weeks because they seemed TOO EASY!

I went from having not exercised in 20 years, to walking 10 minutes on the treadmill, to walking in my neighborhood for 30-60 miutes in 5 months from January to May.

Then I started C25K at the end of May and walked my first 5k race. By the end of July I jogged the whole way in a race. I never jogged before in my whole life and now I jog 5K about 3 times a week.

I made a commitment to myself to do at least 1 5k race every month til next May and so far I have done it. It is so difficult to get up the courage and get through the race, but the feeling at the end----it's truly priceless!!!!

I even came in last in one race at the end of September. But I still felt like a winner just because I did it for ME!

Don't give up! You are worth the effort and you are already winning, because you are doing it for you!

Yesterday my boss threatened my job.

I knew immediately that I was going to be struggling with "hunger" later on when I had more time to process everything.

The NSV is that I made it home without stopping at fast food, NOT getting fried chicken at the grocery store, NOT getting ice cream or chips, ONLY picking up my Rx's and GOING HOME. I did not completely fall back into old habits of eating the emotions that I didn't know how to feel. I did overeat, but it was on a box of NutThins. For me, that's a total win. I'm still having trouble with the emotions, but I'm not *eating* them, I'm FEELING them.

Virkati wrote: »

Yesterday my boss threatened my job.

I knew immediately that I was going to be struggling with "hunger" later on when I had more time to process everything.

The NSV is that I made it home without stopping at fast food, NOT getting fried chicken at the grocery store, NOT getting ice cream or chips, ONLY picking up my Rx's and GOING HOME. I did not completely fall back into old habits of eating the emotions that I didn't know how to feel. I did overeat, but it was on a box of NutThins. For me, that's a total win. I'm still having trouble with the emotions, but I'm not *eating* them, I'm FEELING them.

Bummer to your boss but massive congratulations on realising your feelings and not feeding them away.

steph0324 wrote: »

Just got the results of my latest bloodwork. 2 months ago my bloodwork results showed high cholesterol and decreased kidney function. My mother is rapidly moving into End Stage Kidney disease as a result of diabetes, and I was hoping that the fact that I had avoided diabetes would mean that I would not be looking Kidney disease in my future. It was a wake up call to start changing my relationship with food. After just 2 months of making better food choices and being more active, I have managed to lower my cholesterol by 40 points and to show a much better kidney function!

So wonderful!