What's Your Most Recent NSV

-size 10 (uk) skinny jeans
-stomach is almost flat this morning
-still loving the weights section of the gym

Had to get up early this morning for my usual 10-mile cycle ride, so up at 5.30am. Started my ride and I swear that a rain cloud followed me all of the way round; everywhere else was dry, the sun was shining, the sky was blue apart from the bit above me which was black. I got wet but instead of going home, I carried on and knocked 5 minutes off my usual time

Size 16 pants today and yesterday!

My NSV today is that I stepped on the scale, and found that for the second week in a row, it had not budged (mostly my own fault, I've been slacking a bit). I then decided to make myself a healthy breakfast and pack some healthy snacks to take to work today, despite feeling like a failure for my slip-ups all week.

Some days it can be so tempting to throw it all out the window and say screw it, i'm not making progress, but I really am. Two big achievements for me right now, I make sure that I eat a reasonably healthy protein and some serving of fruit or vegetables with every meal, and I've cut my soda addiction/consumption from a 32-46oz soda once or twice a day, down to 6-12oz of soda once or twice a week. And one and a half months in, i'm still doing it!

Maybe not technically a NSV but I just made it over the line from obese to overweight. It feels pretty good!

Went to Costco last night and saw really cute fall jackets. I didn't used to be able to fit Costco clothes, because their XL or XXL was always too small for me, but now I can wear regular clothes so thought I'd give it a try. Another woman was looking at them too. She picked up medium. I thought, she's going need a small for sure, as I picked up another medium to try on. We both put them on, turned around and looked each other, and it fit both of us perfectly. I still feel so fat, but I think I'm kinda not fat anymore!

I can feel my tight muscles now. I keep touching them while walking around my house.

Was given a piece of strawberry-rhubarb pie....which is my fave. I wrapped it up, saved it for the next day, so I could work it into my calories. Before, I would have scarfed it up immediately, calories be damned!!!

I can see that V shaped notch at the base of my throat, and my collarbone is starting to show. Yay!

Costco is relatively new to Australia, so I am unfamiliar with its sizing. In desperate need of a winter coat I found a cute pink and grey one, but unsure of the size required my Dad passed me one. It fitted perfectly. Taking it off I looked at the label and it said Sm/Ch - I thought that meant "small chunky". Turns out its Small Child!! We laughed. I am 42

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Costco is relatively new to Australia, so I am unfamiliar with its sizing. In desperate need of a winter coat I found a cute pink and grey one, but unsure of the size required my Dad passed me one. It fitted perfectly. Taking it off I looked at the label and it said Sm/Ch - I thought that meant "small chunky". Turns out its Small Child!! We laughed. I am 42

This is awesome- you go small child

I talked hubby out of taking me to an "all you can eat" seafood buffet for an anniversary dinner even though that sounds great. I know that would have been too much temptation to overeat.

I now fit comfortably in size 12 pants/dresses, and S to M tops. Started 10 months ago in size 24 pants and 2XL tops.

This is not exactly a non-scale victory, but it's an MFP non-scale cause-of-happiness:

I've been here just less than a year, which is long enough to be seeing delightfully many MFP friends who started our at "ooo, this is hard, how do I do this? can I?" now reaching "20 pounds down", "stronger than I've ever been", "now a runner", "at my goal weight", and more.

It's so much fun to see others find their successful path, transform themselves, and gain self-confidence - amazing and inspiring!

Last night I was out for a walk with my daughter and did a little jogging. I apologized to her for being so slow, and she said, "You're not slow, you have to quit telling yourself that." I said back to her that I was indeed very slow (I really am). She said to me, "You're not slow (...pause...) for someone that's had four children." The NSV in all of that? When I first started jogging, she happily told me how slow I was, and demonstrated it by keeping up with my jogging while she walked backwards. So at least I've gotten faster; she can't keep up with me while walking backwards anymore.