What's Your Most Recent NSV

thisonetimeatthegym wrote: »

Sounds stupid, but I prelogged my food today and adjusted my planned lunch to fit my planned dinner.

Great NSV. Nothing is stupid if it helps you succeed!

I had to renew my driver's license today. The lady at the desk was going over my details and glancing up at me to double-check as she did so.

"Hair, blonde? Yep." (It's actually light brown as far as I'm concerned, but whatever!)
"Eyes, blue? Yep."
"Height, 5'6"?" *nod from me* "Yep."
"Weight, 215...?" *pause, smile, small laugh from her* "Nope!"

Made my day - it's nice to know I obviously look lighter now!

I've just started training myself for a 5K run this week. I haven't set a date and I have such a long way to go, but tonight my daughter took her dog and went out with me for my last walk of the day. The dog stopped midway up a big hill to do his thing but I kept going. I got to the top of the hill before they caught up with me. I was so proud of myself!!! And I was not out of breath completely like I used to be when faced with a hill. This stuff is addictive! LOL

SueSueDio wrote: »

I had to renew my driver's license today. The lady at the desk was going over my details and glancing up at me to double-check as she did so.

"Hair, blonde? Yep." (It's actually light brown as far as I'm concerned, but whatever!)
"Eyes, blue? Yep."
"Height, 5'6"?" *nod from me* "Yep."
"Weight, 215...?" *pause, smile, small laugh from her* "Nope!"

Made my day - it's nice to know I obviously look lighter now!

I have always been a dreamer on my drivers licence and put my weight at about 30 pounds less than it truly was. I am finally not only less than what my licence says.....but WAY less

I did FOUR pull-ups in a row!!!

Walked 1.25 miles today in 28 minutes and a lot of it was uphill!! I haven't walked a mile in years but I did it today. I felt amazing right after.

Today, the grocery store lady told me I was looking great!

tomteboda wrote: »

@jessiferrrb my jeans are a little looser than what you showed. I've been wearing them for 20 lbs (6 months). My mom's comment when I pointed this out was that they might fit right if I lost 20 more pounds. Ahhhhh...mom!

ugh, moms! i try not to talk to mine about the process but sometimes i break down because she asks about a million times "have you lost any more weight?" or she'll say something like "i didn't know if you were still trying because i saw you eat a cookie the other day" she has always defined her worth and mine by appearances and would tell me since grade school that nobody would love me if i didn't lose weight. it's hard to separate her issues from mine sometimes.

Put on a pair of pants this morning that haven't fit since I bought them a few years ago, and they're very comfortable! Unfortunately, now that my waist and hips fit in them, I see that the legs are cut way too baggy for what I like. Oh well - still enjoying the success!

Beat my time for my cycle ride today - it usually takes me 3 hours to go 25 miles, today I did it in 2hr 23mins. And today's run was mostly uphill. I can't claim all the credit though - my new bike helped as it has another range of higher gears.

The only huge hill I went down was very steep (17%) and I hit 36mph going down it. Could have gone faster but I was scared to as it's the first time I've been down that particular hill. Next time . . . maybe

Pulled a 425# deadlift last night. I hadn't previously tested my 1RM so I didn't really know what I could do. Happy with my progress so far. Today is exactly six months since I started lifting.

This is kinda an ongoing thing, but when I started this (130 days ago woah) I couldn't fit into a pair of size twelve jeans that I loved (they're so soft).
I ended up being able to squeeze into them after about three weeks.
Well; today I wore them with a belt and they now fit as a pair of boyfriend jeans instead of straight cut. Cool ^_^

I bought a packet of Munchies today (if you aren't in the UK, they're like little square chocolates filled with biscuit and caramel) and I only ate the serving size, not the whole packet, then put them away! As someone with a wickedly bad sweet tooth this was a huge deal for me.

Today I used my last training session out of the 20 I purchased almost 2 years ago. My gym membership ends in less than a week and my new agency has a gym. So I used my session to explain that I had taken almost 1.5yrs off from training and was 76lbs higher and around 15% more body fat from my last session with them (pregnancy, car wreck, meds, laziness). I asked him to use my last session to give me fresh stats and a starting point of where I am. Well today I weighed in 65lbs heavier than when I stopped all that time ago and 12% body fat higher. But I was down 11lbs from when I started eating healthy again a month ago. He ran me through a few exercises to see where I was at. I have essentially lost my back muscles, my upper and center ab muscles, and quite a bit of strength in my upper body. The good news in all of this downfall is that I retained (in his words) "great form" on squats and lunges (my previous trainer made me do those nonstop and emphasized form---im thankful for that) and that I retained a decent lower abdominal and side abdominal range. So while I'm very disappointed in actually seeing how far I've fallen and that ill be starting over worse off than I did before....Im also very thankful and remaining positive that I am starting back and that I did retain a good form on those. Plus ya know....11lbs in a month with only changing some of my eating habits is a pretty nice accomplishment!

Always have to find the bright side right?!?!?!


Ohhh......and I haven't touched the chocolate cookies and cream cake that's been tempting me in our break room whereas before I wouldve easily sat down with two slices of it. I've managed to keep my sweet tooth satisfied within reason ( a no-bake cookie instead of 12 of them, a peanut butter chocolate protein shake, etc)

(That cake is 460cal/72carbs/42sugar/0 protein in only 1/12 of it----OMG....not happening)