What's Your Most Recent NSV

Being able to Squat 100 lbs when I currently weigh 136. Aiming to squat my body weight or more!!!

Just logged in for my 100th day strait. Now weigh less than my Driver's License.

ridiculous59 wrote: »

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

Awesome! I feel slightly guilty that I actually gave her a weight of 175 when I'm currently 178, but I rounded down and figured I'd be there soon. In five years when I need to do this again, I hope to be able to give a much lower weight!

beginforthelasttime16 wrote: »

Picking up a 20 pound bag of cat litter and realizing I've lost that much and I'm super proud of myself

I had this a couple of weeks ago too - our pails of litter are around 30lbs, and as I heaved it up off the floor I suddenly thought that I used to carry around more than that on my person without thinking about it. It made me feel a bit weedy for not being able to lift it easily, but still pleased that I weigh that much less and don't have to carry it on my frame any more!

My NSV today is a little confidence in myself. Yesterday I went shopping at my local thrift store to see if I could find some smart pants or skirts, since my only "interview skirt" is getting loose and soon won't be any good. I didn't find much that fit, but I bought two pairs of pants (for $7!) that I can just about do up if I suck in my belly. They were the perfect length for me and fit quite well in the legs, so I figure that in a few more weeks I'll be able to get into them easily. One pair is a 14, and I wouldn't have dared to buy that size even quite recently, so I'm happy to have the confidence that I can keep losing!

I went shopping for dress pants - in May I wore a snug size 16 (US), today I bought size 10 (US) and every pair I tried on was loose in the hips and rear! I am not sure what happened to size 12, it is as if I skipped right over it

I started this journey in December at a size 10, which I've been forever, with occasional flirts with a 12. Bought some size 6 jeans a few months ago and today they felt pretty darn loose. Never thought I'd be considering a size 4, but that might actually happen .

I had another NSV today in my weekly staff meeting. I was sitting in the chair adjusting my position and I realized... Hey I'm off to the side in this chair, I used to fill it up armrest to armrest. I have lost about 6 inches off my hips but that was an unexpected reminder today! ☺️

JulieSHelms wrote: »

@kingleahnidas

kingleahnidas wrote: »

I am training for a 5K in November, and I ran it in less than 50 minutes yesterday! My goal is 45 minutes (15min/mile). I am currently 291 pounds, started at 319. Fat girls can run too!

This is awesome. Actually I can't even wrap my mind around it. I probably haven't run more than 6 consecutive steps since high school (I'm 50 now) and those half a dozen were only because my ram was chasing me and my life depended on it!
I'm 215 now, down from 300. For the past 10 weeks I have been going to the gym and can do the elliptical at a pretty good clip for an hour. So I read your post and thought...maybe...is it possible I could try??? I can't even explain why I'm terrified to try. Why is so much about weight psychological?
Anyway, you have inspired me and this is why I love this thread!

Wow thank you so much! I could write forever about learning how to run, but I will try to keep it brief. I too HATED running and only did it for emergencies like catching the bus or crossing a crosswalk haha. But in December I figured out that I had actually been running wrong whenever I did these spurts of running. Hard to explain, but basically I was leaning with the top of my body and just trying to go as fast as I could. I learned that I could "run" by slowing way down, moving my hips side to side and just picking my feet up off the ground more. Maybe this doesn't apply to everyone, but it was like a whole world opened up!! After that I started using Couch to 5k to see how much running I could intersperse with my walking. Now, I think the app was a great starter for me, but I felt like I outgrew it halfway through. I wanted to see how long I could run without stopping, whereas the app encourages you to mix running and walking. But the app really helped me because I knew running to a particular stop light and back was 1.8 miles and run/walking it took about 30min. So I just kept doing that route until I could run the whole thing. And then earlier this month I decided to just keep going past the light and ended up doing 3.1 miles in total! With a stop halfway through . Now I can run that 3.1 miles without stopping (see my 2nd post) and am working on building up my speed! My #1 goal for the 5K is to finish comfortably, so I'm trying not to become obsessed with the numbers. I'm just hoping that there are enough kids and old people that I'm not the last one to finish!! haha

Side note: I much MUCH prefer running outside and I listen to energizing pop music. If I have to use the treadmill, I listen to podcasts because I get bored. The thing I learned about running outside is that NO ONE CARES what you look like, that you're slow, that you're jiggly. Also I always tell myself if someone WERE to harass me, they are most likely walking/driving/sitting so who are they to make fun of you for running??

Good luck with your journey!!

So many great NSVs here, love them all. You guys continue to inspire me daily.

My NSV is an improvement in my resting heart rate. I've been mixing in more high intensity short duration "gasping for breath" type cardio and it's really making a difference. I've got a little chart saved to Pinterest that says for women my age, a resting heart rate of 61-65 is excellent, and 54-59 is athlete level. I got mine down to 52! I'm off the chart baby.

Bought 3 pairs of 36-sized pants. Coming from 40-42 that is a good NSV for me ;-)

finishing week 2 of C10K, Week 3 looks brutal but I say bring it lol

[Wonderful!!! quote="ridiculous59;37750804"]I've only reecently started following this group and I love it! Everyone is so positive and that's the kind of stuff I need to hear. I am SO done with toxic people!

Here's my NSV for today.....I have registered for my first 5k run for next weekend. So far i've made it to 4.5k around my neighourhood. This morning I figured i'd run the race route to see how I do. Oh yeh.....5 km in 40 minutes. To put that in perspective, I'm 57 years old and could barely run 30 seconds when I started C25k. And 2.5 years ago I weighed 232 pounds. I'm feeling pretty happy [/quote]

While shopping last night, for the first time in years, walked through the store without once feeling embarrassed of my body. I felt...normal.

I ran 70 miles in 7 days! That is more than 10 miles further than my previous weekly distance.

realizing my summer pants are all getting to be too big and glad Fall is here and wont have to buy new pants until next year when I will be closer to goal.