What's Your Most Recent NSV

Hi, I'm new here, but I do have an nsv. I've only lost 10 lbs so far but I'm picking up steam using mfp. It's wonderful. The nsv is that at my visit to my endocrinologist, who is helping me manage PCOS, all my numbers (blood sugar, thyroid, blood pressure, etc etc) are normal or great except my free insulin and cholesterol ratio, which comes with pcos and the resultant insulin resistance. Those numbers are still slightly elevated, but they have improved by a good margin in the last 6 months. This shows that I'm progressing, and gaining health with my added fitness and lifestyle changes. I'm on the right track and doing the right things even though the weight-loss is slow for me. That's a big deal.

Well I can just walk into a store and pick up a SMALL shirt now, as evidenced by my trip to two diff stores yesterday!!....I have been whining about my arms in most posts that I've submitted on MFP so this is quite the accomplishment for me. LOL! :-) My waist and lower body have BEEN small..just goes to show that your body loses from where it WANTS to lose, when it wants to lose it!!

I actually didn't drink a Margarita my neighbors gave me! I sipped it and put it in the fridge. I said no to free alcohol! (the calorie content was the major reason, but still, total NSV.

I was feeling bummed the last few weeks because after losing over 20 pounds I still didn't feel like my jeans fit any differently and I've been wanting to go down a jean size. Well today just for kicks I decided to pull all my old jeans out of my closet and try them on. They all fit perfectly!!! Most of these jeans were a size smaller and some were even two! When my fiancé got home and I excitedly told him I can now wear all the jeans in my closet again even the ones that wouldn't go above my thighs 6 months ago he told me he was glad because now I would quit wearing the baggy ones I had been rotating between! (The best part about it is most of these jeans are from high school and they fit so good! Even though I still weigh 15 pounds more than my high school weight!)

Today I had a job interview at a bank and was panicking on what I should wear. A lot of my clothes have gotten too small for me from gaining weight so I wasn't sure what I had. Well I've lost 22 lbs or so and I decided, okay this shirt maybe will fit, let's try it on.

And it fit BEAUTIFULLY.

I had a lovely shirt to wear for my interview and I felt like I looked confident and presentable. I still have so much more to do and more to lose but I'm very happy with the idea of shopping in my closet soon.

I have officially moved down from obesity class 3 to obesity class 2! Here I come class 1!!!

babybear_mt wrote: »

Ya know that stretch where you go from a runners lunge to having your inside arm go straight up and you look up that direction too? (If that makes ANY sense lol!!!)

i so know that stretch. because for the past month my squats have been completely stopped by what i thought was horrible hip and groin pain and what felt like a real injury waiting to happen if it hadn't happened already in my hip joints. i completely quit squatting two weeks ago and i spent a week trying to get my hips to track cleanly again by going for everything that was tender - glutes, tfl, i.t. band, the whole bit. still couldn't squat. my form was just gone.

and then i remembered: the victim screams, the culprit is silent. went inside my pelvic bones with a styrofoam ball and checked out my psoas and iliopsoas instead. 30 sweaty sweary talk-to-dead-relatives minutes dealing with trigger points in those muscle groups . . . and i fixed 85% of what's ailing my hips on the spot. and that first-baseman stretch you were talking about? that got about 10% more.

it's still early days. some of it came back overnight while i slept. but i did 100 air squats before bedtime last night and only have minimal doms. so i'm hopeful again.

kingleahnidas wrote: »

My NSV today: inspiring my parents!!!

As the saying goes, "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery." Great job motivating your folks!

And THANK YOU to all who post here - your stories are truly inspiring!

My NSV - just got back from a mini-vacation to Gatlinburg TN. Did some hiking in the Smoky Mountains, logged all my food (even if I did go off plan), and got right back with the program when I got home. I'm building a lifestyle - not a diet - and it's working!

This is too funny, a colleague at work approached me in the toilets (not like THAT) and asked me how I'd lost so much weight, usual thing, i got into my well rehearsed speech on MFP blah blah then he tells me he's had women ask who i am and saying how good i look hahaah it's like high school!

thenananator wrote: »

This: I took this picture after one of the most best workouts I have ever had. I could not believe how much weight I am lifting....first of all, I hate pictures of me, second of all, I am a goof ball and never take a serious photo really, and lastly, this pix is really unflattering BUT I LOVE this pix and I am sharing it to try and explain what I am feeling inside about my outside.

You look fabulous and have an amazing smile, you're really photogenic x

I painted my toenails with running out of breath!

I also ended up walking 2 miles on my "rest" day. My daughter wanted to go ride her bike so instead of sitting and watching, I walked while she rode! A month ago, I sat in a chair watching. Today, I moved!

Not sure if this is NSV but can now wear nice skinny sweaters (weather getting colder) Used to get too hot in sweaters before

I put on a pair of wind pants I had been given as a gift a while back that were just too snug for my liking and put them on today. They fit comfortably!!! So excited!!! Way to go everyone on your NSV's!!!!

My wedding ring has been consistently fitting for a week now. I've been wearing just my band which I could always get on, but my engagement ring wouldn't fit. Now I can slide them both on/off with ease. So nice to see my bling every day.