What's Your Most Recent NSV

i had a junky ten days where it was too cold to move much and everything was stiff so i barely lifted at all. went to my regular trainer time and just wrote it off - didn't make even the base rep count of five for my top weights with either of the two lifts i tried.

but i reset the clock and started the 5's week all over again last monday or tuesday instead. i started out by doing the 50 hypertrophy reps for those lifts, expecting to still be limping. instead i got my overhead press sets done in 10 unbroken per set, and added 5 pounds to my deadlift and had very nearly the same progress there. that represents real progress, as i was just chunking my way through them in sets of 4-6 the last time.

so i re-did the 'fives' week and this time i got it right. not saying the heavy deadlifts were pretty at 155, but i only had one day of rest after the hypertrophy sets, so just getting them done was good enough for the circs. did the 60lb overhead press that i'd failed at before, and i did my bench hypertrophy yesterday and had the same experience of being able to go all the way in sets of 10 with an extra 5 pounds on the bar from last time.

so all of that felt good. and i brought my 'ice' bike down from the shelf for the first time this year, so being able to ride it under really quite awful road conditions last week was another small victory.

I got hit an hour and a half ago and my brain still hasn't caught up to what happened. So basic and simple. I was getting ready for work and changing my shirt - I took my t-shirt off and my wife got this funny look and a smile on her face, walked over and started running her hand over my chest and shoulders.

She hasn't looked at me like that for years and I feel like a teenager (Waaaay in the rear view mirror!) who just saw his very first centerfold.

WHY ARE THE SMILIES SO LIMITED HERE?!?!?! I can't wait to get home tonight.

I signed up for a marathon. Eeek!

Saturday I found a pair of jeans in my closet with tags still on them. I remember buying them because they were on sale and then they were just too snug so I stuck in away. Saturday I thought what the heck - let's just see and THEY FIT!!! Perfectly - so I have some time to wear them! This is my second pair that this has happened with thus proving the first pair wasn't a fluke! lol When you've got a lot of weight to lose and you haven't really reached a place where the weight loss is really obvious - it's stuff like this that helps to keep you moving forward.

Scale is stuck again but my head and heart are not! Failure is not an option!

My NSV's are usually age related, and today is no different.

I went to a birthday party with my granddaughter Kodi Rose yesterday. Sitting in the theater, a lovely little girl asked me "Are you Kodi's Gramma?"

I said "I am!"

She said "You sure look young for a Gramma"

I whispered to her, so Kodi and the birthday girl couldn't hear me "You are my favorite little girl here today!!"

I bought new pants in a smaller waist size that fit OK but will look even better as I keep working off the pounds. My wife was even encouraging me to get them as she said, "You are continuing to go down; time to lose the big pants." LOL

I finally went and bought a new bra yesterday after losing 22lbs (Yay!). Once I put it on with my clothes though it became obvious how ill fitting they are. I honestly had no idea I bad I looked What I thought was just slightly oversized is a baggy disaster. I'm happy clothes are too big but I'll have to find a cheap way to replace a few things in my wardrobe