What's Your Most Recent NSV

ridiculous59 wrote: »

It's COLD in my corner of the world. We went to cut down our Christmas tree today and I wore a pair of my daughter's old ski pants. She wore them as a teenager and I can now wear them!!!!! Unbelievable

Update: I posted a picture of the tree cutting expedition and a friend told me it would make a nice Christmas card. I've done that before...used photos for my cards, but they've been nature-type pics. Deer in our front yard, birds at the feeder, etc. The idea of a photo with ME in it was unthinkable!! But now i'm looking at this Christmas tree cutting picture with me holding the tree and thinking yes, it could be used as a christmas card next year This new me looks quite acceptable lol

I have full use of my wardrobe :-) ok there are still a few things that'll look much better when Im at goal but i can almost smell it now!

AdviDaddy wrote: »

I did 45 push-ups today. My biggest # till date.

ho.lee wowsers. i have two.

totally failed my first attempt to bench 90 today. i let it come down too fast and then i had nothing to get it up with. so after i'd been rescued from under the bar, i went back to the bench that doesn't have safeties, and took 5 pounds away and re-tried it at 85. i got three reps that way quite easily, just by being steady and disciplined about it. so then i went back and re-tried my 90. i only managed one rep but it was a good one and i was happy with getting the one after doing the extra three and not resting at all. so i feel great. i've been wanting to put 25s on the bar for my bench since forever, and this makes me feel like it's realistic to say i'm within 5 pounds with plenty of room to get there.

and the other victory was my ludicrous squats. i've found a form that feels thoroughly natural, but given my history there's no guarantee that 'natural' also means 'right'. i can feel myself passing parallel with this form and that made me nervous that i was getting depth at the expense of lumbar stability all over again.

so i had mr 500-pound-squats with the perfect, textbook, totally-consistent form watch my lumbar spine like a hawk while i showed it to him. he said he saw nothing at all over a couple of sets. and this is a guy who knows all about my cranky s.i. zone and would tell me immediately if he did see movement. the best part of all was that using this form which is apparently fine, i'm not only stable but apparently already strong. at least 'strong' considering how much time my squats have spent on the flail-and-fail list. i started at 45 and did sets of five with 5-pound increments all the way up to 80 before i started to feel like another 5 pounds would cause me to start to break down.

i also felt like my glutes will be talking to me tomorrow, which is terrific because it'll mean they were active throughout. so i'm a pretty happy puppy today

My mom had bought me some novelty Blue Q socks last year and I knew just looking at them that they weren't going to fit. I have big feet, size 11 or 12 women's. These socks had a threaded design around the ankle that wouldn't make it over my heel. Well! I put those socks on today and they fit! Not sure if it's my feet, ankles, or both that are smaller, but I am pretty pumped.

starting lifting (not sure you can call it that yet lol) last week and signed up to start adult karate tomorrow.

I went to a Christmas party last night and skipped the made-to-order donuts and fresh apple pies.

I used to always wear loose fit jeans. Yesterday I bought two pairs of regular fit. Two sizes smaller.

I start karate tonight.....scared and excited.

I finished the C25K program and on Friday, I ran a full 5K without stopping, walking or dying :-) I honestly NEVER thought I could have done that before I began.