What's Your Most Recent NSV

Legs. About a year apart. My weight is at a plateau, but there are visual changes all time. Starting to get my shape back

I dropped off four boxes of fat guy clothes off at the thrift store last night. So long, size 40-42 pants and xxl tshirts. I'm comfortably into my 34 waist and medium tshirts now. I was amazed at how big they were when I was sorting them out. It was pretty freeing dropping them off.
I also had fun buttoning up an old dress shirt yesterday - around me and my 10 year okd son .

-I can properly touch my toes without bending my knees
-I am finally a U.K. Size 14 in shirts and a 16 in jeans. I haven't been this size for 3-5 years!
-I can touch my chest with my knees whilst doing PiYo. I have NEVER been able to do this until now!
-At my last asthma clinic appointment the nurse was so pleased with my progress, she took me off my inhalers and medication that aided my breathing. I don't need them anymore!!
-I can walk for miles at a time without needing to stop.
-I have managed to weigh myself once a month instead of daily and I don't get upset anymore when I don't see a loss. As long as my clothes fit that's fine by me!

i just started on Monday December 26th, i'm wearing pants i couldn't button over a week ago. The bloat is definitely going down little by little.

Bought this entire outfit @ Goodwill for under $10!! I can graciously donate it back when it's 2 big!! Slacks & blouse both a size Large.... when I started back in March I was wearing anywhere from a 2-3X

I live on the fifth floor of a five story building (and no, it's not a "deluxe apartment in the sky"). After leading a mostly sedentary lifestyle for the past 4-5 years, I bought a rowing machine and have been rowing for about 30-45min/day, 5-6 days/week since December 1. On a lark, I decided to take the stairs up to my loft this afternoon and for the first time in a long time, I wasn't winded after doing so. Woo!

I just realized I am in the normal range for BMI. I am NORMAL! Oooohhh. Aaaahhhh. Cha, cha, cha. Wheeeaaaaaa! (That's me, dancing in the streets.)

lizery wrote: »

Legs. About a year apart. My weight is at a plateau, but there are visual changes all time. Starting to get my shape back

see, this is why every time someone says 'toning isn't a thing' i want to devil's-advocate back. maybe it isn't but sometimes it sure looks like it is.

i have a thing. hook grip. i hit 170 on deadlift last week for my heaviest rep, and it was so heavy that i went back after a short rest and did it again just to prove that it wasn't a fluke. because it was that hard. if i hadn't done the thing twice then i'd be certain i'd just made it up.

but last night i was doing 'hypertrophy' reps - 10x5 at 120 pounds, or exactly 66.667 percent of my training max. those were heavy as well, tbh. but halfway through those 10 sets - when i was already tired out - i switched to hook grip. i'm not sure celestial choirs didn't sing and a shaft of sunlight come through the roof to bathe me and the bar in a cloud of sparkles. i've just been pretty much cupping teh bar like a bench-press lift-off, because of things i won't bore you guys with. but the hook grip wasn't just a more genuine grip. it. changed. everything.

i'm still not sure exactly why. and i can't be sure yet that it'll carry over into my work sets. but whoa nelly milo. IF it does then it might turn out i'm a lot stronger than i thought i was. that would be all kinds of fun.

rickc74 wrote: »

I dropped off four boxes of fat guy clothes off at the thrift store last night. So long, size 40-42 pants and xxl tshirts. I'm comfortably into my 34 waist and medium tshirts now. I was amazed at how big they were when I was sorting them out. It was pretty freeing dropping them off.
I also had fun buttoning up an old dress shirt yesterday - around me and my 10 year okd son .

Awesome, Rick!! Inspiring....

I had my hba1c tested this morning. My count stands at 5.3%. this falls under healthy/desirable range. Am super excited!! Yay!!!

I'd been wearing the same ole ill-fitting jeans for a while hoping not to invest in new ones too soon since I'm not all the way to my goal yet.. I finally broke down and bought some & ordered 2 sizes down.. The new jeans are quite loose I could have easily went down another size

My very first weigh-in of 2016 and my very last weigh-in of 2016 were EXACTLY the same...179.8. But that isn't bothering me one bit! I've gone down a pants size. I went from not being able to do one pull-up to able to do five in a row (2017 goal is ten in a row). I deadlifted 315 pounds (2017 goal is 350). I was able to put big girl plates on the bench and bench it, and then I maxed out even more than that, 160 pounds.

2016 was AWESOME!!! But the scale doesn't show it. This is why we celebrate our NSVs!!!

So now to own some of my fabulousness...

As I've been recovering from surgery for the past three weeks and I probably won't be allowed to exercise for another month, this is a reflective 2016 NSVs post:

1. My goal for this year was to do a pull up for the first time ever. That didn't happen. But I did train for and complete my first sprint triathlon and first 10k. Great experiences!

2. I took advantage of a personal training special and learned how to deadlift and squat properly. I'm confident in the weight room for the first time and really look forward to starting from scratch once I'm healed up!

3. I've learned that I can maintain/lose very slowly without tracking, but that if I want to lose I need to track. Good to know!

4. My cousins and I have started signing up for 5ks and 10ks together! We don't go for personal records when we run together, we stick together and take turns encouraging and teasing each other (because, family!).

I recently tried on a belt that I haven't worn in 15 years thinking that maybe it would finally fit again. I tried it on and it was too big on the tightest hole. Something else to shop for! I kept all this stuff from when I was smaller hoping one day to fit in them again. Lugging those boxes around for over 5 moves and now everything is either too big or, now that they fit again, way out of style.

Get to go for an overnight with the boy I married tomorrow night (leaving the 3 babies at home) and instead of planning what outfit to wear .....I have mapped a 15 mile walk/run for the morning tomorrow so that I have extra calories to drink. That is like such a forever gift to me and I am so happy that my mind goes there! The outfit doesnt matter since I wont be in it long. WAH WAH WAH.