What's Your Most Recent NSV
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After a long hiatus I finally started logging back in and it's GREAT! I have started drinking a gallon of water a day and slowly working on strength and work outs. I had some injuries that left me unable to work out for months and then I just got lazy. I have stopped using coffee creamer and cut way down on my food intake. Yay for baby steps!!17
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fitoverfortymom wrote: »I did a treadmill 5k+ at the gym today. No incline, but varied between 3.8 and 4.2 mph, and was about one hour straight of running. Maybe this spring when it's not so suck-*kitten* cold I will attempt a real 5k.
Congrats! But just so you know, if you can do 5k on the treadmill, then a "real" 5 km run will be a piece of cake. Why? Because running on a treadmill is mind numbing! But running outside touches all your senses and inspires you to keep going. I can do a 5 km run outside but after 20 minutes I am totally done on a treadmill. I know... it's all in my head lol15 -
fitoverfortymom wrote: »kingleahnidas wrote: »
Ran my second 5k today! There were intense hills and it was cold but I still beat my time from November. Also I felt way more relaxed and had fun! Thank you to everyone on here for being so supportive and inspiring
hope you all have a great 2017.
I love your outfit.
Thank you! I
purple. I got the top and leggings from my mother-in-law for christmas and they were actually perfect for this race. 4 -
Saturday, I took my kids to the school so they could play and I could walk around the track. It was a brisk cool, and thought I would make it once or twice around the track. My son challenged me to a race. He said 3 laps mom. So we jogged/walked 3 laps. I was able to run about 1/3-1/2 of each lap and I was never too far behind him. Then I did another 2 laps. Almost 2 miles in 30 minutes, kept up with my son and did some jogging! That was a great NSV for me.39
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ridiculous59 wrote: »fitoverfortymom wrote: »I did a treadmill 5k+ at the gym today. No incline, but varied between 3.8 and 4.2 mph, and was about one hour straight of running. Maybe this spring when it's not so suck-*kitten* cold I will attempt a real 5k.
Congrats! But just so you know, if you can do 5k on the treadmill, then a "real" 5 km run will be a piece of cake. Why? Because running on a treadmill is mind numbing! But running outside touches all your senses and inspires you to keep going. I can do a 5 km run outside but after 20 minutes I am totally done on a treadmill. I know... it's all in my head lol
I hope so! Hills scare me and I dislike being cold, which are two of the things keeping me from it until Spring. We'll see. I am fortunate to live in an active city where there's always a 5k going on for something or other.
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One of my 2017 goals is to do a push up. Seriously, I have NEVER been able to do push ups either full or knee. I was telling my niece this goal and she asked me how to do a knee push up. I got on the floor to demonstrate and was saying I wouldn't be able to get back up once I went chin down to floor and I immediately came back up!! This was really a gratifying moment. I proceeded to do a second one and then I was done but no worries. I'm excited to get working on the 'boy' push ups.33
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Not sure if this counts but today I threw away a chocolate bar that I opened and didn't particularly enjoy. Normally I would have finished it off even whilst thinking 'eurgh'.
I was always taught not to waste food so I find it a challenge to stop eating when I'm either full or not enjoying something. Even worse the chocolate was a gift so feel a little guilty about chucking it but consoling myself that the gifter will never know!28 -
Not sure if this counts but today I threw away a chocolate bar that I opened and didn't particularly enjoy. Normally I would have finished it off even whilst thinking 'eurgh'.
I was always taught not to waste food so I find it a challenge to stop eating when I'm either full or not enjoying something. Even worse the chocolate was a gift so feel a little guilty about chucking it but consoling myself that the gifter will never know!
I used to be the same way! Now I don't waste the "delicious points" (calories).10 -
It took me 3 weeks to finally be able to run for 22 minutes (Week 6, Day 3 of C25K). I had such a mental block and couldn't get past 11 minutes until today. I seriously felt like crying when I was done, it was a huge victory for me.33
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My NSVs have to do with getting the people I love to move with me. On NYE my sister in law asked me to walk with her and walked farther than she ever had! We did a full 2 miles. On the 1st, not only did I go for a bike ride for the first time in months, but I got my stepdaughter to try out her bike for the first time (she's had it for over a year). We worked on road etiquette, hand signals, and safety and she decided she wants to ride with me every week. Yesterday she willingly walked with me at the park, no complaints. That's a huge victory with a teenager.26
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I'm sleeping better. My husband stopped snoring because he accidently lost weight when I started eating better39
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Over the holidays I was randomly cited not once but twice by people in real life and on a FB group as a source of inspiration and motivation. Completely unexpected, and I am happy I have that effect!16
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brookielaw wrote: »My NSVs have to do with getting the people I love to move with me. On NYE my sister in law asked me to walk with her and walked farther than she ever had! We did a full 2 miles. On the 1st, not only did I go for a bike ride for the first time in months, but I got my stepdaughter to try out her bike for the first time (she's had it for over a year). We worked on road etiquette, hand signals, and safety and she decided she wants to ride with me every week. Yesterday she willingly walked with me at the park, no complaints. That's a huge victory with a teenager.
It certainly is! Well done!
My habits appear to be rubbing off on my teenage daughter - yesterday she asked if we could walk to her work which is 2 miles away (normally I have to listen to her moaning for ages about having to walk even though she knows that she WILL be walking). It was freezing cold, lethally slippery underfoot but she wasn't put off. It took less than 30 minutes as well - I walked at a rate I thought she could manage as I am fitter than she is. I can walk at 5-5.5mph without any problems whereas up until yesterday she moaned about walking a mile to college at 3mph, so I sped things up a bit for her just for fun. She didn't complain at all.
Result!
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I had to have emergency gall bladder surgery 3 weeks ago, and any other time I would have fallen off the wagon and started back to my old habits. This time, I used the surgery as a component to my weight loss and have been able to keep off the 8lbs that the surgery (and not being well enough to eat) took off, plus begged my doctor to clear me to work out again!
Another is, my wedding dress is now too big. It hasn't fit since the weekend after my wedding in 2010 and it is now too big.
I have had several coworkers ask me for advice about losing weight and working out. People refer to me as "skinny" (I still weigh 210 so I still have a ways to go, but its the idea of being skinny that counts to me!)22 -
Climbed a flight of stairs and it didn't take 10 minutes to recover and catch my breath. Also sat in a chair with arms without having to squish my butt in. Progress!!18
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Was told to get a new jacket because mine has gotten so big it looks like I borrowed it from my father!18
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I had not one, but 3 different co-workers comment on my weight loss today.
Must be the new clothes that I posted about earlier making it more obvious
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Pizza is my kryptonite food. I CANNOT eat it in moderation. Everything else I can. Well, I got a craving today, couldn't shake it. I found myself picking up pizza, so, fail. I got a small thin crust with feta and onions. And then....I ONLY ATE HALF. Put the rest in the freezer for the next craving. So, may not sound like a victory but it was to me because I stopped at half. I kinda beat my kryptonite tonight.
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I was referred to as "the Real MVP" lol by one of my friends after commenting to a mutual friend the steps I took to lose the weight... and making suggestions on what she could do as well... AFTER being asked! :-)15
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Sent another 3 bags of clothes to the local op shop, wardrobe is very bare, time to online shop
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My size 13s are getting loose and I weigh less than my drivers license weight!19
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I went jeans shopping this weekend and bought a size eight, in May I wore a 16! Also, I am 30 lbs under my driver's license weight that I probably lied about.33
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This is technically mostly a scale victory, but I won a bet with a coworker - the bet was who would weigh the least on Boxing Day. A year ago, I was 80lbs heavier than him. When we made the bet, I was 20lbs heavier. I beat him by 10lbs.
The fun part, for me, was when another co-worker said to him today "Hey, remember when you were as skinny as Rick?" What a difference 10 months makes...21 -
I got to change my weight from 130 to 118 when I renewed my license. It felt awesome.28
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Reluctantly took into the office all the decadent sugar laden food "gifts" I received over Christmas. Since I have holiday poundage to lose anyway, this really DID make me feel victorious. I don't understand the relatives giving you these kind of gifts when they saw how long it took me to get this weight off and what a constant struggle it still is to try and maintain the loss. The word sabatoge comes to mind. Grrrr.20
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Lindt chocolates and Hershey's brownies:
Two things I found out now taste so sweet to me as to be almost inedible. Which makes it no longer a temptation to be avoided.
Oreos are nearly there.13 -
Took my measurements for the first time in three months: 8.5" gone!
From everywhere EXCEPT my belly. C'mon, body ...
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