What's Your Most Recent NSV

It's wonderful to read everyone's NSVs.

I have 2 to share.

The first I started playing soccer about 8 years ago (at 41- because my kids looked like they were having such a great time!) I used to have to play keeper for half the game because I was too tired to play the whole game. 50 pounds down and I find I can last the whole game-and even play midfield! (My favorite position as a kid -but involving too much running for me!)

The second - I'm more or less in maintenence now- and finding it challenging. Last night, I fell into old habits and binged right before bed. Before I went to sleep I made myself log it- was around 500 calories- that's a NSV in itself as my binges before we're easily 1000 or more. But the real NSV is having brushed my teeth and ready to go to bed just under my goal today.

Learning to forgive myself and just start again has been really important to my success. And it is still hard to do..

I can walk up to the 4th floor for my class and not be out of breath.

Hubby took me out to dinner and neither of us finished our plates nor did we get dessert. We took half dinners home and ate them for lunch today! Great NWV for both of us!

Decided to get on the erg for the first time in years. It was a torture device when I rowed in college and I haven't touched one in at least 10 years. That's an nsv in itself, but I had 2 more--

1) I started my first 500 meter sprint and had to stop and check the resistance bc it felt so easy! Nope, it was set to max. Ended up doing 6 500 meter sprints mixed in with my lifting.

2). I felt compelled to tell the dad "teaching " his daughter how to use the rower that she needed to lower her arms (I was afraid she'd hit herself hard in the throat!) and explode with her legs. I mentioned i rowed in college and he checked me out and said, "I can tell!"

had a moment the other day... Heard a song on the radio about Paris (by the Chainsmokers) while I was driving. It made me think about when I was in Paris in 2012. I had been studying abroad in Amsterdam and went to Paris with some other US students for the weekend. We, of course, visited the Eiffel Tower. Most of the students went straight to the stairs. I, of course, did not, along with one other girl. So she and I waited in line for the elevator. For hours. In the cold. One of the elevators had broken. The line was not moving and we were freezing. So we eventually just decided to bail and waited in the warm gift shop. So I never actually made it to the top. Because I didn't want to take the stairs.

This past weekend in Montreal, I climbed every single stair to the top of Mount Royal.

So I may have been a bit weepy in the car.

Forgot to add that while I was out yesterday I had to grab a pail of cat litter because we'd run out. I carried that 25lb-ish pail through the store, and then halfway through the parking lot to the car, without having to put it down for a rest. Normally I'd have got a cart and pushed it instead, but yesterday I thought, "No, you can do this!"

It did feel heavy to me (I don't lift - yet), and my arm was aching by the time I reached the car, but I wasn't puffing like I would have been if I'd tried that a few months ago so I'm pleased with myself!

(I'm also amazed that I used to carry twice that weight around all the time, as part of me, without a second thought. No wonder it felt hard to get up the stairs some days...!)

I moved up one notch (level) on my total gym.

I ran jogged 3 miles a couple of days ago and felt great! I signed up yesterday for my first 5K this coming April. It's always been something I've wanted to do and now I'm doing it!!!!

I'm so excited! Today I had an NSV at the gym! When I started at the gym I couldn't work out on the triceps extension machine because you have to sit between two handlebars and I didn't fit. After that I just avoided the machine. Today I tried it and I fit! I was so happy

Even though I'm down a size from my previous maintenance size, I still feel like I'm how I normally look (if that makes sense). I have a black tie event coming up and all of my formal gowns (too tight since college) are all too big!

I asked a friend--she's super fit, definitely "the thin friend"--to borrow a dress and to my shock, ALL 10 dresses she let me try on fit comfortably! I didn't even think they'd zip up!

Nothing really worked, so I'm going shopping