What's Your Most Recent NSV

I am completing week 3 of C25K without hesitation and while still being able to increase my speed along the way Can't wait to run a 5K straight through!

I'm with @ladyreva78, you are amazing and a huge inspiration @Madwife2009!

ladyreva78 wrote: »

@Madwife2009 That's the definition of amazing to me because you are a role model that someone working on getting themselves sorted can aspire to. I also wish I'd gotten my act together a good 20 years ago when I was young. Life would have been so much easier.

There's more of us 'ordinary people' out there than you might think and some of us could sometimes use another 'ordinary person' as a role model

Absolutely! I can't imagine wanting to do something like that so badly that I'd be willing to go out in the rain and cold to do it. I hate being cold! Maybe one day I might experience that sort of mindset for myself, but in the meantime you're an inspiration @Madwife2009 !

Scooted my seat forward in my car today... and not because I needed to make room for someone in the back seat! That baby isn't ever scooting back again!

Went on the lunchtime snowshoe hike at work today, on the trails around my office building, and I walked up the big hill at the end (option 1). Yay! Versus option 2 - taking the little hill, or even worse, option 3 - heading back to the parking lot with several others.

LaceyBirds wrote: »

I realized when I looked in a full-length mirror just now how far I've come. I used to look at myself and be ashamed, so ashamed, at how big I was. Just now, I looked and saw a person that looks like a normal weight, and realized that, though I don't like the ravages massive weight gain and loss has done to my body, I am not ashamed any longer.

Ashamed is where I am at right now. Starting over again...... have lost 5 lbs in the last 15 days and hoping for 5 more in the next 15. Can't wait till I no longer feel ashamed. Congrats!!

I wore the pants I wore to my bridal shower in 2000. They will be too big next time I pull them out, I think!

I pulled some of my old sweaters out from a few winters ago and tried them on and realized I can fit into all of them again (all my other sweaters are starting to look a little too big)!!

I need to buy new underwear!! Hahaha! My "pregnancy" underwear are way too big!!

Fyi: I got under my pre-pregnancy weight this week!!!

youdoyou2016 wrote: »

brittanylock09 wrote: »

I need to buy new underwear!! Hahaha! My "pregnancy" underwear are way too big!!

Fyi: I got under my pre-pregnancy weight this week!!!

Congratulations! This made me smile: a couple months ago I had to buy new underwear too. It never occurred to me as something I'd have to deal with, but it's weird to have them falling down in your pants.

Haha!! Mine stay on bc of my hips but are baggy! I have to pull then up higher and higher to straighten out lol!

my reliable you-are-fat pants weren't talking nearly so loud to me today.

My name is U2R2 and I am overweight.

Not a declaration for an Overeaters Anonymous meeting but an exclamation for MFP.

I have left obesity class one, two and three lying on the trail with over one and a half million of my footprints.

On to Onederland.


ENJOY

I had set my weight-loss goal to the top of the healthy BMI range for my height, but I just got my body fat tested.

NSV: Turns out I have more lean mass than the BMI calculator assumes!

SV: So instead of having 42 more pounds to lose, I only have 25!

(I know they're both imperfect methods, so I'll maintain there for a while, then reassess.)

I walked into the kitchen at the office today and 2 colleagues were discussing exercise, one turned to me and said "You obviously workout, what do you do?".

I obviously workout.

I am not one to keep things that don't fit or hold on to clothing I can't wear.

HOWEVER, 14 years ago was the last time I did a section hike on the AT. Since that time, I've kept my ratty backpack and 1 pair of Columbia zip-off pants. They haven't fit for over 12 years.
Last night my SO and I were talking and I grabbed my old photo album to show him something and out fell a picture of that last hike. I said "I have those pants. When I can fit them, I'll feel like I am making progress." The SO insisted I am smaller now than in the picture.
Of course I had to prove him wrong so I dug out the backpack, found the pants and held them up. I said no way would they go on, but I had to prove him wrong so feet in, over the calves, past the knees, over the thighs...OMG...over the hips...surely they won't button...HOLY @#$%!...buttoned and not even slightly snug. They fit better now than they did back then.

I could not stop grinning.

The second one would be people at work. Someone asked me about my weight loss and another co-worker overheard and that was it. It was like a landslide of questions and people telling me how healthy I look. It was kind of great - I won't lie - I didn't think people had noticed other than the occasional, you look nice or something generic. Now I know they just didn't say anything because they weren't sure how to bring it up. It felt great.

My 3 pairs of jeans that sort of still fit (but getting exceedingly large by the day) and was super stressed about what to wear to work today. My wardrobe choices are getting pretty dire since I'm the incredible shrinking woman. Everything just drapes and hangs off of me.

Somehow on my hubby's side of the closet were jeans I didn't even know existed anymore. They have to be at least 10 years old, but practically new because I only think they fit for about 5 minutes after I got them (I think they were a gift??).

All I know is that I was facing going to work without pants and I slipped those bad boys on, and dayyyyummmmmm. They fit...and I'm walking around the office today like I'm all that and a pat of butter.