What's Your Most Recent NSV

emmarrgh · February 2017

12k steps yesterday! I had convinced myself I was lazy and inactive because I 'don't work' as a SAHM, so I got a fitness tracker to work up to 10k steps. Well, I haven't been under 10k steps since I got the thing! So my new goal was to work my way up to 12k a day, and yesterday I plopped into bed and checked, and I had 12,138! Woo!

RemoteOutpost · February 2017

Being able to wipe my bum without feeling like I'm going to dislocate my shoulder.

__TMac__ · February 2017

I'm wearing jeans today that are just a bit loose. Don't think they require a belt, but I had to think about it. In mid-December, I couldn't pull them up past my hips.

eblyth00 · February 2017

My first week on my new diet. I'm doing intermittent fasting where I have a small eating window in the evening. Well this is the first morning I have had my daughter since I get her for the weekends and she wanted bacon and oatmeal for breakfast. Remember I can't have breakfast. I made BACON and wasn't even tempted to break my fasting period. That is a HUGE NSV for me I never ever would have thought I could make bacon and not eat any lol.

MAJdansk · February 2017

Whoa...not tempted by bacon! Fantastic. I've started the 16/8 intermittent fasting a few days ago. I'm amazed that I'm not hungry until noonish, and that I don't snack in the evening. I've slept better too. Dropped 4 lbs.

ridiculous59 · February 2017

emmarrgh wrote: »

12k steps yesterday! I had convinced myself I was lazy and inactive because I 'don't work' as a SAHM, so I got a fitness tracker to work up to 10k steps. Well, I haven't been under 10k steps since I got the thing! So my new goal was to work my way up to 12k a day, and yesterday I plopped into bed and checked, and I had 12,138! Woo!

I was a SAHM for ten years and believe me, I worked!!!! And so do you! You shouldn't need a fitness tracker to tell you that

Being home is fun, rewarding, exhausting, frustrating, and oftentimes full of doubt (if I was working we could take a cool trip like so-and-so). You are doing a very important job; own it and be proud of it

VintageFeline · February 2017

Madwife2009 wrote: »

I kept saying that I'd do this, so here it is:

See the space between my stomach and the steering wheel of my car? That void used to be filled with my excess fat. In fact, the steering wheel was indented into my stomach, so my fat used to flow under the bottom of the steering wheel and through to the other side (I would not have been able to see my feet on the floor, as in the first photo).

Still got a way to go; as you can see, I still have some fat there. This just shows how far I've changed in 18 months.

Ha, this is something I noticed this week. I hadn't really paid much attention to it and then suddenly I was like, woah, look at all that space! My belly didn't quite reach my steering wheel but I wasn't far off.

My biggest NSV at the moment is being completely back on track calorie goal wise. Last year was hard work due to my mental health and this year is turning out to be no different but for some reason I am completely back on track weight goals wise. next is to get the fitness goals back but I'm also learning to be kinder to myself.

And completely unrelated to weight loss, I went to the dentist for the first time in a very very long time. I'm phobic but I had two appointments in one day, injections and preparatory work for a crown next week and i didn't shake uncontrollably the entire time! Yay me!

schac061 · February 2017

emmarrgh wrote: »

12k steps yesterday! I had convinced myself I was lazy and inactive because I 'don't work' as a SAHM, so I got a fitness tracker to work up to 10k steps. Well, I haven't been under 10k steps since I got the thing! So my new goal was to work my way up to 12k a day, and yesterday I plopped into bed and checked, and I had 12,138! Woo!

This is me too! I am also a SAHM and don't really carry my phone around with me every second of the day so I never really counted my steps. My husband was nice enough to get me a tracker for Valentine's Day and I have constantly gone over 10k steps since! I'm not even doing anything other than my normal day (laundry, putting away laundry, trips to the pantry for snacks, the red cup instead of the blue cup, etc.). Glad to know I'm not the only one!

JaydedMiss · February 2017

kingleahnidas wrote: »

On a whim I just decided to look through some old comments on here and it's so nice seeing how far everyone has come I feel like we are our own little community on this thread! If any of you want to be friends, feel free to request me!

My latest NSV is making some BIG long-term goals and thinking I can actually do them. For a while, it was all about the weight loss, but now it's so much more. We plan on trying for a baby in 2020, so that gives me three full years to work toward my crazy fitness goals before dialing it back during pregnancy (if it happens).

-2017: lose the rest of the weight, run 5 races (including a 10k), hike the two tallest VT peaks
-2018: run a half marathon, hike the Long Trail (goes across VT from the Massachusetts border to the Canadian border. Takes 3-4 weeks)
-2019: run the Vermont City Marathon

WOW now that it is typed out it feels very official. Of course plans are meant to be changed, but it is a victory in itself to believe I am even capable of these things. I am very excited and so grateful for you awesome inspirational people!

I so understand!GO YOU! The day i realized i could make big goals and actually be confident i coulld achieve them was huge. Even when i started weight loss i though hitting under 200 would be to hard and id never do it, because lazy and unmotivated, Im now 148 and walk 10 miles a day on average

Brans34 · February 2017

Theo166 wrote: »

Feeling hungry and being OK with it, it's kinda enjoyable when I think about fat coming off.

Previously I never really let that feeling persist. I was never able to fast before, I couldn't let hunger pangs persist.

I was just thinking the same thing! I was thinking, "I'm hungry, I need to make lunch!" Then I looked at the clock and it was only 11. I decided I could wait an hour. Yay us!! No longer salves to a little bitty hunger feeling!

JaydedMiss · February 2017

My arms have begin losing inches! I always carried weight in my upper arms really bad. Iv lost 83 pounds and barely any was off my arms, So i was getting all slim with 232 pound arms still. BUT i just measured i lost an inch in my arms in the past 20 days. Heres hoping their begining to get skinny to! Id love to rock cute tops that show my arms this summer, Never have before

JenHuedy · February 2017

Tried on my leather motorcycle jacket for the first time since October. It's looser in the waist and noticeably tighter in shoulders! I thought I was seeing bigger muscles in the mirror, this confirms it! I was already excited that I could even get into this jacket in the first place. It's previous owner was teeny-tiny!

lseed87 · February 2017

January wasn't the best month food or exercise wise. The only good thing was I found my measuring tape. Still need to take measurements. It's been a while.

Started February off with a cross country trip (Maine to Arizona). Been in AZ for 4 days now and already feel a little bit slimmer. Got my gym membership paperwork yesterday, filled it out. Need to start going hard at the gym. Need to set a routine up, again. Sister's wedding is the end of March. Want to look better for that (one of the bridesmaids) and to be more on my way towards my fitness goals.

I really need to get a bikini (sister has a pool) or even a new one piece.

js8181 · February 2017

I did 40 pushups in a row, no stopping, chin to ground yesterday!

jenilla1 · February 2017

The sun has been out more lately and it's warming up. Spring is coming back. I am emerging from my den. Yes, I'm back on the trail again after hibernating all winter. Ran 7 miles of hills!

NanP135 · February 2017

Realized today at gym when I looked in the mirror that my hips are smaller than my shoulders....Even after losing 39 pounds I still saw myself as fat but today something changed I saw the beginning of an athletes body and it is pure motivation to keep going as I have at least 20 more to go to first big goal

Tacklewasher · February 2017

jenilla1 wrote: »

The sun has been out more lately and it's warming up. Spring is coming back. I am emerging from my den. Yes, I'm back on the trail again after hibernating all winter. Ran 7 miles of hills!

Lucky you. Still hibernating here

NanP135 · February 2017

kingleahnidas wrote: »

On a whim I just decided to look through some old comments on here and it's so nice seeing how far everyone has come I feel like we are our own little community on this thread! If any of you want to be friends, feel free to request me!

My latest NSV is making some BIG long-term goals and thinking I can actually do them. For a while, it was all about the weight loss, but now it's so much more. We plan on trying for a baby in 2020, so that gives me three full years to work toward my crazy fitness goals before dialing it back during pregnancy (if it happens).

-2017: lose the rest of the weight, run 5 races (including a 10k), hike the two tallest VT peaks
-2018: run a half marathon, hike the Long Trail (goes across VT from the Massachusetts border to the Canadian border. Takes 3-4 weeks)
-2019: run the Vermont City Marathon

WOW now that it is typed out it feels very official. Of course plans are meant to be changed, but it is a victory in itself to believe I am even capable of these things. I am very excited and so grateful for you awesome inspirational people!

How long is the Long trail, I live in Mass and was thinking it was a very long hike and that would be a great accomplishment

Nan

kristamas · February 2017

emmarrgh wrote: »

the red cup instead of the blue cup, etc.

This is the realest and made me laugh out loud! Need to start counting those steps!

sijaeabc · February 2017

The last few days whenever I catch sight of myself in the mirror wearing my workout clothes I actually like what I see! Still quite the pooch of belly when I look at my profile but it doesn't make me want to die, and facing the mirror I see a surprisingly shapely person and surprisingly narrow hips and thighs

I also feel confident enough jogging outside during the day where people can see me bouncing, and I can ride my bike or walk in public wearing capri exercise pants. I still can't do above the knee shorts but just showing any leg is so freeing! Can't wait to feel confident enough to do things like take swim and dance classes. I've spent too much time not enjoying my body.

Oh, and last week I found a new belt I had purchased for my child but that we had mis-measured and was way too big for them (a size 36). They had ripped off the tags so I couldn't return it and I just threw it in my closet for "some day." Now I can not only wear it comfortably, it's on the second hole. I haven't had a belt that fit in many years!

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