What's Your Most Recent NSV
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Can't remember if I posted it here, but I am the weight (well, slightly under but haven't had official weigh-in day yet) listed on my drivers license!25
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I did SIX pull-ups in a row!35
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fitoverfortymom wrote: »Can't remember if I posted it here, but I am the weight (well, slightly under but haven't had official weigh-in day yet) listed on my drivers license!
This. Love it- can't wait to be there myself!8 -
Past couple of days, I kept having to pull up my britches. Then it hit me. I notched one over on my belt, and everything is stable now.16
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At my heaviest I was getting tight in a 22. This morning I slipped into a size 16 jeans for the first time in a I can't even remember how long!29
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I have the day off so yay! I'm meeting up with a friend and instead of going for some type of high calorie coffee and a muffin, we're going for a cross country ski. I truly love my life right now and feel like I'm in my 20's again (I'm 55 LOL). This friend is one that I've known for several years but only become closer since starting this weight loss journey. Every social encounter with my best friend from my previous life involved too much food and too much alcohol. There are lots of posts on here about "toxic" friends but the reality is that sometimes, for your own health, you just have to make new friends that encourage your efforts24
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The fact that I've walked on my treadmill four days this week since Monday. That's a record for me because in the past I would usually do every other day at most.17
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Bruh. Y'all aren't gonna believe me when I tell you ... I have successfully HALTED a binge. In. Its. Tracks.
You see, I've been preparing for this day. I KNEW that once I lost my first 5 pounds, I would want to binge. I also KNEW that if I did binge, it would take WEEKS to get back on track. So I had a big breakfast and held on for as long as possible.
As for how I stopped my binge, it wasn't too original: I just ate. 16 grapes and a pack of gummies. The sugar and the little treat will hold me until lunch. Then I can refuel and ride things out until track practice. Once I get to track, I will be working out so I won't be hungry43 -
I was able to apply nail polish to my toes by simply sitting and easily bending over to apply two coats on each side! I did not die or stop breathing due to my stomach being in the way29
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someone said to me ''oh you looks like youve lost weight''
yes, yes i have19 -
Pants a little looser and I busted out 40 pull ups today in six sets.19
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My roommate keeps talking about how my legs look fitter!
That's when I realized I was wearing a pair of pants yesterday and they had been baggy in my lower thigh area and around the knee. I figured they were just stretched out! Guess not!
Oh! I just remembered... I was feeling my inner thighs this morning and thinking about it felt like the start of loose skin!
I haven't lost much weight on the scale in the last couple weeks, but I think it's still coming off!15 -
I just resisted a snickers bar.
Now that doesn't sound like much, but I swear I am addicted to Snickers bars (I think it's the nougat). But today, I just told myself that I'd have one after class. I pretended like eating one after class made much more sense than eating one before, and by the time class was over, I forgot about it long enough to escape. Now, here I am about to go start track and I am not regretting my decision!22 -
I've known for a while that I'm less self conscious than I was but this morning it REALLY clicked for me.
I'm super clumsy and that used to embarrass me I didn't think it was cute or funny. If I did something silly I'd get really flustered and automatically assume everyone was judging me.
Now when I do really silly things I just laugh. When I trip over nothing I laugh. This morning I dropped a ton of coffee grounds everywhere at work and while I was on the floor trying to clean them up the best I could I was laughing uncontrollably. I also spilled my glass of water all down my pants when I got to work this morning... I just laughed. Yesterday I dropped my entire paczki powder sugar, apple filling and all down the front of myself at work and I just started laughing.
And I've found that when people really like you (like romantically) they kind of think being a little clumsy is endearing and adorable. And my friends laugh with me when I do these things and I NEVER feel like they're laughing at me, they're very clearly laughing with me.
I think it's healthy to laugh at yourself and I never felt comfortable enough to do that before. I really don't take myself seriously at all anymore and it's okay to make mistakes.
Thats joy bubbling up and out now.....or at least thats how I see it.....congrats on your emergence!!!!9 -
Funny NSV! My bike fit has felt weird so I took the bike in to my fitter for some adjustment. After measuring angles and such he discovered my seat height was now all off because I've lost enough of my backside to affect it! WIN!30
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Funny NSV! My bike fit has felt weird so I took the bike in to my fitter for some adjustment. After measuring angles and such he discovered my seat height was now all off because I've lost enough of my backside to affect it! WIN!
Lord! Hahahaha. That censor sometimes makes it worse.
Edit: Oh, slipped in before your edit!5 -
1) The weather calmed down enough for me to get the bike out today (only the second time this week ). I get kitted up, bike out of the garage, checked over, rode off down the road and straight into . . . . another dowsing of rain. Oh, and a very mean wind.
But I did not let it defeat me, I carried on. I got back 85 minutes later, soaked to the skin but exhilarated
It was a difficult ride, purely because I'd not been out since Tuesday (I hate missing a day, it makes it so much harder when you do get out again) but worth it. Planning a longer ride tomorrow as the weather is supposed to be slightly kinder, less so on Sunday.
2) Had a good laugh at myself tonight - I had to take my son to Sea Cadets but my coat was still soaking wet from my bike ride. The only other coat available was one I wore at my highest weight (no idea why I kept it but it came in useful tonight). No other option than to wear it but I could wrap it around myself at least twice. This coat used to be TIGHT on me. I also wore this coat when I was pregnant (and I was HUGE when pregnant). I was laughing my head off at the size of it and how ridiculous it looked on my now-smaller frame. My son (a strapping 13-year old who is now taller than me) asked what I was laughing at so I zipped him into it as well. I think that there was probably room for another one or two people in there, had I the time to mess about. I may try that tomorrow, just for fun20 -
Madwife2009 wrote: »1) The weather calmed down enough for me to get the bike out today (only the second time this week ). I get kitted up, bike out of the garage, checked over, rode off down the road and straight into . . . . another dowsing of rain. Oh, and a very mean wind.
But I did not let it defeat me, I carried on. I got back 85 minutes later, soaked to the skin but exhilarated
It was a difficult ride, purely because I'd not been out since Tuesday (I hate missing a day, it makes it so much harder when you do get out again) but worth it. Planning a longer ride tomorrow as the weather is supposed to be slightly kinder, less so on Sunday.
2) Had a good laugh at myself tonight - I had to take my son to Sea Cadets but my coat was still soaking wet from my bike ride. The only other coat available was one I wore at my highest weight (no idea why I kept it but it came in useful tonight). No other option than to wear it but I could wrap it around myself at least twice. This coat used to be TIGHT on me. I also wore this coat when I was pregnant (and I was HUGE when pregnant). I was laughing my head off at the size of it and how ridiculous it looked on my now-smaller frame. My son (a strapping 13-year old who is now taller than me) asked what I was laughing at so I zipped him into it as well. I think that there was probably room for another one or two people in there, had I the time to mess about. I may try that tomorrow, just for fun
Photos or it didn't happen!13 -
Ran 5 miles today for the first time since......the 1980's. Hoping to do a race in central park next week.24
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I turned down pizza! Me, an admitted junk addict. Turned down that chewy crust, that browned cheese, that crispy bacon.... I gotta stop typing before I talk myself into getting a slice.23
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