What's Your Most Recent NSV

This is my first time posting, but I've been reading a lot of your NSV's. Congratulations to you all!

I'm only starting my journey. On May 1, 2017, at 34 years old, I weighed 329lbs and I decided I needed to change my life.

I started using MFP to track my calories and doing water aerobics 3 times a week and walking whatever chance I got. Since May 1, I have had a couple of indulgent meals (for Mother's Day), but I have tried to bank up calories so it doesn't throw off my whole week. I'm trying not to look at this like a diet, but rather a change of lifestyle. I try not to limit myself too much for fear that I will just crave, crave crave. Instead of eating whatever and however much I want of something, I divvy out a portion and that's all I eat.

I have seen some difference in the scale (I've seen the scale as low as 311, but it fluctuates quite a bit). I have had many more NSVs.

The biggest one is that I've lost a ton of inches. When I started my journey, I measured 14 different places on my body from my neck to my ankles. Once a week, my coworker helps me keep track and measures me again. Since May 1, I've lost 24.25 inches. I can already feel clothes starting to fit differently. I haven't gone down any sizes yet, but shirts that fit perfectly before are now hanging lower and way looser.

Exercise has become a big part of my life. I do swim aerobics most of the time. I love being in water and I feel like water aerobics is not too difficult until I lose more weight. I'd like to try Zumba at some point. I also have taken to walking laps around a big empty room in my office building on my lunch break and 15-minute breaks.

My kids are realizing that exercise in important to me. When I get in the car with my daughter in the morning, she asks "are we going to the gym?" For mother's day, my son made me a card where they fill in answers to the questions the teacher has made. "My mom likes going to the gym," was one of his answers. And he drew a picture of me in my swim suit

I've also been posting pictures of what I eat and selfies to track progress on instagram, and I am suddenly getting a lot of followers. That is definitely a motivator.

I have a LONG way to go. I know it won't be easy. But my dream is to be one of those people that "lost half their body weight" at some point.

Thanks for reading, and great job to everyone!

I did a 10 minute test on the Assault bike (bike from hell) back in December, and got 78 calories. Retested on friday after seriously increasing my conditioning....105 calories!!! Delighted!

You'll still never see them, but I finally decided that my lg briefs were too loose and moved down to size M. It's a perfectly comfortable fit. You might see that I also bought the first swim trunks of my life in size M. I need them for a hydrostatic bf test next week. If 55 too old to learn to swim?

JeromeBarry1 wrote: »

You'll still never see them, but I finally decided that my lg briefs were too loose and moved down to size M. It's a perfectly comfortable fit. You might see that I also bought the first swim trunks of my life in size M. I need them for a hydrostatic bf test next week. If 55 too old to learn to swim?

No, 55 isn't too old to learn to swim. Go for it.

JeromeBarry1 wrote: »

You'll still never see them, but I finally decided that my lg briefs were too loose and moved down to size M. It's a perfectly comfortable fit. You might see that I also bought the first swim trunks of my life in size M. I need them for a hydrostatic bf test next week. If 55 too old to learn to swim?

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/the-swimming-blog/2014/jan/02/learning-to-swim-fear-of-swimming


Quote from the article : "I have taught people of all ages and from all walks of life. My oldest pupil was an 87-year-old lady who was also blind. She said she had always wanted to learn to swim but had never got round to it. At the end of one lesson I got her to swim through a hoop floating in the water. It was a lovely moment."

I'm beginning to like shopping for clothes for myself, first time in decades. Today I bought a shirt 2 sizes smaller than what I was 2 months ago and it's actually a little loose! I can't wait to go back.

I picked up a pair of 14W capris and they fit started out at a 24W and I started out at a 3x just bought multiple Large shirts some medium and XLs are starting to get baggy

To start off, I want to say great job to everyone! I am encouraged and re-motivated every time I read this thread -
it is definitely my favorite one out there!

No matter how small it may seem to others, every NSV is worth celebrating if it means something to you. That is something I have to continually remind myself when I start to worry about my "small" NSV's.

So here goes for last week:

1) I did not drink coffee on four days last week. This is something I am working on because I don't actually like the taste of coffee and add lots of milk and sugar to it to make it taste good.

2) I walked most days.

3) I did strength exercises in arms, legs, and abs.

4) I tracked food one day - I was aiming for two, but I need to be grateful for any that I did.

5) I ate a salad one day.

6) On my fitbit, I got 6 250's on Saturday and Sunday. Those are the days it is hardest to get the 250 in.

7) I think on 5 days I got 8 sets of stairs or more.

8) I finally fit into one of my favorite dresses again. There is a graduation ceremony I am hoping to wear it to next week so I need to be extra careful right now.

Well, that's it. I told myself to focus on the things above and not the number on the scale. If I do the things above, then the number on the scale will change. But if it doesn't, I can still feel proud of how I am getting my body more healthy.

PS - for anyone wondering, cause it seems like someone often is, NSV stands for "Non-Scale Victory".

pushed a motor at the gym on a sled.

I decided to do something hard, something I didn't think I could complete and did it. I rowed a marathon distance on the ergometer, 42195 meters, taking me just over 3 hours 50 minutes. I'm back on the weight loss band wagon, I was eating far greater quantities while I was training to fuel workouts.

The real victory in doing this is now there is a self belief that I will lose the weight and keep it off. There are no ifs ands or buts, simply it will happen. Sure there will be bumps, but I'll just have to continue with the plan and modify as required.

runningjen74 wrote: »

I decided to do something hard, something I didn't think I could complete and did it. I rowed a marathon distance on the ergometer, 42195 meters, taking me just over 3 hours 50 minutes. I'm back on the weight loss band wagon, I was eating far greater quantities while I was training to fuel workouts.

The real victory in doing this is now there is a self belief that I will lose the weight and keep it off. There are no ifs ands or buts, simply it will happen. Sure there will be bumps, but I'll just have to continue with the plan and modify as required.

@runningjen74 - Wow! That's really far. I rowed a half-mary early this month and was very pleased with myself. Congrats!

I really like your attitude. Excellent.

1) Day 2 Week 6 of C25K complete. It was 2 x 10-minute runs and so much harder than the continuous 20-minute run! But we got through it. As far as I can determine the remaining workouts are all continuous runs, no intervals so it should be better

2) I am a bit of a numbers geek. I like figures, and statistics and other fun stuff like that. My children definitely dislike my love of maths. Anyway, I digress. I like numbers and have been keeping track of all of my deliberate exercise over the last few months on a spreadsheet, which is set up to automatically add the entries up, etc (I do graphs as well).

My spreadsheet, up until today, only had tabs for walking and cycling. Today I added one for "Running". That is something I never thought that I'd see connected with me and exercise

Today I ran for 5 minutes!! I only meant to do a minute but I just kept going. I'm going to look for running shoes today.

I really needed this nsv today because he scale is a traitorous *kitten* lately.

I walked six miles, and got my mother to go with me!