I am nearly done with 3 months of [solidcore] (like lagree/megaformer but with higher resistance), and I feel like my muscle definition is as good as when I was a 16 year old doing ballet for 30hrs/week (granted my diet then was different too). Other benefits include falling asleep almost instantly now and feeling much less anxious about things.

It was small but I FOUND THE LINE OF MY TRICEP DEFINITION WHEN I TURNED MY ARM.

My arms are the hardest place for me to build muscle/define what I have, #talllongpersonproblems, so to find that made my night.

Keep 'em coming, guys.

@MeredithDeVoe1, that's a lot of stuff to be proud of! Congratulations!

My skin is clearer.

I wore my smaller jeans today. A nice small number too! It's a brand that runs large but I don't care, it feels great.

I think I'm just happier since figuring out how I have to eat to lose weight. I am just flowing with the process now.

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I put on some Ivy Park workout clothes I bought in the Topshop Black Friday sale last year and I don't feel like a stuffed sausage skin. I mean they fit when I bought them but I got this black compression vest with built in bra that was like whoa boy. Now I have breathing room.

I also bought 3(!) sports bras from Victoria Secret in the last two weeks (one which was a bargain £8 in the sale jsyk). Also a couple of Adidas TechFit sports bras in the cutest colours. For the longest time I was a weird size with sports bras where a medium fit my bust but was too loose on the underbust where the support was supposed to be. So I could only buy banded Shock Absorber bras because not a lot of places do a 30'' band with a larger cup size. But I've been working really hard on recomp and now we're in business for those cute smalls! It's a lot cheaper too.

I love the Adidas-Techfit bras. Like you, I was certain that only bras with an adjustable back would work for me and was spending a lot of money on sports bras. But I bought one of the Adidas bras on sale and found that it was so comfy and supportive. I now have them in a variety of colours.

Went shopping today for a party a week on Friday and ended up buying jeans and a top both in a size 6 (US 2). Although they are both definitely vanity sized I'm still taking that as a definite win, 6 months ago I was definitely a 12.

Ran for a whole hour today for the first time. I commented to a friend that it wasn't very fast as I just did it at an easy pace, one that feels like you could keep going forever. Then I realised that I now have an easy, could keep going forever, running pace. It wasn't that long ago that all running paces, no matter how slow, were "OMG I'm going to die".

I wouldn't normally post twice so close together, but I had another non-scale victory! My tiny tiny thigh gap is back! Yay!

My NSV was that when I went clothes shopping yesterday and found that things look so much better and fit better now that I have lost some weight and toned up.

@glassofroses it wasn't an explicit goal of mine, but I'm very happy to see its return. I 100% agree that thigh gaps are super controversial, as for many people it is simply impossible to get them due to bone structure and innate anatomy. I think I am one of the few that has wide enough hips that a thigh gap is possible for me. Of course that makes it hell to find jeans that fit me, since I have skinny-ish legs but wiiiide hips, but I'll take what I can get! Now I just need to tone up my outer thighs, and get rid of my belly paunch!

@RMC1995 Exactly on anatomy. I have wide hips and long legs so it wouldn't make much sense if my thighs touched all the way down to my knees, so they don't. It is the worse when you drop food through the gap though. My biggest problem with fit is I apparently have the muscular legs of a power lifter because trying to get them into my normal 4 or 6 is impossible. The Topshop Joni jeans are basically my life for their stretch. It's a shame though because I like a mid rise straight cut but my knees look saggy from being so tiny compared to my quads/calves and sometimes even a belt can't save you from the butt gap.

@JeepHair77 You're a kickboxer too?! Yes! I love when we get to do elbows and knees because it's pretty rare as you can't use them in competition, same with spinning back fist, but it's always fun to play. I still have 4 weeks until I can get back into training so can I please live vicariously through you?

My current NSV is I have now returned to my normal sleeping position of flat on my belly. I know these are really weird and oddly specific things but they're all I've got until I see my doctor and he gives me the go/no go on running/bodyweight exercises.

@JeepHair77 I only recently got into light contact sparring because, mainly, I'm a huge chicken and it's required for grading (belts). However, I definitely won't even consider competing until next year just because I had abdominal surgery and I doubt it even then. I just don't have that competitive streak in me. Plus it pays to be the aggressor (attacking not actually aggressive ) in a fight because you can control it that way and I'm incredibly passive/reactive. I do the equivalent of running away the first chance I get. When one of my teacher's taught us punching/kicking while going backwards it was like my life had been made.

Actually at my dojo we have two types of adult classes: mixed and ladies. Mixed is technique based, and there are men there obviously, and that's where we get into a lot of the grappling, knees and elbows, pivots and fun stuff like 360 roundhouses and tornadoes, whereas the ladies is more cardio fitness orientated but still keeping up with techniques like the axe kick, crescent kick and the 360 sometimes, so don't knock yourself down for doing a fitness kickboxing class. You're still learning the same stuff because at the end of the day everything comes from the basic combinations, just in varying degrees. Even though I've progressed to the mixed classes I still do the ladies ones because they're a lot of fun to just get sweaty in. Actually I lie. They're not fun. Our teachers are taskmasters with no sympathy.

Awesome, @pacingoamy !