What's Your Most Recent NSV

I woke up EARLY to run today. As a perpetual night owl, this is a big deal for me. Although, it was way too hot. I need to get up even earlier or stick to running at night, but I'm still happy for today.

Buying new clothes at Rue 21 with my girls. They even gave me a high five.

Blew out my last pair of decent jeans. Wait, why this this a victory?

It's because my thighs from lifting have gotten too damned big. Waist remains at thirty-four and may be 33 now.

Not sure if this is too close to a scale victory to be an NSV, but I'm no longer "morbidly obese" per my BMI.

* I bought a new dress in a size 16/18 down from 24.
* I did not eat the darn cake sitting at my house. This made me mad, I wanted it so much. So glad I didn't though. It would have made me go over on calories.

Stupid, stupid weather.

Sunny this morning. Had to go to the next city for an appointment, got off the train and it was raining. I, of course, had no coat as it was really sunny when I walked to the station, so I got soaked walking to the hospital. By the time I left the hospital, it was sunny again. Got off the train back at home and the winds were horrendous.

I couldn't decide whether or not to go for a bike ride as I knew how hard it would be. However, as I always regret not doing something, I thought that I'd try and see how far I got.

By the time I got the bike out, the winds were in the region of 20mph. I get on the bike, and start pedalling, thinking that I'd probably manage a mile before heading for home.

That first mile was horrendous. Head wind all the way. Such a struggle. It was just awful. At some points it felt like I was cycling against a wall.

At the end of that mile, I'm out of the town and heading into the countryside. I don't know why but the wind always seems to be worse in the town than out of it, maybe the houses lining the streets act like a wind tunnel? Who knows.

Then, the first steep hill. Back into the headwind. I was forced into the lowest of the lowest gears and I literally crawled up that hill. I could have walked up it faster but that would have been defeating the object of the exercise (no pun intended). It was just

So I kept going, probably to the amusement of those I went past but I was beyond caring what they thought.

Another steep hill, but slightly easier as I'm now cycling into a cross wind. Manage to stay in the middle gear ratio.

Then the long, steep hill that takes me round and up a hill. Luckily, it's also a 90-degree turn, so the wind is now behind me. Not helping much as I've still got to get up the hill but better.

The road goes downhill to a junction and I'm forced to stop as there are some really selfish motorists who must have known I was out on the bike and were only there to annoy me. I mean, did they really need to be on the road?

Finally get moving again, down a hill with the wind behind me. Then another 90-degree turn and back into a crosswind. Down a little hill, up a slightly steeper one and then head for my favourite hill. The one I go down really fast. Sometimes.

However, I'm thinking that the crosswind is going to thwart my speed-record attempt today. Crosswinds seem to have this effect.

So, I peddle like a crazy person on a bike. My legs are going like pistons. I look at the speedo and see that I hit 32mph (going downhill) before the bike/gravity/momentum take over. This is a record for me.

Crouched down a bit (trying to reduce air resistance; dunno if it works but I do it anyway); speed is picking up, the bike is rattling, my eyes are watering (despite the glasses) and I'm hoping that the car in front isn't going to suddenly stop . . .

It doesn't, so I don't need to brake. Look at the speedo and . . .



Such fun! That made the struggle up to that point, and the struggle afterwards on the way home well worth the effort. Not the fastest I've gone down that hill but considering the conditions I was cycling in, I was happy with it.

Saw some interesting things today as well:



No idea why, what or how, I just enjoyed seeing them ("stand and stare" syndrome; I occasionally get the time to do this).

I've lost 39lbs since January and I'm down 39lbs + lots of inches from last summer. I had trouble going up the pool ladder, I'd get to the top and have to carefully turn around while the ladder was shaking and wobbling, I couldn't just squeeze through the handles at the top. Well now I can, its something I wasn't able to do before..

I went to a restaurant I hadn't been to in a while and my favorite waiter complimented me on my weight loss. Also, I ate pho tai nam and my blood glucose stayed under control, which is a sign my weight loss has improved my insulin resistance!

Biked to yoga class yesterday, then biked to work. In the afternoon, I biked to my voice lesson and then biked home. Biking: who knew it could get you where you need to go??? Lol. I am so late to the bike commuting scene but I am happy I finally caught on.