What's Your Most Recent NSV
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Three things that are really cool, to me at least:
Today, I went swimming for the first time in about a year. (I had to quit bc instead of it being a low-impact exercise I could do while I was working to heal my legs and back, it was actually making everything worse.) Today, I did 22 laps with a kick-board -- pretty slowly -- but so far so good. I'm really sore, but no pain.
Then, when I was getting changed I looked at myself in the mirror. I am beyond shocked by my arms. I mean, they look like "could be in a magazine arms" -- without flexing. I wonder if the rest of me will ever look like that?
This last one is scale-inspired, but I think if you've been at this a while you'll get it's also a NSV -- I am in single digits in terms of what I have left to lose. Just blows my mind that I'm nearly done with the deficit part.
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When I got home from the gym today, I took my shirt off in the garage and stood on my driveway to cool off from a great workout. It doesn't sound like much but when you've been overweight and flabby your whole life, the act of standing shirtless outside is absolutely mortifying. Even a few weeks ago, I would have been afraid one of my neighbors would walk or drive by and seen me without my shirt. I'm seeing changes in my body and becoming more confident in my appearance which fuels my desire to continue to improve!45
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And tonight, I have a new speed record . . .
44.7 mph
I don't think that it will be possible to go any faster as although it's a steep hill, it's not very long.
I need to cycle out to my really big hill which is about an hour or so away and goes up (and therefore down again) nearly 1000 feet. Too hot today but Friday looks promising . . .25 -
I went to the gym for the first time in a month. I was prepared to be struggling and out of breath. I ended up doing 30 minutes on the elliptical without a water break! (never could do that before) and walking on the treadmill at an incline for 5 minutes than I usually could.27
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500 day streak56
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Fit into a dress that was too small 2 months ago, and now it's actually too big! Lol, I missed the moment to wear it34
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I was on a plane this weekend...lots of room on the belt where it used to be *just* closing!34
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After years of holding my breath and hoping that airplane seatbelts would close without having to get a second belt, and having the belt cut into me during an entire flight, today this was me with a closed seatbelt. It feels amazing.
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I'm wearing a dress today that I've had and worn for years.
I've been asked many times today if it's new, and told that it fits me really nicely!
Old clothes looking new and good! Thats a NSV if I've ever had one.37 -
vanity has never been a thing for me so I feel kinda weird that when I walk up to any glass door as I enter places, I smile at the girl I see......GAH! Gotta keep this train moving...need to rid 30 more pounds. I will probably be asking myself out on dates by then!!!! LOL60
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@Thehardmakesitworthit I can't think of anyone better to ask out on a date than yourself.11
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I PRed my 10k this weekend, which was wonderful, but also heartbreaking because my finishing time was an hour and 35 seconds when I was aiming for under an hour. The real NSV came today when I looked at the race pictures online and found one where the only real problem I had with it was that I was making a weird face, even though I was running in shorts! My legs looked good (if I do say so myself)!
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When I first started MFP, my belt was on the second loosest notch (out of six). Last week I had to replace my belt altogether, when the tightest notch wasn't tight enough.
I can also feel my ribs now! (They're not sticking out or anything. I'm not that skinny!)24 -
Not weight related, but healthy living related..
Last night my daughter wanted to make a new pasta recipe she'd found online. I went along with it, and rather than making plans to eat my own meal, I kept track of the ingredients/quantities and AFTER eating a reasonable (to me) portion I entered the items into recipe builder and logged. My dinner came out around 504 calories and was pretty well placed for my daily calories.
I am proud of myself for letting go (a little at least) of control, and not falling into the mindset trap of 'I can't eat that'. I'm proud to have tried something new, and to have been an encouragement to my daughter. Who is not a veggie eater, and was willing to make/eat this meal even though it included spinach. And I'm proud to know that I can trust myself to build a plate with a reasonable portion and trust my judgement on what that looks like.39 -
I went over my daily amount by some margin. But, I logged it all. And I'm going to just put it behind me and get back to it tomorrow. One day doesn't make or break this. I'm glad I genuinely feel that now.36
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I wore my old "skinny" string bikini today! I hadn't stopped wearing bikinis at 172lbs...but no more underwires, padding, or ruffles needed. Just the cheap triangles again!21
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Took my workout outside, did a 10 mile walk at a local national park, keeping at about 3.0mph. Nice walk along the lake!27
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I fit into size 16 jeans today after wearing size 18-20 for the past four years! I feel so good. I also have an 80 day streak on MFP!36
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Soooo hot today that I had to break my cycle ride into three separate rides as more than an hour in that heat would have been too much.
Did the first at 5.30am, the second at 3.30pm this afternoon (big mistake) and the third at 7pm tonight (slightly more bearable).
The second ride was interesting as some random person stopped me to ask for directions, and even though it was as simple as "go to the end of this road, turn left and left again when the road forks and the place you need is on the right" I still had to say it about six times. Random stranger got there okay though, as I saw the car parked up when I cycled past.
I also had to call the Fire and Rescue guys out to a verge fire; some other people were looking at it (as it's crackling away and getting more ferocious) so I told them to ring F&R and cycled on, got a couple of hundred yards on and thought that actually I should ring, just to make sure that the other people had alerted F&R. Good job I did, as F&R knew nothing about the fire. The guy answering the phone was good as he was able to pinpoint where the fire was, even though I didn't know the name of the road, only that it was between X and Y. Maybe I should know, being as I cycle along it at least once every day. When I went along tonight, there was a huge strip of burned bank so I was doubly glad I rang them.
Bit of a day of good deeds today; I also went and fetched cold drinks for my son's boating instructors before cycling off, and sent an acting application into Warner for my daughter. Made me feel all warm and glow-y (is that a word?) - or maybe that was the sun and heat . . .
Tomorrow, as it's forecast to be even hotter (hottest June since 1976 apparently, and I remember that particular summer very well indeed) I am getting up at 4am to get my whole cycle ride in (I got bored of the same route three times today!) before I drag my son out of bed at 6.30am for our C25K.
Then, after breakfast, we're going to pick strawberries as soon as the PYO farm opens.
That's all we have planned for our anniversary at the moment; maybe we'll go out for dinner. Maybe not!17 -
Second day in a row of swimming -- today I was feeling brave enough to try a real stroke (that is, using arms and legs) and see how it might affect my back and legs.
So far, so good! The only impact is feeling pretty beat! I'd forgotten how swimming uses every muscle you've got. Tomorrow I'm going to try a 1/2 mile.
And my acting classes are fantastic -- so far we've been doing exercises that involve using our bodies. (No voice / lines yet.) That I feel confident and free enough to use my body, make it do things it normally wouldn't do to convey emotions I normally wouldn't share is a complete 180 from how I've always gone through life and related to my body. So much fun!24
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