What's Your Most Recent NSV
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rheddmobile wrote: »I've got several!
1) Saw the lady I housesit for every summer and she said I looked amazing.
2) I have actual callouses on my hands - from weightlifting!
3) The jumping twist exercise I used to do as a tabata workout is not high enough intensity for me anymore. Tabata uses 20 second bursts of maximal effort, and I can do it longer than 20 seconds at top speed without maxing out my effort now. I have to find an exercise that's harder for me.
4) I was looking at YouTube workout videos and found one that I decided was too advanced for me - it involved a lot of burpees and one move which was throwing all your weight on your hands and kicking your heels together which I was pretty sure I couldn't manage. But then I said what the heck, I'll try it and if I have to modify, so be it. And I did everything! I may have looked like a very acrobatic walrus but I did it anyway!
LOL hahaha im crying. Great job
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I average over 21K steps per day... up from 15k since January.
My resting heart rate (per my Fitbit) is now a 49, down from 55 in January.
I'm taking an intermediate/advanced swim class as I hope to one day train for a MINI triathlon.
I've steadily increased my (jogging) mileage to a little over 20 miles a week - up from not being a runner at all in October 2016.26 -
On Sunday saw a friend I haven't seen for a while, she said you've lost so much weight and look great. She told my husband he'd better watch out or I'd be looking for a new man. I love it I'm 72 !!35
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I take selfies when I exercise and send them to my very supportive boyfriend!
Just to show how big this is for me: I had my picture photoshopped for my professional website :-)
All the picture shy people will undertand the NSV in these sweaty disheveled selfies22 -
My favourite skirt is falling off me and I can only just about make it fit with a belt! It was a bittersweet realization.24
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For the past couple of days, I haven't woken up ravenous. Yay appetite normalcy23
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Sorry my writing go mixed up in quotes:
"Amazing; I love reading about your adventures and triumphs. Great admiration of you. When you had "only" done 47 miles you could have told your son that you had done 75km; nice round number for him. But then you went and smashed out the 60 miles.
I can run (not fast), but hate cycling; which is a shame as my husband loves cycling and should probably do more of it. Hmm maybe next time I'm home I'll arrange a short flat cycle ride by the river."
I have to say, give it a go. At the worst, you'll confirm that you don't like cycling. Ask your husband if you can go with him; I used to go with my DH and we had a great time. He won't go with me any more as apparently I cycle too fast, I'm too fit for him to keep up with me and he "doesn't want to slow me down". Gotta love him12 -
juliet3455 wrote: »Madwife2009 wrote: »Got up at 5am and went for that bike ride. 47 miles.
That's the longest bike ride I've ever done.
My husband was "HOW FAR???"
My son's reaction was "Why not 50 miles? You could have cycled to the local shops and back, that's the three miles you needed!". Thank you, child.
With proper fueling/snacks and hydration you could easily knock off a century ride, not at a blistering pace but it would still be a century ride.
Well, I don't know about that, a century ride seems pretty impossible from where I'm at just now. Something to aim for though and there are a few months left before the bad weather sets in again. I'm going to find a training programme and see how bad it is!
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Madwife2009 wrote: »juliet3455 wrote: »Madwife2009 wrote: »Got up at 5am and went for that bike ride. 47 miles.
That's the longest bike ride I've ever done.
My husband was "HOW FAR???"
My son's reaction was "Why not 50 miles? You could have cycled to the local shops and back, that's the three miles you needed!". Thank you, child.
With proper fueling/snacks and hydration you could easily knock off a century ride, not at a blistering pace but it would still be a century ride.
Well, I don't know about that, a century ride seems pretty impossible from where I'm at just now. Something to aim for though and there are a few months left before the bad weather sets in again. I'm going to find a training programme and see how bad it is!
Maybe aim for a metric century: 100 km (62 mi). That won't be much of a stretch given your current ability.8 -
Sat. walked in the Packers 5K with chip time 48:10 and pace 15:31. Even with temps in 70s and dew point 67. This is the fastest I've walked this event in the last 5 years (I've done all 8 / since inception). Almost made my goal to walk < 48:00. I was thrilled!21
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Context: I'm very much on the nerd spectrum. As proof, I offer that I spent yesterday evening playing D&D with my kids.
NSV: I usually get flirted with by my fellow nerds of the male type. This isn't unusual. But lately, they've been just getting flustered. I just got waited on by a nerdling (translation: nerd quite a bit younger than me), and he could barely get the words out. It was very sweet. I just wanted to give him a hug but that would have been weird.
Also, it occurs to me that I might be able to pull off a General Antiope (from Wonder Woman) costume by Halloween.33 -
My kryptonite has always been anything sweet. At the top of this list is cupcakes.
I passed up homemade cupcakes yesterday. They were even my favorite flavor (strawberry). I'm not against having treats or anything, but I couldn't have made a cupcake fit into my calories yesterday so I just didn't have one.
A year ago I would've eaten two and not cared. Yesterday, it just wasn't worth it.
Sometimes I worry about what will happen when I reach maintenance - if I will be able to maintain this weight loss, but everyday I see I am a different person.31 -
Self control for the win!!!! When you find for hubby's candy stash, but refrain from diving in!!24
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I was feeling really down today i witnessed something awful and then i got bad news.
Instead of instantly going and buying icecream and chocolate and baked goods i decided to zig zag my way home down streets here and there back and forth until i was super thirsty. Stopped in at the store saw my willpower tested in the form of half price salad kits i used to love, Tons of baked goods on for 50% off...and huge icecream sales. Not only did i stick to my course and just buy some drinks, I then went out and continued to walk.
25k steps, And no junk food! Cravings are gone from the heat and long walks tend to poof my appetite. I feel better28 -
Today marks a couple of things:
1) I met my lovely DH exactly 29 years ago. I'd just started a summer job and was being introduced to other staff members. DH was at the top of a stanchion, looking down at me. I was at the bottom of said stanchion, looking up at him, thinking "WTF???"
2) It's two years since I decided to get my butt into gear and get my body into a decent shape (this was a couple of weeks before I found MFP). I'm not doing too badly, I find weight loss rather like marriage - it has good times and it has bad times, sometimes the bad outweighs the good but overall the good times outweigh the bad. It's not all flowers and rainbows but it's not all grey skies either. I still have a way to go until I'm at goal/get to where I need to be, and that's okay as I know that I'll get there.
I could wax lyrical about the changes in my life as a result of weight loss/improving fitness but you probably know most of them anyway so I'll save that for when I get to where I want to be.
To celebrate the second milestone, you'll never guess what I did. Oh, you did guess. I'm predictable if nothing else. A bike ride, of course. I decided to go up the really, really big hill that I used to go up regularly last year but haven't been near yet this year (usually because the weather puts me off that route). This is the hill that I was able to hit 45+mph on the way down. As I was going UP the hill, I found that I was psyching myself up for the downhill part - being as my "new" tyres have been helping me go faster - and I had no idea just how fast I'd go. My son told me before I went out that I "had" to hit 50mph. I laughed at him. My daughter looked horrified.
Going down that hill was the most excellent minute of the day. Of the week/moth so far, even. Me, the bike, music and SPEED. Love it.
Got back and told my daughter that unfortunately, I did not hit 50mph. She breathed a sigh of relief until I added that I'd only got up to 49.2mph. She then proceeded with her usual "What if you'd fallen OFF? What if you'd DIED?" I can't be doing with "What ifs". Life's too short.
49.2mpg is what my bike computer logged but its inaccurate as it always shows that I've not gone as far (and therefore as fast) as I actually have (according to Google Maps/other apps). SO I didn't have the heart to tell her that in all likelihood, I'd gone a little faster than 50mph. Some things are better left unsaid My son was quite impressed though.
On the way home, I went up a particular hill that I remember going along with my husband. We'd gone down the hill (which seemed very, very steep a year ago) and I'd said to DH, "What if we can't cycle back up it again?" His reply was that we'd just walk and push the bikes (obviously). Today that hill seemed to be nothing and I actually accelerated up it (which I found slightly incredible).
Bad weather is due again tomorrow so I went out again tonight and cycled another 20 miles (so total for today 46.83 miles). Unfortunately there were a lot of idiots in cars who had to be told what I thought of them. Two years ago I wouldn't have said a word. See, a positive of weight loss - confidence!
Finally, but most importantly, upon reflection of the last couple of years, I have set some goals for the coming year:
1) Reach my "goal" weight (not as much to go as I had two years ago)
2) Continue weight training
3) Continue my running, including the C210K and maybe a half-marathon
4) Go further and faster with my cycling and complete a century ride
5) Try some other sports - rowing and kayaking are rather appealing!
6) When life throws crap, I'm resolving not to let it dominate me (as I have a little over the last few months) but to pick myself up and keep going. Keeping going is the ONLY option. Otherwise there's no point, really, is there? I am in control and I'm keeping it that way.
Watch this space!29 -
Got attacked and bitten by two Rottweilers on Saturday while out walking. Still made it the last 3/4 mile home. Channeled anger over stupid owner and annoyance at how hideous my upper thigh looks even without the ugly cut/bruise/swelling into awesome workouts yesterday and today.21
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Well it finally happened to me, I got the "you need to stop losing weight you look small" from my co-worker. My response, I have an overweight BMI, I store my weight in my hips, I'm on a blood pressure medicine, and here is a recent picture in my 2 piece bikini. I follow all that with do you think I should stop or continue? That ends the conversation.24
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gradchica27 wrote: »Got attacked and bitten by two Rottweilers on Saturday while out walking. Still made it the last 3/4 mile home. Channeled anger over stupid owner and annoyance at how hideous my upper thigh looks even without the ugly cut/bruise/swelling into awesome workouts yesterday and today.
@gradchica27 - Ouch! I'm glad you're mostly OK. That could have been really, really bad.6 -
Madwife2009 wrote: »Finally, but most importantly, upon reflection of the last couple of years, I have set some goals for the coming year:
1) Reach my "goal" weight (not as much to go as I had two years ago)
2) Continue weight training
3) Continue my running, including the C210K and maybe a half-marathon
4) Go further and faster with my cycling and complete a century ride
5) Try some other sports - rowing and kayaking are rather appealing!
6) When life throws crap, I'm resolving not to let it dominate me (as I have a little over the last few months) but to pick myself up and keep going. Keeping going is the ONLY option. Otherwise there's no point, really, is there? I am in control and I'm keeping it that way.
Watch this space!
You are such an inspiration to me! I do watch this space for more posts from you.
My NSV: Standing at the kitchen sink doing dishes and I realized I'm not leaning my belly against the sink like I've always had to do. This led to spontaneous dancing that lasted until all the dishes were done. Also, suddenly my underwear will not stay up. I swear this happened overnight.
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Ran for 28 minutes straight this morning for a total of 4.3km once you factor in warm-up & cool-down walks. I am seriously considering going straight into B210K in 2 weeks once I'm done C25K and signing up for a 10K walk/run in late September.22
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