What's Your Most Recent NSV

Down a clothing size and as I am into heavy lifting have met my old personal bests in 5 months back on the gym wagon. Will surpass them by October.

veronicacat2015 wrote: »

How amazing! You gotta teach me how not to bow to food cravings! It's killing me!

HDBKLM wrote: »

I find I'm able to close out my food diary mid-afternoon on days when I know what dinner is going to be. Until a few weeks ago I was such a slave to my cravings that I'd have to wait until like 10pm each night before clicking 'Complete' because I didn't know if other food might still be on the way in before bedtime.

In all honesty I don't know why my cravings have gone away. I'm very much one of these people on MFP who has continued to eat all the stuff I always ate, except less of it. That said, I have a few non-scientific observations that I can share but no silver bullet:

1) As I wrote in a different forum, having internalised the science of CICO I no longer find myself wondering in the evenings—boredom eating time—whether my efforts to lose weight will work (as I'd have done with a 'magic' diet like the pineapple diet or whatever. NOTE: I've never done a pineapple diet; just sayin'). Therefore if I were to become tempted to snack at night it's easier to simply dismiss it, knowing I'm not 'actually' hungry. So a bit of a general mental shift supported by science vs. magic.

2) I wouldn't say that I've started moving away from starchy carbs because I still eat them whenever the mood strikes, but I have started moving TOWARDS foods I already know I like that still resemble once on my plate the form they took in nature (fish rather than fish fingers, for example, but I'm not going to replace a plate of pasta with a plate of wheat). Less processed = longer to digest? I've also found in the past that eating starches (and by extension sugars more broadly) makes me want to eat more starches—and seem to digest fast in that 'Chinese food makes me hungry an hour later' way—so I just try to put some emphasis on things that'll make me and keep me full.

3) I tend to cook from scratch; nothing complicated or overly time-consuming—frozen peas and frozen spinach are in my repertoire—the point is that I'm not eating as much stuff that has preservatives and MSG or other flavour enhancers in it. Please don't confuse me with a clean eating disciple, I'm the furthest thing from it. AND I'm not an MSG witch-hunter either—did you know MSG occurs naturally in many foods like tomatoes, cheese, peas, potatoes, mushrooms, etc.? I'm only trying to make the point that processed and/or pre-packaged foods very often have additives that tend to make me want to rush back for more. It could be I'm staving off manufactured/commercial food addictions by doing my own cooking (even in cases where 'cooking' is still little more than 'warming', per the frozen veg side dishes above). Again, no scientific claims being made here.

Just bought a size large sweater yesterday when I would have gotten a xl/xxl before! down 15 pounds

Kind of a weird NSV but today I finally decided to give my bitmoji a smaller build, since I made my bitmoji when I was heavier lmao.

Mine's a two in one, I've firstly bought a new pair of jeans in the next size down and secondly am wearing a crop top out and feeling comfortable in it!

Made an avocado chocolate cake yesterday. It was super low cal and all (around 700 calories) for such a big cake too and had planned to treat myself and eat all of it (all within my allowance etc) for lunch and dinner but after eating half of it, I was full and put the cake back in the fridge. Usually, I would just ignore that I am full and gorge myself on cakes and feel so bad afterwards or just go and eat it later. It is still in the fridge and I will take it with me when I go visit my friend this evening. Now I just need to see if I can do the same with ice cream that's my kryptonite.

NadNight wrote: »

Mine's a two in one, I've firstly bought a new pair of jeans in the next size down and secondly am wearing a crop top out and feeling comfortable in it!

And looking absolutely lovely wearing both, granny sez.

I've been on and off MFP a few times over the last 5 years. This time, I've been losing but with diet only, I've hit the treadmill only sporadically since becoming active on MFP again at the beginning of August, and then just to walk. This week we're finally getting cool enough weather to exercise outside. So, two nights ago I went jogging with my bf. At first, I tried to keep up with him and I was winded immediately. Once I found my (slowww) pace, I was able to keep up a jog all the way back. Then last night we went again and I kept to my own pace right from the start and I kept up a jog FOR ONE FULL MILE. I literally cannot remember the last time I ran, it was probably in 2015, but I can (slowly) run a mile!!!

I fit very comfortably in a Loft size 8 pants...it was their Julie cut, as I'm on the curvier side and also Loft is notorious for vanity sizing, but it was nice. I can't wait until I'm a size 8 in stores like H&M. I'm size 10 there except in jeans, then I'm a size 12.