What's Your Most Recent NSV

I got some bad news and decided to throw myself a three day long pity party...with beer...and pizza...a very, very large pizza. By Wednesday night, I had 2200 surplus calories. But instead of giving in and calling the week a wash, I got my crap together and made better choices. The week is over and I have only 8 surplus calories! So as much as this week SUCKED, I can still call this a maintenance week.

I saw several family members last night that I haven't seen since early March. Several people did not recognize me. It's only been 25 pounds since then but at 5'2" it is noticeable.

For most of my life, I have been a rigid perfectionist and excelled in my academic and professional life, yet I was quite miserable and critical of myself. I am slowly recovering through therapy and my newfound faith. My NSV is that I can now celebrate my progress towards creating healthy long-term habits instead of punishing myself until I attained "perfection": perfect calories for the day, perfect body tone, perfect meals, perfect weight, perfect exercise routine/schedule, perfect exercise clothes, perfect running pace, etc. Now, I throw on some tennis shoes after work and run in my work clothes just because I love to run. Now, I focus on healthy, sustainable choices instead of doing the "perfect" healthy thing. This is significant for me!

Zipped up my loooong leather boots that I haven't been able to wear for a couple of years! I felt attractive and accomplished wearing them all day long!

My RHR was at 55-60 for a long time... now it's at 46!! Am I even alive...

So today my daughter and I went to eat lunch with my son at school. He wanted subway and she wanted McDonald’s. Usually I would have probably gotten something at McDonald’s or an unhealthy sandwich at subway because I don’t care for turkey lunch meat or their chicken. Instead I heated up one of my meal prep lunches before hand and it was perfect by the time I ate it at his school. It’s all about staying on track as much as you can and I feel like I won today!

aeloine wrote: »

^^ haha!

I ate at maintenance all of last week as a sort of a "diet break". Did not get discouraged about lack of progress. Did not decide to just give up. Still made it to the gym 3 times last week.

Back on the deficit train today. Still on track to lose 50 pounds this year!

I just kicked off a week's break today. Scared because now at the end of the day I 'feel fat', but taking inspiration from you. Will be back on deficit next week I think, and also en route to 50 pounds (but probably not quite by the end of the year like you). Congrats!

aeloine wrote: »

HDBKLM wrote: »

aeloine wrote: »

^^ haha!

I ate at maintenance all of last week as a sort of a "diet break". Did not get discouraged about lack of progress. Did not decide to just give up. Still made it to the gym 3 times last week.

Back on the deficit train today. Still on track to lose 50 pounds this year!

I just kicked off a week's break today. Scared because now at the end of the day I 'feel fat', but taking inspiration from you. Will be back on deficit next week I think, and also en route to 50 pounds (but probably not quite by the end of the year like you). Congrats!

@HDBKLM that's awesome! I actually maintained every day except today, which was kind of a bummer, but it's all part of the process. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised about how excited you are to start deficit back up.

I definitely feel more energized and encouraged today!

Did a week break and am up 3 lbs. Still managed a little under maint for the week, so it's water (I do do a lot of carbs).

Sad thing is it bumped me back over a BMI of 30, so I guess I'm obese again.

Back at it as of this morning.

Finally made it to normal weight BMI! 24.9!

It's been almost exactly 12 months since last Halloween when I was weighed at the ER when I had my ovarian tumor. My BMI at that type was 41.4 which is class 3 morbid obesity. One month later I had surgery to remove the ovary and was diagnosed with diabetes, which led to my weight loss efforts, and in February I joined MFP. My original goal was just to not be obese, which I made on my birthday in June, and the inspiring people here led me to set a new goal of being normal weight by Christmas. Made it with two months to spare!

I wish I had a before and after picture to share with you, but I was so ashamed of my appearance when I was obese that I don't have a before picture. This picture will have to do - this is me today wearing the clothes I was wearing when I came home from the hospital following my surgery in December, and me in my workout clothes at the gym.

At my highest weight these jeans, which are a 28W, were too tight, and the shirt, which is a 4x, didn't like to stay down over my giant belly. According to my doctor, my ovarian tumor was making my hormones go haywire, which was causing me to put on belly fat disproportionate to the rest of my body. That belly fat has been the last thing to go, and there's still quite a bit of padding and extra skin left over, but my size now is 8 jeans and a medium shirt.

I'm just at the top of healthy weight now and would like to lose a few more pounds, but I am shifting my goal from a scale-based goal to measurement based goals, health based goals, and performance based goals, By my birthday next year I hope to have a waist less than 30 inches. Right now it's 33. At my highest weight it was 48! I hope some day to be able to do an unassisted chin-up. I want to run a 5k in less than 30 minutes. Most of all, I want to remain the sort of person who is athletic and healthy and happy in her body.

I have a few today.

I did a hike I wouldn't have been capable of two months ago, it went up 880ft in elevation in one mile. Honestly, I could have gone to the next peak but my bf started to feel unwell. Oh, and my bf posted a video from the hike on Facebook and there's a shot of my butt. I don't love it but I'm not mortified.


I wore hiking pants I bought a couple of years ago. For some reason I bought them w/o trying them on, they are a size "L", which is meaningless. Anyway, they were too tight and I almost got rid of them several times but held on to them in hopes of losing weight and today they fit! Actually loose in the waist, in fact.

Lastly, today marks 90 days since I've given up 99% of sugar in my diet. That's a huge deal for me, sugar cravings have been hard to control all my life. My friends and co-workers are tired of hearing about it, lol. My next NSV should be turning down a treat without announcing that I don't eat sugar. I may have managed to do that a few times.

10km! I can run 10km!
I did C25K in the spring, took July and August off because of the heat, picked the habit back up in the fall and started adding more and more distance to my runs. Then last night I got up to 10km in 64 minutes.

Boss offered my Lindor chocos the other day, I was able to say "no thanks"

I lost the weight, and have been pretty successful in keeping it off. The big challenge now is to overcome the "skinny-fat" phenomenon. So at 58 years old I'm trying -- essentially for the first time -- to put on some significant muscle. After 3 years of serious gym-going and a pretty rigorous diet, I have finally, mostly in the last 6 months, begun to see some results -- my pants still fit in the waist, but are beginning to bind in my butt and thighs; and my "slim fit" dress shirts, while also looser in the waist, are actually getting difficult to button across my chest. I never thought I'd celebrate getting bigger, but yay for hypertrophy!

I noticed my neighbor trying to lift his lawnmower onto his trailer so I stopped...it was raining and he was struggling. I said "George, let me give you a hand" and he waved me away and said he will get it "you might hurt yourself" so I laughed and said, really, George stand back and be amazed. LOL. He stepped aside and I lifted that thing with ease up onto the trailer. He just grinned and shook his head and told me to get on my way whilst he licked his ego. LOL

Thehardmakesitworthit wrote: »

I noticed my neighbor trying to lift his lawnmower onto his trailer so I stopped...it was raining and he was struggling. I said "George, let me give you a hand" and he waved me away and said he will get it "you might hurt yourself" so I laughed and said, really, George stand back and be amazed. LOL. He stepped aside and I lifted that thing with ease up onto the trailer. He just grinned and shook his head and told me to get on my way whilst he licked his ego. LOL

I like George.