What's Your Most Recent NSV

My swimming buddy for circuits got beat today! (again!)
By the end he was asking that the class be made single sex again as he was being beaten by a girl! hahahahahahah
(he is a good laugh and was totally joking - as was I when I told him to suck it up and grow a pair!)

It started off as male only - which I get in this litigious age, the instructor could be done for 'looking' at someone funny! am so glad it had not enough attendees and was expanded though. Is soooo fun!

I'm at 3 out of 6 weeks into my workout plan, and in that time I went from doing 3 push ups in a row, to 10! And also managed to hold a side plank for 30 seconds without a break, despite annoying elbow pain.

I slept on my back last night. That was the first night in a LONG time I was able to do that without waking up to lower back pain because of the extra fat weighing my center section down.

I have the worst sinus infection ever, but instead of stay home and google weird symptoms (it feels like I ate a ghost pepper sandwich, then rubbed the leftovers on my lips and in my ears, eyes, and all over my face. What the?!?) I went to they gym. Legs felt weak so I did arms—and wouldn’t you know, I went up on 4 lifts! That may be the steroid shot talking, but I’ll take it! And look! A teeny bit of arm definition! Maybe I’ll give kitchen heat as an excuse to wear a sleeveless dress for Thanksgiving

saw myself side-view in the full size mirror of the shower room, and there's no arguing it: i have lats.

kind of strange when you see visible definition there though. idek if it's a thing that is a Thing, or just one of those things. i'm pretty pleased about it, especially when i realised during yesterday's ohp workout that cleaning 60 pounds had suddenly turned into no problem at all.

that was pretty neat because i don't 'work' cleans. i just had to get the bar up myself for my presses, because all the racks were knee-deep in lineups of other people. when you work at lifting, i find i don't really think of the numbers i'm doing as being 'progress'. or any sign of my 'strength'. it's just the weight that i do because i'm doing those weights, and it kind of all turns into wallpaper after a while. so it's really fun when for some reason you do osmething else that you never/rarely have done, and whoa; you discover it's way easier.

gradchica27 wrote: »

I have the worst sinus infection ever, but instead of stay home and google weird symptoms (it feels like I ate a ghost pepper sandwich, then rubbed the leftovers on my lips and in my ears, eyes, and all over my face. What the?!?) I went to they gym. Legs felt weak so I did arms—and wouldn’t you know, I went up on 4 lifts! That may be the steroid shot talking, but I’ll take it! And look! A teeny bit of arm definition! Maybe I’ll give kitchen heat as an excuse to wear a sleeveless dress for Thanksgiving

Not teeny.

Yesterday was my last day at my now past job and I had a going away drinkies thing.
One of my co-workers came up to me and told me that my journey had been an inspiration to many in her department (she is in customer service, I was in consultancy, but we worked together on a major client) She told me that a number had taken leaf out of my book and apparently are here or other related sites now after I told her my "secret"; eat less, log it, own it and have fun.
I thought I had noticed a general shrinkage in that department, was not my imagination

another swim circuit victory today!
lower ability class, but there was only me and another lady, so the instructor picked on me! hahah

he gave me 2 bricks to do the underwater push with, meaning I could only use my legs, and if I came up, I had to swim to start and then back out to the brick, dive under and continue pushing. (other lady got to take breather, then dive down where she was)

*dusts off shoulders*

one length, underwater, legs only, pushing 2 bricks! haha here's to feeling amazing!!

Ok MFP is goofin again! Here I go again.

Starting building up to do wide grip pull-ups. Been able to do standard for awhile now but every time I tried the wide grip the pressure on my old shoulder injuries was just too much. So been doing my build up for a minute now. Last week I gave it a go and was able to do a solid one wide grip pull up. This week I did four one Monday and today I did five and almost hit six. YAY ME

Going through my closet this morning trying to decide what to wear. I realized the shirt I had planned on wearing was a bit wrinkly and I didn't have time to iron. Last night I had done a load of wash and included some older button up shirts. On a whim I grabbed one, just to see if it would fit.

Holy kitten!

It fits!!! I remember the last time I wore this shirt I had to wear it completely unbuttoned with a tshirt underneath, and it was incredibly snug on my arms/shoulders. Today it buttoned completely, with room to spare and is only a touch snug around the shoulder area!

I really am shrinking! I love it!

I was able to buy jeans at American Eagle and I put on a sweater from my closet that now fits!

beerfoamy wrote: »

another swim circuit victory today!
lower ability class, but there was only me and another lady, so the instructor picked on me! hahah

he gave me 2 bricks to do the underwater push with, meaning I could only use my legs, and if I came up, I had to swim to start and then back out to the brick, dive under and continue pushing. (other lady got to take breather, then dive down where she was)

*dusts off shoulders*

one length, underwater, legs only, pushing 2 bricks! haha here's to feeling amazing!!

I love that you are both making great fitness strides and clearly enjoying the heck out of yourself. Really well done. Keep up the good work!

I used to have these (for lack of better wording) fat deposit halfway on the outer upper arm. If you were looking at a silhouette of my arm a few months ago, there would have been a very defined lump. Well, no more! Not only that, theres a freaking muscle there that I can make/watch flex. Pretty awesome. Made me so self concious about wearing short sleeves before.

Today I compared a recent photo with one taken from a couple of months ago when I first changed my goals to try and get some muscle and gain a few lbs. I say it often that you never really see the changes of your own body because you see yourself so much but I realised that I look so much stronger and healthier. I didn't feel unhealthy as such before but now looking back, I looked kinda weedy!

2 sizes down in the same dress model. And my waistline is smallest it's ever been. My hips might still be wide as hell, but I do feel good in my skin some days. That's a massive progress.