What's Your Most Recent NSV
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!!! 275 !!! I know that is 2 of some of you but It is a kindergartner less than I was. 47 pounds down. I have not been this size in over 15 years!50
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I was able to buy jeans at American Eagle and I put on a sweater from my closet that now fits!14
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According to my Fit bit, my average steps over the last 4 weeks is well above 17,000. 2 years ago I averaged about 8,000.20
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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!8 -
Even though I want to lose more weight I have and will continue to eat at maintenance till after Christmas. I find that in the first half of the year I’m very good at deficits but in the second half I’m not. But I have done c25k over the last couple of months and continue to run 2miles 3x week (takes 30 mins currently) today I found that even though my weight is the same from the running I have lost 1:5 inches from my hips and 1 from my waist. My path to weight loss might be a longer one that most bits it’s all good I’m getting there. Plus I can go up hills/stairs and still be able to breathe.24
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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.25
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Fitting into Victoria secret bras!17
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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!
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My A1c went from 9 in April to 5.4 in July. My doctor couldn't believe it. Made me go back last week to test it again and it was even lower, 4.7! He said he never saw such a dramatic improvement in such a short time. He even asked me what the heck I was doing and told him about logging every morsel of food on MFP. He even said he was impressed with my weight loss. This is the first time I have ever had a doctor compliment me. Wants to see me in 3 months. I'm gonna just do my best every day and the numbers should all fall into place.35
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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.
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Finally got out for a bike ride today. November has been unkind, weather-wise and I've not been out daily as I like to.
Yesterday was horrendous - I got as far as unlocking the garage, got pushed around by the 25+ mph winds and decided that the housework looked more appealing.
Today, still windy but only 18 mph so decided to try cycling.
Got about half a mile down the road, into an evil headwind. It was like cycling but going nowhere. Dropped the gears down to low range and kept going.
Somehow made it up the first set of hills. By this point the wind is behind me and I have to decide whether to go the long (20 mile) or short (12 mile) route. Through sheer bloody-mindedness - nah, change that to stupidity - I decide on the long route. Regretted it as soon as I made it up the next horrific hill (this is one where I have only ever been able to cycle up it in my lowest of low gears).
All the way there (another 5 miles) I'm struggling against head- and cross-winds. Manage to stay upright by leaning into the cross-winds. Much to the amusement of passing motorists.
Then, on the way back (another 10 miles) I've got the wind mainly behind me with the odd gust of a cross-wind. Great. Cycling along, quite happy now I'm not struggling against the wind and I see the most amazing rainbow.
I am totally entranced by it until I realise that as the sun is behind me then the rain must be in front of me . . . . look up and see the darkest clouds imaginable right there, laughing at me. I'm now trying to work out a) how far the clouds are from me and b) whether I can get home before I get soaked.
It turns out that the answer to a) is not far enough and b) no chance.
I got soaked.
But, I cycled. A good distance. And it made me happy37 -
Today I completed a Turkey Trot 5K. Nine months, -100lbs., and finished last of 1600 entries but I did it!65
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My A1c went from 9 in April to 5.4 in July. My doctor couldn't believe it. Made me go back last week to test it again and it was even lower, 4.7! He said he never saw such a dramatic improvement in such a short time. He even asked me what the heck I was doing and told him about logging every morsel of food on MFP. He even said he was impressed with my weight loss. This is the first time I have ever had a doctor compliment me. Wants to see me in 3 months. I'm gonna just do my best every day and the numbers should all fall into place.
Congratulations, great job! MFP helped me drop mine from 11 to 4.7 too, it's so nice to be in normal range.9 -
I was really stressed about my first Thanksgiving since my diabetes diagnosis, since our family's traditional foods are very heavy on the carbs, and my blood sugar can just about handle 50g net carbs at one time before spiking, and my conservative estimate was that tiny portions of just my favorites would add up to over 100g. I wasn't looking forward to feeling deprived, disappointing the cook by not eating anything, or having a day of terrible glucose control. I feel like I've got this being a diabetic stuff in the bag except on holidays, which are hard to handle.
Well, the bad news is that the hostess decided she felt too bad to have people over at the last minute. She had both dialysis and chemo yesterday (she is an uncontrolled diabetic with multiple organ failure, and on top of that has cancer). I know she was really looking forward to it, and I feel terrible for her.
Good news is that my mom and I put our heads together and managed to rustle up a full Thanksgiving meal for everyone with less than three hours notice! And having some control over the menu allowed me to slip in some more diabetic friendly foods. For some unknown reason I had felt inspired to make a pie the night before, which is a thing I never do - I was trying to figure out a low glycemic Thanksgiving pie which would be satisfying to me but not have too many carbs to eat after a high carb meal, and not use weird alternative sweeteners, which never taste right to me in baked goods. My husband called it my "science pie," since it was a complete experiment with no recipe. It was basically a karo pecan pie but with the sugar replaced by pumpkin, half the karo syrup replaced with banana, added vanilla and cinnamon, decorated with fresh cranberries, and a low carb crust. About one third of the carbs of the original recipe. It looked pretty, but I had not a clue what it was going to be like until we cut into it! Turns out - kind of like a cross between banana nut bread and karo pecan pie. Everyone thought it was delicious. And my blood glucose after eating the whole meal topped out at 130, which is great since I was hoping for anything under 140.33 -
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!
Hehe I really am! circuits class has really re-sparked my interest in swimming plus I am starting to enjoy being able to show off - not overly, but in a, 'yeah, I am good at this' kinda way!
Yesterday I swam 5km in 1hr36mins! 7 minutes faster than when I did it last year!13 -
1000 days !33
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I found out I have inspired my sister and brother in law to join a gym and they are both working out .20
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gymprincess1234 wrote: »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.
You look amazing! Rawr!4 -
Hubby and I did a Turkey Trot yesterday, which was way early, and way cold, but we really ENJOY our family 5Ks. Cowboy dog and Little Bit had a ball too.
I made some amazing keto-friendly biscuits and they tasted just like they were from Red Lobster.
Best NSV of all, even though it really doesn't have anything to do with my efforts, was having the same doctor who called me "slender" tell me that the biopsy results mean it's not cancer.36 -
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Best NSV of all, even though it really doesn't have anything to do with my efforts, was having the same doctor who called me "slender" tell me that the biopsy results mean it's not cancer. [/quote]
^ This! Congratulations- the best news of all!10
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