What's Your Most Recent NSV

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.

Today I completed a Turkey Trot 5K. Nine months, -100lbs., and finished last of 1600 entries but I did it!

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.

1000 days !

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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!