What's Your Most Recent NSV

I was in one of my regular restaurant yesterday for smoked chicken and cabbage, during lunch. I noticed one of the servers paying attention to me. She was not my server and the restaurant was very busy. I have never spoken to her other than maybe giving her my order so when she made time to come and speak to me it set me off balance. She asked how much weight I had lost and how I was doing it! You could have blew me over with a feather.

Made my day! I told her it was the smoked chicken and greens I was eating rather than the fried chicken and fries I once ate. 95 days in and the stranger notices!

Zumba instructor noticed I was toning up.

When shopping for clothes ( in stores and online), I no longer look at/for plus size clothes anymore-this is really a HUGE and game-changing break-thru for me. I've ONLY shopped/search for plus sizes for soooo very many years--wow!

I now just look at sizes large or extra large AND only in so-called "regular" sizes and they're fitting (sometimes with room to spare). I'm even tempted to begin looking at/for size mediums, just for the fun, hopefulness and faith of it all. This is sooooo EXCITING to me!!!! YAY and WOW again.

JasonMcS wrote: »

I was in one of my regular restaurant yesterday for smoked chicken and cabbage, during lunch. I noticed one of the servers paying attention to me. She was not my server and the restaurant was very busy. I have never spoken to her other than maybe giving her my order so when she made time to come and speak to me it set me off balance. She asked how much weight I had lost and how I was doing it! You could have blew me over with a feather.

Made my day! I told her it was the smoked chicken and greens I was eating rather than the fried chicken and fries I once ate. 95 days in and the stranger notices!

Absolute WOW and YAY you--how encouraging. Keep up the terrific job!

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 like a million bucks (tax-free) in that dress! I really love the color and I'm old school, I think a small waist and hips (hour glass figure a.k.a smaller waist-line and hips) looks fabulous and ultra feminine.

So I had blood work done on November 21st. Look at the difference from June 26, 2017 until November 21st:

Total Cholesterol: 218 to 187
LDL Cholesterol: 119 to 92
HDL Cholesterol: 58 to 61
VLDL Cholesterol: 41 to 34
Tirglycerides: 206 to 168
Hemoglobin A1c: 5.8 to 5.6

So I had blood work done November 21st. Look at the difference from June 26, 2017 until November 21st:

Total Cholesterol: 218 to 187
LDL Cholesterol: 119 to 92
HDL Cholesterol: 58 to 61
VLDL Cholesterol: 41 to 34
Tirglycerides: 206 to 168
Hemoglobin A1c: 5.8 to 5.6

2 minutes with a goal of keeping my speed at 12 and above on the elliptical stepper at bootcamp yesterday- nailed it. That was on the 3rd and final run through too, the other 2 my goal was set at 11. After the elliptical stepper the treadmill was next on the circuit. I did have to walk for a minute to catch my breath after the stepper on the last round, but the last minute the instructor told me to up it to a slow jog of 7.5km/h. I actually love it when the instructor comes around and ups my speed/resistence/tells me I can do better. I find it to be a compliment, like he believes I'm fit enough to be going that bit further.
Failed miserably at flipping the bobcat tyre by myself correctly (done it once but realised I was using my back and that was not going to end well) but the best thing is now I have a clear fitness goal in mind (for the first time in my life!) by the end of April I intend to be flipping that sucker by myself.
Another win is that both of the other ladies who attended yesterday (it was unusually quiet yesterday with only 3 of us turning up) have both mentioned being sore after yesterday's workout- I feel fine. I mean I *did* deep heat my quads because I thought they were gunna be sore, but I actually think I could have done without.
Also, I knew I wouldn't get to ride yesterday afternoon so I got up at quarter past 5 to work my mare before work.
Tomorrow I have firies training in the afternoon/evening so I plan to get up early again to ride before work (this morning I slept in- whoops)
*Sorry for the essay*

My personal trainer said my butt looks totally different now compared to when I started 5 months ago. Thumbs up!