What's Your Most Recent NSV

I fell on the ice (well actually I was petting a dog and it knocked me over ) but anyway the dog-owner/my coworker gave me his hand to pull me up and I actually LET HIM. Idk about y'all but when I was 300+ pounds I would just laugh when people would try to help me up.

kingleahnidas wrote: »

I fell on the ice (well actually I was petting a dog and it knocked me over ) but anyway the dog-owner/my coworker gave me his hand to pull me up and I actually LET HIM. Idk about y'all but when I was 300+ pounds I would just laugh when people would try to help me up.

And you are so light that the dog knocked you over with ease! High 5!
Hope you did not get hurt by the way.

NannersBalletLegs wrote: »

I stopped drinking beer (and all booze) two weeks ago. I quit to make weight loss easier, but it's also just made my life better overall. My brain works better, I'm less depressed, and I'm more motivated to get up and start my day every morning. Now I'm the weirdo with the glass of water at the pub with my friends, but it's totally worth it. Don't think I'll pick it back up again, even when I reach my goal weight.

Good for you! I like to get a club soda with lime when I’m out. It feels slightly more festive, and if anyone notices and is of the type to question it, they think I’m drinking a mixed drink.

__TMac__ wrote: »

NannersBalletLegs wrote: »

I stopped drinking beer (and all booze) two weeks ago. I quit to make weight loss easier, but it's also just made my life better overall. My brain works better, I'm less depressed, and I'm more motivated to get up and start my day every morning. Now I'm the weirdo with the glass of water at the pub with my friends, but it's totally worth it. Don't think I'll pick it back up again, even when I reach my goal weight.

Good for you! I like to get a club soda with lime when I’m out. It feels slightly more festive, and if anyone notices and is of the type to question it, they think I’m drinking a mixed drink.

Tonic water with lemon or lime for me. Not only do others assume it is a mixed drink, my taste buds seem to as well and don’t feel deprived or start craving other drinks.

Went to the cinema today, usually I would grab a soda, chocolate and some popcorn. All my friends had stuff. I had some cashews in my bag.... I ate a handful of those instead. Was very impressed with myself. Additionally yesterday I went out to eat with the boyfriend and some of his friends, I didn’t drink any alcohol (I am normally the first one to crack open the wine!) and stuck with water! Go me!!!!

ryenday wrote: »

__TMac__ wrote: »

NannersBalletLegs wrote: »

I stopped drinking beer (and all booze) two weeks ago. I quit to make weight loss easier, but it's also just made my life better overall. My brain works better, I'm less depressed, and I'm more motivated to get up and start my day every morning. Now I'm the weirdo with the glass of water at the pub with my friends, but it's totally worth it. Don't think I'll pick it back up again, even when I reach my goal weight.

Good for you! I like to get a club soda with lime when I’m out. It feels slightly more festive, and if anyone notices and is of the type to question it, they think I’m drinking a mixed drink.

Tonic water with lemon or lime for me. Not only do others assume it is a mixed drink, my taste buds seem to as well and don’t feel deprived or start craving other drinks.

Exactly. My only issue with tonic water is that it actually has calories. Which I didn’t realize at first. :-/

__TMac__ wrote: »

Exactly. My only issue with tonic water is that it actually has calories. Which I didn’t realize at first. :-/

Yeah. I keep the diet tonic water on hand at home. Not an option at most bars, although I usually ask anyway.

Oh man, this one felt good! Waiting to deadlift behind two young guys who are newish. They were doing the typical young guy thing of competing with each other to lift as heavy as they could instead of focusing on lifting correctly. I almost said something to one of them about not pulling with his back, but someone else said something before I could. They left all their weights on the bar and wandered off to the dumbbell racks, and I noticed, hey, happy accident, the weight they have left on the bar is exactly my warm up set weight! So I step in and start doing my warm up set, and in the mirror I can see the one guy do a double-take and say something to his friend.

As it happens, my husband was doing wrist exercises right next to them and reports that what was said was, "Wow, look at that!" And the friend replied, "Yeah, I've seen her in here before."

So then I got to load more weight on and that was even more fun to watch the reaction! Not a good lifting day for me, my knee is out of alignment so I stopped 25 lbs short of what I was doing last time, but I managed to impress someone anyway!

Also: incline bench press more than 100 lbs for the first time! 105 lbs for 5 reps.

I had to cancel my gym membership when I left my job in July. I have since re-trained and start a new job in a few weeks so have today got a free 3 day pass to check out a new gym. I have been walking a lot to keep up my cardio but am really looking forward to getting back to resistance work. I may even hit the free weights in the testosterone zone!

Hit the lowest low, celebrated with fried chicken. It fit my calories but I'm up two pounds today.
My NSV is knowing that it's most likely just sodium retention and not freaking out about the scale.

aeloine wrote: »

Hit the lowest low, celebrated with fried chicken. It fit my calories but I'm up two pounds today.

God I love fried chicken. I've actually found a decent recipe for some 'Fake KFC' here (I use cous cous instead of panko) - it does usually hit the spot when you've got a craving.