What's Your Most Recent NSV

did 4km swim this morning. Started to be miffed that I didn't have time for 5km, but realised that cooling down was more important.
Learning what I can do and what I should do lol. Sat at desk now really glad I cooled down and stretched out!

The realisation that a rest day for me is not a day where i do nothing and play couch potato but a day where i still move a lot but just low impact like walking.

I was laying in bed with my partner last night and he couldn't stop stroking my hip bones lol

I have moved onto the first hole on my belt.... from the 4th hole. I’ll have to get a new belt soon I imagine.

Minor NSV, but I'm really proud of myself. I'm trying to stay within my calories today and eat light for breakfast and lunch because I'm going out for dinner (just fast food, but it's still out for us) and I want to save my calories for then.

I had a couple cups of leftover stuffing for breakfast, about 400 calories (I get 1800 a day). I got the hunger pains about ten, normally I'd get up and fix lunch then and then have a long time to wait until dinner.

I decided I was going to stay hungry and wait until noon to fix lunch. I just realized I wasn't hungry anymore, looked at the time and it's 11:43!

Now, I'm on Topamax to suppress my appetite and amphetamine (legal!) for my ADHD, which helps, but still. I decided I wasn't going to eat, and stuck with that decision - that's all me, not the medications!

I was finally able to do my 30 pull-ups in three sets of ten, instead of having to break it down into more sets, less reps.

Went to the gym by myself (which is a NSV in itself) just to walk on the treadmill for an hour or so. But instead I walked on the treadmill for 30 mins and then switched to strength training because the cardio got so boring XD

That I just completed my very first 30 minute circuit training, and that I'm still alive!!!! That was a workout for this old Grammy

I knew I wanted to indulge in pizza and things yesterday, so I ate fewer calories the day before to allow for it. Then today, rather than falling off the wagon like I used to when I would "cheat", I just kept going with my logging. It really feels different this time. Oh! And today I bought some workout bottoms. I used to shop for bulky sweaters.

I am down 4.5 inches in the past three weeks, thanks to my new daily exercise regime! And, truthfully, it has not been that hard. Instead of trying for 30 mins a day of exercise, I have upped my efforts to 60 mins and am succeeding! My pants fit better and some are even feeling loose! I have tracked for 45 days straight and again, not a big time commitment for this. I feel more in control of my weight loss efforts and like my hard work is actually paying off. One day at a time.

Elle_Marie_Fit wrote: »

I knew I wanted to indulge in pizza and things yesterday, so I ate fewer calories the day before to allow for it. Then today, rather than falling off the wagon like I used to when I would "cheat", I just kept going with my logging. It really feels different this time. Oh! And today I bought some workout bottoms. I used to shop for bulky sweaters.

Once you hit that point where you realize that you dont have to be perfect, just consistent to see progress is when you realize you are on a completely different road that you are never going back on.

Congrats to you

2 years ago I bought a really nice button-up, but could never wear it because it was too small (I could get it on, but when I'd sit, the buttons would straight around the stomach).

I recently tried it on, and discovered it still doesn't fit—because it's too big. I've lost too much weight, and missed my window to wear it. Frustrating, but worth it.

This! 209.4 lbs!!!

https://youtu.be/yShqEpUgEAo

HDBKLM wrote: »

You know that 'Basics' series at H&M? For the past 3 years I've been living in those, always in the largest size available (with a little sigh of relief every time I'd see that a particular piece in the series was also produced in an XL instead of stopping at L), and always only the stretchy or intentionally oversized pieces in the series. As recent as 9 months ago that was still the case.

I guess I hadn't been paying attention since the leggings from that series I mostly just wear around the house but this week I pulled on a pair and there was loose fabric gathering all over the place. I went back to H&M today to get a replacement pair and I'm into the smalls! I skipped the mediums! To be fair, the smalls are a bit snug even as far as leggings go, but they're close enough that I know if I were to have bought the mediums I'd size out of them again soon enough. I also got a (non-stretchy) cotton dress from the series in a small (not a fitted cut though)!

New NSV building off the previous one. I shrank out of my bras a while back and have been wearing ONLY sports bras for maybe 5 months now. I also didn't notice that those have gotten too big. I think it's because the type of fabric and thickness that they are they still feel like they're hugging my body (I also have only been doing low-impact exercises so I haven't especially put them to the test). However, upon realising I had begun having to buy smaller sizes in every type of clothing EXCEPT bras I went and tried on new ones. Immediately upon putting on the smaller size, though, I facepalmed about why it had been seeming like my 'girls' had been sitting so very low on my torso lately and making me feel old.

By the way, I forgot in the quoted post to share the most symbolically important part of the shift from H&M Basics L/XL to smalls: an incident that happened at an H&M contributed to my decision to get serious about taking control of my weight/body shape. I swear I'm not sponsored by H&M ...

Among the many small things accumulating over the last year or so that all came to a head last May and drove me to MFP was a moment when I was trying on some of those large sizes (all in black, thanks!) in the dressing room and a staff person accidentally pulled back my curtain for a moment to let another customer use it. Nobody said anything bad or anything like that, and the staffer certainly re-closed the curtain just as quickly as he possibly could, but it was one of those things where it had been very easy to be in denial about how almost disfiguringly heavy I'd gotten (e.g., the top of my butt had taken on that shelf-like shape if you know what I mean? and my backside was very much facing the curtain at that moment, highlighted by turquoise underwear!) when I was also able to pretend that nobody could truly see me. Not in the sense that I wanted to be invisible but I thought I was kind of controlling the illusion or something. I was very much NOT in control of what the staffer and customer glimpsed in that half second, and it was just kind of a 'click' moment. 'I am seen. The jig is up.'

I had reached my arbitrarily-chosen maintenance range last August, and proceeded to pretend that I was trying to find my maintenance level of calories. What I really did was just reverted to a lifetime of obesity eating habits. I caught myself in time to just barely avoid having to purchase larger clothes. I had one, only one, pair of 34x32 denim jeans to wear, and for a couple of months now I've been wearing that pair 6 days a week. I finally, after months of weekend failure, managed to stay within my calorie budget for a single weekend last week. Today, having reached a scale weight lower than any I've had in the past 60 days, I tried on a pair of 32x32 denim jeans. They're tight, but they're zipped, so that's my NSV. I get to wear clean jeans twice a week now.