What's Your Most Recent NSV

Three expensive skirt suits back in my closet for me to wear to the office. And comfortably.

No idea where it came from, as I didn't wear a new outfit or swimsuit for my workouts today, but I got several unsolicited compliments/inquiries from others about how they've seen me working hard and my hard work is paying off. It's a good feeling!

I just skipped a jeans size! I knew the 18s were baggy, so I was looking everywhere for the size 16s that I knew I had from after my last pregnancy. Couldn’t find them, so I decided I’d at least try the 14s and wear my stretchy pants as a back up. I got the 14s buttoned! Not super comfy yet, but I’m not going to dig for the lost pair anymore.
On a related note, which is more rewarding: fitting back into clothes that you used to be able to wear, or needing to buy smaller clothes?

I got called an exercise fiend this week, never thought I'd be called that.......ever

Carnhot wrote: »

Madwife2009 wrote: »

Managed to get out for a bike ride today - the weather recently has been pretty bad (snow, ice, wind, rain, blah, blah, blah) but today was dry. Out I go to the garage. By the time I've got the bike out and put my gloves, helmet etc. on, it's started to rain. AGAIN.

But it's only spotting so I decide to go and see how far I get.

By the time I've cycled a couple of miles, it's raining a lot harder and I am seriously beginning to doubt the wisdom of my decision. But, I figure that as I'm already wet, I may as well carry on . . .

So on I go. It eventually stops raining, after six miles and I did the remaining 14 miles without a drop of rain in sight.

Got home, put the bike away and the skies opened up.

But at least I by the time I got home I'd dried out. Nothing worse than getting home soaking wet

I have never met you but I thought of you when the snow fell. What a strange community this is!

That was sweet of you.


We had a lot (for us) of snow a couple of weeks ago and I ended up cycling through a bit of a blizzard by accident. It was dry and sunny at home, so I went off on the bike only to find, three miles from home that there was a bit of snow falling - not enough to be a bother, so I carried on, not thinking about the huge hill ahead and that it was bound to be snowing at the top. I should have turned around and gone home but being me, I carried on.

By the time I was getting to the top of the hill it was a blizzard. The road was covered and my tires are not meant for snow. I was halfway by this point so figured that I might just as well carry on. I was terrified though, mainly of falling off. The snow was probably 6" deep so I was cycling, very slowly, along the car tracks.

The bike was covered in snow, I looked like a snowman, it was just awful. I had to stop a couple of times to knock the snow off my clothes as I was getting cold as well. Got back down the hill and found it dry and sunny again. That particular route normally takes an hour but that day it took an hour and a half. Very scary. When I got back indoors, my children were, "Why have you got icicles in your HAIR?" and didn't believe me about the snow.

We then had too much snow to do anything much for a while and cycling would have been way too dangerous, so I was restricted to walking for the best part of a week. But walk I did otherwise I'd have gone crazy indoors

When my husband came come from work lastnight he swept me off my feet ... Literally he just came in a picked me up. That hasnt happened since i was 18. Im 37 now!

I made the competitive softball team at my work, and ran the bases. I started out morbidly obese and unable to run, at all. I had an intense fear of being injured. Running again felt amazing.

Sorry to harp on, but completed my 25 minute run at the end of Week 6 (c25k) and am falling in love with running - it's not fast, it's not pretty but I found myself getting up to run in the morning today instead of waiting to get home from work and I've felt so good throughout the day - no mid-afternoon slump. Also, lost my first pound in ages, so hopefully my poor body is getting over the shock of having to haul it's lardarse off the couch

Walked almost 5km there and back to meet a friend for lunch. Wouldn’t have done that a couple of weeks ago, would have driven and not given it a moment’s thought. Feels good.

Hubby & I went to a fund-raiser last night. Chef's Night Out--benefits the local vocational school's culinary program. It involves a huge gymnasium with booths from all the local restaurants. You pay for entry and then eat and drink all you want. Most of the stations served some sort of appetizer-sized portion, but there was A LOT of food! I was proud of myself--I walked the perimeter first, seeing what all was available and only took the things I really liked. I had one very small piece of lasagna fritta, a roast beef slider and a cinnamon roll pancake (so yummy!!) I also had one white wine and then switched to water. Had a very, very small slice of cheesecake and that was it!! I don't even want to think about what I consumed at the same event last year!!!!!!!!!! NSV is that I didn't feel the least bit deprived AND I didn't have that awful, stuffed feeling either.