What's Your Most Recent NSV

I went to visit my folks this weekend. As much as I try, my eating is usually off the charts when I visit them because I am not in control of the food, and frankly, we just hang out and talk and eat and spend time together and eat, and eat and eat, lol. Usually during these weekends, I have not paid attention to or logged my food, and assumed the worst (i.e. that my calories are off the charts), and it would generally have put me in a funk for a week or so afterwards.

This time, I logged everything that I ate - didn't restrict what I ate up front, but I did log after the fact. And you know what? It wasn't nearly as bad as I thought. My mother is a registered dietician, and I always tend to forget that she is calorie conscious, too - so she makes good choices. After all was said and done this weekend, I was 600 total calories over my net goal, which put me AT goal for the entire week (I saved a few calories along the way!).

So no funk this time - I just went back on my schedule this morning, and I am enjoying the memories of the time I had with my family guilt free!

Awesome!
You've earned the Sahara badge
You've walked 2,983 miles! That's more than the length of the Sahara Desert, which stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea. Congratulations on making it over this huge hump and securing the Sahara badge.

yay

I bought some tops in size medium and they fit!
I genuinely thought I might never see the day since having children. I started in August as an XL (but let's be real, XXL).

My husband wanted to go out for a burger tonight. I didn't have the calories for it.
I ate my lentil dish as planned and then when out with him so he could have his burger.
Had a nice evening and didn't go over my calories! Yey!

Jogged through a whole song without stopping. (about 3 minutes) Two months ago I could only job for up to a minute.

NSV 1 - I had my belly pierced after losing 102lbs as nearing maintenance.
As part of belly ring care I noticed a pulse in my abdomen that I have not been aware of before. I’m a nurse (and a hypochondriac!) and I’m aware that it could by an abdominal aneurysm so I asked one of my medical consultant colleagues if it was normal. To which she replied:
NSV 2 - perfectly normal if you’re slim! Me slim? I’ve been overweight since I was 8, I’ve just turned 40
NSV 3 - I’ve always had long brown hair which I have hid behind. I’ve since had a pixie cut with majenta and blonde highlights, no more hiding!
NSV 4- I also overheard someone describing me as the tall lady with short hair, not overweight/chubby girl who smiles a lot
NSV 5 - I’m having an identity crisis and I’m loving it lol!

I started to wear a tight skirt to work so that I will not kid myself into thinking that I'm done with my weight loss goals. The skirt was uncomfortable to wear but now, suddenly, it isn't so tight. I've been stuck on the same weight for so long that I can't trust this change. I think it's going to disappear. Poof!

Sheenad680 wrote: »

I started to wear a tight skirt to work so that I will not kid myself into thinking that I'm done with my weight loss goals. The skirt was uncomfortable to wear but now, suddenly, it isn't so tight. I've been stuck on the same weight for so long that I can't trust this change. I think it's going to disappear. Poof!

I'm with you on the not trusting the change part. I keep thinking I'm going to wake up one morning back at 5'3" and 190 pounds again. And yet ironically when I actually WAS that size THAT felt unreal to me because I never perceived myself that way. It's like I'd been waddling around in a dream. I'm currently hovering JUST over the top of the normal range on the BMI chart and not suffering any of the side effects others report about the brain not catching up and, say, sucking in when I'm about to walk down a narrow corner shop aisle. Apparently my brain's perceptions have adjusted just fine, yet at the same time I do still fear it could be taken away from me in the blink of an eye, like a cosmic 'Just kidding!' Bit of a paradox.

Anyway, to contribute an NSV to the thread, I have this huuuuuge coat I've been wearing around for the past 5 years. It was an intentionally oversized army surplus type thing that I told people I wore because it was so soft and cosy that it was like a security blanket, not because I was trying to hide myself inside it. Well, I finally noticed that it was not just 'too big' now but comically too big to the point where it's intentional oversized-ness is kind of meaningless. I haven't found a replacement coat that I like yet, but to tide me over during the seasonal transition I did pick up a new fleece-lined hoodie. The medium was probably a bit of a better fit but the small zipped and doesn't look like a sausage casing so I got that, knowing that my weight is still on the way down.

Now contemplating if there is enough truth in that 'cosy security blanket' statement to keep the other jacket around for a while. I've donated loads of clothes already during this process but coats are expensive, plus this size and shape would be good for layering in a colder environment (I'm about to move to the northern US so next winter will be much more brutal than the ones I've been experiencing in the years since I bought the coat). On the other hand, I also wonder if it might have too many associations with the hiding myself and lying to myself phase of my life.

I held crow pose yesterday at yoga for the first time. I made a goal this year to hold an inversion pose with my feet in the air and it's crazy to think I will actually hit that goal.