What's Your Most Recent NSV

kittybenn wrote: »

GOT_Obsessed wrote: »

I just became "overweight" not "obese" and am very excited to celebrate my 50 freakin' pounds lost! It likely sounds silly to be happy to be overweight.

It doesn't sound at all silly. I'm getting very close myself to being out of the obese category and, believe me, I'll be thrilled! Congrats on your success.

I did the same thing, @GOT_Obsessed and @kittybenn. It's an accomplishment! Well done!

My friend took a candid of us last night and I didn't hate my face for the first time in living memory.

I ran 10 miles yesterday! 2hrs 21 seconds
Longest run in my entire life!!
First time having to fuel during an activity. Used SIS gel and Lucozade sport raspberry. Wow that stuff is tasty.
But felt so amazing. I hurt less after than last week which was 8 miles and I actually can't wait for next week's 12 mile run to see what time I will get.
Seriously who is this person!?!?!

Just got back from a cruise, and I did gain a little bit. But my husband and I vowed we would not step foot on the elevator on the ship and we stayed true to our vow. I regularly got 15K steps a day and went up and down at least 50-75 flights of stairs per day. So, I think the weight gain might've been way worse had we not stuck to our plan.

After a year of walking/jogging on the treadmill at home, today I beat back 40 years of self-consciousness and jogged through my neighborhood! Huge NSV for me!

Feeling confident enough to wear a bikini!

I went to Old Navy this weekend for shorts. Ended up buying a pair in size 4 and a few extra small shirts. Vanity sizing? Most likely. I'm small, but more of a size 6 small, not a size 4 small.

Tapping my foot impatiently while I wait for the scale to drop again . . . until then, looking for NSVs!

When I started back in December, I had to snap my sports bras around my waist, and then inch the thing up over my shoulders. In March, I was finally able to hook it behind my back without doing gymnastics.

Yesterday, I hooked it on the second set of hooks - I'm losing inches :-)

preachiness.

i haven't been lifting or training at all (well, hardly). my dad went into hospital on good friday and as of right now he's still there.

but i have nsv to report.
- on march 28th they admitted him.
- on april 15-ish i got to see him. you could hear him coming a long way down the hall by the shuffling sound.
- on april 29 his doctor said he could go out for a while, if he went out with me. we stepped out through the doors and he almost fell as he took the fourth step.
- on may 20th (which was yesterday) my dad and i signed him out like a library book, and i took him on a looooooong-*kitten* daytrip to see family, which involved taking my car, a ferry, a light-rail train, significant walking, another car and then navigation around an unfamiliar house for a whole afternoon before turning around and doing it all once again in reverse. HE DID FINE. i gave him groceries to carry as we went into the house, and he did fine.

everyone has been giving me that special and tough-love-y look and telling me 'once people as old as your dad go into a hospital, they normally never come out.' admittedly what took my dad in there was not physical, and admittedly there's no saying how he will do once he's out forever again. and admittedly nobody actually knows when (if ever) he's going to get out. but i mean . . . ? my father lost pretty much all of his gross-motor function over the course of a month, and not that i'm any kind of professional but he seems to be getting it back at about the same rate that he lost it at.

and all that happens is i go fetch him every day or pretty close to that frequently, and depending on how much time he's out for, we do stuff.

I wasn't even scared of the sign that turned me around years ago. Last year this time they would have had to life flight me out of that crack in the world. This year I am victorious. My weekend in the North Georgia mountains was not a food diary success but it was a physical success. I love my new life MFP!

Last week was a rough week, mostly because any fat loss was masked by health issues. The scale isn't budging and it looked as if the dragonpants were going to win. My perseverance was flagging as I slogged through the marshy swamp of self-doubt and lack of results. I'd been so good! But it is easy to get toppled by external factors -- like eating something you thought was safe but then triggered a whole host of health issues, blah blah blah. Somewhere along the way, I lost my awesome. I lost my proverbial sword and I guess I almost lost the will to move forward.

Then, on a whim, I decided to try and see if that red leather jacket fit again. It doesn't quite yet, but it isn't super tight either. My arms slide through the sleeve as the leather rustled like soft butter. It's tight, but I can zip it up without looking like an overstuffed cannoli.

It's a small win, and while I can't wear it yet (well more, I don't feel comfortable wearing something I still feel is too small), it's progress.

Despite everything, the Swamp of Lies yielded up a small kernel of hopeful truth: I'm making progress. So hopefully, when the storm of side effects of getting accidentally contaminated ends... I will have even more progress to show. And maybe I'll be out of the swamp and back onto solid ground, running for them dang pants.

But for now, I know that... I'm that much closer to my red leather jacket!

I took pictures of me today and compared them to ones I took last September. I have less of a sway back and my stomach looks flatter and a lot less bloated, despite me feeling bloated today.

I hope it's not too annoying that I'm posting another nsv outfit picture so soon after the last, but I can't begin to describe how amazing it feels to put on a nice dress and not look like a pregnant man in a dress. I still have a bit of a gut, but the right outfit hides it pretty well now.

I haven't looked this acceptable in a dress since the 8th grade (I happen to still have my 8th grade dress in the closet, and it more-or-less fit when I tried it on a few weeks ago).

Non-outfit related nsv, I've started walking a bit again, and it seems to be helping take the edge off of my crippling depression.

Best NSV for me is I have had a few rough weeks with keeping on plan due to travel and family events, but I realized it will pass and just need to get back to healthy eating. It is amazing how different I feel when not eating as healthy as I am used to. Not even going to step on scale until I am feeling like my body is feeling better again.