What's Your Most Recent NSV

Last night my husband and I went out to a high end French restaurant for our 25th wedding anniversary. One of my major NSVs is that I try not to celebrate every occasion with food anymore, but this was an exception - this town offers very little to do in the evening other than eating, if you don't like to drink, which I don't, even if my diabetes didn't make drinking problematic. So we knew we wanted an exceptional meal, but without a ton of carbs or calories. My husband called for the reservations and the chef asked if it was a special occasion, and he said, "Yes, but my wife's a diabetic so no little cakes or whatever." So the chef said, "I can make you something special - does she eat no carb, or just low carb? Does she like chocolate?" YES I like chocolate.

Anyway dinner was antelope with beet pasta (it turns out I really like antelope, which tastes like venison only not gamy and very very tender), and instead of the pasta I had green beans and asparagus and a few roasted potatoes. Topped with shaved truffles yes please. And roasted hearts of romaine with some sort of garlic aioli. And the chef brought the bread basket around personally and said, "I made these for you, they use walnut flour." And dessert was a chocolate soufflé made with a little agave. When I tested my blood sugar after the meal it was 93! I will definitely take that. I had banked 1000 extra calories from my 10k run two days earlier, but it turned out that I didn't even need to use them. So that's my first NSV, I feel like I've got this being a diabetic and watching my weight on special occasions stuff down.

We went by the little church where we got married and took a couple pictures of ourselves. When I got married my wedding dress was a size 10. The dress I wore last night was also a size 10. Vanity sizing has come a long way since 1993 when we got married, but I only weigh about ten pounds more now than then, which is amazing considering that at my heaviest I wore a size 28 and weighed 125 lbs more. So one of my NSVs is that I could probably fit into my wedding dress from 25 years ago if I had a really good corset. I can definitely fit into the little brocade dress I wore leaving the church, because it's in my closet still. And I tried it on, and it fits!

My third NSV is that thanks to joining me at the gym and running with me, my husband, who was previously starting to get a nice round Buddha belly, now looks pretty good himself. He's hoping to lose about ten pounds and gain some muscle, but he's working out and taking care of himself and headed in the right direction.

@rheddmobile Your story is !! Congrats!! Those are awesome NSVs!!

@rheddmobile - Congratulations on your anniversary!

RE:Your NSV's - All your efforts are paying off - well done!

I have seemingly unending energy!! This week I worked in my classroom 5 hours every day AFTER doing an hour of exercise. A month ago I would have never imagined I could have enough energy to do that.

I recently had a tummy-tuck, went to my Dr appointment today to have my drain removed and to ask the doctor about something that was really concerning me. On my sides were two hard lumps that were bruised, I was nervous because I thought something was seriously wrong. My doctor had a confused look on his face, which upset me a bit as I thought he was blowing me off (he's a great doctor btw). He told me to calm down then his exact words were "Those hard bumps that are getting bruised by the compression garment, that is your outer pelvic bone. Those are your hips, without the layer of excess skin and fat, they protrude and are more susceptible to bruising. That's called normal.". I have never felt so stupid in a long time! Then it hit me, OMG!!! I have hips and they're "normal"!!!!

I haven't exceeded 2000 calories in four whole days. That's probably the longest I've gone without going over (yes, I still have a lot to learn about consistency).

I still have the rest of the week to blow this off, but so far in 4,5 months of Fitbit sync (which calculates the weekly average to a nice chart) I have had only one week with an average below 2000. That was the first week of April. My average for the beginning of the week is 1990, and there are no plans for the rest of the week that would include going over by a lot.

Today we done the beep test at bootcamp. I got to 2.6. My last attempt was 2.7 so have gone a little backwards, BUT instead of sitting and watching while everyone else continued, I caught my breath and joined back in and when I was getting breathless again I slowed down to a turtle pace jog and kept on waddling. Time to get back into my c25k so I can get to level 3 and beyond 😁 Our fittest member got to level 12!

Made a super delicious dinner last night. I served myself what I wanted (and was within my calorie goal). It was so good! I really wanted to go back to seconds. But I didn't. I wanted to be able to save more yum-points for the weekend, so I abstained. And since I didn't go back for more, I get to enjoy it again for lunch today. Portion control win? I say yes. Now to learn how to do this while not monitoring calories....

A few NSVs:
- I've been to the gym 3 days in a row this week!
- I went to a store, and all the clothing I tried on that fit were in a size small. 😶 I used to not be able to fit into this store before, as I was too big for the larges.
- I've been exercising self control with my food. All I want to do is eat lately, so I've been portioning out things and having healthy snacks. It's taking a lot not to just keep eating!
- I tried on a tshirt that used to be tight, and now it is so loose I had to tie a knot in it.
- I pushed myself and powered through a 5k today on the treadmill. My legs ache and my time wasn't anywhere near amazing, but I finally did one!