What's Your Most Recent NSV

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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!

• I'm down a size in jeans! I only bought one pair in the new size and it's too hot to wear full-length jeans right now, so it'll be a few weeks until I start wearing them on the regular.
• Related to the previous: my current jean shorts look a bit frumpy because I finally lost some weight from the FRONT!!! I'll never have a flat belly and I don't know if I'd want one anyway, but not being so round up front is exciting.
• My new, smaller underwear fits. Psychological victory: I let myself buy two cute pairs (haven't previously due to feeling unworthy, even though I believe everyone deserves attractive undergarments)
• Consistently fitting size M tops! (With variation due to brand/vanity sizing differences, but M is my new default, not XXL)

I'm a swimmer and afterwards, I usually sit on a concrete bench as I let the morning sun dry me. This morning when I got up to leave I noticed my wet butt print on the bench is much smaller!

I had to go dig out my box of clothes that were "too Small" to find a pair of pants that fit this morning. All my regulars are too big!

Have seemed to stall out the past few months in the loss department so went and bought some size 6 pants and some small shirts as insensitive to lose the last few pounds and low and behold, got them home and tried them on and they ALL fit!!! The size 6 pants are actually a little on the loose side. Mind blown! So stinking happy!

I fixed our A/C.

Well, that's more of an engineering victory, and hacking as I had to register on-line with the vendor's A/C pro website in order to buy a fan and other electrical parts. In order to protect the guilty, I won't say which A/C vendor, but I'm happy to have outsmarted the dealer protection racket and fixed a problem that happened before, 8 years ago.

And I did it for 1/2 of what it cost to have it fixed in 2018 "under warranty..."

But the body related aspect of this was I really wasn't that hot. Sure, it got up to 80 degrees upstairs, as it was the 2nd floor unit that lost its condenser fan, again, but I really wasn't sweating. I could tell the difference between the 80 and the 72 downstairs. But it wasn't miserable by any stretch.

40+ pounds ago, I would have been miserable in the house and even worse outside effecting the repair.

So it's a mixed story. I'm both happy and irritated. Happy I fixed it and that I could have ridden out several days without A/C upstairs. But also miffed that it broke again and that I paid $300 for this "warranty repair" on a new unit in 2010 and did it myself, yesterday for $148 in parts and sale tax and 1.5 hours of my time.

I was walking and holding my phone (no pockets) and needed to do something that required both hands. Without thinking I put my phone between my thighs (sounds wierd but you know what I mean lol) because that's what I have done in the past. Except this time my phone just dropped to the ground. My thighs no longer meet