What's Your Most Recent NSV

My VO2 MAX is slowly improving.

I'm so proud of everyone here! Great job!!

I ran a half marathon today!!! I did a personal best, too! 2 hours 50 min. It probably doesn't seem that fast to some, and I know I could have done better. But I am still happy with it! Honestly, best of all -- I only trained for like, 3 weeks. In the past I'd train for months and months and still perform and feel miserable. I'm sore right now, of course (my knees feel like they have softballs taped to them ), but otherwise I actually feel pretty good! I can't imagine I'll need long to fully recover. I maintained a great pace and felt good during, too.
For me right now, the NSV is knowing that my body (and mind too) has progressed to the point where I can just do stuff. Of course some planning and training will always be necessary for things. But not everything is such a major decision anymore; if I wanna sign up for a 5K or half or whatever, I just can!

My pants kept falling down today.. think I need to do some shopping lol

Walked just under 5 miles at the zoo, got over 10,000 steps while pushing a toddler in a stroller carrying a 10lb backpack. I am proud of myself Oct 17 I couldn't do that. We hopped on the tram and saw the zoo that way!!

75 minutes of non stop swimming yesterday afternoon and ~11 miles in a little over 3 hours of paddling SUP first thing this morning. Usually I take a rest day with maybe some walking between 2 things that strenuous.

I have a few, today:

- we had a black out in the first half of the day. Very proud to state that I didn't panic about not being able to access MFP, and made the choice to simply write down what I ate on paper, to make careful, conservative food choices, with the plan to track it all once the power came back on. Then, it came back on before I had a chance to eat anything! I was so happy that I was prepared to make this work, no matter what, and do whatever it took to achieve my goals.

- I have endometriosis and this is the first period I've had in years where I could exercise more than stretching or yoga. I did cardio today and yesterday! Sorry for TMI, but I think I'm losing less blood, which means I get less dizzy, which means I feel safe to move up to cardio! I don't think I could manage weight training on my period, but this gives me hope that this too, might one day become possible.

- I've had the craziest hormonal cravings so far, in the past two days. I've been at this for around three months, I think? And this is the closest I have come to feeling like a binge. I stuck with low calorie snacks, still ate slightly more calories than I would have chosen to, but was still able to keep it within my calorie allowance. So, that was a proud moment, because I was so much hungrier than I usually get, and I really did need more food both those times.

Despite being up a couple of pounds, my pants are still loose.

730 days of consistent honest logging, 2 years exactly and 103lbs lost, maintained for 1 year, NSVs keep on coming

Catho22 wrote: »

730 days of consistent honest logging, 2 years exactly and 103lbs lost, maintained for 1 year, NSVs keep on coming

What she said lol. Didn’t realise phone logged in on old account,

hobbitses333 wrote: »

... The too big clothes have either moved into the gym wear drawer or the thrift bag....I just realized while writing this...I have a drawer just for gym clothes!?!!

This made me think, @hobbitses333 - "Only one? I have shoes and socks and shorts in one drawer - and another one stuffed full of T-shirts." Time for me to send some stuff to the thrift store, too. HAHA!

I beat my PR on my annual (this is my fourth) sprint tri by five minutes, plus this was one of the first times that my mile pace got faster with each mile.

The real victory is how far I've come from the first, in terms of self confidence.

Today, before the race, instead of looking around for people larger and potentially slower (looks are very deceiving) than me, I looked around for people to talk to.

In that one, I was very self cautious about wearing a swim suit and made sure to put capris and a shirt over the swim suit for the non-swim part. This year, I had no issues with just riding the bike in my swimsuit w/out over clothes. I also did the run with just putting shorts over the swimsuit, solely for physical comfort.

Stationagentjules wrote: »

I scooped my dirty laundry into the washer this morning. It was gross, all cold, and wet from a week's worth of exercise sweat. I couldn't be happier.

@Stationagentjules
Yep....

In the last 2 weeks I have gone from 5 to 7 pull ups and have managed 8 once. It took about 3 weeks to get from 4 to 5.

carasnewlife wrote: »

My bra size has reduced from 110F to 85C. Thanks to that I found a lump in my breast. The doctor said that it has probably been there for a few years and was just hidden by all that extra fat. Thankfully it was benign but I am really glad I found it.

It's amazing what all is under there! I found a weird cyst on my sternum when I lost weight. It was nothing important, just a sebaceous cyst which I had removed, but I had no idea it was even there before. I'm happy for you that your lump turned out to be benign!

So, it's holiday season right. What's the thing many of us secretly hated about holidays - holiday snaps! My most recent NSV was when I realised I was really happy to be in the holiday pictures!!! I am a little less than half way along the journey - but when I saw the pics I thought 2 things:
1) I am looking so much better
2) These will be part of my future 'before' collage!

I finally am happy to be photographed! YIPPEE!!

(My NSV reward - I am going to print one of the family pics with me - full body - and print it to put up on the mantle)