What's Your Most Recent NSV

Vonny198334 wrote: »

Think this is my favourite NSV so far & they took some topping!
Me & my lovely husband in jeans that fit me in August 2017.(and for the previous 10 years more or less) They are a UK size 22 & though they were loose around my waist, these ones were tight on my thighs & now button/zip around both of us! Not even stretchy ones...
May need someone to pinch me....I'm dreaming, right?!

This is straight-up awesome, @Vonny198334. I'm so happy for you!

I've got one too, though not as good as yours: I'm about to go out in public in a light-jacket-ish thing that I'm instead about to wear as a dress. Actually I'm not sure how much sense that garment description makes because I find it sort of hard to explain the cut of the thing. Now I think of it, maybe it was actually always intended to be a dress but when I bought it 13 years ago I couldn't button it (hence thinking of it as outerwear rather than its own article of clothing; it's also made of a stiff trenchcoat material), and my arms squeezed through the short sleeves like stuffed sausages. Now it's buttoned and the arms feel just right.

Even better, when I hit my current weight 6 months ago, although I could button the dress/jacket there wasn't enough clearance in certain torso areas for the garment to move naturally so still not approrpriate for a public unveiling. Even though I've been having trouble these last months dropping the last 10 pounds it does seem a bit of recomp has been happening in spite of the fact that I can't seem to get myself excited about strength training. I do it not-so-often and not-so-rigourously, so am really excited to learn that my gains haven't been zero, at least.

Vonny198334 wrote: »

Think this is my favourite NSV so far & they took some topping!
Me & my lovely husband in jeans that fit me in August 2017.(and for the previous 10 years more or less) They are a UK size 22 & though they were loose around my waist, these ones were tight on my thighs & now button/zip around both of us! Not even stretchy ones...
May need someone to pinch me....I'm dreaming, right?!

Aaaaaah!!! @Vonny198334 that is incredible!!! What an amazing NSV!!!

@HDBKLM - I went through something similar earlier this year where the scale stayed the same but over a month or so, I actually got smaller. I take regular progress photos and when I went back to compare the difference, even I could see a change. I'm glad you're feeling it and seeing it in items you can wear now! It certainly helps when scale is sluggish!

I think I’m finally ready to move to a lighter band for my assisted pull ups. I’ve been stuck here for a while, and now I’m finally seeing progress!

I just did 3 sets of ten with my regular size band with no problem. Last month I was barely able to do 3sets of 6-8 at my best time, maybe 3 sets of 5 at this TOM (I have low estrogen, so I can really feel the difference in strength during the first two weeks of my cycle—superwoman!—and the last two weeks—wet noodle). If I can do 3/10 now as a wet noodle, I can’t wait to see what I can do in a few weeks!

Nsv for husband. Walked 10000 steps for the first time this year. Now I need to try and match it

Wow, such great NSV’s today!!! Thrilled for all of you
I had a tiny one today. Had to buy a dress that fit for my aunt’s funeral this week. I’ve gone from a size 12 to a 4 so I didn’t have anything appropriate to wear. I found a dress I liked and needed hose to wear with it. The sales lady was showing me different things and at one point said—these have a control top **which you don’t need**.

I walked 2.2 miles to go see my sister. She was definitely surprised not to see my car.

When she offered to take me back in her car, I declined. I actually walked back!!!

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Friend was showing me some photos she'd taken & there was one of a lassie with her back to the camera. I thought....that's a pretty impressive derriere...who's that?

Yep...twas I!

My backside is the bane of my life, whether in my current shape or when I was obese. Felt like it was back there secretly snacking no matter what....hard to believe the one in the photo belongs to me!

I enjoy the idea of your posterior sneaking around behind your back... Maybe going for some plum duff or cinnamon buns, or glutting itself on a smoked pork butt sandwich or a roast rump of beef (or else some nice halibut cheeks?) - and then washing it all down with a Heineken..

Haha, I know right?? I'm convinced it's developed a conscious brain & sneaks all sorts of goodies! What other explanation could there possibly be for 2 clothing size differences between top half & bottom half? I'm in control of the top half but the derriere simply isn't upholding it's end of the bargain

I have the opposite problem - no hips/bum and too much top. They are now on the run but it has taken forever for dresses to fit! 🤣🤣

Haha! Ahh, it's so strange how all of our bodies are so different!
I've got through the grief of my boobs going down 2 cup sizes....I'm quite grateful as it means I can get smaller dresses that look good on top & hide the snacking derriere rather well. (Love me an A-line!)
Feel your pain so much though because with certain cuts, bottom half looks great but top half is too baggy & makes me look larger than I am. Fashion is the enemy, for sure!

When I was young, I was an Hourglass. Now that some of the Sands of Middle Age have run through to the bottom, I am a Pear. But the weight I'm losing seems to be coming off my bust and hips, while my waist remains stubbornly static - if this keeps up, I may soon be an Apple.

Ahhh, you'll be beautiful no matter what shaped fruit you are haha!
I'm definitely a pear (even when morbidly obese)but for some reason folk see hourglass a lot....

Always makes me want to drop to my knees dramatically & yell into the sky "NOT WITH THESE BOOBS!"

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I'd buy a ticket to see that...

Thanks for such a lovely compliment. You're a peach!

I have a theory that people seem to think that big boobs are associated with vivaciousness. My big boobs seem to make me come off as more vivacious than I really am, and maybe your vivaciousness makes you seem more busty than your bra size would indicate?

Haha! Love looking at other lassies...theyre so beautiful & pretty, no matter
the shape. That sounds quite creepy typed out now I read it, but it's true! Peach....funny how that's the apparent beauty standard for the derriere...we should replace apple with peach, it's way cuter...just like the "apple" folk!

Well! That's something to consider....funny how assumptions can be made over something we have little control over (except surgery)....
I've been described as an animated(very recently too) talker so I've no idea if that counts....tbh it just made me want to stuff my hands in my pockets forever more 😂🙈. Apparently it "just means you're creative though!" I'm not particularly .... another assumption? Haha

Hunh. I always thought it meant you were Italian.

Although people tell me that I an animated speaker, too; and my parents strongly disagree with that characterization of my genetic heritage.

(*I hereby offer my blanket apology to all actual Italians for perpetuating the stereotype.)
(And also for some of the things I do with pasta.)

In more derriere- related news, tonight I took my jeans off without unfastening them.

Haha! How funny...I'm half Spanish...perhaps there's something in it after all? 😂
Well done on your NSV...love it when that happens but I hope you will treat yourself to a new smaller size to show the shrinking derriere off! ❤️

Could be. Most stereotypes do have their basis in some sort of truth.

In my case, though, I'm the type of melting-pot American whose pot mostly melted forebears from dour and stoic places like Germany and Britain (no one ever has any fun in Britain, right? ). I can only presume the reason my ancestors left Western Europe was that they were all thrown out for speaking too animatedly.

(Mandatory disclaimer: the above is a joke. I know that the countries named are not universally dour and stoic, and people have fun in Britain all the time (I mean, just look at the House of Commons). Also, AFAIK, no one has ever thrown out of Western Europe for speaking too animatedly (I mean, just look at the House of Commons).)

NSV-wise, I have a pair of size-smaller jeans "left over" from before I gained the weight, which I haven't had the guts to try on yet (ironically, what I'm afraid of is that I'll still have too many "guts").

But also "left over" were the khakis that starred in today's NSV: they're ostensibly the same size as the jeans that no longer have to be unzipped, but I couldn't even begin to close the fly on them when I started losing weight. But I wore them today, and they were wonderfully comfortable.

For me, I am drinking more water. I know that may not seem like much, but I think it's a rather good step.

I fit 3x shirts again... i tried on a shirt from the back of my closet and it fit...Still a long way to go but it nice to see the progress. when i started i was in 5x and some tight 4x. Happy Monday everyone!