What's Your Most Recent NSV

Managed to get at least a short walk in on 6 out of 10 days we were traveling for the holidays!

I've gone from consistently walking 1.5-2 miles (and struggling a bit) in June to consistently walking 3 miles (with ease). I don't go as often as I'd like because it's the rainy season here, but I'm pretty proud of the improvement.

I often chat with a friend, and he's noticed the improvement just in the decrease of my heavy panting on the steep hill. I don't care how much easier that hill has gotten, I will always despise that hill. That is the hill from heck and it can heck right the heck off. The silver lining of the Heck Hill is there is often a random kitty at the top.

I've just ordered new running shoes and I'm hoping to transition from walking to jogging this year. I tried a couple of months ago, and managed a 15 minute mile (!!! if only I could apply that retroactively to my middle school gym class grades ), but my shoes aren't really the right type for it, and it led to knee and shin pain. So I've just focused on increasing my walking distance.

I can do this again...neglected my health and weight for too long.
Need to do this for me.

Once it gets to October I usually just say screw it ,I will start again in January and go crazy with my food intake for the holidays especially desserts. I mean like baking a whole cake and eating almost all of it in one sitting. Over the 2017 holiday season I gained 50 lbs and spent all of 2018 trying to lose it. My NSV is that I learned my lesson and did not go crazy,i went to the gym and only had 2 slices of cake.I lost 2 inches off my waist over the holidays.

I figured out how to avoid binge-eating at well-catered parties.

The tactic that failed: deciding to use the party food as dinner, trying to hold back enough calories to eat plenty of nice things, turning up ravenous, and then filling up all that calorie allowance with tasty little morsels while still feeling I hadn't really had my dinner's worth

The tactic that worked: deciding to mostly ignore the party food, eating as normal, turning up with a couple of hundred calories in hand to use on one or two special treats.

First day and I realized I have 1000 calories left and I was full all day. Really eye opening exactly what garbage I have been eating to have been maintaining or gaining so much weight.

I had the hubby drag the treadmill out of the Arizona Room and place it in the dining room, in an empty corner that has a window near it. Last night was my first walk/jog on the treadmill and I loved it! When it was in the Arizona room, I would go days without seeing it (and what's worse, months without using it). Now that I see it daily and enjoy the view out of the window, I am more excited to get on and get my steps in.

I went to get my car inspected and my husband drove. The passenger side seatbelt never fit me before. I always had to use an extender. This time though I didn't need the extender! I was able to buckle the seatbelt without any help.

Did a News Years day 5k (walked), started logging today after taking 2 weeks off. It’s a start. :-)

Being able to easily do up my seatbelt on the airplane and actually having to tighten it. Before I needed the seatbelt extender.

I bought, and am currently wearing, bright orange/coral snakeskin print workout leggings. All of my workout pants are black or gray, with the brightest being blue. Wearing anything this bright, no less on my legs, is way outside my normal instinct to wear black to hide lumps and bumps.

I have finally reached the point where a work out is invigorating not exhausting!

So, because I'm just a little bit sad, I decided, for my own geeky interest and amusement, to see how many miles I'd tracked last year and how many steps I'd taken over the course of 2018.

Total distance cycled: 4,305.04 miles
Total distance run: 429.82 miles
Total distance walked: 1,943.42 miles

Overall total distance (walked, run, cycled): 6,678.28 miles (way more than my car has travelled at 3500 miles for the year!)


Total number of steps taken (all steps, including above): 5,862,092 (if I'd done another 378 a day, I'd have hit 6,000,000).


Well, I was mildly impressed . . .