What's Your Most Recent NSV

This morning I wanted nothing more than a doughnut or some chocolate, and I told myself that I couldn't go get any candy if I still had snacks I'd brought from home. Ate my string cheese and apple instead, workday is almost over, craving defeated. Woohoo!

My pj's are falling off me at the shoulders. I have been doing a lot of upper body exercise (aerobics, dancing) and it's all paying off!

A complete stranger told me that she loved watching me swim. 5 years ago, I wouldn't have considered swimming laps. I had just finished over an hour of swimming too

I've been on holidays since Thursday and I bought a small scale and logged everything! I now have a box, with scales in it, labelled "travel scales" 😊

And I've stayed on or slightly under my net calories!

Having moved long distance I am now meeting folk who only know me as I am & have no knowledge of my previous weight.

My new & lovely next door neighbor asked me if I'd like to go to a Boogie Bounce exercise class with her...

1) In my previous life, noone would have thought to ask me to something like that

2) Even if anyone did, I would never ever have had the confidence to go but I didn't hesitate to accept & am really looking forward to it!

This NSV is a pretty humbling one...a reminder of how many things I very likely missed out on...still, at least now I can join in with gusto!😊

Went for an amazing run today . . . ran in two countries, three counties, across a bridge, over an estuary and alongside a motorway.

Sounds impressive? I only ran 5k in total but it was the BEST parkrun ever. Started in Wales, ran into England and then back into Wales. Accompanied by my lovely 6-year old and 15-year old. Who got up at 6am without moaning once about it. And ran in the most appalling weather imaginable - cold, wet, very windy, with the wind picking up more water from the estuary.

But it was totally amazing! Lovely team of volunteers, really encouraging runners, and a massive round of applause at the end. Well worth the early start, long drive and intolerable weather. Shame that the views were obscured by cloud and rain.

Then I got home and went out on the bike for an hour. After 3 miles, the rain started, so I nearly turned around but kept going. Then the rain really started, at the 4-mile point and by 6 miles I was almost soaked. But I kept going and finally reached home looking like I'd drowned rat. Again.

But that was okay. Because I'd enjoyed myself.

Who'd have thought that I'd enjoy exercising so much that I'd be happy to get soaked? Me, the kid who tried her best to hide during PE lessons?

Snow forecast later in the week.

It didn't stop me last time and won't stop me this time (although last time was accidental as it wasn't snowing at the bottom of the hill. The snow started as I was climbing the hill and had covered me by the time I reached the top. Got back to the bottom of the hill and there was no snow again - my family didn't believe me about it).

I can now do 50 squats at a time! I couldn't do any before.

I lost weight for the first ten months through diet, but I still wasn’t getting very much exercise at all. I started with mini goals to exercise for just ten minutes a day five days a week. And now I’m exercising at least 30 minutes a day six times a week. I feel great!

I have a tote of jeans under my bed that don’t fit, I’ve had this tote for like 5 (or more) years. Some of the jeans in there I’ve never worn because they never fit and I never took them back to the store.

I haven’t done laundry and all my jeans are dirty so I decided to dig those out and give them a try. I only tried on 2, but they both fit! One used to be my favorite jeans until they got to small and they even had a little room in them. You best believe those are the ones I wore!

NSVs (need the motivation this week )

- I haven't had any 'fast food' (McDonalds, KFC, Greggs, supermarket sandwiches etc) for almost an entire month.
- I haven't had any Diet Coke for almost a month
- Avoided fried breakfast at my nana's house and McDonalds when I had to take my mam and little brother there for lunch. Didn't even have my usual cappachino!

My progress has slowed a lot (been sticking to healthy food other than one night off on a weekend - planning on not having a night off this weekend). I am feeling a bit frustrated that what I am doing isn't enough as I feel like I have made so many changes. But no one said it was going to be easy!