What's Your Most Recent NSV

Madwife2009 · February 2019

k80flec wrote: »

@Madwife2009 - I do love your posts, they set me up for the day. You have achieved so much. You embody true grit and determination. I know you’ll continue to inspire once you’ve done your cycle leader course.

What a lovely thing to say! Thank you, that's brightened my day more than the sun (at last, we have sun).

I'm really looking forward to that course, which has surprised me somewhat. Hopefully I'll be able to do some rides aimed at families as I'm a firm believer in starting good habits in the younger generation, especially as they usually take their lead from their parents.

Dragged my two youngest out earlier for a six mile walk today without too many complaints. By the time we got home, they were both saying how much they'd enjoyed it. We saw all sorts of things, from newly-emerging flowers adding a splash of colour to the dull winter environment to a black swan among hundreds of white swans to four deer grazing on a patch of land in the middle of a housing estate. Fairly warm and sunny, it was wonderful.

thomasbecker8912 · February 2019

Just graduated from a 5k training plan to a half marathon training plan.

ceiswyn · February 2019

beerfoamy wrote: »

are they short of bars too? I used to have 2 bars by my step, warm up/shoulder weight and then a heavier one for squats onwards

Weights, bars, clips, space...

I'm using the university gym because it's cheap, especially when you're an alumnae, and the classes run at more convenient times than the gym that's actually more local. However it is possible that the 'cheap' part comes with some down sides

(When one class was oversubscribed, which should never happen, we ran out of clips. After warm-up, which I did with dumbbells because I WAS NOT GOING TO MISS MY PUMP FOR ANYTHING, the instructor gave me hers and did the entire rest of the routine with just a plain bar.)

RelCanonical · February 2019

My period symptoms have improved significantly ever since I started walking regularly (at the mall, since the weather has been so terrible, and the mall is nearby). This most recent one almost snuck up on me, when usually I can tell a week in advance that one's coming just from the cravings, back pain, stomach cramps, etc.

solieco1 · February 2019

ecmorgan101 wrote: »

I'm a high school teacher. So far, I've lost 27 pounds, down from 297 peak. Walking down the hall, a student I had last year walked up to me today and said, "I don't want you thinking I'm checking you out, but I swear you're shrinking!"

Best compliment I've received.

Great and funny NSV! I have 2 teenagers and understand that for them to be outside their own head to notice and then to actually say something is huge

SquirrelBrain · February 2019

200 days of food logging!

gradchica27 · February 2019

Brought three friends with me to Ladies Night at the climbing gym and had a blast! I made it up two bouldering routes that had foiled me up till now (it felt so good when my friend was watching me do one and said, “how did you do that??”), made it another move further along on my “push” route, and made it up some challenging (for me!) top rope routes.

And even better, I knew when to call it quits, so I’m only a bit sore today, not enough to keep me from deadlifting today or climbing tomorrow night.

bridgeehi · February 2019

Fell off the workout bandwagon in June 2018. Back injury and then a bunch of excuses that followed. This morning I set my alarm for 5:20am, rolled out of bed without hitting snooze and went to the gym to walk on the treadmill before work. Slowly easing back into the running!

TLDR; went to the gym for the first time in 7 months. Didn’t die!

NewBetterBest18 · February 2019

After loosing 60lbs and then re-gaining 12 lbs. I met with a personal trainer who got me thinking of weight/strength training. So I got back into the gym a few weeks ago and picked up the free weights. I can't believe it, I actually like lifting and core training. I'm a 61 yo woman who NEVER did this. I was a 3 times a week Zumba person. Now I work out 3 times a week and still do 1 class of zumba. Seeing results already. One happy lady over here!

GemimaFitzTed · February 2019

Last night, my personal trainer looked at me, during our session, and said "wow - you've lost weight and are toning up nicely! That's awesome! I'm so proud". He went on saying he wanted to take photos of us together, every 2 months as progress photos. I agreed because a) he has a business to maintain and it's great marketing and b) he asked me!

I am still chuffed about that!

nelja · February 2019

I tried a hybrid cycle yesterday and was not scared to ride it.

Catho36 · February 2019

I did a 9am high intensity class, modified (cross trainer as can’t run on injured foot) gym workout for an hour then a 2nd class of core training with a killer instructor! And I didn’t die lol.
I have never been fit enough to work out for 3 hours before, ever!
And earlier in the week I was bummed out as toe injury halted running training, but didn’t want to lose fitness gains until injury better, so changed up the plans and I’m loving it, I love being able to do even the littlest things that I couldn’t do before, our bodies are amazing, and I’m just starting to see what I’m made of lol 😁

Ghostofachance · February 2019

I ran my fastest mile in several years - 10:37. I've been running consistently for the last few weeks in the 11:15 - 11:30 range and decided to push myself this morning. Next goal, breaking 10:00. I'm never going to be fast, but I can always strive to be a little faster!

JennJ323 · February 2019

I did not have a single sweet or piece of candy on Valentine's Day

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cds_momto3 · February 2019

I've been working on building endurance on the Stairmaster. When I started, it was a huge challenge to make it 20 floors. I've worked my way up to 85 floors in 30 minutes - there's still room for improvement of course but it feels good to see improvement!

jryepin93 · February 2019

Went down a notch on my Fitbit strap :P

springlering62 · February 2019

I had 150calories left this evening. I went prowling through the pantry. Said no to the emergency dark chocolate bar and some crystallized ginger, ignored my stash of almonds (for making milk), bypassed the pretzels, pulled out the graham crackers and put them back. I just finished up an apple and a tablespoon of almond butter. For me, that’s an amazing bit of progress, right there, as was the fact that all the other choices I mentioned in the pantry were themselves a darned sight better than the old days of a family sized sack of M&Ms and umpteen bags of Geneva cookies.

Bealey2011 · February 2019

I didn’t need to sit down to take my boots off yesterday, honestly I forgot what it was like to bend down and not have my stomach crush me forcing me to sit to take them off. I’m so freaking happy!!! Long ways to go but that definitely made my day 🙌🏻

rheddmobile · February 2019

My husband and I were in Walgreens and I told him to go ahead and get himself some half-price Valentine's chocolate, it wouldn't bother me. Then I looked at the nutritional info and figured out I could handle the carbs if I only ate a couple pieces at a time (diabetic) and I have the calories to spare right now since I've been running a lot and I'm in maintenance. Ate a piece yesterday. Ate another piece today. No urge whatsoever to eat more than I should.

My husband, knowing carbs weren't a good idea, got me olives from the olive bar for Valentine's Day! What a sweet husband!

springlering62 · February 2019

rheddmobile wrote: »

My husband, knowing carbs weren't a good idea, got me olives from the olive bar for Valentine's Day! What a sweet husband!

What a terrific - and thoughtful - idea. I loooove me some olives. I think I’ll put that one out there for next special occasion!

springlering62 · February 2019

Lots of NSVs lately. My trainer has been asking me for “before” photos. I had to go back through several hundred vacation photos from last year and found exactly seven. Didn’t realize I had been so camera shy. You guys are right about keeping up with before and after pics. I haven’t done that. I have had the same mind block that others talk about, not seeing any difference in the mirror, but seeing those six month old pics, I was just flabbergasted. (Hahaha!!!! fat me would have been flubbergasted maybe?!) I was so embarrassed to send them to her, but she’s such a positive person I expect a complete lecture next session about those pictures lol. Wow, talk about seeing a difference!

DownsizingSam88 · February 2019

The scale went up 45grams this morning, but I'm not stressing. I haven't been perfect with my eating and with a bigger loss last week, I expected it to be harder to lose this week. Normally seeing the scales go up would worry me, this time I'm just seeing it as a reality check that no, I didn't deserve to lose weight this week, I didn't *earn* it. So my goal this week is to kick those little habits that have been sneaking back in, mindful eating for the win.
While my food intake has been pretty poor, my exercise has been pretty darn amazing. Along with my c25k and working horses, each day on the weekend I done an additional workout, Saturday was a 45 minute Billy Blanks Tae Bo, and yesterday was a 30 minute hip hop tabata workout that had me sweating and panting like there was no tomorrow, thanks YouTube 😁
We went to the next town over Saturday night for dinner (about 70km each way) and we didn't get back until late. So I slept in yesterday morning. I still went for my walk/jog after working horses yesterday afternoon. I tried to test myself on the last 5 minute jog to stay above 8km/h to start getting myself ready to make week 4 the week I work on speed, yeah I'm so not ready to step up to that yet, maybe in a few weeks. I'm in no great rush though.
Oh forgot about this 1, my neighbour told me that I'm looking fit the other week when I was heading out to bootcamp. I'm far from having a fit physique, but I'm sure it was his polite way of saying I'm losing weight without coming out and saying that 😂 no doubt I'm lookibg fitter than I was
Also- my Cowgirl Tuffs are starting to get loose on me! They were pretty snug when I first got them. Saturday night was the first time I'd put them on in about 4 weeks so was good to be able to see there is a difference (I thought they weren't as snug when I wore them for the barrel race, just wasn't sure if that was my mind playing tricks on me because I knew I'd lost weight.)

Madwife2009 · February 2019

Today's bike ride took my total mileage on this bike to 11,111 miles.

Well, I thought it was a cool number

Shame I have to do another 11,111 miles to get to 22,222 miles. At this rate, it will take me 22 years to get to 99,999 miles

Hmmm. I'll be seriously old by that point. Will have to ramp up the mileage!

DH thinks that my bike may be a little worse for wear. He couldn't believe that I've gone that distance.

Anyway . . .

My bike ride today took me into a neighbouring county. I didn't realise that it had so many hills . . . up and down, up and down, up and down until I went down one hill and started going up the next one, only to see a warning sign that it had an 8% incline.

I will admit, I saw that sign and silently (or maybe not so silently) cursed my decision to go that way, especially as the wind was at 15mph . . .

Only one way to go.

UP.

So up I went. It was a massive struggle, I was down to my lowest gear, my HR was up the hill way ahead of me and I was bordering on hyperventilation. Every time I looked up, I just saw more road. The end took a long, long time to be in sight. Or so it seemed. Stopping and walking up the hill was NOT an option, even though I suspect that for a lot of the time I was cycling at a slower pace than my walking speed.

But I made it. Then went down the other side and up yet another hill (not so steep though).

Reached my destination, after yet more hills, turned around and started back for home. Then I realised that, just when I thought that things couldn't get any worse, they did. Because I was heading back directly in to a 15mph head wind. Great. But at least the hills on the return journey were slightly kinder as they were up a longer slope. Still had to use bottom gear a few times due to the headwind. And going down that 8% incline was fun. Briefly.

Got home completely exhausted. I think that's the first time I've been that tired after a bike ride and I've been on some twice as long (this was a mere 26 miles).

Maybe I've become complacent with doing the same routes over and over again. Time to explore further, me thinks, and take in some more varied terrain.

I am considering doing the ride again, but on a slightly less windy day.

OHFlamingo · February 2019

My favorite XL grey sweatpants are now washed, dried, and folded and in the Goodwill bag. They just wouldn't stay up anymore! My new favorites are the lavender size L I haven't been able to wear in years, but they are really roomy and probably headed to the Goodwill bag soon, too! I love having a NSV almost as much as seeing the scale numbers drop, sometimes, even more!

HDBKLM · February 2019

Joined a gym and have actually been going! The last time I had a gym membership was over 10 years ago, and I went once in the course of a year probably. I'm shocked, frankly.