What's Your Most Recent NSV

@JulieSHelms - You still got that awesome smile! Never mind gravity!

This is an Nsv of ALL Nsv's for me...

I just thought about this today, I am perfectly content in every area of my life...absolutely NO complaints at all--NONE!

WOW, that IS and feels so very ultra good to know, think and be. I used to be such a nagging, angry, stuck/helpless/victim mentality , critical, murmuring mal-content for MANY YEARS and one of my major and constant complaints was "if I could only be slim and trim again" THEN, I would be (fill in the blank) for YEARS & YEARS that complaint and mind-set dogged my every thought and foot step and haunted me something YUCK. Now that I am now slim and trim, as I look around me (my mental, spiritual, physical and life and health, home, relationships, everything)...it's ALL good. YES, I continue to fight the "good fight of faith" daily, life in general highs and lows and daily have issues, troubles and temptations are ever still rearing their sometimes yucky heads up in my life, but I no longer see these things seemingly negative people, places and things as "enemies or problems" I see them as "learning opportunities, growth/choices realities and humbling myself tools" instead of embracing these sometime daily battles as problems, I see them as again, opportunities of change now. WOW....just WOW!!!!

I am content ( NOT complacent mind you--NO, content and at PEACE) in every area of my life, what a tremendous space and place to be---big ole HUGE, WONDERFUL and POWERFUL Nsv for me and those around me...Thank you Lord and super ultra BOOM and YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My skin is so much softer than it's been in decades.

@JulieSHelms you look fabulous, very inspiring!

Free day without the kids while on vacation—instead of shopping or going out for big lunch and dinner, I convinced my husband to go kayaking, despite the oppressive heat. I was feeling so antsy and energetic after a few days of rest and relaxation! And it was a beautiful paddle around Charleston.

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Walked Parkrun again this morning (also volunteered) - two and a half minutes off last week's time. Which may not seem much but it means that I am slowly regaining my fitness.

Can't wait to be able to run again.

I've now completed 85 Parkruns and volunteered on 93 occasions.

If it cools down later and if the arthritis will allow me, I may go for a gentle, traffic-free bike ride now I have a new bike

I was just thinking about you! I didn’t realize quite how badly you were hurt, that’s terrible. But glad to hear you are recovering from your bike accident.

That's really sweet of you. I'm getting better, slowly but surely. There's a little improvement every day.

I've got a nasty wound on the back of my calf which had to be kept "open" to cleanse it, but that's now being allowed to heal. My left shoulder is problematic and causes pain at the front when I'm reclining or lying down, my left forearm has tendon issues (very painful), the arthritis was triggered by the accident and is the worst it's ever been (mainly in my hands and feet). And my head is still "interesting" as I forget things, say the wrong things, have to think carefully about what I'm saying, silly stuff like that. I'm also scared to go out cycling unless I know it's safe; being too close to moving cars makes me physically flinch (even if I'm a passenger in a car and a car gets too close alongside).

Don't like taking the anti-imflammatories or painkillers but have no choice at the moment. The open wound on my leg also meant that I was unable to take my arthritis medication which, conversely, I am desperate to take as I know it helps! But now the wound is being allowed to heal, I can take those again.

But, as I say, little improvements every day. At least I can walk normally now, even if a little slower than before - and I'm getting quicker and doing more each day. Plenty of rest still, though.

I started cycling last month and bought a new helmet - today I had to tighten the chin strap. One chin down, 6 to go!!!

Went on a power walk yesterday. I've been working to get my pace below 15:30 per mile. Got three miles at 15:11 or less. GPS glitched on the fourth mile, although the pace was in the same neighborhood.

Now for four miles under 15:00 per mile!

I've got a few!

Yesterday, my beloved and I went to a wonderful FUN party and saw some folk there I haven't seen since I was obese. One person told me I look like....A MODEL! Another person I didn't know at all, tapped me on my shoulder and told she was watching me, and that I had an "elegant" look AND way about myself" ( I super LOVED that). Me and my boo was "cutting the rug something fierce" and a couple of people told me I could really dance good!!!!

So, more wonderful Nsv's for me and CHEERS AND BIG OLE HIGH FIVES to/for ALL the other Nsv's I'm reading on this thread...SUPER MEGA YAY Y'all And me too!!!!

Fitting into a dress that I originally thought was a shirt. It fit tight when I bought it. Now it hugs me in all the right places.

Ran 5k for the fourth time, and decided to carry on. Finished with a 7k run. Just two weeks ago I could barely run two. Our crazy unseasonable cool weather helped, but am learning to like this running thing. And the fab naps that result, lol.

I have a slightly sore rear end.

From the saddle on my new bike.

Which I just rode for 7 miles.

Including some very short stretches of road.

It was wonderful but also very scary.

But my lovely son was with me so I had to be calm. Although to be fair to him, he was encouraging and helped keep things in perspective.


Sadly I cannot transfer the saddle from my old bike to the new one as it literally got ripped in half. No amount of superglue is going to fix that back on

I just want to write down that I still am so so happy that I can cross my legs comfortably again. I love sitting with my legs crossed but it's just not comfortable when I had too much extra weight.