What's Your Most Recent NSV

My most recent nsv is wearing again clothes that I put aside because they were tight on me.

Lots of weird little adjustments:

Well, I have to adjust my over-the-shoulder bag to make the strap shorter...again. I'd swear that the thing is just stretching out if not for the fact that it didn't stretch out at all the whole time I wasn't losing weight, lol.

My breasts are no longer filling out the cups in my bra like they used to. I'd say they're actually more comfortable now, the cups were probably a little small before. The band hasn't changed much, but I don't have much more weight to lose off my ribs anymore, so this isn't surprising.

The dress I'm wearing today has 3/4 sleeves, but now they're kind of more 7/8 sleeves, lol. Fortunately I can cuff them so they don't look like I just bought a dress with sleeves a little too short.

Found a cute dress in a size M. Sucker has zero stretch. Turns out it's from the 90's, so not as aggressively vanity-sized either. It's actually a little big, but it was so cute I bought it and wear it with a waist belt to cinch it in. Can't believe I fit in a "vintage" non-stretch dress in an M. Don't tell me the 90's is vintage now, but that's what all the listings for the brand said, lol.

Here is the dress. Sorry for the bathroom pic, it's the best mirror.

geraldaltman wrote: »

Tommorrow morning, I am leaving for my third road trip since late June (the "formal" completion of my post hip replacements PT). The NSV here is that one year ago, I would not have even entertained the notion, as all my "required as needed" driving was for years wrought with difficulty (getting in/out of car), discomfort, pain and diminished mobility (walking). Today, it's all systems GO!

Have been back since Saturday night. To further amplify NSV, any discomfort on this trip was of the "normal" variety, stiffness (needing to stretch legs), restroom, food and fuel breaks, just two on way to and just a couple more on return trip, mainly because it was later in day. It was great. For any in US looking for destinations National Comedy Center and Lucille Ball/Desi Arnaz Museum in Jamestown, NY are must see. The Comedy Center because it is highly interactive and features something for every taste in humor!! I may have to go back for I did not realize until home that Lucille Ball's final resting place is there.

@ceiswyn the only thing “nipping” in Scotland is those damn midges. Hope you avoided those. My husband came back from the “clan gathering” with an allergy to the things that took weeks to clear up. BTW, the gathering turned out to be mostly Americans, and we behaved appallingly. Talk about “ugly Americans”! What must the Scottish brethren think of us?

@RelCanonical love the cute new avatar and am liking the dress. I’m hoping your one “disagree” is either finger slippage (lord knows what feedback I’ve accidentally left myself as I doze off looking at the boards) or some old fart like me who disagrees that 90’s is “vintage”.

Outdoor Run #2:

MUCH better than last week! I edited my running program to have 3x3min runs and 3x3min walks. Almost perfect! The runs felt great. No issues whatsoever. The biggest NSV were my times in each run interval: 7:27min/km for the first; 7:07min/km for the second and 7:19/km for the third run intervals! Better than expected!

I will do one more amendment to the program - add another run interval and then go straight into the cooldown. All in all - I am so happy with my progress! Now to work on my endurance and work toward 5 min run intervals :-D

None of my pants will stay up without a belt, which is really annoying since I hate wearing a belt around the house but don't want to buy more pants since I'm aiming for a weight that, last time I weighed it, is at least 4 inches away.

For belts, I prefer a buckle-free type. Much less annoying to wear.

Today's NSV for me is having to buy a bunch of new underwear as mine were all loose. Feeling much more comfortable today.

3 NSV's lately
1. My collar bone is getting definition!
2. My running endurance and pace has improved! Back in March my pace was around a 13/14 min mile. I'm down to a 10:30 min mile. I can even beat my 8yr old, who just a few months ago was kicking my butt at the track.
3. I had to buy new pants. I was putting it off, but the amount of bagginess in my jeans was embarrassing. Not to mention the risk of them falling down in public.

Yesterday I wore a work-logo polo shirt from when I first started this job 9 years ago, right out of college: not even tight.

MrsBradyBunch wrote: »

Today I took the stairs when I got to work. It hurt a little bit, but I didn't even need the railing.

Also, the "got to work" part. For a long time I was too disabled to work. I just finished my second day on the job.

I saw your name pop up as having made a post in this thread and just had to see what new thing you were doing now. It’s been so exciting reading about your progress from someone who was truly disabled by weight to where you are now. I’m so happy for you!

You know how jeans shrink up every time you wash and dry them? My favorite jeans have always been tight through the thighs (or more recently they've been snug) when I put them on clean. Today I put them on and there was no snugness at all; they just fit. They were possibly even a teeny bit loose.

I am REALLY messing up today, I posted in the wrong thread and then double posted--Sorry about that gang!

I have the whole day to myself today, and what I have done with my day kinda even surprises me....

I got up by 7am, and went to a reformer pilates class after breakfast.
Then I headed to the Botanic Garden where I walked around for about 2 hours or so - taking photos for an assignment. It's pretty hilly there - Fitbit tells me I have done 56 floors today.
I came home for lunch, and then took my dog for a long walk along the riverbank.

I might even take the dog out for another stroll later just close to home.

Who is this person??

89th parkrun. Today's was by the sea, it was wonderful. My son and I decided to do the first session of C25K rather than just walk

The run was longer than the C25K, so we started the running section again. We were on the second run 6 when we saw the finish line in the distance.

We slowed down a bit and ran the rest of the way. That was a six minute run. Overall, we ran for 22 minutes. By my reckoning, we ran more than half of the 5k as our time was 43:43, which was our best time since the beginning of June, six weeks before the accident.

I am thrilled by this, it felt so GOOD to run again. And it wasn't too difficult or painful.

BUT the best thing was that, when we got back to the car, my son said to me that he loves to run as it makes him feel so good and that he's really happy that we've started again.

Oh, and I've managed to get up on four of the last five mornings to go to the gym to do my physio. Probably helped by DH's snoring but it's all good