What's Your Most Recent NSV

First, I know this is kind of a scale victory, but.... I got married and went on my honeymoon, came back two days ago and today, I weighed exactly the same as the day before my wedding. That means zero wedding or honeymoon gains, and a possibility of still having a little whoosh loss after the rest of the travel bloat goes away.

Then, the NSV: I had planned already during the honeymoon that I would spend this lovely Sunday resting, binge-watching RuPaul’s Drag Race S11 (which dropped on Netflix the day after my wedding, at least in my corner of the world) and eating nachos. I still intend to do that, but I actually felt like going on a run, so I started this binge-watching day by doing just that.

Running. On a pre-planned sofa day. Because I actually felt like running??

During my run, I realized breathing is kinda easy. There is nothing digging to my sides. Now I’m home, after running and stretching, and my sports bra is still on because the band isn’t stretched to the limit and making it super uncomfortable. These bras used to be so tight that the band was all the way stretched, digging to my sides and making deep breaths a resistance workout of its own. Now it feels more like a sports bra instead of a medieval torture device designed to remind fat people of the uncomforts of obesity during every minute of their attempts at working out.

hipari wrote: »

First, I know this is kind of a scale victory, but.... I got married and went on my honeymoon, came back two days ago and today, I weighed exactly the same as the day before my wedding. That means zero wedding or honeymoon gains, and a possibility of still having a little whoosh loss after the rest of the travel bloat goes away.

Then, the NSV: I had planned already during the honeymoon that I would spend this lovely Sunday resting, binge-watching RuPaul’s Drag Race S11 (which dropped on Netflix the day after my wedding, at least in my corner of the world) and eating nachos. I still intend to do that, but I actually felt like going on a run, so I started this binge-watching day by doing just that.

Running. On a pre-planned sofa day. Because I actually felt like running??

During my run, I realized breathing is kinda easy. There is nothing digging to my sides. Now I’m home, after running and stretching, and my sports bra is still on because the band isn’t stretched to the limit and making it super uncomfortable. These bras used to be so tight that the band was all the way stretched, digging to my sides and making deep breaths a resistance workout of its own. Now it feels more like a sports bra instead of a medieval torture device designed to remind fat people of the uncomforts of obesity during every minute of their attempts at working out.

Absolutely love this post.

It's not just sports bras that are medieval torture devices . . . I hated all bras until I lost weight.

Bought some new jeans at a consignment sale, size 25. I wore a 27 in high school (I've still worn them as shorts all summer, need a belt). I still need to shop ~4" off the bottom though, they are massively long. Can't do anything about my height!

Staying the course despite zero motivation and being exhausted. Even went for my walk. Begrudgingly, but went.

Here's one!
One a upon a time oh, I'd say in the weeks and months after I quit smoking nearly ten years ago, I'd taken to walking the entire perimeter of the apartment complexes where I live. Then over time that became harder and harder and I became less able and interested in doing it and eventually stopped altogether.😕 Today, once the Eagles game was over, I covered that exact route. I have returned! 😀

I'm officially down 2 pants sizes! Dec 1, 2018, I was at my highest weight and found the stretchiest pair of 16s I could squeeze into because I didn't want to buy 18s, but that is what real size I was. On Saturday, I bought 2 new pairs of jeans in 14s and they fit comfortably I almost cried.

I wore them to the Miranda Lambert concert Saturday night and I was struttin!

When my pants first started getting loose, I tried on an old belt I have and it didn't close around me. It was too short.

Now it closes with a solid two inches at the end. Which is good because as much as I hate belts... I really need one.

I had to wear a belt because my size 14 capri were too lose, I used to wear a 22. first belt I have worn in a couple of decades. Went out to eat for my birthday and mentioned to my server that my diet was on hold today since I was celebrating, she snorted and said, like you need to diet, LOL. My entire life, and the rest of my life I need to "diet". Eat healthy.

MelodiousMermaid wrote: »

Staying the course despite zero motivation and being exhausted. Even went for my walk. Begrudgingly, but went.

Well done, @MelodiousMermaid . Motivation comes and goes, but discipline has got me on my feet many times. And I have learned this - I am always glad I did the workout when I am done.

RelCanonical wrote: »

My upper chest/clavicle area is so flat and bony now. I'm still very slightly overweight. I can't believe how little fat is actually supposed to be in that area.

I've seen comments like yours several times here on MFP. People discovering their bones when they lost weight. I've done the same thing myself. "There were bones in there?" HAHA!

Now that my husband's Dr. refuses to do his hip replacement until he looses 25 lbs, I finally have a gym buddy. He's even listening to me when I make suggestions on what he should and should not eat. We had a very nice chicken, broccoli and carrot with a little shredded cheddar cheese dinner last night. He actually liked it. Now if I can just get him to switch from drinking soda to water. So my NSV is being able to help my husband with his life-style change.

I started a cycle challenge to raise money for cancer research. I did some training in August at had to break it down to 3-4 mile stretches usually broken up with 8 hours rest or at least a greasy breakfast. This weekend I took a 27 miles ride to the coast and back which had some silly hills in it in less than 2 hours.

Call from work at 1230 am so no more than 90 minutes of sleep. In the past, working all day after that would have included a lot of snacking for energy, mostly junk. Got through the day on calorie budget.

Ordered pants in a size I haven't worn for 15 years. Don't expect them to fit yet, but they will soon.

I've had two:
Taking a bite of a cookie and realizing it wasnt worth it, so discarded it.
I hike a lot, and I used to have to take a ton of breaks, ESPECIALLY going up hill. Now, I cruise uphill with almost no problems and no breaks and can cruise through 4-6 miles with little to no breaks and can do as much as 8 miles with breaks. Working my way up to double digit miles!

Buttoned up size 38 blue jeans for the first time in 3 years! Soon they might even be comfortable. . .