What's Your Most Recent NSV
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Yesterday when checking into the gym, the employee stopped me and said "how long have you been a member?" I told him 2 years and he said, "wow, you are not the same person. I almost had to ask for your ID because you look nothing like your membership picture!"
Felt so good. I am a different person.40 -
Feeling pretty dang skinny today! My 34 pants are starting to get loose on me.
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I made a good oopsie. I didn't measure myself in the beginning, but I had a belt that I used as "measurement" because I knew I started on the third hole, and now I'm on the eighth hole. I was counting each hole as an inch, and thought "great, I've lost five inches!". Then I realized that I should probably measure the distance between the holes. They're more than an inch between holes. I've actually lost eight inches off my waist, lol.37
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nighthawk584 wrote: »I didn't go overboard
'Enjoyed yummy treats in moderation' still sounds like a NSV to me
And happy belated birthday!13 -
I didn’t completely stuff myself at Thanksgiving, but ate what I wanted (just less of each dish) and felt just right afterwards. My husband and I also prioritized our health this year and fit in workouts over Thanksgiving in amongst family holiday schedules. Also, this is a SV, but for the first time, I managed to weigh the exact same from Thursday morning to Monday morning!
I’m hopeful that I can keep it up over Dec!19 -
I attended a guest lecture in a local university this evening. As I walked in, a random student in the lobby attempted to chat me up I'm 41!23
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Slim and handsome fellow mfp, Congratulations!7 -
Found a pair of jeans I bought when I was 19. They've been left forgotten in a box for many years and I never thought I'd be able to wear them again. Yesterday I thought I'd see if they fit, and they do! I also fit in to a jumper I've been wanting to wear for years.
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I bought a pair of size 34 (US 6) jeans 2 years ago when I had initially lost 30Kgs and only wore it once or twice before the summer came. That was also the summer that I started to regain a lot of weight so I was unable to fit into the pair of jeans when winter came around.
Fast-forward to today. Decided to try on the pair of Jeans as I have lost 10Kgs during the last few months, and lo-and-behold, not only do they fit, they are slightly too big around the waist! I had realized I was getting close to my previous lowest weight, but did not think I would be able to wear those clothes again so soon.
Now I am going to have to look in the boxes of clothes I had put away once they did not fit anymore, to see if there are other surprises like this waiting for me29 -
Yesterday I fit into size 18 dress the first time. Its one of those (outrageous!) true to size employer uniforms! It's official!!32
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I took a 2 week diet break (my second time doing so). The first week, I continued to track. I just ate more calories and everything went well. The second week (which included Thanksgiving), I did not track and things got a little crazy. I ate pretty much anything I wanted whenever I felt like it, and one day I ate half of an entire pumpkin pie. I was a little worried that it might be difficult getting back into a weight loss mindset, given that I went so far sideways.
As of Monday, I am back to logging and staying in my calorie range. I feel an immense sense of relief that it wasn’t as hard to get back on track as I expected it would be. The first day was a little tough, but now I feel like I am back in control.
Even though I had planned the diet break, it didn’t work out the way I had hoped. I definitely will need to remember this experience, and figure out a better way of managing because I found out just how vulnerable I will be to regaining when I finally get to maintenance.
But, I am calling it an NSV because I finished the 2 week break and re-transitioned to losing, despite the struggle.37 -
So I've worn elastic hair ties around my wrist since I was in highschool. The last few years though I stopped wearing them there because they had started to cut in to my wrist and cause tingling sensations in my hands. I would purposefully go through all of my hair ties to find the ones that were stretched out and looser if i wanted to wear one on my wrist. I realized today that over the last few months I haven't had to hunt through and find the loose ones but i can now wear the ones that are newer and it doesn't cause me any discomfort!29
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So I've worn elastic hair ties around my wrist since I was in highschool. The last few years though I stopped wearing them there because they had started to cut in to my wrist and cause tingling sensations in my hands. I would purposefully go through all of my hair ties to find the ones that were stretched out and looser if i wanted to wear one on my wrist. I realized today that over the last few months I haven't had to hunt through and find the loose ones but i can now wear the ones that are newer and it doesn't cause me any discomfort!
This is such an underrated win. I always have a hair tie on each wrist, at all times. At a higher weight, I would need to adjust them while I was sleeping because they'd cut off my circulation if I was laying on my arms. I haven't had to worry about readjusting them in like a year!14 -
So I've worn elastic hair ties around my wrist since I was in highschool. The last few years though I stopped wearing them there because they had started to cut in to my wrist and cause tingling sensations in my hands. I would purposefully go through all of my hair ties to find the ones that were stretched out and looser if i wanted to wear one on my wrist. I realized today that over the last few months I haven't had to hunt through and find the loose ones but i can now wear the ones that are newer and it doesn't cause me any discomfort!
This is me too. XD I can wear them all on my wrist!11 -
Yesterday I went out for lunch with a friend and COMPLETELY FORGOT that my child's school FROZEN CUSTARD FUND RAISER was that evening. So I had more calories for lunch than usual, and came home to discover that I was going to be having ice cream for dinner if I wanted to stay on target.
I managed to have a chicken sandwich (saddest sandwich ever) and tomato soup (much better than the terrible chicken sandwich) AND a mini raspberry cheese cake topped mini custard AND stay within my calorie goals for the day.
And today I went to the gym and squatted more than my own body weight for 5x5 after having trouble with 5# less than that on Monday.
Thus, I am totally FORCED to give credit to "ice cream for dinner" for my unexpected gym success.31 -
ElizabethKalmbach wrote: »...
Thus, I am totally FORCED to give credit to "ice cream for dinner" with my unexpected gym success.
Some of my best gym days have been the day after a carb loaded dinner. Maybe there is something to that carb loading theory.
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At the airport yesterday, decided to walk laps in the terminal instead of vegetating at the gate, and got in a mile and a half.
Exhausted from the time change, woke up this morning with something sharp digging into the back of my hand, which was flung acrost my face. Realized it was the bridge of my nose. I knew my face had thinned out, but holy cow! That thing has gotten like a knife blade!21 -
My daughter is having some mental health issues. Normally this would send me to lots of stress eating. (I love you carbs!) But now, I am taking self care precautions like getting enough sleep, eating healthy, tracking my food, drinking water, spiritual health,etc. This is helping to make me a better care giver to her as well as helping me and the rest of my family.37
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