What's Your Most Recent NSV

I got 3 compliments at church today one "cute", one "pretty" and one "beautiful". I didn't get compliments when I was obese on the Asian American bmi chart.

gradchica27 wrote: »

Cleaning out the closet—found 8lbs of Halloween candy in there. 8lbs of candy sat in my bedroom since Oct 31!

One of the reasons you look so amazing in that red dress.

I started walking up the stairs at work in December (6 flights), I concentrate on two steps at a time and getting the right step pattern as on half of each flight has 8 steps and the other 9, then look at what floor I am on and how far I have to go when I am tired. Previously I have been out of breath by the 5th floor or earlier. This morning I found myself on the 7th floor 🙂

I've spent the past couple of months slowly "ramping-up" my weekly exercise from a fairly sedentary lifestyle to gym 3x week, a couple of sports/cardio sessions a week and getting a decent number of steps in every day.

It took a LONG time to work up to that 'cause I'd feel so exhausted for a couple weeks every time I added a new element to the week, so I took that ramping-up slowly.

In the last week, though? It's like a switch flicked and all of a sudden I have SO MUCH ENERGY! Today is a rest day and it's like I am TWITCHING to get a good exercise sesh in. Instead of wanting to flop on the sofa for the day, I'm looking at the dog snoozing away in his bed and thinking about the LOOOOONG walk I'm gonna take him on as soon as I'm done with work.

Having this energy is such an intangible thing- it's not a notch on a belt or anything you can measure. But WOW, does it feel good!

tried on some size 8 pants that have been packed away in my too-small clothes bin, and they zipped and buttoned. Also, currently on the second to last hole left on my belt, and 7 months ago, the belt wouldn't go around my waist. And I can do 5 pushups with proper form. And I can do over 12 burpees without stopping. And I can run an 8:15 min mile. I just signed up and started training for my first obstacle course race.

I fit into some pants I haven't worn in a long time, which was nice, especially after an unexpected weight increase (probably just a day-to-day fluke).

Also, I ate one cherry cordial kiss yesterday. Just one. And didn't need/want any more.

I feel comfortable enough to put a real picture of me as my profile picture instead of a cute cartoon!

I don't know as this is related to my mass; surely it isn't. It may or not even be related to my fitness.

The telemark skis I use are actually some alpine skis with telemark bindings. I bought them slightly used from a friend who upgraded to the newer model of the same ski without even seeing it, and he's also moved to A/T bindings. He's a little bigger than I am, and he's a MUCH stronger skier.

This is, I think, my third season on these skis. When I got them, they were way too much ski for me. I made to, and I got by. Same thing last year, although as the season progressed, I started to feel like I could stay on top of them. Still - they are a little hot.

Well, yesterday was my first day of the season, and I realized about halfway through the day that I never felt like the skis were too much for me. If anything, they should be MORE challenging since I have less mass to drive them, but somehow it just started to feel "right" even from the first couple runs of the day.

I did some training to get ready, but not enough. Legs got a little tired, but I was still able to ski for several hours and sneak in 14 lift rides.

Does this count?

for 16 plus years, I have tried to hide my obese body with baggy clothes. Had to go up to a 3XL t-shirt and busting out of 42 jeans...well, 90 plus lbs lost and lots of cardio and weight training, I'm not hiding it anymore. I've got a lot of work to do but never thought I would get in this good of shape at age 55 and also wearing a L t-shirt and 34 waist.....Just keep on going, it pays off!

So I have this jacket that I love. For the last while... well, our chilly midwinter weather was NOT why I'd been wearing it unzipped, let me say.

This morning I head out the door, chuck on my jacket and.. zip it right up without it feeling even a tiny bit tight.

Been grinning about it all day long 😎😁