What's Your Most Recent NSV

mrschwarten · February 2020

Katmary71 wrote: »

mrschwarten wrote: »

Totally resisted the siren call of pancakes, bacon, hashbrowns, and eggs cooked in basically lard the other day from a breakfast chain restaurant near me. Opted for a home-made egg white scramble with turkey sausage and an apple. The call was quite strong, I'm still feeling pretty proud from that!

Awesome job! I just cooked for the homeless and was in charge of refried beans one night. The head cook kept dumping beef fat in it, grossed me out as he ruined perfectly good beans but it made it easy not to eat! At my gym there's about 6 restaurants and the smell of grease is disgusting when I get there but after a hardcore workout it smells pretty good when I'm leaving. Out of all the restaurants the one I'd be least likely to eat at is a waffle house but I stare longingly at it craving a Belgian waffle with strawberries and whipped cream. Luckily I discovered it's closed when I leave!

Thanks!! 😄 It's so interesting to me how my tastes change so rapidly during this health journey. When I am not focused or I am struggling, all that lard and fat and greasy foods look so appealing and it takes so much of it to satisfy me and it's never gross. But it's like, only after just a few days or a week or so of clean eating, even the smell makes me gag! Much less even eating any of it!! lol about your waffle house comment, one of my saving graces in my new city I'm living in is that there are no food places that I drive by on my way to work. Can't heed the call when it's not even there! Keep up your great workouts! 💪

AwesomeSquirrel · February 2020

We went out for a celebratory lunch with the office to an Italian place. After a lot of consideration I ordered pizza like most others. It was amazing. However I only ate half and boxed the rest up to take home with me. I wasn’t even embarrassed about it (taking leftovers from a restaurant is uncommon here).

I do however regret not limiting the pre-meal focaccia better. An opportunity for next time!

mysteps2beauty · February 2020

Someone who hadn't seen me in a few weeks said I lost a lot of weight. It's just finally beginning to show.

martianspuds · February 2020

Hello again to all of you great folks! Recovery is slow but steady, and my physical therapy exercises are advanced enough to feel like proper exercise

(Soon, the gym and I will become reacquainted...soooooon....)

Two NSV's:
I'm approved to use crutches instead of a walker! I'm practically flying down the hallways now

This one is a bit odd, but I'll do my best to explain. I realized this morning that I feel more at peace than I have in a long time. In mulling it over, it came to me that during all of the challenges I've dealt with during the past few weeks, not a single one of them has been because of, or about, my weight. For so long, my life was a series of anxious questions: "Will it fit? Will I fit? Can I get up/down/through there?". I'm still obese, but apparently I'm now at a functional obesity.

kperk91 · February 2020

I still have 4 unopened boxes of girl scout cookies...
Normally, I would addictingly eat the whole box of thin mints in a sitting - knowing the whole time I won't feel well after.

SallyH77 · February 2020

We went on a short holiday to the beach and two things:

I was able to purchase a bathing suit off the rack - no more bike shorts and T Shirts for me!

Walking up the steep dunes coming home from the beach, I made it to the top first, only slightly out of breath!

Teej666 · February 2020

Two recently:
1. Coworkers mentioning me "the gym must be working" because I'm "looking bigger".
2. Hit a 1RM deadlift PR of 330 pounds last week.

brittanystebbins95 · February 2020

I feel like I always make these way longer than they need to be

Yesterday, I was treating myself to clothes shopping because I just got my tax return, and I wanted some new shirts. I'm almost 15 weeks pregnant and I've taken a little bit of a hit to my self esteem because none of my clothes are fitting me right, and I'm at that in between where I don't quite look pregnant, more like I'm just getting chubby.
I don't have a lot of "pretty" clothes, mostly just graphic t-shirts, and I wanted something nice and flowy that I could feel confident in as my belly grows and then continue to wear after I have my baby.
As I was rifling through the clearance rack, an employee walked up to me and said, "Oh, honey, that's the plus size section! Here, let me show you the smaller sizes."

It literally made my day, especially since the previous store that I visited I nearly left the fitting room in tears. It was kind of shocking to hear that someone thought that I was small. I remember when I had to shop in plus sizes.

jguldi11 · February 2020

Today I threw away the ice cream and pizza. I had been doing really well, then we had mom's birthday at my house and I got stuck with the leftovers. The last 3 days have been rough as a result, so this morning I threw it all away. I gotta be honest, pitching that pizza was so hard. But I'm happy I did it.

bearly63 · February 2020

My first post. I was at a friends house last night for our monthly game night. Wearing my skinny jeans that actually look pretty good now (size smaller than 6 months ago) and people were commenting on my weight loss! Yay - so at least its finally showing. And when they wanted the scoop on what I was doing ....ie the big "secret", they looked shocked and disappointed when I said - It's simple math- "calories in/calories out"! I told them that I log every bite, cocktail, etc and try to burn 300-400 calories a day in a workout to be able to enjoy it all. No one wants to hear the boring, mathy, work part.

brittanystebbins95 · February 2020

bearly63 wrote: »

My first post. I was at a friends house last night for our monthly game night. Wearing my skinny jeans that actually look pretty good now (size smaller than 6 months ago) and people were commenting on my weight loss! Yay - so at least its finally showing. And when they wanted the scoop on what I was doing ....ie the big "secret", they looked shocked and disappointed when I said - It's simple math- "calories in/calories out"! I told them that I log every bite, cocktail, etc and try to burn 300-400 calories a day in a workout to be able to enjoy it all. No one wants to hear the boring, mathy, work part.

Yes!! They all ask about the big secret and then when they realize it is no magic cure and they have to put in effort, suddenly its unappealing. Why, though?! It's such a simple concept, and the farther along you get, the easier it is to stick with it. If you want it so badly, go get it!

gt0186b · February 2020

Saw the doctor today and he said to monitor my BP at home for 2 weeks. If it stays in the normal range, I can come off of both medications!

zharptichka · February 2020

100 pounds and multiple years into my fitness journey later, I’ve been accepted into Navy OCS!

bobsburgersfan · February 2020

@bearly63 @brittanystebbins95

Them: What are you doing?
You: Counting calories.
Them:

hlr1987 · February 2020

I'm eating much more protein and fibre atm, and I've been having a bit of trouble with indigestion because I'm still working on listening to my body to tell when I'm full. Late tea tonight and I wolf down my portion of our toad in the hole, with beans and kale (all things I absolutely love) and then stare at the kids plates and all the bits they have left. My nsv is that I listened to the logical part of my brain, and got up for a glass of water, waited ten minutes telling myself that if I was still hungry after that I could have more but that realistically I wouldn't be, based on what was on my plate. Now the urge has gone, I'm full and not as uncomfortable as if I had kept eating just because it was there and 😋
Feeling pretty smug right now.

RelCanonical · February 2020

I have a 14-inch calf now. (: Just a little bit more and I might be able to fit into normal width tall boots. Didn't think I'd ever be under 15, and now I'm a whole inch under.

SisterSueGetsFit · February 2020

RelCanonical wrote: »

I have a 14-inch calf now. (: Just a little bit more and I might be able to fit into normal width tall boots. Didn't think I'd ever be under 15, and now I'm a whole inch under.

Ugg, the struggle is real!! I’ve always had thick calves and it’s impossible to find good tall boots. And my dog just peed on my favorite pair last week. 😥

equipo_dinamita · February 2020

Any new people on here I feel like these forums are years old. 2020 Feburary here.

lol

epangili · February 2020

Finally skirt weather here so I tried on my pencil corduroy skirt 2p (I'm 4'11") and it wasn't a perfect fit anymore but loose! Half my skirts are loose! Nice that I'm smaller but sad I lost 3 inches off my best ASSet...

Madwife2009 · February 2020

Had to travel far to find a parkrun that was actually happening (thank you, Storms Ciara, Dennis and Jorge) - most are flooded or waterlogged.

We just made it in time (had to go to another country) and ran better than of recent times but was very disappointed by the result. But were were running through a flooded path, into a headwind for half the distance.

Until I realised that it was our second fastest time this year

And it was a lovely parkrun, right by a very high river that was rushing past; the noise of the river drowned out almost all other sound. It was quite soothing. Well worth the travelling.

It's the small things . . . like not getting soaked head to foot when the weather forecast virtually guaranteed it . . . running through puddles (which I've always tried to avoid but after today discovered that it's a fun thing to do) . . . parkrunning on the 29th February (it's not happened before and won't again until 2048 - I may or may not still be running in almost three decades) . . . being high-fived by the sweetest marshal ever (who was about four years old) . . . running up the sneaky little hill towards the funnel . . . and getting there.

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