What's Your Most Recent NSV

Miracle of miracles!!! Not one pound gained... I had to step on the scale again just to verify. Perhaps because I didn't eat dinner to make up for eating enough for 2 and a half people of 4'11" female stature of my whole day budget of calories? Maybe I increased my metabolism? I thought fo sho I'd be setback a day in my weightloss journey... Miracle of miracles!!!

My significant other and I joined a gym together

I've always been fat even when I was a little kid. I didn't play much with other kids because I couldn't do things like monkey bars.

On Sunday, for the first time in my whole life, I was able to hold on to a bar and just hang for a bit.

I've got so much progress in my physical fitness and strength lately.

Every year at the faire there's a booth where you win a prize if you can dangle for 2 minutes. Almost nobody ever succeeds. I'm gonna win it one year just watch.

... I took off my compression pants and noticed that I have calf definition... I've been chasing that goal for YEARS and haven't been able to get defined calf muscles now matter how low my weight was... 20k steps per day is paying off in more ways than just having well behaved dogs...

I was trying on dresses today. Although I have been able to fit into medium recently, the size medium at this particular store looked really small. So I picked up both medium and large to try on. I tied one of the sizes and felt that it was slightly big. So I took it off to try the medium and guess what. I was wearing a medium and thought it was a large. 😂

Today I did a time trial 5K, and ran the fastest 5K I’ve run in well over 7 years.

Today, I had 2 dinner meetings back to back after work so skipped lunch to accommodate since I know the 1st meeting almost always has pizza. I had indulged in 2 thin crust slices and lots of water. 2nd one I passed on the beckoning rich creamy pasta and filled up on hot tea but savored a very small portion 1/4 cup of ice cream on one small cookie. I was well within my calorie budget and didn't eat all my exercise calories. I felt like I participated, enjoyed, but not deprived nor over indulged. I feel like I'm getting the hang of eating within my calorie budget without depriving nor over indulging but enjoying life.

I guess this is technically a scale victory, but I'm officially the lowest I've ever weighed as an adult. I have gone below my HS graduation weight, and I keep moving into new weight territory.

Also, almost all of my pants are too big.

Worked out 6 of the 8 days I was on vacay in Hawaii. Limited my grown up juice intake and did a 12 mile hike which involved climbing down and back up a rock wall.....amaze balls.

"You have the blood pressure of a teenager!" said the nurse yesterday at my check-up.

In the past month I have walked over 10,000 steps a day, missing only 3 days!

My rings are starting to get loose!

On a rainy day today, I walked an extra 65 minutes just to eat one Trader Joe's dark chocolate sunflower seeds butter cup and be under my calorie budget while not eating all my exercise calories. I'm learning to savor and enjoy my food choices while balancing how much it costs me to exercise.

Boyfriend told me today that regardless of what the scale may say, I LOOK a lot slimmer, and my rear end has taken on a different shape.

I went 'clothes shopping' in my own wardrobe. Most of my current wardrobe has become too big and I ended up rooting around in a box of clothes I tucked away years ago because they were too small.

I found a sweater that is probably more than 10 years old and that I really liked back then, and it fit and looked good too!

It's going to be tricky for the next half of my weight loss though, I don't have any smaller clothes left so I'll have to 'waste' some money on a transitional wardrobe. A great problem to have though