What's Your Most Recent NSV

I've lost my double chin, my neck is long and lean, and I can see my biceps getting toned. I believe I can and will get fit.

MaltedTea wrote: »

hawkeye45_ wrote: »

Just tied my shoe with it on my foot!

Out of curiosity, how were you doing it before?

Tie my shoe on my lap then never untie it. Just slip it on and off.

mlrtri wrote: »

Today I put on my bathing suit from last summer. It was a bit big on me. While it’s still a bigger size than I should be wearing I looked better in it than I did last summer so I am happy with the progress.

Oh no I need to try on my swimsuit. I was almost 20 pounds heavier this time last year, and I bought that swimsuit because the one from the year before was too big!

Yesterday at work I kept having to pull up my trousers 😂 they weren’t down to my ankles but I’m now in need of a belt! Sounds silly but it felt good

hawkeye45_ wrote: »

I just ordered underwear in my usual size and I'm kinda worried it might be too loose.

I had to go out and buy all new underwear and trousers/jeans. It felt really good!
Excellent rat btw. Used to keep them myself for about 10 years but couldn't keep going through the loss every three years or so. Truly the most lovely and loving animal I've ever encountered.

was able to do all 5 sets of ten pushups in my workout without going down to my knees. I'm amazed.

My 13 year-old son likes to squeeze my bicep (just playing around) and he, being the teenager he is, will say “squishy” as he does so. Well, this last time he did it, he said- “Stop flexing!”
I said, “I’m not!”
He was like- “Yes, you are!”
Guess the strength training has been working for me! 😁

TEQWAR wrote: »

hawkeye45_ wrote: »

I just ordered underwear in my usual size and I'm kinda worried it might be too loose.

I had to go out and buy all new underwear and trousers/jeans. It felt really good!
Excellent rat btw. Used to keep them myself for about 10 years but couldn't keep going through the loss every three years or so. Truly the most lovely and loving animal I've ever encountered.

Look at that gorgeous baby!

I completely understand what you mean about the loss. We had 9 rats at one point, and we had several pass away within a six month period, either from old age or needing help over the rainbow bridge. I think we'll never have so many again.

Lost an inch off each thigh!

About 6 weeks ago I bought a new scrub top online in my normal size from a brand I haven't worn before. When it arrived I tried it on and looked liked a stuffed sausage ready to burst! It was one of the motivating factors for starting Keto and IF (also the fact that all of my scrub tops were getting uncomfortably tight and I'd gained 15 lbs since start of pandemic).
Skip ahead to yesterday- 26 days since start of Keto and I try on the top again. It's now really blousy and loose! I felt comfortable and cute in it. It will probably be too loose on me in another month. Oh well, it was only $9.99 on sale and I'll donate it when I can no longer wear it.

My comfortable, relaxed fit jeans are way too loose and would fall down without a belt. They're looking pretty worn and I can't go to a store yet to buy new ones. So I decided to try on another pair (the same size) that always were too tight at the waist. They now fit better than the relaxed pair!

After 2 weeks off I went for my w9 C25K run the other day. 5 minutes in my Bluetooth headphones signal low battery. Now I have always been a Mandatory Music Runner in the past but it was a lovely day and I knew if I went back to charge them I probably wouldn’t get my run in. So I turned them off and jogged the full loop since I knew there was no walking intervals anyway.

Imagine my surprise that it was actually OK to run in silence? I didn’t even feel like I was making too much noise (heavy footfall, heavy breathing etc). A NSV for sure.

I ordered some size 6 jeans in my favorite brand from Ebay as goal jeans. They arrived and they fit. I assumed it was a happy fluke. My sister (who has always been thin) is staying in our guest room which is also my work-from-home office. Her clothes were sitting out so I tried some on just to gauge where I am. Both her size 6 jeans and her size 4 jean shorts fit. I am still in shock. I might be able to share clothes with my sister!

I was driving home thinking it is so nice not to unbutton my pants, they use to be so tight, now everything is comfortable or big, great feeling.

I had been in maintenance for about 18 months or so, then when life changed in late February, something must have changed in me, too. I started slowly gaining for March and April. I mostly kept from gaining any more in May, but just was having trouble getting back down to my goal. It was in late April that my trending weight bumped up outside of a six-pound maintenance range I try to stick to. I have a larger (10-pound) range that's my absolute range, and I didn't QUITE bust out of that, at least not my trend. Some daily weights did.

Around mid-May, I started moderating again and slowly bringing the trend down. It bounced around. You know how that works. I was getting flustered. It's moving down fairly steady again now, and soon I expect to get back to goal. My trend finally got back inside my "ideal maintenance range" today.

Then there's this:

I ate some goodies after closing my diary last night. I entered them this morning expecting the numbers to turn red. To my delighted surprise, they did not!

I got up a few hours before I get up and chugged a couple pints of water because I was SO thirsty. Way lots of salt yesterday. I got up again and had another pint. I kind of expected the scale to be up this morning, especially since I'm dubious of the over three pound loss I had over one day and kept it the next day. So when the scale ONLY bounced back one measly pound, I though, OH YEAH! All my weight TRENDS are still going down, so today the scale doesn't even phase me.

The number on the scale doesn't even phase me. I had to write that again. This is my NSV. It relates to the scale, but the victory is in that dark cobwebbed space between my ears.

This is the mental state I was struggling with for a while. I think it really helps to have the trend solidly down, and I think it is. Now I just have to stay motivated to burn off the last little bit and stabilize there. When I have the inevitable bounce up, I need to remember - the trend is back to where it needs to be.