What's Your Most Recent NSV

I know it's a small thing, but when I put on my Fitbit, it went one notch tighter than it had been.

For years I've wanted to get my splits flat. I've been working on it for 35 days today and I just got my calls touching the floor today. The first step is a calf touch, the second is calfs resting on the ground, then thighs touching the ground, after that it's thighs resting and then your basically there.
Also hoping to lose some of the tention in my hips and I have definitely been noticing a difference in those. 🙌 Progress!

NSV instead of watching the scale creep up as if it were out of my control, I am back on MFP and logging and making a game plan to address the weight.

NSV Giving away 2 quarts of ice cream we made on the Fourth of July. It was mocha flavored; it was delicious. I ate a 1/2 cup serving every day for the last four days. I fit it into my plan. Logged and came in under goal each day. It was delicious. And now I’ve decided that I would like to spend 276 calories on other things. Rather than deprived, I fill liberated, plus it always feels good to share.

I have a few:
1. I can now cook all my meals without hating the idea of cooking or looking after myself
2. All these are from scratch meals, and take me tops 40 mins a day of whatever i want to eat, and everything's fresh and spontaneous. I never did know I could be so kind to myself.
3. I have more energy now from eating well and actually notice how sluggish ramen or store pizzas or biscuits make me feel. I feel like an athlete who complains their diet was holding them back
4. Where i was winded walking up and down the stairs, i have slowly been able to add back actually exhausting activities like feeding community dogs for nearly an hour daily in addition to the usual cleaning and cooking.
5. Eating local, seasonal, fresh, and cooking, has given me a more peaceful and less anxious overall aspect too: cooking is a good anti anxiety tool, and learning this has been revealing.
6. Gardening: never thought it was for me but I'm doing it now with zest, watching videos to learn how to, and trying out new hacks to get it done! And watering plants on time.

Sorry this is so long. This page is my single most favorite maybe all over the web. I love you all!!!

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I have a few:
1. I can now cook all my meals without hating the idea of cooking or looking after myself
2. All these are from scratch meals, and take me tops 40 mins a day of whatever i want to eat, and everything's fresh and spontaneous. I never did know I could be so kind to myself.
3. I have more energy now from eating well and actually notice how sluggish ramen or store pizzas or biscuits make me feel. I feel like an athlete who complains their diet was holding them back
4. Where i was winded walking up and down the stairs, i have slowly been able to add back actually exhausting activities like feeding community dogs for nearly an hour daily in addition to the usual cleaning and cooking.
5. Eating local, seasonal, fresh, and cooking, has given me a more peaceful and less anxious overall aspect too: cooking is a good anti anxiety tool, and learning this has been revealing.
6. Gardening: never thought it was for me but I'm doing it now with zest, watching videos to learn how to, and trying out new hacks to get it done! And watering plants on time.

Sorry this is so long. This page is my single most favorite maybe all over the web. I love you all!!!

I've lurked on MFP for a long time but had to finally comment to let you know that I really love your post! I'm so happy for your realizations and for the care you're taking of yourself. I also love both gardening and cooking and find them such nourishing activities (even when the plants sometimes die...it's also good to realize that sometimes you don't have to blame yourself when you tried your hardest and something still goes wrong). Keep it up! Much love to you!

I refused to give myself the day off and my grumpy 5000m row turned out to be over 1 minute faster than my previous best efforts!

Just the pick up I needed as the scales have been solidly refusing to shift and I was starting to question if any of this was worth it.

I'm in the top 10% of the over 260K people who have joined this challenge I've walked over 400 miles this year. Last year I missed the goal due to an injury in August, this year I'm getting the miles in any day I can to avoid this happening again.

I bought chub rub shorts* about a month ago. I don’t remember if I tried them on and they were fine or if I just went by the size label. I buy quite a lot of stuff from this store and am usually fairly consistent in their sizing. Either way, today I wore them for the first time and they are too big. They feel comfortable when I’m still, but chub rub shorts don’t do their job if the legs ride up and don’t protect from chub rub.

I don’t know which of these two NSV options happened, but one of them did:
1) I lost enough weight from my thighs in a month to make this size-sensitive garment too big even though it fit fine a month ago
2) I have lost enough weight overall to mess with my perception of size labels

I’m leaning towards option 1 as I’m at less than 10lbs total loss, which shouldn’t mess with my perception yet.

*for those not in the know, they are plain stretchy shorts you wear under dresses and skirts to prevent chub rub (or alternatively to protect your private parts from peeping creeps and pervs), pretty much just very ugly longer-legged underpants with high waist

After a terrible run on Tuesday plagued by cramps, I went out after work today wondering what the run would bring. I needn't have worried. My fastest 10k to date!

Today I looked in the mirror and genuinely smiled at myself.

I haven't binged in almost 2 weeks! That's a pretty long time for me so I'm very excited.

This is the best thread!

For me it’s little, but I was confident enough to wake up early do my YouTube works at my in-laws. I got my workout in and I’m still on schedule for the program I’m going through!

So quickly another NSV for me! Ran a half-marathon distance this morning - only my second ever at that distance - and got a time of 1hr 39 minutes. Not bad for a 51 yr old that only started running 18 months ago.
Now, of course, I can't move. Not because of the running, because I rewarded myself by ordering pizza! Still under my calorie goal for the day, though.