What's Your Most Recent NSV

I looked in the mirror this morning and realized that my calves are starting to scoot further up! It shocked me because I realized that I actually have pretty nice looking legs ;p

This was a great NSV day.

I went to the grocery store to get missing ingredients for my afternoon snack at the office, and I was already starving - big mistake. I needed both the ingredients for my regular snack and an extra snack for later in the evening. I looked around for a nice extra snack, found a new brand of gluten free oat cookies, looked at the label. The small package was over 500 calories and I would have definitely eaten it at one sitting. I put it back on the shelf and bought some ready-to-go overnight oats.

After those snacks I was ready to hit my first adult acrobatics class. The class is once per week and runs until Christmas. My goal was to re-learn how to do a cartwheel and forward roll/somersault (don’t know the exact English word) during the first two weeks. Those were part of the warm-ups and done in the first 15 minutes of the class, and I was able to do both! The class was super fun and I can’t wait for next week. I’m going to be extra sore tomorrow, but I’m sure it’s worth it.

I have a weird one for you: I found out I have hair on my chest. I lost so much weight that my old undershirts are loose. I guess the tight shirt used to rub off what little chest hair I had. Not anymore.
I looked in the mirror the other day and I was like, "what is THAT?" Scared the crap out of me until I figured out what it was. Then I figured out what was happening and I smiled. It was weird...and awesome.

Today I did a work out but could put more into it than I could at the beginning of Quarantine. Now I am so much stronger

Today, for the first time in nearly 20 years, I rode a bicycle. It was really tough and I only made it a little ways down the street and (most of the way) back, but I went out and put in the effort. And, even though my heart was pounding and my legs were jello, it felt like I discovered something pretty amazing about myself. So, that's my NSV for today

Today I found out that my fibro flares get better if I, despite the pain, exercise. It's like it resets my brain and then that bit of my brain realizes, "Oh, right, that ankle isn't sprained. There's no sunburn pain from the skin on the thighs. Never mind!" and turns off the pain.

2 NSV today:

Wore my size EU 44 navy shorts - they finally fit!

Went out to lunch and brought my own Tupperware to pack away half! Chatted to my friend about saying I was feeling a bit self conscious and hoped it didn’t embarrass him. He was very supportive and pointed out how great it was both not to waste food and not use a disposable container. I feel empowered 😃

I had two NSV's today!

The first one was at the gym when I was doing my treadmill workout. Not only was I walking and talking easily at 3.2 mph, but when I looked down around the halfway mark, my pulse was still in the low 140's! Not too long ago, it would have been in the high 150's by that point. Plus, even at the end, my pulse never got above the mid-150's. I'm still pretty pleased with myself ^_^

The second one was when I got home and took my dogs for a walk (another thing that wouldn't have happened before-- I usually would have taken an hour to rest before taking them!) and looked down at my legs because I felt a bug. To my surprise, there were these dips in the sides of my leg, right behind the ankle bone. I thought they were some kind of injury, at first! But then, I realized my ankles just aren't swollen anymore...

I have collar bones!

I have found an analogy that I think will help encourage me not to overeat low fiber carbs. I would not overfill my car gas tank and I certainly would not put diesel fuel in. Thus, in taking care of myself, I can see the harm in overfilling, especially on the wrong type of fuel.

I was able to jog for 6min 35secs without stopping. I haven't done that in over 20 years!

I did C25K week 5 day 2 today. Two 8-minute runs with 5 minutes walking in between. However, the NSV was that I was feeling so good after that I decided to just run some more. Ended up running a mile without stopping, clocking that mile at 13'20". Obviously not fast, but it was steady and comfortable. I wouldn't have been able to do that two months ago.

I last posted in this thread in 2017 shortly before going through a difficult breakup and falling off the weight loss bandwagon.

I tried to get back on track in 2018 for a bit, but just couldn’t manage it.

So my NSV is that I’m back.

Two years later and with a starting weight 80 lbs heavier than my all time lowest, but I’m back.

I had company come over earlier than I said. And I told them to come an hour later so I could finish my work out. They did not listen but I managed to finish my work out anyway. No excuses. My legs are getting stronger.

Just had my first week back in gym after lockdown and, according to my PT I smashed it and I am only 3 lbs up on my pre lockdown weight