What's Your Most Recent NSV

Hi I usually end up blowing of my work outs on the weekend. But this Saturday I got my yoga done in a much smaller quantity, and a walk in. That is so much more than I usually do on a Saturday. I stuck to my calories today.

Somewhat scale related, but as of this morning I’m no longer obese but officially Overweight according to the BMI scale!

Slowly working my way back up to a 10k run - we're now just half a mile off, my son and I. We run a little further every day - when I say a little, I mean a little, we just add a few more metres to each run but over time it's making a difference and my legs are not hating me as much as when I first did a 10k.

But, the big thing for me about running at the moment is that I can now hold a conversation whilst running. I have never been able to do that, in the three years I've been running so up until now it's been mainly listening to my son chattering whilst we run, with the occasional exhaled grunt from me. The advice was to run slower but if I'd run any slower I wouldn't have been moving at all. But now I suddenly find that I can hold a proper conversation and run at the same time. I'm not running fast but who cares about that apart from me (and the abusive woman in the park who claims that her dog doesn't like slow-moving people. So it clearly doesn't like anyone who walks then as I do run faster than most people can walk. So why not put it on a lead?).

AwesomeSquirrel wrote: »

Proper NSV: stopped using a bath sheet and instead used a regular size towel to wrap myself after my shower.

Good for you. (I do love my bath sheets though!)

Going two weeks so far, no binge. This is huge for me! Ideally, I'd love to find myself binge-free for a year's time if not indefinitely.

Hiked 4.5 miles today! We got a little lost and got an extra mile and a half in. Tbh it was hard in hot weather and since I’ve focused more on lifting, my cardio fitness has been way down. So glad to know I could get this done! Would definitely do again in cooler weather.

Two NSV’s, one is quite surprising to me:
1) I can feel muscle definition and maybe see some tiny thigh muscles coming out!
2) I was adding my workouts to my calendar and actually got excited about the fact I’m waking up at 6AM to jump around, lift moderately heavy things, and get really sweaty. Never thought I’d be excited to wake up early and workout. But I can’t wait! (It’s taken me working out every week day since May 1 to look forward to it - practise i guess is key).

As of today, My non scale victory is that I went from a size 9-10 pants to a 7! My BMI is 1.8 from being in the "normal range" and my body fat is in the "acceptable" range (higher end)

I couldn’t get these pants over my thighs, let alone fasten them, at the beginning of the year.
Today, I struggled to keep them on.

All of a sudden last night I saw the outlines of my upper arms under the skin billows and remaining fat. That's new!

Carrying my dog upstairs got so much easier. He's a 13 pound rescue Maltese, and didn't know what stairs were when I adopted him. We're working on that.
Back in May, when I restarted my WL journey, it was so hard to catch my breath after climbing to the 3rd floor after our walk. My HR was 130 I felt lightheaded from exertion with my mask on. Last night, after losing 31 pounds I flew him up the stairs from the garage, which is another floor down, and my HR at the top was 80. I also might have been making airplane noises
Guess it helps that he dropped a couple of pounds too

I bought a Costco sized bag of macadamia nuts because I thought I could handle it ... I couldn't. I almost cried as I put about $5 worth of macadamia nuts down the garbage disposal instead of eating them, but that was my NSV!!