What's Your Most Recent NSV

NSV - two month update: (cross posted on my feed)

Well...Partial Scale victory I guess.

This year has been crazy for pretty much everyone. While at the beginning of it in March was all comfort food and day drinking; I recently decided to use this time I was given as a means to change. Not just eating and exercise. I quit tobacco cold turkey (well, a bit. Had some of that nicotine gum on hand for when I thought I'd falter). That was always on my to-do list but the stress of life always seemed more overwhelming than my need to quit. Not this time. Today is 2 months free. I did stumble a month or so ago but it left me feeling like garbage. I'm actually glad I did it since it pretty much solidified my resolve for walking this path. In July I essentially put a "pause" on weight loss. I knew quitting tobacco would cause my weight to jump and I was okay with that. The oral fixation and withdrawal could be swayed with some comfort food. To my surprise my weight stayed stagnant. Best case scenario for me in this situation.

Drinking had to be severely cut down as well. I was never an alcoholic, but the "social" part of drinking went away with social distancing and eventually drifted to "pass the time drinking" and "why the f*** not?" drinking; wasn't like I had anywhere to be. I do have some bourbon now and then. I don't plan to have 0, just with much more moderation. The advent of summer and outdoor get-togethers only increased the amount of alcohol consumption. I avoided beer and figured I'd drink "healthy" by pounding Hard Seltzer. Doesn't work that way when you need to drink 1500 calories worth of hard seltzer to get a buzz. I was already on my weight loss journey by then but was not seeing the results I wanted. When I logged it and found I needed to drink damn near the entire 12 pack to get a buzz...I realized a hard reset was exactly what my body needed.

Sleep. Get good sleep people. I used my vices as late night distractions and would sleep very poorly. Getting a full nights rest is one of your best weight loss tools. I thought I could handle my vices, poor sleep AND weight loss. False.

Today officially marks 27 lbs total weight lost since starting in Nov 2019. I'm still heavier than I've been most of my life.

But I've also never felt healthier.

Be safe, be strong and be blessed

I have moved up to using 3kg dumbbells from 2kg, for most moves/circuits. To put that in perspective, when I started back in May It was using 0.5 kg dumbbells. I am really noticing the difference in my shoulders which have been a problem area for me for ages.

Today for the first time someone not related to me (co-worker) commented that I look good in reference to my weight-loss and it felt good to hear it.

Apparently losing 45 pounds helped with the urge incontinence. For which I am very very grateful.

I have been a soda addict for years - decades really. I used to drink numerous cans of Coke a day, within the last couple of years I switched to Coke Zero which was a step in a better direction. Sadly, I didn't really back off on the quantity that I was drinking and I was still consuming A LOT of soda in a day. Since I started taking control over my choices and my health, I've been drinking more water and I've noticed...I haven't had a soda (nor craved one) in 4 weeks!! It wasn't an intentional choice, it just kind of happened - it's funny how some things fall into place when you focus on the big picture.

It's only sort of a NSV because it's directly related to my weight, but I knocked out a set of five chin ups this morning. Haven't done that in years, and it's all due to getting progressively leaner (17% BF down from 25% BF).

My most recent NSV: going on a road trip with a friend...in my "BEFORE" days that would have meant stocking up on M&Ms and Twizzlers when we stopped for gas, but THIS time I planned ahead and brought organic snap peas and Turkey Chomps to snack on! Woo Hoo! Felt so good!

Went out for pizza and wings- ate 4 wings and 2 pieces of flat bread pizza + a Mic Ultra. I was only +115 over my calories for the day because I was careful all day. I could have, and definitely in the past would have eaten more but tonight it was just enough. I have a friend doing another program and she will not consider eating out because of it. I personally cannot live that way. Proud that I could eat without over indulging.

Got in my jeans today. Been my goal for 3 months. Love it.

@nighthawk584 That is VERY impressive! One thing to get that many miles on a road bike, but a whole other category to rack up that many miles on mountain.