What's Your Most Recent NSV

I have a set of draws that I think of as the draws of shame... it's full of clothes I am too big for. A lot of them brand new because my mum would buy me clothes for Christmas but they would always be too small and I would stick them in the draws of shame.

Anyway, I have been on a really good run this last month and tonight at 1.10 am I decided to go look in the draws of shame...

I realized I can fit most of the clothes now, and they stuff I can't fit I will be able to in a few weeks or months... Brand new clothes! Trousers, shorts, jeans, swimming togs, and work shirts. I always have hardly any clothes because it's hard to shop for stuff my size. Also, I can fit my old kickboxing t-shirts from 6 years ago, which are still in fairly good condition. (because they never really fit well.)

Strangely the pants all seem to fit better but the tops not quite as good.

Also if anyone wants to add a new friend for accountability feel free to add me, I have been logging everyday for the last month and I am keen to add new people.

I am walking to various places that I would have driven to in the past to run errands. These walks are in addition to my regular exercise. My legs no longer hurt after a wallk!

I moved up my weights for basically all my strength training. 25lb RDL's!

I’ve sized down in sport bras and the new ones (size L) look so small..! But they fit great.

I also shaved another 45 seconds off my 5K time. I don’t really have a speed goal right now (focusing on maintaining mileage and routine over winter), but getting closer to 6 min/km is always welcome (today was 6:36).

I walked 500 steps with outstopping. I've increased my daily steps by 2000steps.

My regular jeans (32r from the Gap) keep sliding down and don’t actually need to be unbuttoned anymore. I only started wearing them in august....

The smallest pair of jeans I own (size 42 EU, size 12 US I think) now fit fine, and I should probably start thrifting the next size down.

I’m actually within 5 kg of a healthy BMI and 9 kg to my goal weight, and I kind of hope I won’t drop more than 1 more size in the near future...

3 months ago I bought a new belt. I used the middle notch when I bought it. It seemed like a good bet, two notches bigger or smaller.

Well, It's too big now...smallest notch only works on my fat guy jeans because there is so much loose material.

Yesterday, for the first time in 8 months, I walked around the neighborhood. Was dismayed and disappointed by the number of younger adults still not wearing masks in public, but whenever they appeared, I just walked into the street, stood on the drivers side of a parked vehicle and waited for them to pass me 12 feet away. I had SARS-CoV-2 early on, in FEB. Damned near killed me, and my gastrointestinal tract hasn't been the same since. But I suited up with my 6-ply heavy-duty mask and risked walking for the sake of my physical and mental health anyway, and spent 45 minutes outside. Hope to make a daily habit of it.

I haven’t worn a watch much during WFH but needed one on today.

My preferred watch has metal links so is a set size, it was actually been too small for me until about august this year. Today I put it on and when I raised my arm it slid almost halfway to my elbow 🤦‍♀️ I’ll wait until goal until I get it resized since I don’t have to be wearing it.

I put on my other watch with a leather strap instead. Apparently I’m on the innermost notch.

Somewhat related I can just about close my thumb and first finger around my wrist now.

Been sleeping 8-10.5 hours a night for a week and loving it!

I had to do mandatory saturday at work yesterday and they brought in donuts. In the past, I usually couldnt wait for my break time to go eat a couple. I would think about it every minute, mouth watering. Lol. Well, yesterday, they announced donuts are here and I just went on with my business, not caring about donuts at all and just went outside during my break.

A little background: I grew up as a candy freak. My sweet tooth was always massive and I pretty much ate it any chance I got, and always to excess. My dental visits were nightmares, and I loved everything carb. Halloween was my favorite holiday and I used to plan out ways of getting maximum candy during trick or treating.

With all that said, I've spent the last 294 days eating minimal sugar, except for two holidays in there, and having my main sugar source be fruit. A square or two of dark chocolate sometimes after dinner, and occasional sugar free sweets also, like protein bars. That's still tiny compared to what I used to do and it's been reflected on the scale.

Today I went to the grocery store. I was intending to have a small, one serving size bag of candy corn as a treat and fit it into my calories. I'd thought about it several times before I went to the store. However, when I got there I only halfheartedly remembered to find it, and when it wasn't in the expected place I promptly forgot about it in my quest for chicken breast! No regrets, no sadness over having forgotten, just thoughts of how much TP will I need and what flavor of cat food to get. That's a HUGE NSV for me, even more major because it seemed such a small thing at the time.

fstrickl wrote: »

I got into crow pose and managed to hold!

I feel ya!!! That moment of holding it for more than one second is amazing! Keep up the good work

I have a logged in and maintained a food diary streak for 301 days. I have been using MFP for 6 years. The first 4 years I lost 25 pounds and the last 2 years I lost 54 pounds more. It has been a long journey but I have learned SO MUCH: cooking healthy foods, planning what I eat, making better choices. When I lost enough weight to be under 100 lbs I promised myself I would never, ever weigh 100 again, and I haven't. I still would like to lose enough weight to no longer in the obese category. My current goal. I am getting close.

My back feels skinnier. I don’t quite know how to describe it, but it’s like I can feel that j lost a layer of fat between my shoulder blades.

My shoulder blades also stick out more, so I don’t think I’m imagining things but it’s weird that I can actually FEEL it whenever I move muscles in my back 😲