What's Your Most Recent NSV
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I have trouble getting my heart rate up when I walk - even when I do hills and steps. I’m having to really crank up the intensity to get the effect of just walking on a flat surface when I was at my heaviest weight.19
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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.46
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After football watching, and before dark, I was going to take a walk. Had been eating pizza, and chips, etc. so this was definitely a high calorie event. The weather was a bit cool, but calm. My husband wanted to join me, and we invited our adult son. All of us walked for the better part of an hour!!33
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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.38 -
I finished a 30 minute aerobic video without stopping! I've never been able to do that before.
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AwesomeSquirrel wrote: »AwesomeSquirrel wrote: »After reigniting my ashtanga yoga practice in late July I did a headstand today for the first time. I did it against the wall for safety as I’m in home practice, but I didn’t really need it so I’ll work my way to the middle of the room in the coming week or two.
Middle of the room headstand this morning ☺️
Yay! I am happy dancing for you. I can only get into them so far against the wall. Baby steps.8 -
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.22
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We went to a nice restaurant tonight- outside dining with heaters. It is the first really nice dinner out that we have had since COVID started. I had what I wanted and still managed to stay under 1600 calories for the day. (I am at 1200 calories so it was high for me but worth it.) I even had desert. In the past I would have had a salad and felt disappointed and deprived. I decided before we went that I would bring half my meal home. I was very careful all day so I would have enough calories for a splurge. I was pleased that I could manage my eating during the day and make good choices tonight to have a very enjoyable evening. I know my weight may bounce up for a day or 2 but I am ok with that as well.24
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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 😲
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AwesomeSquirrel wrote: »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 😲
I definitely felt it when I lost a layer of fat off my lower back and upper hips. Lower back is more a "feel" but the profile of my lower back to rump has definitely changed, when I look in the mirror. And I feel it too. I sit back further against chairs and in the bathtub.
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GreenValli wrote: »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.
I think I might be misunderstanding.
You want to weigh less than 100lbs and then you still want to lose weight so you are no longer obese? I am curious how tall you are.4 -
Today I fit into a size 18 jeans and a 3x sports bra for the first time in more than 10 years.
I am officially small enough to buy clothes in 'normal' stores again.24 -
We unexpectedly went to Fuddrucker's for lunch on Saturday. Rather than freaking out or throwing in the towel I had a turkey burger instead of beef, ditched the bun as too many not-worth-it calories, added extra toppings to make a pseudo-salad, and only ate about 3/4 of the tater tots. The meal could easily have been twice the number of calories but I made it work. Gotta let life in!27
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Yesterday I went to a baby shower. I put on my most snug pair of skinny jeans only to have them falling off of me. While there, I only ate a mini turkey sub and a cupcake and skipped the chips and soda and didn't feel deprived at all!19
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I finally bought new underwear. From XL to M.
Its such a weird feeling to have my pants fit and my underwear falling off underneath them so size aside, new underwear is a happy occasion. The size is a happy bonus since I was just gonna go to L.
Also finally got my bench press to 55 lbs. I know that seems like a weenie weight to most people but I seriously have no arm strength. Haven't since I broke my elbow in 2012.
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So two things to share: #1 - I haven't been in a grocery store since the very beginning of March, before we starting working from home due to Covid. My teenage son works at a grocery store, so I have him do all of the grocery shopping. But this weekend, he and I went to the grocery store together. The reason I wanted to go was I am tired of eating the same things all the time and wanted to go to the store and see what new foods I could pick out. Well, I am pleased to report that even though I haven't been in a store for over 7.5 months, I didn't get sucked in by foods I used to purchase. I stuck to the right foods!! I looked at labels of new foods I was interested in - and didn't get sucked in to things that "looked" healthy.
#2 - One of the things we had to buy at the store was Halloween candy for trick or treat. I let my son pick out whatever kind he wanted for us to hand out. In the past, I would have picked based on what I personally wanted, so that I could pick out some candy before, and/or after. But this time, those thoughts didn't even cross my mind. I couldn't even tell you what we ended up buying other than to say two big bags of chocolate stuff and one bag of non-chocolate stuff.
This, is progress. 29 -
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.
At my office, shared, unwrapped food is banned until further notice. I’m hoping when they start allowing it again that I have your strength. You inspired me today.
I baked treats for friends on Saturday (an excuse to get rid of all the white flour and butter in the house) and didn’t taste-test anything. Even when I delivered my friend’s birthday cake yesterday and he offered me some, I turned it down.
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Finally mastered a proper pushup (well, I actually managed 6 before my form went bad!). By "proper" I mean finally not from my knees!29
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Ran 7 miles on Saturday. Most miles I have ever ran.39
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