What's Your Most Recent NSV

This one is kind of personal but I'm feeling so proud of myself right now.

So I had a lot of issues with food when I was younger and since then, losing weight has always been a vicious cycle of restriction and binging and falling back into bad habits. This time round I've given myself a higher calorie goal and I'm more focused on exercise.

Tonight we ordered pizza for my dad's birthday. The old me would have starved myself all day, and maybe even the day before, only to eat myself literally sick when the food came.
Today I had a healthy breakfast and lunch, got in some exercise, and only ate pizza until I felt full. I may have gone way over my calories, but I don't feel guilty at all and I know tomorrow I'll be back to healthy eating!

12-year-old me cried when my dad brought me home a milkshake I hadn't planned into my day.
I wish that kid could see where I am today!

I got into my old favorite M sized shirt and a pair of size 6 jeans I never thought I would wear again, especially after going through menopause. It has been 269 days and I'm still going strong!

This is a strange one, but I just noticed that when I put my hands on my waist, thumbs forward and fingers back, my fingers touch at my spine. I have lost 5 cm off my waist over the past few months, and I can now feel it!

I also need to get a new photo taken for zoom. The old one shows my face at probably 10kg heavier than I weigh now, and I can see the difference.

charmmeth wrote: »

This is a strange one, but I just noticed that when I put my hands on my waist, thumbs forward and fingers back, my fingers touch at my spine. I have lost 5 cm off my waist over the past few months, and I can now feel it!

Hah! Reading your post I had to try and was excited to find out my fingers easily touch at my spine also. Thank you for alerting me to a new NSV!

muszyngr wrote: »

ElBence wrote: »

I have been tracking how far I've been swimming this year using a spreadsheet that breaks out distances by day, week, month, and year with averages and totals for each. I looked at my total yards today and found that I had broken one million yards this week. With my pool being shut down for two months during a global pandemic, that makes me even happier to have achieved it.

that's awesome so what are you doing in a day like 3,000 ? and how long does that take you, from one swimmer to another

I started the year doing 3,600 yards/day 6 days/week. I got sick in February, covid hit in March and shut down my pool until mid May. When I started back up again, I started with 5,000/day and slowly ramped up from there. I'm up to 7,200-8,000/day. I'll miss a day or two for other things like not sleeping well the night before, vacation, or sometimes my pool has water polo tournaments on Saturdays, but other than that, it's been mostly 6 days/week. 7,200 usually takes me two hours when I break it out into sets, but if I swim freestyle straight through, I can get 4,100/hour.

Sets look something like this:

2300-2500 free
300 pull
300 kick
400 IM ladder

400 back with the middle 100 sprinting
300 back pull
300 back kick
300 IM ladder dropping fly

400 breast with the middle 100 sprinting
300 breast pull
300 breast kick
300 IM ladder still dropping fly

400 free sprint middle 100
300 pull
300 kick
300 IM ladder cool down

Looking over my grocery-delivery order and realizing that other than cheese, I do not have a single highly-processed and full of unpronounceable additive names item on the entire list, unless you count toilet paper as a highly processed item. Also, finding that Walmart carries 1 pound bags of frozen "root" veggies! Love frozen veggies- portion control is so easy, and nothing goes to waste! Also, discovering that my diet is actually now too low in salt!

Yesterday a co-worker brought in a cake roll and mini kringles. If you live in the midwest, you likely know what kringles are and how absolutely delicious they are. They're like danishes.
He kept offering because he didn't want to take them home and he didn't want them to go to waste. I finally accepted but told him I didn't want a whole lot, I only wanted to try it. So we split a very small corner of it.
It wasn't bad, but I'm pleased that my palate has definitely changed because it was way too sweet for me to enjoy. Sickeningly sweet. It made me really happy though, because I used to have a problem with binge eating and one small taste would have spiraled me into eating everything in sight in the past.
I did steer clear of the kringles, though. Way too tempting lol
And on the way home from the gym, I was starving and debated stopping for food. But it was late and the only thing available was fast food. I kept driving and made myself avocado and egg toast instead when I got home

I've observed I'm being mindful about eating again. Yesterday I really wanted to eat. It's just that I wasn't hungry. There is a lot of tasty food in my house, most of it is actually healthy. I have a half-batch of adzuki beans and a serving left of chanterelle-barley soup. I have some smoked halibut. And of course I have less healthy choices.

But I wasn't hungry.

So I decided not to eat.

The non-NSV is that the scale responds to this, and my mass is back in my maintenance range. Maintenance can be as difficult as people say. It's a journey with no end until you stop breathing or give up. I'm not giving up.

I am doing an indoor rowing challenge this month, aiming to row a half marathon (=21.1km) by the end of the month. That meant that I rowed 12km this morning, which is for me is the first time I've rowed above 10km. It took 57 minutes (on a WaterRower).