What's Your Most Recent NSV

I’m twenty pounds down and I can officially say that when in sitting in the dining room my thighs no longer touch the table.

I have conquered my mayonnaise addiction! I made tuna salad today with nonfat Greek yogurt instead and it was even better than with mayo! The yogurt is only 50 calories, much of it protein and no fat, versus 300 calories, mostly fat.

I can run up 2 flights of stairs on my tip toes just for fun after a day of work. I would have never thought about doing that 4 months ago.

I am going to celebrate an older NSV, two weeks ago before more lockdown restrictions came into effect, I was swimming in the pool for an hour non stop. Plus I had almost crossed the whole pool underwater on one breathe. If they hadn't shut the pools, I figure I would be making it the whole way across under with one breathe now. Oh well, I have something to work on when pools reopen.

asthesoapturns wrote: »

This might be a strange one, but I'm really starting to see it. Logically I know I'm smaller, I went from 210lb to 138lb, obviously, I'm smaller but I'm actually seeing it. Instead of just seeing those spots I'm not happy with I'm seeing what I've accomplished in the last year, and I'm happy. Hopefully, I can firm up those spots I'm not thrilled with but if now? I look damn good in my clothes and no one is seeing me naked. XD.

I am happy for you! I'm in my later 60's and have so much less collagen in my skin, and as I take the weight off my skin is getting those old-lady-fine-line-wrinkles everywhere, and my skin is getting baggy, no snapping back this time around, thighs and arms are always going to wiggle like jello even though they shrink in circumference. At first I was pretty upset, but then I thought "Hey, I'm looking better in my clothes, and as an old lady it's unlikely that anyone except my physician is going to see me naked!" I've had a lot of health concerns over the years, but I'm still here, still useful. And anyone who judges me by the appearance of my exterior isn't worthy of my friendship.

I have security cams in my spare rooms. I used to go in and then see the pics later and think "UGGGG" now I see my pics and think "Man you're doing good".

I am not a very social person, but have been hearing more and more about people in my wider social circle feeling lonely, depressed, and disconnected, so I put out an invite to my local homeschooling group to join me for 7 am walk, prayer, and social time two mornings a week.

Today was the first morning—30 degrees, biked 15 min to and from meetup location, and walked with 3 other ladies for 45 minutes. They were so happy to get some exercise and some safe (outdoors, walking apart) social time. Should be at least that many on Thursday morning! Definitely a nice start to the day, and happy to be helping people get out and be active and connected to others as winter starts.

I am frustrated. I've clearly found a maintenance level as I haven't lost anything significant in almost 4 weeks.

My NSV is that I know what is happening, and I can take steps to change it. I'm not giving up. I'm not throwing up my hands and screaming "WHY?!?!?" at the heavens. Instead, because of the great advice from these forums, I will check out my diary, see where I can tighten things up, and make positive changes.

gradchica27 wrote: »

I am not a very social person, but have been hearing more and more about people in my wider social circle feeling lonely, depressed, and disconnected, so I put out an invite to my local homeschooling group to join me for 7 am walk, prayer, and social time two mornings a week.

Today was the first morning—30 degrees, biked 15 min to and from meetup location, and walked with 3 other ladies for 45 minutes. They were so happy to get some exercise and some safe (outdoors, walking apart) social time. Should be at least that many on Thursday morning! Definitely a nice start to the day, and happy to be helping people get out and be active and connected to others as winter starts.

this is such a lovely thing to do @gradchica27 I'm sure those women will have appreciated it more than you know!

I discovered today that all of my shoes are too big. Not just by a little bit either. They were all fine the other day so this is very unexpected!

My NSV, I feel like my mind set has done a complete 180 and I bloody needed it. It was horrible for a while there, pretty sure I cried almost everyday for a week. But I think I have it now. I think I have decided to just focus on me and fight for me. I think everything else will fall into place. Or at least I hope it will. I suppose part of it is finally knowing that there is an end in sight for covid and vaccines will begin soon. I look forward to traveling and getting some serious adventures under my belt again. Really wanna go back down south and surf. And return to my snowboarding adventures. I have too many bucket list ski resorts to be missing out on...lol

I love this! I am in the same position as you. I paused my weight loss for this season. It has been a long maintenance season of losing and gaining the same 5 pounds but I am not beating myself up about it. I am happy to have lost 50 pounds and have maintained it for 6 months. I have not maintained this much weight loss in the last 10 years. I am setting fitness goals and keeping up with the things I do best which is the exercise. Thanks for sharing! 😊

AlexandraFindsHerself1971 wrote: »

Instead of freaking out and just eating what the heck ever, I recognized that my eating disorder is flaring, and have just set my calories to maintenance until I get to a better frame of mind. All I'm doing now is working on just logging what goes in my mouth, and not gaining any weight. This may get better after Christmas. This is a stressful time of year all round.

My NSV is being able to do this and be confident in the fact that I've lost 50 pounds, I can lose more when the noise in my head around weight and food dies down, without punishing myself or bad self-talk.

I have been trying to build strength, slowly but surely, and today at the park there was a bar for pushups and another for tricep dips, and I managed to do more than my boyfriend! Haha, he is out of shape and had put on weight though.. but hey, I thought I was weak but I'm getting stronger. And I get a kick out of being able to beat him at that. I think it really drove home for him how out of shape he is too, so hopefully that means he will try to regain some of that lost strength and we can make the workout at the park a regular thing.

I recently received a drawer full of fitness gear from my dresser—stuff I had stashed away as goal clothes that I couldn’t wear yet, some of which I hadn’t even tried beyond the calves.

I now fit into all of them. I threw away the tired, ill fitting pieces I had arrived with and now have a while new workout wardrobe.

I had my Breast cancer population screening scan today. The last one was 2 years ago and the compare images immediately. I got called in about the fact that they noticed a significant decrease in fatty tissue.

An unexpected way to find out that my muscle building/fat reduction is working (I have been in maintenance for 3 years, but trying to build muscle/bulking a bit)