What's Your Most Recent NSV

Donated my 112th pint (14 gallon) of blood today.

All my jeans from last year look like clown pants on me so I’m getting rid of them.
I was feeling good on my walk today and I broke into a light jog and it didn’t feel like I was dying.
I pre-logged chocolate for myself (trying to figure out how to treat myself in moderation) but I managed to forget??? To eat them??? And I already brushed my teeth for the night!

I made a homemade pizza last night, and it had Italian sausage and cheese. It was hearty! I limited myself to one moderately sized piece! My hunger was quite satisfied with that, plus a salad. It really was enough.

I tried on new shoes. I stood on one leg, took out one shoe, put the shoe on the floor, took out wool sock (Finnish winter, can´t do without), put on the new shoe, fastened it, then put my foot back down. Stood on one leg for the whole procedure, with ease.

My non scale victory is finally fitting in the dress I wore to my wedding dress rehearsal 13+ years ago. I’ve kept it all these years, dispute almost giving up hope. But I refused to get rid of it.

I did it!
And it feels so freaking good smashing this goal!

I entered two runs for yesterday. A 5km and a 2.5km, back to back, thus adding up to 7.5km. The farthest I've ever run is 5km. I completed both runs back to back and was only 3 minutes slower overall than my last 5km run time.

deadenddiva wrote: »

I'm in the elderly category at 67. Losing considerable weight means that my wrinkles become more pronounced and that there are more of them. In the sunlight today I saw the lovely pattern of geometric crinkles up and down my arms. I see my face losing its wrinkle-defying plumpness, in the morning my eyes are double-lidded. My thighs are muscular, but over the muscles there is a whole lot of saggy baggy skin.
I embrace all of this, reminding myself that I had ovarian cancer 6 years ago and survived it, and had a thyroid lobe removed 3 months ago, the scar has healed wonderfully, and I can breathe and swallow without obstruction now. I have been so lucky in this skin, so I embrace it in all of its changes with all my heart!

I am seeing this as well. But it's still better than the exta weight. I can move around better and feel more energetic and confident. My goal is to live a long happy healthy life. Wrinkles don't affect that but the extra weight does. So, I am right there with you!

I was taking a bath and when I looked at my legs I was like, "Wait, that's cute. My legs are cute."

RelCanonical wrote: »

I have had some hardcore struggle days when it comes to eating, to the point of binge eating. I went through a depressive period and the transitional period coming out of it made eating a big struggle. I'm doing better though, and I'm hoping being back here will help me be more consistent!

Missed you. Glad you're back and through it.

I don’t take up as much space In the bath now

So yesterday I made my birthday cake. Well, cakes. I'll celebrate a bit at lunch today with my partners, so I wanted a little cake then, and I wanted some cake to take to my mother's house tomorrow, when my sons will be off work and we can all have lunch together.

So instead of making a 9 x 13 which would make far more cake than I want in the house, I wound up taking a small 4 x 6 baking dish and a square 8 inch baking dish, and putting the batter in those and tossing what didn't fit. That made me a small three-person cake for here, and the square cake should handle five pieces and I'll leave the rest there for my boys. I really didn't want cupcakes sitting in my freezer. They would have sung to me, and I try to keep food that sings out of the house. This way by Monday there will be no birthday cake sitting around, and I'll have had a piece on my birthday and a piece the day after, and then it will be gone.

I also iced the cake (I love that they make sugar-free icing!) and when I was done I had about a third of a cup of icing left. And I pointed out to myself that saving it was silly. What was I going to do with it? I can't eat fruit so dipping apple slices into it was out, and I can't eat graham crackers dipped in frosting without having the fructose intolerance hammer me. No one else in the household needs it. And if I do get someone asking me to make the cake again, I'll go to the store and get a fresh can of frosting. So I just tossed it.

Before this I would have made both the 9 x 13 and the cupcakes and felt tremendously guilty and like a failure every time I found myself nuking a cupcake at midnight, and would have had a headache and felt stupid for eating the leftover icing with a spoon. There would have been stale cake sitting around singing to me which I would have eaten even if it was stale, and felt stupid doing it.

Now I feel like I can make choices and enjoy things (like birthday cake)! in a sensible manner. I'm happy with this.

My A1c was 5.2 and my HDL was up to 50 from 40.

I forgot to eat lunch! I have never in my life forgotten to eat a meal. I'm highly surprised.

I've tracked my food using MFP and my calories burned using FitBit for 30 days now!! I'm so proud of myself!

Boots! I retired these kick-*kitten* boots over a year ago as they wouldn’t zip up. Now they’re baaaaaaack 🥰