What's Your Most Recent NSV

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Your BMI Score is:
24.7
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18.5 – 24.9:
If you fall between this range, you’re at the ideal weight for your height.

I realized this morning that I tied my shoes without having to hold my breath, suck in my gut, and heart rate going to 200 bpm.

I realized today that I've spend less than $250 on food this month, which is a huge improvement from prior months. It's amazing how quickly my food bill drops when I cut out fast food/delivery! I don't expect to have to buy much more (if anything) this month, so I'm quite pleased that I've come in below budget for the month on food (the first time this has happened ALL YEAR).

Today it was getting up at 6:15am to hit the pool for the first time in a month. Our covid restrictions have been eased up again. Basically the gyms and pools are open again at reduced numbers. And even though I am totally not a morning person, I did it anyway because the idea of getting in that pool was way too important to me.

Awesome NSVs everybody! Today when I was in the grocery store there was a tight squeeze at the check out (one of those way too thoroughly accessorized checkout lines) and I was expecting to have difficulty getting through to unload my cart. NOPE. I had room to spare. What's better, I thought about reading an NSV like this, from this very thread, several months back when I was newer to weight loss. At the time I thought "NEAT!" Now I think "HEY! That's ME!" I have a ways to go but the ol' belly is shrinking a lot.

Without really thinking about it I took tiny slivers of cake, half a cookie etc of all dishes at the Christmas meal this year. I think this eating-like-a-healthy-weight individual is getting ingrained!

Today was Christmas day, but it was also running day, and I made the two work together.

As it was a cold but sunny day, and I was in such a good mood, I ran twice the time I had planned at first. Kind of a gift to myself. I felt great after the run. Jeez, I still feel great now, and it's been several hours since I got back home and landed on the couch watching movies.

When I weighed myself on Christmas morning, yesterday, I found that my efforts to turn things around have really paid off this past week. I found to my great delight that I have lost 7lbs since my last weigh in! That works out at a pound a day as I weigh myself once per week. I have got down to 13st a weight I haven't been for four years, and I am just one pound away from my mini goal of 12st 13lbs! On Christmas day I only over indulged a little and this morning I have done 30 minutes on my mini stepper burning 331 calories. I am so pleased that things are going well after the discouragement of the previous 2 weeks of having put on 2 pounds per week. I knew I could do it but what a great surprise 7lbs was!

I don't know how "real" this is BUT I've been doing strength training for about 2 months now and am starting to feel my biceps under my fat and when I flex a muscle pops up and it can be felt! Also, my quads feel harder and my legs have a little less jiggle over all. Can't wait to do my monthly measurement!

AvaEBerry wrote: »

I bake cookies with my daughter for our friends and neighbors every year at Christmas time. We both wear aprons and, this year, I was able to bring the belt of my apron back around to the front and tie it in a bow! Last year, it barely tied at the back.

Yes! I had a similar apron victory a couple of week ago. Felt awesome, and I was able to tuck in a tea towel to the belt for easy access too.

Another NSV I just thought of: I regularly eat vegetables with breakfast now! Today's breakfast was 2 poached eggs with a large zucchini, pan fried in a small amount of butter, and some wilted spinach. 250 calories, and very delicious!

I mark the inside of my belt every time I lose a hole. Today I moved another one.

I'm wearing size 4 or 6 and smalls in most things. Mediums for things I like looser. I told myself I wasn't going to be smaller than a large due to my bust, and it certainly hasn't shrunk and it means I can't fit everything if bust room is required but that's fine. I feel like parts of me are still quite flabby but most of me has gotten quite small. Here's hoping I can improve my body comp in 2021.

I've lost over an inch off my waist and my hourglass figure is starting to present a little more clearly... feeling hot

I'm also working on a goal to run a 5k by this summer and I can now run two ~3-4 minute bursts while I'm out walking, I started at maybe 1-2 minutes spread over 2-3 bursts. Time is estimated because I measure by the song I'm listening to, not actual time. I used to run cross country in high school (and now realizing that was 10 years ago!) so I know I can do it since I used to do it all the time, it's just a matter of getting back to it.