What's Your Most Recent NSV

One thing I'm noticing is a higher amount of energy. I live in a house with a lot of stairs, and before I started consciously losing weight, I'd often avoid doing little tasks around the house because it required me to get something from another level... now I just bound up or down and get it done. Makes me feel great.

Yesterday morning I woke up 3 pounds heavier than usual. In the past I would have panicked. I would have gotten frustrated. I would have gone hog wild on the holiday foods. Instead I thought rationally, knew there was no way I had eaten enough to gain 3 pounds overnight, and went on with my day. Today my weight is right where I would have expected it to be. It feels good to be in control.

I do workouts by fitness blender and they have a lot of floor exercises too so previously I had to take support of the wooden desk next to my PC to get up and because of my weight I could easily move the desk while trying to get up but now it doesn't move when I take support maybe coz I'm also 4 kgs lighter 😛😉
From 85 kgs in Nov 2020 to 81 kgs as of now!

I rolled out of bed at 5:45 this morning to make it to a 6:15 class at the gym.

Iwannabeapunkrockmom wrote: »

Took this photo today and realized the features in my face are returning instead of just being a round blob.

You look great

Today I went to the gym and lifted weights.
Then I made lunch (quesadillas) which requires a lot of standing and watching over them.
Ate lunch, didn't want anything else.
Went to the home improvement store. Bought two potted roses and some annuals for a container, plus a bag of grass seed and a bag of mulch. Immediately when I came home I planted the annuals in their container, planted canna lily bulbs in another container, and planted the roses, which meant I had to walk up and down the hill to get the shovel and rake and then back again to put them away....

And I came in and my bad foot was sore from being used on the shovel (oops) but otherwise...I'm okay. I'm happy to sit down and have a lot of water, but I'm not needing a nap or so worn out I won't be able to cook later. This is AMAZING. I feel almost like I'm normal.

I can now wrap a bath sheet around my waist without having to suck my stomach in first and I can see my toes again.

Hopefully I'll be able to see my feet soon and not just my toes!

This sounda stupid but I'm pretty codependent and most of my office works from home now. That means all of my walking buddies aren't there anymore. It's taken a long time but I finally have gotten myself to take walks alone during my breaks. It's perfect because I'm getting out the office, I can go at my own speed, and I'm getting extra calories burned. 😊

My NSV to today was going to the Spa my birthday present to me from me. And being able and not ashamed to get a massage. Before the idea of taking my clothes off and having someone rub my fat around was appalling to me. Instead of going to dinner tonight I went to the spa this morning for a spa, manicure and pedicure it was awesome. A combination reward for reaching goal by my birthday and birthday present rolled into one. This was my first massage EVER in my life it was amazing.

My pants are to loose!

I tried a pair of ridiculously small looking stretchy jeans on, expecting them to lodge above my knees and go no further. Instead, they slid right up and fastened comfortably—so much so that I wore them all day.

I had thought I was just about ready to go down one size. Turns out I’ve already dropped that size and am getting close to another. Another month and it won’t be the stretchy jeans. Another 2.5 months or thereabouts and I’ll be in single digit clothing again. That’s a good non scale victory to me

GetZet wrote: »

I tried a pair of ridiculously small looking stretchy jeans on, expecting them to lodge above my knees and go no further. Instead, they slid right up and fastened comfortably—so much so that I wore them all day.

I had thought I was just about ready to go down one size. Turns out I’ve already dropped that size and am getting close to another. Another month and it won’t be the stretchy jeans. Another 2.5 months or thereabouts and I’ll be in single digit clothing again. That’s a good non scale victory to me

that's HUGE!!! great job, you must feel so good!!

Just realized this is actually an NSV. I'm under a MASSIVE amount of stress at work and have been for over a month. It's gone from almost dealable to moderately sucky to "I want to quit as of yesterday, just let this pain end." And back and forth, randomly. I might have a terrible morning then a great afternoon or a really bad day or a really bad week followed by a good day - I never know ahead of time. It's given me stress induced asthma and made me question my own basic competence as a human being on multiple occasions. It's been bad.

Anyway, my NSV is that the bingiest I ever got was not logging for a few days and going over my total calories a little - enough that I never actually gained any significant weight. An even bigger victory is that instead of wanting to go buy a family sized bag of chips or bake a whole cake and eat it or something, I have been wanting lots of soothing tea. And maybe a little sugar, but not a whole lot. That is a huge difference from the way I was before.

I don't know how much different it would have been if I had been able to go out of the house and stop by my favorite snack source on the way home form work, but hey, I'll take it! I've even used exercise as stress management and that too is a big thing.

25 years ago today, I quit alcohol, drugs, and cigarettes.

When my lovely online yoga teacher asked me to hug my knees into my chest...I was ABLE TO, without huge discomfort for the first time in years!