What's Your Most Recent NSV

I went back to the gym today. It’s been months and I’m happy to say I did 20 minutes on the elliptical and it didn’t kill me!

So, I went out for a bike ride and did 5 miles. As I was coming in the driveway I see my 11 year old nephews in the driveway with their bikes. They said, wanna go for a bike ride? Not to disappoint I said sure! Hopped back on and we started riding. I heard my nephew say, we should wait for Aunt Kaitie, right as I was passing him! And he said ‘Oh!’ In complete surprise that I was peddling just as fast as they were—which honestly, wasn’t very fast but still, 7 miles and I wasn’t even winded. Wahoo!

wore a pair of REGULAR size jeans i found in my closet!!

My waist is now 35". Last March, I started MFP at bust= 46", waist=46", hips=49" and now bust and hips=38". Waist will always be bigger due to long term obesity, weight loss and regain and kidney/pancreas surgery(coming up on 12 year anniversary), surgery to remove scar tissue and intestine that was being strangled by scar tissue caused by transplant, 7 MRSA necrotic tissue removals from infection in the transplant incision and one old fashioned gall bladder removal that cut the nerves on that side of my stomach leaving the surrounding tissue lax and larger on that side than the other. But it is 35" AND I am happy to be there.

My favorite jeans fit again!

Down a pants size, and SO close to 15%. Happy Tuesday!

tightened my belt one notch this morning.

My edema is going down significantly, and my legs are almost normal size.

I was hanging up clothes out of the dryer last night and panicked that everything had shrunk in the wash. I'm still so new at seeing the new sizes of clothes that I briefly forgot that I'm the one who has been shrinking.

I was on my walk and noticed my heart rate just wasn’t as high as I wanted it (Fitbit has 109 as entering my fat burning zone) so I decided to do a tiny jog (still feel too fat to jog in public) but I did about 1/2 mile when I got a notification on my phone that my gps mileage tracker for work picked up a new drive!

That fact that I jogged at all is a huge NSV but that my tracker picked it up too? I was very happy 😊

Great visit at the cardiologist. She was thrilled with my bp, my weight loss and increased exercise. I don't need to go back for a year!

Pandemic home workouts and lack of motivation mean I haven’t squatted my body weight in...over a year? Today did 130x10 as my last set and it felt great! Now to get some safety bars for the squat rack so I can keep going!

Just got this today, it’s my best so far!🥵🔥😣👣 I thought I’d be dragging myself around today or stay in bed all day, but I think I am getting stronger!💪🏽😊

I have recently upped all of my weights in my Body Pump class at the gym! I am seeing sooo much more muscle definition and feel strong!

I made was able to make a brunch that satisfied my husband and met my nutritional goals for the day. Let's be honest, I gave him first and second breakfast in one sitting while I just had an omelette with a bit of fruit, but it worked for us.