What's Your Most Recent NSV

So there was no help for it. I HAD to make my quarterly trip to the Super Walmart today because we were out of cat litter. This is the trip where I always buy stuff in bulk. Yes, I'm the person you don't want to stand behind at the checkout. That trip. Turns out even Walmart can be a source of NSV's. Here are a few:

1.) I was able to lift the 35lb cat litter pails multiple times. Even hoisting them over the sides of the cart was no problem! The cashier was impresssed. So was my husband since I usually make him do it. He was VERY happy to skip Walmart today.

2.) Because I had to put the litter pails into the cart first, my cart weighed about 100lbs, and I pushed it all over the store that way. About 2000 steps.

3.) I'd been wanting some cotton tank tops to wear on my outside walks, and I found the perfect ones in the BOYS section for $2.97!!!! And they don't show my bra straps!!! I can't believe I'm actually wearing something from the kids section even if it IS a XXL. It's from the KIDS section!! And actually the XL fit fine. I just prefer workout shirts to be a little loose. The price was so cheap that I bought one in four different colors.

4.) Found some new bath towels for our bathroom. Normal-sized bath towels instead of sheets. I can't WAIT to donate those bath sheets. They're such a pain to wash because they're so big. These will be so much nicer.

5.) Even after loading my whole cart with groceries, the only treats I bought that weren't on the list were sugar free Reese's Mini-Cups and some low sugar cranraisins. Both will be easy to fit into my calories whenever I want something sweet. I didn't even LOOK at the bakery section even though you could smell fresh baked cookies all over the store.

6.) I found a cheap hydration pack for biking and some reasonablly priced 12lb dumbbells that I might go back for. Maybe. The very IDEA of going back to Walmart so soon is ALIEN to me, but it tickles me that I might want FITNESS equipment enough to do it!!

So, there you have it. NSV's are possible to find ANYWHERE.

Starting to notice accessories are getting loose. My wedding band now fits on any finger and hangs loose on my ring finger. My watch that I could only tighten to the first hole, I'm now on the 3rd. I had to get a new belt because the old one was too big. So exciting!

Two weeks ago,I set small goals for myself dealing with self care rather than weight loss. Things like using really nice body and face products daily. Getting up and moving for five minutes every hour during my work day (I work from home), making my bed. I put a sticker on my calendar for each goal I accomplish daily and seeing all of them is really motivating.

extending the distance of my daily walks, yet noticing it doesn't take me as long to walk as it used to. can't wait to get into single digit pants sizes again.

My NSV today is that I did not get on the scale. I ate a lot yesterday (stressful day at work) and was tempted to get on the scale and berate myself for gaining weight. But I remembered that this in an ongoing journey and the number on the scale does not equal my value.

My bike got stolen last weekend and I needed to go pick up a new one. The store is about 5 km away and I decided to do transportation running after work (I only had an hour before they closed), and in short shorts to boot!

I felt a tiny bit self conscious running in more of a city scape, and of course going into the store sweaty and in my running gear but overall it felt fine. And with social distancing I don’t think the cashier minded 🙂

This afternoon I was able to help my husband flip our king-size Tempurpedic mattress.

If you've never had one, those suckers are very heavy and awkward to grab hold of. Ours has gotten uncomfortable for me because it has developed dips that put my shoulders in a weird position when I sleep on my back. Years ago when we tried to adjust this bed, my poor husband had to do it by himself with ropes. This time I could squat down, brace my arms on my knees with my forearms under the mattress and lift my side up with no problems. Only took us a few minutes.

Now I'm just hoping this will fix the problem so we don't have to buy a new mattress yet. I think it will because the bottom side felt a lot firmer. I don't think the tempurpedic is actually designed to be flipped, but it's worth a shot to see if we can salvage the mattress and avoid the expense of a new one.

MargaretYakoda wrote: »

My trick when the scale goes up is I don’t log it.

Same here. My Christmas holidays are charted as a two month plateau.

Geneveremfp wrote: »

MargaretYakoda wrote: »

sviers13 wrote: »

My NSV today is that I did not get on the scale. I ate a lot yesterday (stressful day at work) and was tempted to get on the scale and berate myself for gaining weight. But I remembered that this in an ongoing journey and the number on the scale does not equal my value.

Excellent work!

My trick when the scale goes up is I don’t log it. I know it’s there, but I think “it’s just water weight, no sense logging it”
Which may or may not be true. But it saves me from beating myself up over it. So it works for me.

I will have to reevaluate this when I get near maintenance, but that’s many many pounds away.

I use Libra to log my weights as it gives you trends. So I do a daily weigh in and just log the number. It charts it and gives you your trends.

It's helped me to see weight as fluctuations but that's ok because I'm still going down. Might help.

When I get to the point where I’m 30 to 40 pounds from goal, I will definitely look into trends. Right now I’m still in the “it’s relatively easy because there is just so much fat to lose” stage. 😇

I took ALL the stairs on my vacation, even in 4 story buildings.

THEN at one hotel, my husband and I were upgraded to the "honeymoon suite" because it was on the third floor and according to the front desk, we looked like we wouldn't mind the stairs. Score!!

My wedding ring is getting very loose, and I think it will have to be resized soon. It was super tight and looked like a cinched belt on a sausage in February.

Jawline more defined, loose neck skin shrinking down, abs now visible for the first time, growing muscle on arms and loose skin shrinking, leg fat and loose skin shrinking. Most importantly, confidence increasing

My NSV is realizing that losing 4.9 pounds this month is quite a lot. I was feeling disappointed in this last week that I slipped on my diet a bit, and didn't lose any weight. I was even feeling bad about myself after eating a big snack last night...

But then I stopped myself and said "You know, 5 pounds is a lot in just one month! If I were to lose 5 pounds every month until the end of December, that would be 30 pounds!"

I was able to stop taking insulin this week.