What's Your Most Recent NSV

I can get out of bed without grabbing the windowsill for support.

gottagethealthy2022 wrote: »

I started MFP again today. I'm embarrassed at having put back on everything I'd previously lost, so I started a new account (had to get a new email address just to sign up!).

At work, I enlisted 3 friends to keep me accountable. Not to what I'm eating necessarily, because that can get creepy. I've just asked them to check with me if I logged today. Today is a new first day, and yes, I've logged today.

Welcome back, don't feel embarrassed a lot of us have been there. The point is your here now, I like the accountability buddies that's great. But you know you can also set up reminders from MFP that will remind you to log your meals for the day, which is a great feature.

Take it one day at a time and keep coming back for the support here and the usefulness of the articles and wonderful information here that will help you on your journey to your goal. Give yourself grace we all have bumps along the way to our goals and sometimes those bumps are back and forth until we reach our destination.

Everyone's been complimenting my weight loss lately. Coworkers, friends, etc.

One random lady (who was much older) randomly "cat called me" and said I had a nice body.

I'm no longer the fattest guy in the room. There's no Xs in any of my clothes. I generally feel pretty great.

I recently got my first comment from a family member that I'm looking thinner

I was also able to get into a pair of leggings that used to be extra tight without having to do the "get over my butt and hips' dance

I went to a charity fundraiser through taekwondo and did 1,000 kicks. It took about an hour and a half.

Then I went and walked 5k.

A year ago I'm not sure I'd have survived that lol. I've done a really good job of whipping myself into shape.

I hit my week's worth of 150 'intensity minutes' on Garmin (ie minutes of moderate to vigorous training) today, on Monday, before noon.

Haven't been actively cc & not logging either. My health is taking up my energy at the moment. But, while not actively logging & counting I did lose some. Not a lot, definitely not as much as when I'm counting calories and working out but i lost some. I definitely didn't gain.
For me that's an absolute win.
Also... The falling off underwear... Uhm yeah. I decluttered my underwear drawer bc once at home was enough for me to stop it from happening in public 😶

I’m posting on behalf of my beloved, who will just never post for himself.

He just ordered smaller swim trunks for aquafit after his old ones billowed up to his chest, lol. He was quite embarrassed, since he’s usually the only guy in the class.

He doesn’t have to know I posted this. 🤫

My NSV is that I meal prepped for the week. In theory, I shouldn't have to eat out at all while I'm at work, but of course, I accidentally grabbed the pyrex container of brown rice instead of casserole this morning. One day of Chick fil a nuggets and fruit won't hurt.

Instead of going to the gym today, I tried doing a freeweights routine in our basement using my husband's equipment. For the first time ever, I was able to work those horrible pinch clips and change out my own weight plates without help. I've never had the grip strength to do it before, but I've been working on that lately, and it's paying off! That meant I could set up the whole station to be able to switch between exercises easily. I was SO happy that I changed out the plates multiple times and ended up lifting more than I ever had on several of the exercises. Now I'll be able to lift at home this Winter when the weather's bad. Yay!

I've got three! The first one is that I visited my endocrinologist yesterday for my diabetes, and all of my numbers were looking great. I'm very happy about that.

The second one is that I also managed to have the "portion size" of a chocolate bar - instead of eating the whole thing. Adjusting to actual portion sizes has been one of the trickier things for me with certain foods. Like I don't feel deprived if I eat the correct portion of oatmeal, but my brain just insists that the portion size of a chocolate bar should be *the bar*. Just for moral reasons. :P (I'm pretty sure the people out there who decide that a portion size is like 2 grains of rice or something are actually demons sent here to torment the rest of us.)

The third one is a bit of a scale one, but I also just realized that I'm more than half-way done with losing the amount of weight I originally wanted to lose. I say originally just because the plan is to reassess if I want to lose more once I get there.

All in all, life is good!

I have been the person who never felt full but oftentimes felt emotional hunger. I used to eat because it felt like I was doing something and gave a small hit of pleasure. After 20 months of weighing and logging food, I know when I am physically hungry or full. I find myself less likely to overeat to avoid the overstuffed feeling. There has been much less emotional eating but it is still a work in progress.

We got new uniforms in work yesterday, I optimistically ordered a smaller size but ended up needing 2 sizes up from that. It was a little disheartening but we could all tell the sizes were messed up.

My NSV was me trying on the 2 sizes up, and even though it's a little snug against the belly, I caught myself thinking 'I'll keep it because in 3+ months it's going to start being big on me'

Rather than getting a bigger one in case I put weight on, that was me knowing that I'm going to lose more weight! Me knowing that my method is so sure and that I have such confidence in it and myself that I keep the uniform that's a little snug because it will fit soon.

A Marine (judging from the T-shirt and buzz cut) pulled my trainer aside and told her I was doing great on overhead press.

He didn’t want to tell me himself, lol.

I thought getting an honest compliment from a real live Marine was just the best!

I went to the Lion King last night. It was the first time I was comfortable in my seat. I wasn't trying to shrink myself down the whole time and actually fit in my seat with my arms on the arm rests. And to know that it only gets better from here...so happy.