What's Your Most Recent NSV
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As ridiculous as it sounds....I just had a non scale victory that doesn't consist of anything to do with size or fit. I know that I am going to dinner tonight with my better half and a friend of ours who is in town. Instead of winging it, I have looked at the menu, the caloric intake, what I do and don't like, what is WORTH it to me in the way of calories and I already logged what my dinner is going to be. I've logged the entire portion, but I suspect I will only eat half of the full portion. BUT - I allowed for the whole restaurant portion. I'm usually an "ask for forgiveness" and not an "ask for permission" person so this was a huge step for me.
Happy Hump Day!37 -
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.16
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According to my Fitbit, my cardio fitness based on my age and heart rate is in the now in the good to very good range21
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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!28
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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!21 -
After running six 5K's through the Summer, I attempted my first 5-Mile run. I went out very conservative to insure I made it. I ended up running it in 52:36 which was under my 55:00 goal!
Next I start training for a 10K in the Spring!21 -
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.21
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2 things:
1) Earlier, I noticed my stomach getting smaller; also starting to see stretch
marks, woo-hoo! (though I will have them laser'd
when I reach goal
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2) Did 3 hoursof aerobics today...plan was to do 2 hours, as I've done a few times this month, but then had the time and decided to keep going and ended up a third hour
...just because I felt good, and I wanted to do some aerobics with weights,
which I hadn't gotten to during the first 2 hours.
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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.24 -
kchapmanma wrote: »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.)
Ha! I quite agree.6 -
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!18 -
My NSV is that I try not to eat even a gummie vitamin with 15 calories to save the calories. I’ll take the pill with no calories. I’ll stop eating even a small amount of calories just to save the calories. Every little bit helps.11
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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.24
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Yesterday at the gym I was able to hang from the pull-up bar and do eight knee crunches. I'm working up to three sets of ten. I'm nowhere near being able to do an actual pull-up, but maybe someday. After all, when I began this journey, I couldn't hang at all, much less do knee crunches.24
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Hit 500 miles of swimming in 2021 today!19
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My NSV today is that I did my hair color tonight after hours of not doing it. I made myself do it and I got it done. Now I don’t want to eat! I feel accomplished tonight. It’s a good feeling.8
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My NSV is that I try not to eat even a gummie vitamin with 15 calories to save the calories. I’ll take the pill with no calories. I’ll stop eating even a small amount of calories just to save the calories. Every little bit helps.
I agree 100% - every calorie saved helps. I've managed to lose 119 since March 1st thinking this same way!10 -
Another dress size down16
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I took my own snacks to work Christmas bowling party last night. They had pizza, french fries and was to have Keto friendly UNBREADED chicken but had Breaded chicken nuggets. I'm glad I had my hard boiled egg, colby jack string cheese and pecans in my purse to go with water!24
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