What's Your Most Recent NSV

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.

Hit 500 miles of swimming in 2021 today!

mssue18 wrote: »

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!

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!