What's Your Most Recent NSV

I've been absent for a while, and I gained back about half of the weight I lost while here. NSV is that instead of being discouraged, I knew that I had done it before and therefore can and will do it again - and do even better than last time

I realized today that my posture is better. The strengthening exercises are paying off. I have a long way to go but it is nice to start seeing results from my work.

My usual elliptical but today I felt good at 18 miles so I continued to 26.25 miles once again. This time my pace was slower so it took me 372 minutes. When I did it before, May 29,2022, it was 337 minutes. About a 14+ minutes/mile compared to sub 13 minutes/mile the earlier time.

I can see my quads in certain positions!!! This muscle is unusually strong in me but there's also a thick layer of fat covering it but when I move my leg in certain positions the fat on the sides of it disappears and I see the outline of my quads. This is so exciting! And I'm taking it as a sign that I'm succeeding at not losing a lot of muscle during this weight loss.

A neighbor I haven't seen in a while asked me if I'm losing weight. I had never told him I was trying to. Almost to the 25 pounds lost mark.

Got just a sandwich at Arby's on the way home from camping and it felt like a normal choice -- not stressful or depriving, just normal. I did steal a curly fry from my husband, though!

I play Ultimate. It's a really fun game. I've probably been playing for 20 years. I was never much into team sports. I played basketball in high school. But Ultimate is very different. No referees. Everybody calls their own fouls. "Spirit of the game" and all. Some of my most favorite games have happened to be games where my team scored fewer points than the other team (we lost), but it was against another team that exhibited a lot of that spirit.

I play in the "B" division and have for at least a decade. I'm getting old. Every year when the season is over (I play summer recreational league and sometimes spring league, but not fall or winter), I say, "Well, that's it. I think I'm retiring my cleats. I'm getting to old for this excrement." Then spring comes, and I say, "Well. Maybe......"

Summer league was cancelled in 2020. In 2021 it was a "draft" league instead of a team league. I opted out. I had lost my weight in 2018 and 2019, so I had felt a little faster that last year before COVID. This year it's back to a team league. We got many of the old (and most of us ARE older) team back together and recruited some new people. I had not yet donated my cleats to someone else, and I'm back at it.

That's the back story. Now the two NSVs. One last week, one this week.

Last week: I got to the fields early since I no longer am a wage slave. I got my cleats on, and a few people had just started to show up. Never one to run without a reason, I'm not sure what got into me, but I grabbed my disc and ran a couple laps around the field to warm up. Way in the past I might have jogged part way around the field. Nope. Full on trot. Then during our warm-up on field, I was practicing making cuts. Little sprints. That kind of thing. It all felt good. I played pretty well, and I had good field sense. I caught a couple points, and I threw a couple. All good. I was sore the next day, but ... duh.

This week: The team we played this week had a lot of fast players. Last week I matched up with someone faster than I for a point or two. One point someone on the team asked, "Everyone OK with who they're matched up with?" I said no, but when he offered to switch I also said no. I guess that's a second, but a distraction from THIS WEEK....

So there I am covering one of their faster players. During a turnover or some pause in play, he looked at me and said, "Dude, you are FAST." I denied it, but he insisted. I don't think I'm fast, but I did notice later that if I was paying attention and one of their fast people I was covering made a sprint to go long, I could keep up and that would sometimes keep the disc from coming to them. I could get faked off, but also was doing pretty good to just keep up.

I guess that's three.

Sadly, I may have injured myself tonight. I hope not... I want to play next week. We should lose next week. We play an A division team. I bet they will be a fun team to play, even if we lose.

Standing for an entire concert and only sitting when the performers were talking was my most recent NSV!! my feet did hurt still but i toughed it out hehe, i felt so great after that night!

I exercised on a Sunday! I usually nap and be lazy, but Belize in January has me extra motivated.

For about a year now I've been waking myself up by hearing myself snoring. Most days. I just realised that I must have gone 3-4 days in a row without waking myself up. I know that it's going to come back depending on my nose being blocked etc but 3-4 days is pretty much unheard of before now.

I went for my annual physical recently and got my test results back yesterday. My cholesterol and fasting blood glucose levels are down by 10 points from what they were pre-weight loss. Woo hoo!

Size 10 shorts are somewhat big.

Did Elliptical, 215 minutes for 16.3 miles. The amazing thing is I used the arm poles the whole time. I've never done that before as my arms would get tired. I had a total of 4 different ways I would place my hands. On the handle bars and 2 different ways on the mileage/timer console. My mileage was about 13.2 minutes/mile. A bit faster pace!