What's Your Most Recent NSV

A cashier asked me if I was over 25 when I was buying wine at Sainsbury’s 😆 I’m 53…

Maybe she just does that to cheer up women of a certain age but still made me laugh

I did an L-sit hold on some kind of soft-handled contraption for several seconds! I think it was 7 seconds before my shoulders gave out.
We were supposed to do it on a box but my wrists gave out almost immediately.
With an L-sit hold, you basically hold up your entire body with your arms, which are stretched out below you and your thighs are at a 90 degree angle with your torso.
I weighed myself beforehand so I managed to do this at my big weight of 124kg. Very happy with the way my hand, arm and shoulder strength is progressing. My delts especially are looking amazing.

I broke through a five-week plateau. This sounds like a scale victory, but the NSV part is that I successfully did an 8-day diet break, then jumped back into my deficit afterwards despite multiple obstacles (including catching a cold) that could have easily derailed me.

My other NSV is that today I did a full (but of course slightly modified) upper body lifting session, my first since before shoulder surgery, and my pain level was minimal. The light at the end of the tunnel is officially here.

Since my shoulder is nearly recovered, I’m planning a paddle board outing for the weekend, and I can’t wait. I have missed it so much!

While I was at the cottage I ran into a neighbor that I hadn't seen since last summer. I was walking and she drove by and stopped her car to say hello and tell me that I looked so amazing that I am just glowing. She told me that she told another cottage neighbor this and that I look so much happier too. She didn't say that I'd lost weight or ask how much I lost which I appreciate because that makes me very uncomfortable. This was very nice to hear; especially, coming from this woman who is gorgeous and takes very good care of herself. We joke that she spends a fortune to look as good as she does, but it's worth every penny. I'll take that kind of nsv any day.

I've spent enough time on Strava, that all the ads I'm seeing on the internet all week are for upscale cycling clothes.

Sat down last night, wrote down some fitness goals, made some changes to set me up for success and feel like I’m about to get back on track without too much damage done

I'm not sure this is an NSV, but it felt like one.

Yesterday, I planned to join an organized group bike ride (short, casual pace) that included a stop at an ice cream store (good one!) for a snack. I'd decided that I'd eat some ice cream, but stick with a smaller portion.

It turned out that a "single" in a paper cup, of dark chocolate peanut butter ice cream, was what I'd estimate to be about 1.5 cups: Huge! That's 3 official servings, if one goes by common US packaged ice cream. I estimated it at 690 calories. (It was really good. Having the social experience of a treat with the group was also good. I feel no remorse.)

The NSV: I still needed to fit dinner in my day (short on some nutrient goals). I figured out a satisfying dinner that got me (for the day) pretty darned close to my routine nutritional goals**, and still 16 calories below my maintenance (calorie-banking) net-calorie daily goal. (I'm in maintenance.)

I didn't do extra exercise to compensate, just did things I wanted to do for fun. (Resulted in 392 estimated exercise calories for the day.)

** Above my protein, fat, and fiber minimums; over my veggie/fruit servings minimum and almost to my ideal target (which is 10 x 80g, I was at 720g); over all of the MFP default micro minimums except iron (it'll be fine on average for the week). I was a little above the goals for some things to limit (sat fat, cholesterol - but those will average fine for the week, too).

Doing the back stroke in the pool….my bathing suit top (think tankini) kept floating up and hitting my chin. At the beginning of the summer it was not doing that because it was skin tight!

My NSV of the day is I got my feet tangled up together while going out the back door because I am as graceful as a drunk duck… and I didn’t wipe out and break my face, my wrist, etc.

How is that a NSV? Well, immediately after recovering my balance I said out loud to myself , “the yoga is paying off!” Because 6 months ago, I would have probably broken something as hard as I came flying out the door… but I got my balance back and I’m glad I did not fall and get hurt.