What's Your Most Recent NSV

After 12 days getting out of isolation after finally testing negative. Yes. I've felt pretty good for 6 days but could not pass a test to prove it. Today I am going to workout at about 75-80% and see how I feel.

Better news is I barely put on any weight the last 2 weeks despite not exercising for the most part.

@vannyn42 The same thing happens when you eat healthy for awhile and then have something junky. It just doesn't taste as good as you remember.

Blood pressure + cholesterol = textbook
Over 185 days of no late night snacking 1 incident of late night snacking. Following community post No Late Night Snacking since March.

Working on lowering BP and cholestrol for 6 months = success

I haven't binged in 37 days! I've had a few over my budget days but I wouldn't call them binges so I'm really proud of myself!

sargemarcori wrote: »

I was pondering making a Dairy Queen run, but I decided I didn't really want to spend 700+ calories on something not really that satisfying. So I'm going to make myself something yummy AND healthy, and also save myself $20+ (because I would have taken the family too.)

I was recently CRAVING a fresh banana shake--it's been years since I've had one. I looked up the calories and saw that I had room in my budget for half the calories. I bought the shake, immediately poured out half, and enjoyed the other half.

Cindy01Louisiana wrote: »

sargemarcori wrote: »

I was pondering making a Dairy Queen run, but I decided I didn't really want to spend 700+ calories on something not really that satisfying. So I'm going to make myself something yummy AND healthy, and also save myself $20+ (because I would have taken the family too.)

I was recently CRAVING a fresh banana shake--it's been years since I've had one. I looked up the calories and saw that I had room in my budget for half the calories. I bought the shake, immediately poured out half, and enjoyed the other half.

I love this!! I have started doing this kind of thing when I’m really craving something. Recently we had a work meeting where someone brought in Crumbl cookies. (IYKYK!) They had the chocolate mint brownie one which is essentially the most perfect dessert on the planet, and after the meeting no one else would take it. So I took it home, cut it into quarters, and put it in the freezer. Now and then when I’m craving it, I eat a quarter which is 190 kcal. Hits the spot every time.

Every morning after breakfast, the High Anxiety Dog and I walk to the (town) Square in hopes of spotting squirrels and giving chase. There haven’t been many lately because of a large hawk living on the courthouse, so any sighting is cause for wild doggy celebration.

This morning we saw three. O, Happy Day!!!!!

We chased them (meaning HAD ran wildly, dragging me with him) all over the Square until they were treed and chattering angrily at us.

My NSV is that I realized, instead of being winded and gasping for air after reckless sprinting, I was pumped for more! 😂

I was looking for a pair of pants to wear to work, i spotted one inside my closet. put them on not even thinking about it. It donned on me that this is the too small pile! They fit !! hip hip hooray !

I ordered a pair of size 22 jeans... they fit! In fact, I think I could get into a 20. I remember having to lay down to zip up a pair of size 28 jeans years ago and being in pain the whole time I had them on. I stopped wearing them after that. It feels good to be comfortable in clothes again.

That’s just awesome! I have a similar NSV. I got on the treadmill the other day and right in the middle of my display was a little yellow post-it with a note on it saying “U R doing great - XO”. That was so sweet of my husband! He hasn’t left me a little note like that in years. I’m glad I’m finally giving him something to be proud of me for after spending 10 years not taking care of myself as he watched helpless to motivate me to get control of myself.

sargemarcori wrote: »

i've had four days of just not caring much about what I ate. I don't really know why--I just...ate what I wanted. I didn't get down on myself, I did try to make healthier choices, but I wasn't anywhere close to my budget, and probably over maintenance too (I didn't fully track.) I tried to halt it after day one, day two, day three...then last night, I convinced myself to spend half an hour prepping some mason jar salads and overnight oatmeal. and BAM! I'm right back on today.

I *am* back on plan. and I didn't beat myself up or stress about it. I just had my fun then went back to what will now be normal for me.

Get out of my head! Seriously- I have literally just done 2 weeks of the “IDGAF” attitude! I was still exercising and trying to make healthy choices but inevitably I’d end up bingeing on ALL of the food! Every night I’d say to myself “Ok Sam, rein it in tomorrow, you KNOW that you’re fully capable of controlling your eating, you’ve been doing it so successfully lately “ and the next day would come and I would blow out again. I think if I was being honest with myself, I knew I wasn’t going to get back on track the next day when I had the motivational talk to myself each night, there’s just a feeling you get when you know that you’re properly back in the game and it wasn’t there those nights. This morning I woke up and that feeling was back and I’m so happy to feel it. I knew from past experiences that l would get back on track, but I didn’t know how long the IDGAF attitude was visiting for.
I spoke about this with my sister this morning. We both agreed that sometimes you just need to be gentle on yourself and accept that you will have binges, and that giving yourself permission to have those time out periods without the feelings of guilt and shame- the voices in our heads saying things like “I’m so useless- i can’t even stick to a healthy eating plan even when I know it’s good for me”
“I’m an idiot- I should not have eaten that extra thousand or so calories”
“I’m going to put on so much weight”
“I’m now behind schedule with where I want to be with my weight loss- I may as well just give up and not go back” <- this one in particular I despise because it’s not about how long it takes you to get where you want to be, the time is going to pass regardless of if you are working towards your goal or eating your way away from it! I am trying to reframe any of these thoughts that pop up, the new thing for me is that I’m not giving myself permission to give up, I’m giving myself permission to take a time out with the intention of getting back to it as soon as possible.
This whole thing is a mental game. If your head is not in the game you won’t get very far with it. When I’m having these time out moments, I try to look into what might be causing my IDGAF attitude, and work on that issue to solve it so that I can get myself back on the track I want to be on.