What's Your Most Recent NSV

@Seabee_74 That is amazing! Thanks for sharing about the water. I can't swim but I've been thinking about joining a water aerobics class.

@GSPsnBees Way to go! I remember, it's a great feeling, but honestly is not good for the legs.

I sized down my ring size from 9 to 8. Hubby bought me a new band for our anniversary to help keep my wedding ring on until I am done with weight loss and ready to resize it.

I wore holes under the seat bones on my cycling pants.

This last month has seen work stress, exhaustion, and now a nasty cold. All of that has kicked my motivation down a bunch. Despite all of that, I'm still here, logging my food and managing to stay on target most days. Am I where I wanted to be a month ago? No, but the old me would've given up entirely. I'll take it as a win.

I went to the doctor Friday, I was running late due to traffic so I barely noticed when she took my vitals. Normal blood pressure, BMI down from 45 to 37 (a work in progress)

My NSV today is that I have noticed that when I walk I actually walk....not waddle. I no longer feel like a lumbering elephant.

We have a pond near our house that has a walking path with some small hills around it (about 1/2 mile around). When I first started walking around it, I would have to stop 1/2 way and rest before doing the other half to get home. Two days ago, I walked around it 5 times for a total of over 2 miles without stopping. This has taken me over a year to get to this point. I still have a long ways to go, but the increase in stamina is a real plus for me.

My Wedding Ring is actually loose and I can even take it off.

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We have a pond near our house that has a walking path with some small hills around it (about 1/2 mile around). When I first started walking around it, I would have to stop 1/2 way and rest before doing the other half to get home. Two days ago, I walked around it 5 times for a total of over 2 miles without stopping. This has taken me over a year to get to this point. I still have a long ways to go, but the increase in stamina is a real plus for me.

Hey that is awesome! Trying to remember something from physics class wayyyy back, lol--a body in motion, stays in motion, or something like that, but don't ask me who's law that is, please. Anyway, you have found a sweet spot in your journey. Enjoy it and keep on going. Congrats!

Gosh, there are so many neat accomplishments here and interesting posts. I could read all day and still not cover them all.

What an interesting website with so many interesting stories, journeys and successes.

That would be Sir Isaac Newton. That would be his First Law of Motion. But it's not talking about "bodies" as in human bodies.

And at the same time, Newton's First Law also states that a body at rest will remain at rest unless acted upon by an outside force. In the case of us humans, we can be that external force to change our bodies from being at rest to being in motion.

See what I did there?

Today I noticed a teeny, tiny keyhole of thigh gap. 🥹

Okay, this might sound like a weird NSV but here goes....my husband and I have decided to try for a baby. I'm 38 years old and 6 months ago I would not have dreamed that was possible. I have fibromyalgia and the pain and exhaustion was so bad when I was 41 pounds heavier that running after a toddler would have been impossible. Honestly, I thought that part of my life was over. I thought a lot of my life was over and that's a really bad thing at only 38 years old! This weightloss has literally given me a new lease on life. I am 11 pounds from my goal weight (164 pounds at 5'7"). 164 might seem like a high weight for a female of 5 foot 7 inches but I truly do have a muscular build....I was a Navy firefighter for years. This was the weight I was when I left for Navy boot camp in 2001. I am currently at a weight I was when active duty. I started this weightloss journey at 217 pounds and am now 175.6 pounds. I will likely bring my goal weight down a little more in order to give me a little buffer on that inevitable baby weight. I know, I just put a lot of information about myself out there but I didn't see this NSV coming and it has been a HUGE motivation to lose these last 11 pounds and then some. This NSV puts my life on a totally different course than I had ever expected. Oh and, my doc did an EKG on me the other day and told me my heart was slow. This scared me so she clarified that that was a good thing...she called it an "athletes heart". She is also way on board with our baby mission and she told me I look amazing. I honestly was bracing for her to tear into me for considering a baby at my age but she shocked me when she told me, "Good for you!". I'm still waiting on blood results to see how much I have improved. But my doc does not seem concerned at all. 6 months ago I wouldn't have dreamed any of this was possible.

Weighed in and was up a pound but my waist measurement was down a half inch. One step at time.

My NSV was the other day at the Dr's. I had to go for repeat BP & cholesterol (LDL) check. BP was good, but don't have the results of the blood test. Anyway, I don't feel like I am doing that well lately, not really losing much. But I have been walking & doing some senior exercises. The NSV is that she told me to keep doing what you are...you are thriving!! (nice to hear at almost 73!)