What's Your Most Recent NSV

cyn_love wrote: »

Is this a NSV though....? My bra is definitely looser on the girls. Bittersweet. Ha! Always the first to go. Nice to see some change though.

Must be nice: it’s the last place on me to go

spirittrail wrote: »

spirittrail wrote: »

"In two weeks you'll FEEL IT......" Its been just over three weeks of regular vigorous exercise. WOW! I really feel the difference! I ran for the bus the other day and my heart didn't run out of my chest screaming in protest!! Heartbeat stayed strong and steady. I'm not out of breath after my workouts, my resting heart rate is slower and I sleep much better. Knowing my organs and the synchronicity of my body is working SO much better is all the motivation I need to go the FULL distance! 😊

"In four weeks you'll SEE it....." I have just completed five weeks of regular vigorous exercise. I actually got rid of my scale as I found it stressful. Not only that it was responsible for how I felt .... but it just added to floor clutter! I weigh myself for free once a month at the local community centre first thing in the morning before breakfast. So I rely on NSV's quite a bit. And the Centre has a beautiful accurate scale...which makes it fun!

After five weeks of regular exercise...which is now an easy habit...I DO SEE IT! 👀 I fit into a pair of SIZE 8 JEANS for the FIRST time! They've been in my closet for one year...I just couldn't get them on. I work out an average of 5x per week. My next target.....in 8 weeks my family and friends see it.

So far.....I am proving that this motivating quote is true. JUST HANG IN THERE!! YOU CAN DO IT!! 😊

IT DOESN'T GET EASIER....YOU GET STRONGER!! 😲
I love fitness motivational quotes...especially when I see them actually HAPPENING!
I do a variety of workouts. 20 minutes of aerobics with a 10 minute add on is one. Yesterday I found the 20 minutes to be especially tough. To the point I considered skipping the add on. But when I started my program this year I have never skipped it. Although that extra 10 minutes is HARD! I decided to just finish it. Bracing myself....preparing for the "worst"....the 10 minutes FLEW BY effortlessly 😳. It wasn't hard at ALL!
I'm STRONGER!! IT'S TRUE! I was actually shocked. How can something that had been so difficult...even 10 minutes...now suddenly be painless? It's these wins that I find the MOST motivating.
Stay consistent....take rests...but keep moving! Don't think about the time it takes....don't think too much about scale numbers. Concentrate on improving how you feel and improving overall body functioning. There's no prize for losing x number of pounds by a certain date. The BIG prize is improving your health and (for me)...climbing my motivational mountains ⛰️ 😀

I’ve been on a running hiatus for a while and when I did a couple of runs in November my running jacket wouldn’t fit over my hips. I had to hike it up and inhale to zip up.

Yesterday I felt the urge and went for a sunny 5K jog. My jacket fit without issue, no inhale needed and no pushing against my lower stomach when zipped. Yay!

NSV, after just 2.5 months removed from hip replacement surgery I had a step total for the week of almost 97.5k steps.
Also trained 7 days, albeit a rather light session on my Gazelle.

My underwear is getting near my rib cage, time to buy a smaller size! I had to buy smaller bras and was able to ditch my bra extender a couple of weeks ago. YAY!

My dragon ate me.

In 2019, I was set to reach my goal. I was in peak performance. Excited, happy, and feeling so good. Both mentally and physically. What I didn't know is nothing in life is certain. I didn't know that you could slay the dragon, claim to have won the game, only to have the end surprise you with a nasty curveball.

Cue 2020 and an illness that left me barely able to walk for two months without getting out of breath (not covid; this happened right as covid was hitting the news and it was ruled out as a possiblity). I had had to go home in December of 2019 as my step-father (more of a father as he raised me) had gone rapidly down hill due to a mysterious neurological issue (turned out to be MMN). April of 2020, hope had sprung anew! My father had had two promising treatments, things were looking up. I was recovered from my strange asthma-flu-thing... when the unthinkable happened.

My father passed away suddenly from a double pulmonary embolism. About a year after, my mother passed away suddenly from a heart attack after having a sodium imbalance after getting a pacemaker for afib.

I gained. I stopped moving. All the exercises I did during Covid at lunch while working from home, I had done on the phone with my mother after my father's death. Suddenly, exercise itself was tainted. I didn't want to eat, then I ate like a trash panda, but my calories came from an increasing amount of fancy coffees. I'm not a foodie, but I don't kid myself. I love a good frap.

Shortly after getting home from dealing with my mom, I found a new love, a new exercise that would help me wake up. Mountain biking.

All of 2022, really, was spent in a dream. Yes, there were good days, but most of it I felt like I had lost everything. My parents, my childhood home, my health. I didn't *feel* as good. My clothes didn't fit anymore.

Why is this story an NSV? Because victories don't come from slaying the dragonpants and conquering the next size down. Victories come in living, and having the energy to live, in taking every moment and cherishing it. I miss my mother and father like no one's business, but... I'm waking up.

This is an NSV because I didn't give up. I didn't let my health completely fly away. I've come back to re-conquer all the clothes in my closet and once more slay the dragonpants that are meant to be mine. I've come back to regain the health I lost (not just size, but actual health).

The point isn't that you fail or that you did fail, the point is you get back up and try again. Live, love, laugh, and face challenges head on.

I've got more weight to lose and this year, I'm going to hit my goal. I'm going to slay all the obstacles in my way and take control once more.

Oh, and bonus? Now, I can send it down the mountain on my bike! The girl before 2020 and 2021 is lost, for I am different. But the girl in 2019 couldn't ride a mountain bike like I can. The girl in 2019 isn't facing down her fears like I am. I am different, but I hope to make my story a good story, even if my life will never be the same.

Long-winded, but. This I say: go out there, and be more awesome, world! If you don't, no one else will!

My NSV is quite a simple one really.
I have major leg and hip issues which stop most cardio workouts. Then in September last year I "discovered" outdoor swimming again and haven't looked back. Low impact on the joints and a good all over workout.
I now swim between 3000 and 6000 metres a month regardless of temperatures and, mentally, have never felt better!

I was in a good enough mental space yesterday that I could take some new measurements. I’ve was off the wagon for almost 6 months last year due to major life circumstances but didn’t attach any attention to the fact that I am indeed bigger now than at the last entry. Working on keeping a healthy detachment between my mind and my weight.

I’m out of the frumpy, unsexy underwear and can wear bras and panties that make me feel good.