What's Your Most Recent NSV

Ended up having pizza and cake tonight which I had planned for and were within my calories. Feel that familiar urge to continue snacking "because I've blown it anyway" but keep reminding myself I'm still on plan, still quite full, and I got this, this can still be a day of progress if I stay calm and listen to my body, which is still telling me it is full.

SummerSkier wrote: »

When I see folks have lost a good amount of weight I want to be encouraging. I try to pass on in a sideways manner the one bit of wisdom I may have gathered in my 65 yrs on this earth which is "the losing part may seem hard but it's really the easy part, the HARD PART is maintenance".
[...]after having lost the same 10-20-30 pounds every few years since I was a teen, the only way to break that cycle is with a friggin axe. And that axe is called "your maintenance plan".

I love everything about this I've also lost and regained weight a few times, and this time around it finally clicked for me and I understood about the maintenance phase being the most important part. Losing weight is exciting, there are milestones to celebrate, but when you get to the end of the weight loss phase, there's just "hey I feel good now, I did it!" and that is only new and exciting for so long. Then it's easy to think that you've conquered and no longer need to work at it, and before you know it the weight is back on. It's like thinking that when you get married, you've made it and no longer need to put any effort into the relationship

Well this time around I am already working on a long-term maintenance plan, and I'm only 20-25% of the way toward my goal weights (I have two separate goals). I'm never going to be this fat again, because this time around I plan ahead and I have regular check-ins built in for the rest of my life so I can always evaluate how I'm doing, and adjust as needed. Axe at the ready 🪓

@frhaberl Congrats on your blood work! It sounds like your doctor sees and recognizes your hard work too, that is extra awesome. I have a doctor's visit at the end of September and can't wait to see my new numbers. (My A1C was just past borderline last time, yikes.)

justanotherloser007 wrote: »

The hubby says, "she weighs and tracks her food." At which point, it doesn't matter who they are, unanimously they agree: "I could never do that!"
Which is silly, I am not some weird super-genius wonder woman!

Haha right?! I used to eat a whole-foods, plant-based diet (worked great for me) and I got soooo tired of people saying "oh I could never do that." OK so? Nobody says you have to! lmao. But yeah anyone could do it, or as some wise person put it: Whether you think you can or you think you can't: you're right! Congrats on your upgraded villain status I think some people just see the world in clichés. I bet if you were a platinum blonde, that stranger would have compared you to Elsa.

MurphmomSparkles wrote: »

Feel that familiar urge to continue snacking "because I've blown it anyway" but keep reminding myself I'm still on plan

Our brains truly are weird and wonderful things Sounds like you had a truly groundbreaking insight and I hope you stuck to your guns. Congrats on kicking those silly old habits to the curb!

3rdtimelosesit wrote: »

I keep saying "I've only dropped 28 lbs so far". After purchasing some food and cat litter at the pet store I had to carry the 26 lb bag of litter about 30 feet to the truck. After dumping it on the seat I said to my husband, man that's heavy, glad I didn't have to carry it any further. Then I thought about the 28 lbs I've dropped in my journey so far. Looking at the bag didn't bring it home...but carrying it sure did.

That is awesome! I have a cat who's around 13 lbs and he loves to be picked up and held and I keep comparing my current weight loss to his weight. I've lost two of him so far and I'm reminded of that every time I pick him up, haha. Have you tried framing your current weight loss in terms of your goal weight? I realized a little while ago that I had already lost 20-25% of my total planned weight loss (I have two goals) and that really shifted my perception of how far I've come already!

My NSV is simple.I had an ice cream when I was out. It was within my calorie allowance, I enjoyed it and I’m not beating myself up about it. I’m not going to do it everyday, but today it was lovely.

My NSV is that I have an easier time tying my shoes I also feel better mentally with appropriate amount of food in my system.

Oh I forgot, I had another NSV. I'd been waiting for someone to notice/mention my weight loss (haven't been telling anyone about it other than online). My physical therapist knows that I joined a water aerobics class this month, and last week he told me to "keep it up with those classes, you're trimming down nicely!" This made me laugh a little because I had a total of 8 one-hour classes and I'm down almost 30 lbs... imagine losing close to 4 lbs every time you did a one-hour exercise class

It was still nice that someone finally commented I had started wondering if everyone I interact with regularly is blind, hahaha. So far nobody in my extended family has said a word!

bobsburgersfan wrote: »

At the end of 2020 I started a 2.5 year period of regaining weight. During this time, I had a couple longer periods where I was managed to stay on plan but the scale went up instead of down, despite what the tracker said should be happening. I was already struggling to keep going, and that squashed any motivation I had.

Thanks to some MFP friends, at the beginning of August I was challenged to start up again, and as of tomorrow I'll have a full month of effort in. And this time the scale is actually responding. So I guess it's more of a scale victory, but for the first time in a very long time I have hope that I've actually turned this backslide around!

That sounds like a huge victory! Trusting the process and putting in the effort, even when you don't have confidence in the results, is really hard.

I had a good laugh at myself a couple weeks ago. I wasn't seeing the scale move as I thought it should and was asking myself if I should mix things up to "break the plateau". In the process of googling what to do to break a weight loss plateau I saw the definition of a weight loss plateau listed as "Little or no weight loss for 8-10 weeks". I wasn't even 10 DAYS into not seeing the scale move, so I reminded myself that I need to trust the process and keep doing what I've been doing and find joys other than scale victories in it. Hence finding this thread.

I went for a short walk today, 15 minutes in a local park. I noticed with astonishment that going uphill was easy, even fun. Who would have thought such a thing was possible.

I was thinking today that these last months, even when given the opportunity or the craving for junk food, I still choose to eat at home and my train of thought is "we have protein at home" 🤣
I am only craving a specific burger with very much artery clogging fries with parmesan and bacon, but other than that I find myself saying that I just don't find an entire pizza worth it anymore. I will still eat two slices if given the choice, but I won't be going overboard like I used to.

I also found myself not wanting to waste a day lifting (I workout at home so not very straining exercises and it doesn't take me more than 30min). I want to burn the calories that I eat, but I also want my calories to turn into muscles lol

Also bought a protein powder for the first time because I wanted to up my protein intake ❤️

In general I would say I that after 5 years on MFP I am much more aware of what I consime and I am much more intuitive with my eating habits.

…and the icing on the cake, one of the kids taking the class popped up into a headstand while she was waiting her turn so, so did I. She looked at me, and I said “your grandma doesn’t do this, does she?!”

Heartfelt thanks, MFP. I couldn’t have done any of this at 222+.

This is my Five Years Since Starting treat to myself. Back for one final class this morning.

Today I did upper body. I workout at home and I usually look in the mirror in front of me to watch my form. Today I was standing facing the wall with the mirror from the side and I looked and saw my bicep pumping and I was like, is this mine??? 💪

After several days of struggling to meet my protein goal and stay within my calories while visiting family, got home today worked out and met my food goals.

Learning the difference between "satisfied" and "full" and choosing to stick with "satisfied". We had wings and fries from my favorite place for the first time in a long time. I enjoyed them thoroughly, but was not only able to stay within my calorie goal but was also not feeling the need to be parked on the couch for the rest of the night because I was so "full". Turns out that I can be "satisfied" with about half of what I used to eat.

Sitting in the recliner and crossing my legs. Before they were so big, swollen that I was virtually immobile. I could walk but it was exhausting and painful. Now all that is gone, even though I've only lost 71 and still have 130 to go.
Another one is finally getting energy back after leaving the gym. I think the first 6 gym weeks were fun but completely sucked the energy from me to the point I did little else. I was used to living in my recliner for over 20 years. Now this past week, I found myself busy doing all kinds of things until the evening, with very little recliner or TV involved. LOL