What's Your Most Recent NSV

caffeinebuzz10 · January 29

I'm very new.

I've been logging faithfully for only 17 days. I started out being very careful about what I am eating and have gotten a bit better at keeping that accurate.

In this short time, I have reduced my calories, but significantly increased the quality of food I'm eating.

As well, I started using an activity tracker as a reminder to get moving every once in a while. I've stepped up my activity quite a bit.

Prior to starting 17 days ago, I was released from the hospital. It was a huge wake up call. My sugar had gone unchecked for a while and my a1c had the doctors get an endocrinologist involved. Severe kidney infections had me circling the bowl, but the infections were likely being fueled by high sugar. My life just changed a bit with a type II diabetes diagnoses.

I didn't wait even a day to start making changes. 6 days after I left the hospital, I followed up with the endocrinologist. Based on blood glucose levels after just under week of better eating and more activity, he significantly reduced my meds. A week later, just a few days ago, they looked at my journal and cut them back again.

Being down a few pounds is cool. Replacing medication with better eating and a walk here and there feels pretty damn good. I think I'll keep going in this direction. It sure beats the other road I was on.

frhaberl · January 29

This weekend I hit the "High" cardio fitness level according to my smart watch's VO2 max estimate. I started out "Below Average", have built my way up through the "Above Average" range, and finally crossed the line to the highest bracket.

Not only is this a personal victory in terms of making my fitness goals. This means I am much more likely to continue to be an active and healthy person as I head into my "over the hill" phase of life. I always admired my great-grandmothers who stayed slim and active into their 80s and 90s. I feel more confident that I'll follow that same path.

takinitalloff · January 30

frhaberl wrote: »

This weekend I hit the "High" cardio fitness level according to my smart watch's VO2 max estimate. I started out "Below Average", have built my way up through the "Above Average" range, and finally crossed the line to the highest bracket.

That is awesome! I was just looking at my cardio fitness level this morning and I continue in the Below Average range for now, so seeing your update is very inspiring to me

Thanks for sharing, and may you be happy, slim, and active for many years to come!

stegeem · January 30

My mum said my legs are looking smaller!

I had cake dished up for me at a party yesterday and I struggled to eat it all

I was walking home and my six year old niece wanted me to carrry her and I managed for about a hundred meters after doing a delivery job for about four months. I have gotten much stronger! I am often carrying 10+ kg.

mareeya88 · January 31

This new year the scale was at its highest, and I almost hit 300 pounds. My highest weight was 3 weeks ago at 288.

I got a very physical job which set me back at 270 pounds, what I started at last year. I'm totally motivated to work out more so hopefully the number will keep shrinking!

mtaratoot · January 31

Just in case some people don't realize, a "NSV" means a non-scale victory. If you get good news from your scale, that's a victory. If your pant don't fit because they've got too big, or if your ring falls off, or if you can walk stairs effortlessly for the first time, that's a NON-SCALE victory.

Congratulations for ALL victories! I like to read about Non-Scale Victories here.

I'll offer one. I played disc golf yesterday. My score wasn't great at 13 over par. There are still some trees standing after the ice storm, and I didn't even hit every single one of them. But my NSV is that I sort of played "Speed Golf." Or I set a personal par for future. Speed golf is when you time your round to set par. Then next time you play, you have to add a stroke for every minute longer. I think you also get to shave a stroke for every minute FASTER. It works better if you don't have to wait for other groups. Yesterday two twosomes let me play through, so I had a decently fast round. I played 18 holes in almost exactly 60 minutes. I might have set myself up for failure since I went fairly fast and that will be hard to beat unless I jog. I do walk fast. I felt good, and I'll go play again in the next few days.

I think that I should set a different par time for each different course. This is my most local course - it's pretty much close enough to walk, but I usually ride a bike because it takes too long to walk there and back.

___Tams___ · January 31

5th day in a row of running for 30mins.

springlering62 · January 31

2,000 yard swim in 66 minutes. Not the fastest swimmer on the planet, but the swims are getting longer and faster than when I started two months ago.

My food diary is insane today, but I’m already in the black and still have a couple biggish workouts left to record.

Wednesday and Thursday are my heaviest workout days of the week.

AnnPT77 · January 31

Comparative data from Garmin Connect; reference group is women aged 65-69 not everyone, but I still feel pretty good about it. (I'm 68 F.) It reflects steady state stationary bike pace at moderate intensity for me (usually somewhere 100-110W average) during 15k workouts (about 40 minutes including cool down), which may be unfair since I don't know what others are doing?

takinitalloff · January 31

@AnnPT77 I would imagine that Garmin figures those variables into your ranking, since it has access to all that data for its users? Maybe that's overly optimistic of me

but either way, I think you have reason to be pleased!

mtaratoot · February 1

I pushed myself at the gym today. I added an extra set to all of my movements. I added weight to many movements. I felt good when I was done.

The REAL NSV will be tomorrow if I don't have too much soreness. Maybe the sauna will help prevent that. Even if not - it felt great.

springlering62 · February 1

Rereading a few of my recent posts, my NSV seems to be a mental turnaround to a more positive person.

Massive win.

👍🏻

caffeinebuzz10 · February 1

springlering62 wrote: »

Rereading a few of my recent posts, my NSV seems to be a mental turnaround to a more positive person.

Massive win.

👍🏻

i tried to click on hug, like, and inspiring...i could only pick one....i left it on inspiring...we will never win a war if we let the enemy camp in our head

caffeinebuzz10 · February 1

GMI was 5.7 as of this morning, it's not the only indicator, but for my situation, it's not a bad thing

EliseTK1 · February 1

While reading online pants size guides and reviews, I’ve realized that I am slightly smaller size-wise than the average person at my height and weight. I no longer have bulges and “problem areas” like I used to at the same weight. Most clothing sits the way it’s meant to. I’m not super toned like a bodybuilder, but it’s enough that I’m not self conscious about any specific area. I can walk around in a bikini without even thinking about it. Thank you, weight training.

This could also be a product of age and an improved sense of self-worth as well as the fashion industry being vastly different from the 90s/2000s when I was growing up. I am grateful for the fact that normal female hips and butts are now allowed to exist and are even celebrated.

mtaratoot · February 1

This NSV is also kind of a NSF (non-scale failure).

I buy shirts from second-hand stores. Shorts too. I buy jeans new because I know what size I wear. Well, I did. For the longest time I wore a particular size. Then starting around 2017 when I lost weight, my pants were too big. I was chuffed when it was time to replace my jeans, and I was wearing a smaller size. That was a long-ago victory. It still tastes sweet.

Eventually even THOSE jeans were feeling a bit too small, and I was going to be able to get the next smaller size when the time came. That was even sweeter. Well, fast forward to late 2020. During the pandemic, for a number of reasons that aren't important, I gained back some of the weight I had lost. For the next several years I bounced around and lost some of it back, then regained... rinse and repeat. I know this rings true for many. Even at the slightly higher weight, I was still at a healthy weight. Not ideal, but healthy.

Well last November there were some good prices on the jeans I wear. I had decided that, "Well, I guess I'm going to be this size now." So I bought three pair. They fit fairly well after the initial shrink, and a bit better after the second wash. This past month I've got back down closer to my ideal goal weight. That's a scale victory, but it's relevant. Guess who's brand new jeans are now too big? Yep. That's the failure. It's also the victory. I need to get a new belt I reckon. I can still wear these, and they'll just be a little baggy. Maybe in a few years when it's time for the next pairs I will still be at my ideal weight and size and I can finally size down.

In the meantime, I'll wash a few more times in HOT water and see if I can shrink 'em just a little bit more. Maybe I'll even treat myself to a couple pair of Carhartt pants. I've worn out a pair, and they were getting way too big anyway.

aerochic42 · February 1

I'm noticing that there is less strength to my excuses for either not going for a walk at all or shorting the distance. I'm still making bad food choices when i let my self munch but I'm thinking about it before eating said food. I'm still at the whatever I don't care stage for the most part but there is at least conscious thought of what is going into my mouth. I also have logged most of my meals this week so far and some of the random munchy food. there is hope for me after all.

cheyennelevans · February 1

I ran a 14 min 48 sec mile this last Sunday! That's beating my high school time of 15 min 03 secs! Now I need to top my next best mile time of 12 min 42 secs from 10 years ago. I can't remember my mile time from my peak of running, I want to say in was in the 10 min 30 sec range.

Either way! I'm trying to shave 15 seconds at least off my mile time each week before June if I can! I want to finish a 5k in 35 minutes!

springlering62 · February 1

This is a sweet but TMI NSV, and not nearly as creepy as it sounds.

Today, my mammographer was asking the usual questions : prior cancer, any soreness or unusual issues, any enlargements?

I told her no, except for extra loose skin from weight loss, and a reduction many years ago.

She stopped, stared intently at my chest for a moment, and said, “No problem, honey. Those are the best ones I’ve seen on an older woman.”

Then she stopped again, blushed a little, and said, “Sorry, honey. I spend all day looking at the things”.

I feel kinda cocky. The Gurls got evaluated by a pro.

Maybe all those 🤬 fly reps are good for something after all.

takinitalloff · February 1

springlering62 wrote: »

She stopped, stared intently at my chest for a moment, and said, “No problem, honey. Those are the best ones I’ve seen on an older woman.”

Then she stopped again, blushed a little, and said, “Sorry, honey. I spend all day looking at the things”.

I feel kinda cocky. The Gurls got evaluated by a pro.

Haha right?! If anyone knows about this stuff, it's going to be the mammographer! OK I have to share this now: last time I went to have my mammogram done, I couldn't help noticing the shadow beneath this wall sconce in the room. I pointed it out to the tech and she said she'd worked in that room for many years and had never once noticed it

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