What's Your Most Recent NSV

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  • Venus1721
    Venus1721 Posts: 17 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48817102#Comment_48817102

    Well it still must be satisfying and a little nostalgic to be able to wear the original set, even if it's only temporarily. But not being able to wear your Special Upgrade is near-tragedy! 🤣

  • Venus1721
    Venus1721 Posts: 17 Member

    Is this a sign of acceptance? I don't know gym societal intricacies.

  • spirittrail
    spirittrail Posts: 331 Member

    @Venus1721 LOL! I love my original set and yes! It's very nostalgic and romantic wearing it again. 💖 My multi year Upgrade is highly appreciated and was completely unexpected. It would truly be a tragedy to lose it 😔....so after a couple of weeks of living in fear I thought I'd try on the Original and it slid right on. Every day I'm still super excited that it fits again. 😄

    I have decided that when we travel outside of our country I'm going to always wear my original set so its a positive that this happened. The world is changing so much its better to wear a smaller discreet set these days. I was not expecting this as a positive result of my weight loss.🤭

  • mtaratoot
    mtaratoot Posts: 14,968 Spam Moderator

    @drmwc

    Cave diving probably ain't my thing. I am not excited about overhead environments. There's a few in the aquarium, but it's pretty safe.

    I found a tiny leak in my drysuit on Monday too. Just a pinhole. I inflated the suit (still wearing it) and got down in the rinse tank to see if I could find bubbles. Nope. So I'll take it to the shop tomorrow in the next city south about an hour away. As long as it's there, new neck and wrist seals because they'll need 'em soon. My gas bottles will also get dropped off. One needs a hydro and visual, the other just a visual. I will probably take in my tiny bottle too - it's way out of date, but it's so SMALL at 64 cubic feet. It's an old low pressure steel 72, but it only holds 72 cubic feet if it has the "plus" stamp at hydro. They can only do that one time, then it's down to listed pressure. Some cave divers love these bottles and shove a lot more air than they are legally allowed to. I probably wouldn't mind doing that, but I won't. If I wanted to (and knew someone who would do it) I would have to change the burst disc. I watched someone overfill one of these bottles, and boy howdy was that loud. Might as well get the regulator serviced too. It's due. Since I won't have a drysuit or air bottles, might as well let them hold the regulator too.

  • drmwc
    drmwc Posts: 1,186 Member

    Yeah, my bottles are steel 12 litres. They're rated to 220 bar, but for testing can go a lot higher. There are a few shops around which fill to 250 bar hot (tends to be 230-ish when it's cooled down). Some caving huts have compressors, so you can do your own fill there to whatever pressure the machine can cope with.

    For cave diving, I'm restricted to the rule of sixths, so the fill pressure isn't critical; I can't do a long, deep dive with that constraint. My Monday dive was relatively long, but shallow - my max depth was about 10 metres. I came out with 150 bar in both bottles, so had loads of air left.

  • spirittrail
    spirittrail Posts: 331 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48837334#Comment_48837334

    Congratulations! 😍 This is a HUGE achievement 👏. I'm Canadian and am VERY familiar with UK sizes. Not only do we travel to the UK every 2nd year for vacation...my husband and I find London so familiar. It reminds us of growing up in Canada. We once had the same sizing system but over time, "vanity sizing" became the norm. In North America....you are ACTUALLY a size 6 in your work trousers! 😳 Which is the size I currently am. You would be very interested to know that in going thru my closet, I found my "vintage" skirts I kept because they are an expensive label. I bought in my 20s and I remember I was in a fairly large room, with many mirrors, clothes hung on hangers. The sales girl took one look at me and expertly said "Size 10?". I was so surprised 😮. Yes! She provided several skirts, all size 10, and "blazers". I bought two of each and still have them. Those size 10 "tiny" skirts fit just like my current size 6 and even size 4 bottoms. 😳 I am just happy to have them fitting again! My waist is between 28/29 and my hips are between 34/35. That was 30 years ago! To this day, I know I will feel "odd" eventually being a size 2 or even a size 0 😱. (A vintage size 6 or 4).

    We return to London next year.....in 2014 we saw The Queen and The Royals at Trooping the Colour! We were front row and will never forget seeing the Queen that close! (Pre Royals drama!). 😔 I look forward to your update.

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 10,525 Member

    @spirittrail I wish I still had my pleated wool skirts and corduroy blazers from The Limited, from back in the late 70’s when The Limited had really fine quality. They’d be in style again and I might be able to wear them, what with vanity sizing, since they were a 2 back in the day, lol.

    I had a lovely multicolor wool skirt that was a pleasure to wear and sweep around in, what with all the pleats.

    That shopping trip was my first two real paychecks.

    My NSV is going to an early holiday party, in a sale dress I bought from Anthro a year or two ago and then promptly forgot about. It was really tight and short, and I worked it. I was probably the most surprised person in the room lol. Did have to pull out my one pair of Spanx drawers to hold in the extra skin. 😅 but they were up to the job, even though I think I need a smaller (!!) pair.

  • spirittrail
    spirittrail Posts: 331 Member

    @springerling62 My dear friend...I am familiar with The Limited from numerous trips to the States and even I remember the quality being quite good in the 90s. I can only imagine what it was back in the late 70s! Good grief you were tiny! I definitely remember being a size 4 back in the day....but my weight was VERY DIFFERENT!

    i'm still 5'4" and when my older brother got married, I was a bridesmaid. I weighed 112 pounds....a good 30 pounds less than I do now. 😄 It is literally impossible that I am "the same size" in a label that is NOTORIOUS for vanity sizing!!

    😒 I'm looking at you St John Knits. Yes you...one of the worst for insisting it IS possible to have a healthy BMI AND be a Size 0. 🙄

    So proud of you!! Look at you...rocking your gorgeous frock and needing smaller Spanx! 🤩

  • mtaratoot
    mtaratoot Posts: 14,968 Spam Moderator
    edited November 21

    Last week was the 55th Anniversary of an incident involving a whale.

    For a few games a couple years ago, a minor league baseball team changed their name from the Eugene Emeralds to the Eugene Exploding Whales.

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 10,525 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48842085#Comment_48842085

    😂😂😂😂😂

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 38,483 Community Helper
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48842085#Comment_48842085

    I first heard about that when I read Dave Barry's piece about it. There are only a few other times in my life that I've laughed that hard at something, and maybe the only one where it was coupled with a bit of empathetic horror. 🤣😬

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