Please share NSVs....

I recently ran out of hangers and had to put some of the fat clothes into a garbage bag in the garage so I could hang up the skinny shirts I just got out of the garage.

This may sound a bit odd, but one of my recent NSVs has been my knuckles! The ones at the base of my fingers. Before, when I made a fist, I had no discernible knuckles, and when I laid my hand flat, I had dimples where the knuckles should be. Now, when I close my hand into a fist, there are my knuckles! Poking up out of the back of my hand like baby mountains! I can even see the bones and tendons moving across the back of my hand when I wiggle my fingers!

This one made me tear up! I've always hated my hands but it never occured to me that as I continue to lose weight my hands will get smaller too! my rings are looser than they used to be but I just never thought ahead to the fact that one day, if I stay the course (and I know I will!) I may not hate my fat hands anymore!!!

This weekend I have a very important event and need a new dress (you girls get it).
Just for fun I went to my closet to see what I had - We have gone to many Military events so I have a ton in many different sizes. There is this beautiful black strapless dress that has been in there for years that I may have worn once or twice over the years.

Well - I put it on and my goodness it fits like a glove and accentuates all the right places. I know I have been doing well and accepting all the facts about my new lifestyle (won't come off overnight, stalling weight loss, focusing on my trouble areas) but in that moment as I looked in the mirror a true sense of pride and self-acceptance came over me and it feels great. I have spent so many years beating myself up and I'm now realizing that I'm worth it.

If I were more computer savvy - I'd post a picture :blushing:

i can jog a mile, outside... in less than 10 minutes and barely break a sweat. damn, it feels good to be a gangster.

i also bought a 40C bra.. for the first time since i can remember. i used to be a 42-44D... now i know where my weight is coming off of first.. my back!!

I lost 15 lbs in about 2 months, and I haven't lost weight since, yet I still get guys at the gym telling me they can see a noticeable difference and how great I'm doing, and to keep it up. I have to pull my belt on my work pants tighter and my duty gear belt for work is noticeably looser as well. I was working with a guy at the gym who was/is personally training me and he said that quite a few people have come in and asked for his help based on my weightloss, and how I look.

1. When I look down, the first thing I see are boobs instead of belly.
2. I don't have to dramatically grasp for air when scaling one of the neighborhood's steepest hills.
3. Whenever I try to jog, I have to hold up my usual sweatpants because even though I've tied them up as tightly as possible, they just don't want to stay up on my hips.
4. I can now wrap a few of the bath towels around me.. well not ALL of them but some of the other ones I've used actually connect corner to corner.. better than before to say the least.
5. I no longer have problems with my acid reflux. In fact, I can now safely eat and drink before bed time without even the slightest case of heartburn (that is unless I eat something with cayenne pepper on it.. then I'm done for).
6. Getting to my feet doesn't require me moving around and looking like I'm doing some kind of ungraceful interpretive dance.
7. I now have a chin... I mean there's still evidence of double chinnage which I'm working on.. but there's much less of it.

Last year I bought a pair of cute heeled boots that I would have to struggle zipping up around my calves. Wore them for the first time a few weeks ago and they were loose! :happy: