Calling All NSVs!!!!!
 

I thougth it might be fun to post some NSVs we find along the way...
Today I found climbing in a chair to clean the top of the cabinets and stuff much easier than a few months ago. Guess I am lifting less weight into the chair.
Please post your NSVs...it sometimes is all the encouragement we need when the scales arent moving.

Great idea, and a great NSV! I don't have one to report, but will be on the lookout!

BTW, I edited your title to Call out the NSVs!

I buttoned a pair of 18s today. Can't wear them yet, still too tight, but I remember looking at them when I was forty pounds heavier thinking that they looked tiny.

great NSV..fitting into smaller jeans is awesome and in a few more weeks you will be wearing them!!

Here's my contribution:

* I did 50 minutes on my bike the other day - AND IT FELT EASY!!!! I could barely do 10 minutes at the beginning of Sept!

* Going up the stairs to my second floor apartment doesn't get me winded anymore.

* I was able to fit in an old pair of jeans - barely, but I could pull up and button. Still not wearable but the last time I tried these on the 4th of July I couldn't button them cuz the waistband cut badly.

I started taking ballroom dancing lessons 3 months ago - my dance studio has parties on Tuesday nights at a local nightclub. 3 months ago I literally threw up on the way home from 1.5 hours of dancing because I was so physically overwhelmed by it. This week, I sat down to catch my breath before heading back out on the floor with my next partner, until I realized that everyone was putting their coats on! The 1.5 hours had passed before I even realized it and I was still able to get out there and dance! I was so proud of myself (and sad it was time to go home!)

I updated my weight loss tracker and noticed it said only 46 more to go instead of 300 and something more to go! I vividly recall when I had to loose over 300 pounds and now... only 46 more to go!

:bravo::cp::bravo::cp::bravo::cp::bravo::cp:

(This is as close as I could come to a standing ovation!)

Yesterday I noticed that I can see my belly button!!!!

My tummy gets divided in half. Above the belly button and below the belly button. I have that apron thingie happening in both places so I haven't been able to see my belly button when I stand in front of the mirror. Weight loss has made the upper part of my belly smaller and it's no longer covering my belly button.

YAY. I think my belly button is cute. I'm glad I get to see it now.

Today my wrists seem extra nice to me...I can really feel the wrist bone and they look nice and thin to me. Maybe crazy, but it really stuck with me today. ;)

I swam a half mile today. When I was a teenager I swam competitively, and trained for a 7 mile race.
i haven't swum like that since before my daughter was born, and she's in college now.

Some of the things I've noticed recently.... hmmmm...

They have some of tables that you can't move the seat back (fast food type) at the coffee shop at the college. When I first saw them I thought... no way, but you know, I fit fairly easily into them.

I don't have to move the seat back in order to get into the car anymore after my mother has been driving. (Since I'm taller I do put it back a notch, but it used to be that I had to do a couple of notches before even getting in.)

Everything I have is too big.... sewing time during Christmas break!

I went to an antique mall the other day. I was able to squeeze between tight spots even with a jacket on. I use to would have just skipped looking in those spots.
None of the dress shoes i wore last winter fit now.

My new swimsuit from Junonia came by UPS today and I threw away the old one.
The one I threw away was a 2X, the new one is 1X.

Yeeeehaaaaawwwww!

Victory # 1
90 minutes. 90 minutes. 90 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I did 90 minutes on my exercise bike yesterday. My butt muscles felt like they would never relax and my quads were calling my attention all day yesterday but I stretched and stretched and stretched and here I am, pleased to the hilt.

Victory # 2

I have been slowly working my way up to doing 20-minutes of the 30min, 2-mile WATP workout "High Calorie Burn." Today I set my mind to finish it - no matter what.

I modified - took out arms sometimes, and didn't use the hand weights - but I did all 30 minute, 2-miles. I am very proud of myself.

Anyone else have new NSV to report?

I posted this on the main page too.

A few NSVs for me as well. Besides fitting in the Lane Bryant size 7 (finally not squeezing into their biggest size, but rather fitting comfortably into the size under that), when I put my winter coat on this morning, it was too big. I was swimming in it. Yay! I will wear it all winter because I rarely wear a winter coat anyway, and I want to be able to buy a new one next year without thinking I am wasting money buying coats two years in a row. Also, I tried on a button up 26/28 from my closet this evening and it fit in the tummy area (but not in the bust area). Maybe if I wear a sports bra to smash the girls, I will be able to wear it.

Yahoo.

question
 

What does NSV stand for?

This weekend I spent 10 hours Saturday and about 8 hours Sunday cleaning out my kitchen top-to-bottom--stood on my feet the whole time, took almost no breaks--there's no way I could have done this even 2 months ago. I haven't cleaned it this thoroughly since I started gaining all this weight in 2003. I cleaned out my basement over the three weekends before that; my bathroom AND linen closet before that, and my SUV is next. All this extra energy is amazing.

NSV means non-scale victory. Throughout your weight loss journey, you find things that tells you that you are losing weight. For example, being able to exercise longer or buying clothes in smaller sizes. :D

Another one for me is, last weekend I was able to go into the Fossil watch store and find a woman's watch with a leather strap that actually fit. This is the first time in *5* years I've worn a watch every day. I have quite a few nice watches, but I couldn't wear any of them. I was so elated I bought 2!

I walked all over the huge hospital this past weekend and never got winded. Before my diet started i would have been miserable trying to do all that walking.