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01-26-2010, 10:26 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Boston, MA
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Height: 6'2
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a small NSV
If I walk home from a certain direction, I have to walk up a rather large hill. At one point, I would deliberately go a longer route just to avoid walking up it and when I did attempt it, I would usually stop for a minute a catch my breath. Now, walking up that hill is primarily the way I head home.
As I was getting home last night, I realized that I wasn't even winded. I wasn't even breathing heavy at all.
For me, that is what this whole weight loss/ health thing has been about. To do things that I couldn't do before. To feel better and not have my weight interfere with my daily life.
It felt good.
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01-26-2010, 10:40 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: central Ohio
Posts: 78
S/C/G: 402/277/healthy
Height: 5'4"
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01-26-2010, 10:41 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: In La-La Land
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Height: 5'8"
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Quote:
Originally Posted by matt_H
If I walk home from a certain direction, I have to walk up a rather large hill. At one point, I would deliberately go a longer route just to avoid walking up it and when I did attempt it, I would usually stop for a minute a catch my breath. Now, walking up that hill is primarily the way I head home.
As I was getting home last night, I realized that I wasn't even winded. I wasn't even breathing heavy at all.
For me, that is what this whole weight loss/ health thing has been about. To do things that I couldn't do before. To feel better and not have my weight interfere with my daily life.
It felt good.
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Oh Matt! That is just such a great NSV!!!!
I completely understand what you are talking about. When I started this journey I was so out-of-shape that I used to avoid physical stressors because I was afraid I'd drop dead of a heart attack or something.
I truly believed that getting winded like that was a permanent disability....now, I notice all the time when I expect something to tire me or make me out of breath and it doesn't!
Walking up hills on purpose, and realizing that it doesn't HAVE to be hard-- that's what it's all about.
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01-26-2010, 10:45 AM
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Calorie counter
Join Date: Nov 2009
Posts: 5,679
Height: 5'4.5"
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That's huge! It's already been said, but that's what it's all about! Being able to go anywhere and do anything is what we should be striving for!
I'm really proud of you. And it sounds like you walk to and from work? Way to go there too!
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01-26-2010, 11:02 AM
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Strong is the new Pretty!
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Jacksonville, Arkansas
Posts: 2,237
S/C/G: 245/ticker/1??
Height: 5'2"
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I must add to the chorus of that is not a small NSV, it's a big one. Yay you! 
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01-26-2010, 11:04 AM
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Owned by Dixie
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Boston-North Shore
Posts: 2,464
Height: 5'4"
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that AWSOME! it is one of the things I like about walking here.
I really see the difference when i visit the outlaws in NC and everything is FLAT! now time to add in the long way AND the hill 
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01-26-2010, 11:05 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2009
Posts: 810
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Yep...Big one....
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01-26-2010, 11:22 AM
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Losing weight since 2009
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Southern Illinois
Posts: 482
S/C/G: 310/138/132
Height: 5'7
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Definitely a big NSV! You're right about losing weight to get healthy. It's so awesome when you can easily do things that were 'impossible' before. Congrats!!!!!! 
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01-26-2010, 11:26 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Iowa
Posts: 720
S/C/G: 252/210/145
Height: 5' 4"
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Makes it all worth it, doesn't it? It's those little things that matter most.
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01-26-2010, 11:32 AM
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Finally Losing Myself
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Alabama
Posts: 371
S/C/G: SW 278/ CW see ticker/ GW 150
Height: 5'5
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Awesome Matt! That is a great feeling and don't you know your heart and lungs are so happy you have been so dedicated. Big HUGS and a Pat on the back to you!
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01-26-2010, 12:04 PM
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Never want to go back!
Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 2,804
S/C/G: 338.4/190.8/165
Height: 6 ft
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That's a great NSV, Matt! It so true that we adapt our lives to fit our bodies and that can cut us out of a lot of things in life - even things like taking the harder, shorter way home. You're giving yourself your choices back in life and that is a HUGE NSV.
By the way, love your new avatar - you look amazing!
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01-26-2010, 12:05 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2009
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agree that's a BIG NSV, great going!
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01-26-2010, 01:45 PM
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Diane
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Colorado
Posts: 5,467
S/C/G: 294/258.0/180
Height: 5'6"
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Awesome! A big NSV!
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01-26-2010, 01:47 PM
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NEVER EVER going back
Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 3,747
S/C/G: 377/240's/150
Height: 5 feet 5 inches
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no... that's a HUGE nsv!!!! Congrats my friend!!!!
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01-26-2010, 01:54 PM
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Positive Focus
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Ohio
Posts: 1,047
S/C/G: 225/ticker/125
Height: 5'1"
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That's so awesome! It's a VERY BIG deal!  How wonderful to have a visible landmark, knowing that you beat that hill! 
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