I had to pin the waist of my capri pants the other day, because they kept falling down!

It has been over a year since i've gone organic and kept to the healthy eating. and its been over a year since i've had an asthma attack. Not even a flare up when i work out. it feels great to lose one ball and chain at a time.

Oh, all of you rock. Congratulations on all of your hard earned successes. This thread is a wonderful and amazing thing isn't it?

Today was a great day for NSV's. I've never had so many in a single day. I love rewarding myself for milestones and celebrated 200 days of staying perfectly on the straight and narrow line with a new road bike.

At the bike store I voiced some concerns over crushing the road bikes with my girth. Road bikes are so lightweight and have so little spokes. The owner looked at me like I was crazy and said I was an averaged sized girl. That he could put 3 of me on that bike. I wanted to cry.

Later on during our conversations he remembered who I was as I've frequented his shop many times in the last 4 months. He was shocked and said he didn't recognize me, that I've changed so much.

When I picked up my son from my sister the nanny's house her SIL thought my husband was with a new girl. She didn't recognize me! Yay! She said I'm smoking. Who me? Smoking? Crazy.

When unloading my son and new bike from the car my personal trainer was just getting home (lives across the street). Her sweet as heck, but oblivious to everything 15 year old daughter yelled out the car window that I'm getting skinny.

This day has been amazing. Every bit of this weight loss is so worth it.

stayed OP through a theater visit and dinner at Applebees! On the way to see Wall-E with the family, I enjoyed a string cheese and some cherries. During the movie, I sipped on a diet Coke...no buttery popcorn and no Junior Mints. Then, we went to dinner afterward...no margarita, no fries, no burger. I had a bowl of the WW onion soup, a small salad with dressing on the side (I just did the fork "dip" while eating my salad) then a small sirloin steak with steamed squash and carrots...and,I gave my youngest daughter my little chocolate mousse dessert cup. What is really surprising me is that my scales haven't moved all week, yet I've not comforted myself with going off-plan. OMG...this is so huge for me!

Someone I know said "You are getting thinner and thinner every time I see you. You look great."

It's impossible to describe how that feels =)

I am just starting the adventure of getting smaller.. so I will claim that as my NSV for the month.

Ok this sounds sily

I'm 25 days post op and today I ran for the first time since sx! I took it easy (my tummy feels half numb and half not lol) and only ran for about a mile/mile and a half and walked the other mile and a half but boy oh boy did it feel good!!

I LOVE the rush I get after exercise If I could bottle it I would!

In an effort to overcome my long-standing and somewhat inexplicable aversion to patterns, I bought a shirt with flowers on it. This shirt, in fact:



I think I might actually wear it, too.

Lisa

Oooh...Cute shirt! I love that pattern! Should be very slimming. Where can I get one?

I worked out yesterday like I had promised myself that I would! I have a very long history of talking myself out of it.

I am now able to wear two pairs of capris that were too tight at the beginning of summer!

djay - I got it at the avenue, and it was on sale for $10. Since I had a 20% off coupon, it came home with me for $8. Great deal.

So mine is technically a scale victory, but a NON scale victory at the same time...hope it counts for this thread!

So far I've lost a total of 12 pounds. I started at 225 and as of Thursday weighed in at 213. I've tried losing weight a number of times throughout my life...but this is the first time I've ever stuck with it long enough to lose more than 9 or 10 lbs then not gain it all back.

I consider this a NSV because everything feels different this time around...I've made a LIFE CHANGE and I'm sticking with it! My victory on the scale reflects the victory I've had with my mind and my will power!

My non scale victory today is that I finally got my ticker. I looked at the date and realized that it has been a month of healthy lifestyle changes. I can honestly say I have never stuck with a program that long! I believe that this will be a permanent change this time.

Yesterday at work I did 4 hours of standing at my desk, working, instead of sitting all day long. I've been working up to this since April, increasing a little at a time. My goal for this month was to be able to do 4 hours, and I did it! Looks like I will be able to make 4 hours today also. This is really huge for me, as I HATE HATE HATE taking the time out of my life to "exercise," so incorporating movement into my daily routine means that it gets done instead of NOT getting done. Oh, by "standing at my desk working," I actually mean that I put my headphones on, turn my rock music up loud, and boogie to the tunes as I work. Often I will also do abbreviated lunges or squats, or stretches, etc as I'm standing. I actually break a light sweat pretty often and it does get me very heated up. The Mayo Clinic calculates this burns about an extra 100 calories per hour versus sitting and working. Woohoo!

I had two people compliment today...it was about my hair being so pretty. hehe. But this morning i woke up with a positive attitude and figured i'd do my hair and be positive today. It worked! Maybe i can keep postive for the scale to smile at me too.....lol