NSVs - Non Scale Victories

I rode a bike for the first time in YEARS! and I didn't look like an elephant on it :D

Also bumped into my landlord who I haven't seen since September and was like 'Donna where has all that weight gone?! You look amazing!' so cue a big beaming smile. Woo!
 
I was in work today walking to the toilet and two women were walking towards me (one i've known over 10 years) and i hear one say ''look at him'' (my old mind is waiting for the insult) ''waisting away to nothing, wish i could do it'' .. i had a huge grin on my face all the way to the toilet lol
 
One for me... I was walking over the bridge on my way to work when this woman stopped me and said ' Didn't you used to run the Appleby? Where are you now?' I told her and she then said 'Well the new place must suit you because you look so much healthier and happier, and you have lost loads of weight'... Smug grin and and a thank-you from me, which is an NSV in itself because I didn't come out with I still need to lose more etc...
 
Yesterday I went out it public for the first time in 10 years with a strappy tshirt on, arms totally uncovered. Usually I wear baggy band tshirts to cover my flabby arms. But yesterday I went to see Bowling for Soup, the lead singer, Jaret, is one of my idols and for some crazy reason I decided I was going to dress like any normal punk girl. And for the first time in years I wasn't conscious about people thinking I had flabby arms, I was happy with how I looked. It was one of my happiest moments.

Visual evidence of my accomplishment, i'm the one between the two guys. Actually at that point I was only aware of Jaret's hand on my arm (guy pulling the stupid face)

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Ally89 said:
Yesterday I went out it public for the first time in 10 years with a strappy tshirt on, arms totally uncovered. Usually I wear baggy band tshirts to cover my flabby arms. But yesterday I went to see Bowling for Soup, the lead singer, Jaret, is one of my idols and for some crazy reason I decided I was going to dress like any normal punk girl. And for the first time in years I wasn't conscious about people thinking I had flabby arms, I was happy with how I looked. It was one of my happiest moments.

Visual evidence of my accomplishment, i'm the one between the two guys. Actually at that point I was only aware of Jaret's hand on my arm (guy pulling the stupid face)

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You look amazing! Well done you!!
 
Feel kinda bad about this one...

But at group on Thursday, met a lady who just by looking at her, I thought "Yeah, she looks about the same shape as me, maybe a LITTLE bigger... " (Same height aswell) "... Just maybe about a stone, stone and half heavier maybe"

Then she told me she was Over 5 stone heavier than me... I really must be deluding myself about my body shape now!! :confused:
 
I was out with my OH this afternoon when a smallish lady walked past us, but she had chunky ish legs for the rest of her (in tights with a short skirt) and was rather biggish in the knee area, I commented to other half about how she had legs just like me, and he replied with.....my god, your legs are nothing like that! You must see something completely different to how you are when you look in the mirror!
I took this as a compliment! :) either that or he meant I was much bigger! :( Lol
 
Just saw a pic of myself from October last year. Woah! What a difference. The huge bulge around my middle is gone and my face is so much slimmer. What an NSV! And what a way to end a Saturday night!

I even put on the coat I had on in the pic just to see - the button that was gaping open in the pic is fully closed now and the coat is hanging off me :D
 
evilpenguin said:
Just saw a pic of myself from October last year. Woah! What a difference. The huge bulge around my middle is gone and my face is so much slimmer. What an NSV! And what a way to end a Saturday night!

I even put on the coat I had on in the pic just to see - the button that was gaping open in the pic is fully closed now and the coat is hanging off me :D
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Wonderful, makes me smile this thread :)
 
My MIL actually said to me that I looked like I have lost weight!

She has never ever complimented me on my diet before. Mind you that was all she said when I started telling her it was due to SW she just switched off, lol
 
All my life I have been on the chubby side as has my mum. Dad has always been one of these she is putting weight on and one of the bigger antagonists. To be honest he has not commented for years but those early memories have stuck. Well I just rang to speak to my Mum - see them both at least once a week and she was not in. My Dad without being asked or any hint of the word diet or exercise said to me - Don't be losing any more weight now - you have gone far enough.... Praise indeed and it meant alot... I would love to escape the 11s and my ultimate dream goal in 10st 7 but achieving it may be difficult and maintaining who knows maybe even impossible - but we will see...
 
I've just been clearing out my wardrobe in preparation for our move - managed to get rid of a few dresses that are clearly too big now; saved a lot more that fit again :) At the back of my dress cupboard I found this gorgeous size 10 Karen Millen dress I bought a few years ago when I was training for a half marathon - wore it once, then promptly started putting on weight and lost all hope of fitting into it! Since then it has become my weight-loss white whale, trotted out every now and then to see how far up I can get the zipper. Well...today it zipped the whole way up!!! Okay, so I can't actually breathe, but all the same I am thrilled to bits thinking that I might actually get to wear this beautiful dress again!
 
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