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6/29/12 10:48 A

Dear Blue,
Very AWESOME! I am up to 40 crunches, but with no weight on a machine...You are getting abs of steel!

My non-scale victory was yesterday in the parking lot of the grocery store. It was dinner time and I was getting hungry. As I placed my bags of food in the back seat, I was about to pull out a box of crackers to put in the front with the intention of munching on them for the ride home. I said out loud to myself, "No." And the box of crackers stayed in the back seat.

Edited by: FITANDFAITHFUL1 at: 6/29/2012 (10:51)

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6/21/12 7:45 A

Not having to shop in the Plus Size section of the store!!

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1/24/12 3:27 P

Those are all great!

current weight: 180.0

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1/24/12 9:51 A

I love the non-scale victories!!
So far some of mine are jeans are fitting looser and I'm in a size the scale says i shouldn't be in yet; my vitals are SO much better! bp is 120/60, my O2 was 100% yesterday, pulse is around 68; i was able to really push myself on a treadmill workout without getting nearly as winded as i did in the past; i'm enjoying veggies and fruits so much more than i have in the past and i turn to them first instead of junk food; and the biggest one so far is that i had surgery on the 23rd to repair a torn tendon in my ankle and i'm in a cast and on crutches for 2 weeks. Well, the last time i had to use crutches i wasn't going to the gym on a regular basis, certainly wasn't doing strength training and building up my muscles, but this time I have been going to the gym on a regular basis and building my muscles and it has certainly made a difference.
Also, yesterday was one of the first times a doctor or nurse said "so you're a healthy woman." that's because they looked at the entire picture, not just the number on the scale, and that was a good feeling!!

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1/23/12 3:14 P

Sometimes I think Non-Scale Victories are far more fun to notice than checking the scale regularly for a number to change that could represent just about anything.

So tell us about them here! What Non-Scale Victory have you noticed on your journey to health, fitness, and a scale number under 200?

My big one recently is improvement in my ability to do crunches. When I first started this back in September 2011, I remember another team had these challenges every week and sometimes it was something like 100 crunches. I would do my 2 sets of 12-15 and feel beat, not even wanting to do them multiple times in the day to try to get to 100.

This past week at the gym, I not only did 3 sets of 12 on an abdominal crunch machine with 30 pounds, but followed it later with 3 sets of 15 regular crunches on a mat. Not quite 100, but definitely getting there and probably could if I pushed it.

current weight: 180.0

250 226.25 202.5 178.75

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