{"id":11425,"date":"2017-01-26T13:50:18","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T19:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?p=11425"},"modified":"2017-01-26T13:50:18","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T19:50:18","slug":"n-s-v-non-scale-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/?p=11425","title":{"rendered":"N.S.V. =  Non Scale Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So often we (ok, mostly I&#8217;m talking to myself here) get super focused on the scale. \u00a0The scale is our source of weight-loss happiness. \u00a0If it goes up, we feel discouraged. \u00a0But if it&#8217;s going down we feel validated. \u00a0However, there is so much more than just what the scale reads as we start to get healthy. \u00a0We all know this. \u00a0But we forget. \u00a0(Again, I&#8217;m talking mostly to myself here.) \u00a0\ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Enter, Non Scale Victories.<\/p>\n<p>This is not my original idea&#8211;I can&#8217;t even remember where I read it first. \u00a0So, I claim no credit to this. \u00a0But it&#8217;s still great. \u00a0It&#8217;s the little things that we notice as progress in our getting healthy endeavor. \u00a0Sometimes it&#8217;s VERY little things. \u00a0Other times it&#8217;s big. \u00a0But these are things that have nothing to do with what the scale says.<\/p>\n<p>I actually have a calendar in my bathroom where I log my exercise and weight and N.S.V. as well as my hopeful N.S.V. \u00a0It&#8217;s been really helpful to look at those achievement and see that, even when I don&#8217;t feel like I&#8217;m making any progress, I actually am. \u00a0And sometimes those N.S.V. are more wonderful to me than a number. \u00a0For example, I can&#8217;t wait until I fit into my non-maternity jeans again. \u00a0And while that has a bit to do with the weight I am, it also has to do with muscles growing and hips shrinking, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of my current Non Scale Victories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Standing through most of my lessons again. \u00a0When I started back after having Levi I had to sit b\/c I was so out of shape.<\/li>\n<li>Being able to go all the way up the stairs without being winded.<\/li>\n<li>Not being sore after workouts.<\/li>\n<li>Noticing my maternity pants are getting loose.<\/li>\n<li>Being able to speed walk through stores again.<\/li>\n<li>Not having ice cream the other night when Tim did. \ud83d\ude09<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s nice to be able to look at these things when I want to give up and remember that my weight loss adventure is more than just my weight&#8211;it&#8217;s about living a more full and happy life in the body I have.<\/p>\n<p>I know, it&#8217;s a pretty grand sounding post. \u00a0Believe me, it&#8217;s a work in progress and some days I still give up even though I can see those N.S.V. right there on the paper in front of me. \u00a0But it&#8217;s a process. \u00a0And I need to give myself grace and remember that tomorrow is a new day full of new possibilities. \u00a0And maybe today I just really need that fudge brownie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So often we (ok, mostly I&#8217;m talking to myself here) get super focused on the scale. \u00a0The scale is our source of weight-loss happiness. \u00a0If it goes up, we feel discouraged. \u00a0But if it&#8217;s going down we feel validated. \u00a0However, there is so much more than just what the scale reads as we start to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11425"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11425"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11434,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11425\/revisions\/11434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}