NSVs at over a year out

ravenbrown
on 1/6/14 12:07 am, edited 1/6/14 12:08 am - TX
VSG on 10/08/12

I haven't really been posting much.  Just busy living my life, no longer hiding, no more excuses, just living and enjoying and working hard.  My daughter was out of school for 10 days for winter break, and my husband and I alternated taking her to the park most days so she could get some energy out.  She's an extremely active child, and she was even that way in utero.  Never.stops.moving.  Anyways, one day we were both off and took her.  It was actually the first time that I could really play on the playground since he was watching her too.  I did the silly little rock climbing thing, I slid down all the slides, I ran all over for two hours, climbing and jumping and generally acting like a kid.  I've also been training for a half marathon, and on the days of my shorter runs I usually sprint the last half mile or so because I can.  Because actually sprinting just for fun, to feel the wind in my hair, to feel the speed, to run for the pleasure of running is amazing.  I never really enjoyed being active as a kid, although I was quite active.  I was on the chubby side of normal and very asthmatic.  Terrible combination, and I never truly believed I could be anything but uncoordinated and slow, but I'm actually neither.  Another random NSV is when I refer to my daughter as a stringbean (she's quite tall for her age, and very thin), people who do not know me say she must get it from me.  Say what?  Tall and thin?  ME?  So, while the NSVs are fewer and farther between at over a year out, they still happen.  I've always been a really confident person, but it's so much more now and flows through into everything - I'm friendlier, more likely to strike up a conversation with strangers, I'm not longer defensive, I'm so much more active, I put myself out there and I'm simply not afraid.  So while I've been struggling with some things (really..who isn't?), I'm so immensely thankful and I know 2014 will be the best one yet.

Here are some photos :)

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Very serious about gingerbread house decorating :)

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mimij
on 1/6/14 12:36 am - McDonough, GA
VSG on 10/03/12

Awesome Deena! Thanks for sharing.

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jubjub
on 1/6/14 12:45 am - Palm Desert, CA
VSG on 06/25/12

It's amazing, sometimes,  what we find inside when we get rid of the fat.

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ravenbrown
on 1/6/14 1:41 am - TX
VSG on 10/08/12

I found me :)  Or more of me.  The less fat, the more there is of just me.  Interesting and, yes, amazing.

    

ravenbrown
on 1/6/14 1:40 am - TX
VSG on 10/08/12

Love you, lady!

    

(deactivated member)
on 1/6/14 12:59 am

Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful! And yes, you do sort of look like a string bean! kiss

ravenbrown
on 1/6/14 1:42 am - TX
VSG on 10/08/12

Hahaha.  It's so funny.  I've always been super curvy, and I am still curvy but people have actually told me my hips are SMALL.  So strange. 

    

Tracy D.
on 1/6/14 1:07 am - Papillion, NE
VSG on 05/24/13

I love reading how your inner athlete (and inner child!) has been unleashed 

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 Goal reached in 7 months and 1 week

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ravenbrown
on 1/6/14 1:44 am - TX
VSG on 10/08/12

It's nice to find being active is fun.  I've been an exerciser for years and years, but I actually found the joy in just being active.  I love running around with my little girl, watching her squeal in delight at how awesome it is to just run and jump and dance.

    

cappy11448
on 1/6/14 1:41 am

Its wonderful to see the pictures of you and your daughter.  You are both beautiful and deserve all the joy and energy of life.  I am so happy for you and your new-found confidence. 

best wishes,

Carol

    

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