I read a lot about non scale victories (NSVs),
At first i had a flash back to my Sunday school days and thought it was a bible translation, I got a good laugh out of that mistake :)
My non scale victories have come and gone, more as motivators towards the ultimate goal.
160 pounds.
But I read somewhere, it may have been in a fellow dietbetter's blog :) that it's important to have non scale goals (NSGs).
I want to do a pull up, a chin up, whatever, whichever.
I think about the human body and what it can do. I never intend on trying out for American Ninja warrior, but the things those people's bodies can do are amazing! I've always wished I could swing across a room touching only the curtains! Very Prince of Persia.
As I've been losing weight, and exercising to lose that weight, I've been gaining a respect for my strength, for my speed, my body's ability to pull, push, jump and run. Simple, childlike movements that have been lost to me for the last decade.
I'm not very good at those movements yet, but they are now a real goal, not just a perk. I want the scale to say 160 lbs, but I want my body to respond to my mind, I want to look at a bar and pull myself up, I want to cross monkey bars, I want to jump over a fallen tree.
So now I've got goals to my workouts, other then Drop. The. Pounds.