Before Pics... Shoulda been my first post!

I was going to, going to, GOING to, post before pics and then I forgot! It took seeing someone else's pics to remind me to take them. Before you view these images, please note, I know I'm not fat. I'm not working out because I think I'm fat, I'm working out because I want to be stronger as Strength=Freedom.

Freedom? How so? Body and mind are intrinsically linked. One follows the other. A strong mind makes choices more readily freeing oneself from much unnecessary worry about whether one is doing the right thing for example.

Also, there are things I want to do but I cannot because I'm not strong enough. I want to be strong so I am free to say yes to things such as climbing Mt Warning for example. Or "Yes I'd love to go for a 10k run tomorrow". That's just two types of freedoms that can arise from having a strong body.

So... here's my before shots.

As you can see I have a fair amount of excess baggage hanging over the edge of my pants amd upper back fat near my armpits. I'm not too worried about either of these areas as I know they tighten up quickly with lot of intense and painful exercise. Embrace the pain yeah!

While I love my body and I'm grateful for it, many women have parts of themselves that makes us cringe.I'm not saying this is a healthy reaction, but it's one that many of us have nontheless.  My belly fat is one area that I cringe at. You can see above that I can grab a good handful of it while standing. This is more than I'd like and more than I think is healthy.

While I know that the back fat near my arms will go pretty quickly with regular exercise, I feel a little nauseous when I see it. This stuff is so soft it's like liquid in a plastic bag and when I touch it I feel a little bit sick because I just cannot believe I've let that happen to my bod! Poor thing...

I also have fat at the top of my hips at the back which is kinda weird. It looks worse when I have my clothes on than off which means I need to workout or spend a lot of $$$ on flowing new tops and turn myself into tent woman. My daughter has a pic of this on her ipod which I'll share at some point.

Overall I'm not too bad. Just untoned, undermuscled and with a lot of strength to be gained. I think there's a lot of us around. We fall into the 'skinny fat' category meaning that we aren't big, but our body fat percentage is still too high. I have no idea what my body fat percentage is. 

This cringing and nausea at belly and backfat, while unpleasant, is part of what eventually lead me to do workouts like this:

 

I did Zuzka Light's workout # 22 today and ouch ouch ouch. I did about four rounds of burpees before I said "suck it Zuzka" and just did the rest of the workout without them. By the end I was shakey and sore and couldn't stand on one leg let alone to the squats outlined in the workout so I skipped those. I also did my pushups against the wall because after 3 lots of burpees and the chair jumps I couldn't do a chair pushup to save myself. Or even an on the knees push up. 

Tomorrow will be my trampoline workout. Yay! I'll see if I can film it for you. That should be a laff! Hehe.