thoreau

When I moved to San Francisco - I was overweight for my height. By a lot more than I realized at the time. In my first year in SF - I did the Weight Watchers thing and took the weight off - but my body was still shaped like it was heavy - and my posture said "look how unhappy I am with my body." While I was happy with the weight loss - I was still unhappy with my body image and makeup. So in the nine months - working with the occasional trainer session in cooperation with the www.realjock.com workouts - I've been working on toning, gaining strength (vs. size) and posture change. I wasn't smart enough to take before and after shots.... but.....

I was pleased today that I'm actually seeing my 'tummy' start to go away and reveal a stomach. This morning while doing the Medicine Ball Situps - I realized that I could feel muscles work and I was no longer dreading doing situps. My latest realjock setup - has me doing at least 50 incline situps between each excercise with weights - and 100 medicine ball situps immediately after my cardio warm up. and I am so glad to see (and feel) it working. Also - yoga and stretching at home on my mat before bed is making dramatic changes to my posture and walking attitude. For years I always looked down as I walked - and now I stand straight up and don't slouch.

anyhow - sure this post is a bit of a YAYME post - but we need to do those every once in a while. It's the first time in years I am really happy with how I look and feel everyday. I also know that the stronger I get - next will come a year or two of working on bulking up a bit - then perhaps I can workout with Tommy