September Photos

UGH on this time of the month! The first-of-the-month photos, that is!!! These were taken on the 1st, but I just haven't had time to get them posted until now.
Still so much mushiness all over though... back fat, muffin top... and the ONLY way to get rid of that, is to trim down the diet better. I know I still have too many treats for getting rid of the excess.

But like the note says... I've now added INSANITY to the mix of workouts, as well as running about 2-3 times a week when I can. So hopefully I can make more changes happen soon.

Seems like I've looked the same all year... but yet I weigh about 5 lbs less than I was at the start of the year. I'm a bit smaller around, even though when I compare these pics to those from last spring, they don't seem to be any different.

I do like the shape my arms are getting! Thanks to ChaLEAN Extreme!!!

And a shot of the back, without the flash to see a little bit of definition trying to show up...

I still have a ways to go (to reach what mental image I have in my mind) but I am happy that my fluctuations on the scale now rarely goes up over 132 or 133 max. Yay for that!!! I am also happy to see that the fluctuations are not as big anymore either, since starting on the Shakeology. I seem to have balanced out more from day to day. Balance is good. So is easy-breezy (and tasty) nutrition! :-)

A few personal bests reached with my running recently. I did a 5K in about 40 minutes the other day. Yay!! And sometime before that, I hit a 10.5 minute pace on the half-mile... so if I can just keep on going and NOT stop to walk, I can shorten that 40 minutes even more. I'm still walking too much though- but not as much as before. I see progress every time I go out to run. :-)

For the most part though, my pace is around 11.5 minutes a mile (including the walking/breaks) which is better than the 12-13 min/mile I did before. And I owe it all to INSANITY, too- the cardio-vascular conditioning! Yay for HIIT!!! High intensity interval training... it sure has made a difference. All those years of low-level cardio... it's just not the way to go. More high-speed spurts that make me push harder and go faster... that is the way to go. That and trying to lift as heavy as I can when I do weights. No more high reps and low weights!! Now it's trying to lift heavy enough that I can't go past 10-12 reps... and it's working wonderfully!

Hopefully next month's photos will show some change. I know I say that EVERY month, but with the running and Insanity going... I hope the physical changes will follow the cardio progress.