[muscles and curves]

This is my way. Athlete at heart. Curvy body. Embracing them both.

Trying to lose just 10 lbs.

Name: B Age: 22 Height: 5'6
SW/HW: 250.4 lbs (Got above that this past winter 2012)
GW/Range: 150-160
UGW: 145

Scale Sundays
9/4/11 250.6
9/11/11 249.6
11/6/11 252.4
11/27/11 255.4
3/27/12 249.6

NSV Goals
*5K
*10K
*SDSU Women's Football Academy
*NWM (Half) in 2012 in San Francisco
*Tinkerbell Half at Disneyland in 2013
*Look a lot different in grad school grad photo

but you have to be impressively un-appealling as a female, and as a person really, to mess up taking someone to Disneyland FOR FREE because they don’t want to spend the day with you THAT MUCH.

:(

It’s just motivation.

I’m gonna look bangin in that graduation dress :)

(You don’t want me. But that’s ok, because you don’t deserve me. Not even as a friend)

beautiful girl, beautiful hair, beautiful body.

This. I want this someday. I will probably never wear a bikini to the beach/pool in my life, but I just want the confidence to look at myself in the mirror w/ a bikini on and be proud and thankful and content.

(via im-on-a-mish)

Bathing suit top and jean shorts. (Can’t remember the last time I actually bought or wore a swimsuit.)

These jean shorts (from torrid) were the first shorts I wore in public in years. They fit me fairly well/lose over summer. I want to get back to that. And arms. Definitely want to work on my arms.

I’ve been following opfabs since the beginning but have just been lagging on officially committing my participation. (scared maybe?)

Operation FINE/FULFILLED in Any Bathing Suit.

At nearly 250 lbs. nothing will actually get me fabulous or fit or fierce in a bathing suit in three short months. But I think I’ve already decided that what I need most in my life right now has little to do with my physical appearance. (Man, has it taken a long time for me to figure that out.)

Above all, my goal is to feel fulfilled again. I feel like I’ve been failing in all areas of my life lately (school, work, work2, work3, health) and I just need to feel accomplished again. Not in any big sense, but just enough to feel like I’m checking things of a figurative list. That I am capable of carrying out my goals and achieving them.

And fine. I’ve visiting my best friend in Phoenix at the end of July for our birthdays. For poolside bathing suits, shopping shorts and dinner dresses, I just want to feel fine and completely unconcerned with how I look, how much my fat arms show etc. etc. Obviously this is also a very mental thing, but improving on the physical couldn’t hurt.

2 big goals:

  • Lose 20 lbs. (So basically under 230)
  • Finish C25K (for real this time) (starting Monday)

Other goals:

  • Run a 5K
  • Register for a late 2012/early 2013 half marathon
  • Buy a bathing suit
  • Hike Garcia

To hinder myself from being overwhelmed, I’m gonna just start with this week’s challenges. (and pictures will be posted in another post)

I’ve also enjoyed reading all of your’s goals and progress. Kick ass ladies!

femaleadmirer:

Yeilin Fernandez is tonight’s crush

wow. bomb.

(via im-on-a-mish)

But this blog is about muscles AND curves.

This is Laura (same girl from the video I just posted) at her starting point at 190 lbs.

She’s my height. If i looked like that at 190, i’d be stoked. She says it in a later video, but she did carry her weight really well.

My point is, however, I love her perspective on the whole thing. She always had confidence. She was never ashamed of her body. In fact, at all her weights, she tells you things she’s fond of and how things are progressing. Her video said she wanted to lose 50 lbs. And she does, but along the way she talks about being happy with how she looks at 170 and probably not wanting to go below 160.

She never gets caught up on the number. and I love that! She never obsesses about how a certain part of her body looks. That is my goal.

I had seen before and afters of Laura but didn’t know anything about her story (or even recognize her when I first started watching any of her videos).

Her body is amazing and it’s really cool to see at stages in her progress (because, yes, I did just watch all 20 of her videos on youtube).

But more so than just seeing her weight going down and her body change, I loved seeing her knowledge and interests change. (She always had a lot of confidence) From looking at her website, she is now a beach body coach. In the beginning, her interests seemed like casual running and a variety of other/normal/thingspeoplealwayssay. But watching her latest videos, she’s much more interested in the science of it now and that’s awesome to see. It’s just another aspect of weightloss I think is inspiring.

changing-forthebetter:

skinny-thoughts:

Make March your best month yet! :D

Abs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guiKbApiSgA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od0j4aNDGKM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1DS7G9OjfQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXv9SBN8-Zw

Legs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYMw1K_vEd4&feature=plcp&context=C33da02aUDOEgsToPDskKPC5v4ZBMdaCum31-oYUti

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHfe0rG_THk&feature=plcp&context=C3328caaUDOEgsToPDskImqqBMtlnQOAxWRhJk6iK-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7I-c-yw5ZrQ&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQQEHeZQKPA&feature=channel_video_title

Arms

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpotY6rZL4o&feature=plcp&context=C36131eaUDOEgsToPDskIC2KHNL1hIi4RbYPicpd7k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gyoj1IGzBDA&feature=plcp&context=C3bf270cUDOEgsToPDskLzKCkE5nYn4KRyzdFTjzuW

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bBk2oidYvE&feature=plcp&context=C34d60e2UDOEgsToPDskKNq71HNjKAjj4mzfxTy6a8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmuH3Jw-FAE&feature=related

Butt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q7L673i8OY&feature=plcp&context=C3e2800eUDOEgsToPDskKggPduH3uX9VYa483DB-d_

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LLFHwI3SJM&feature=plcp&context=C34d60e2UDOEgsToPDskKNq71HNjKAjj4mzfxTy6a8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKtK8wjLtKI&feature=plcp&context=C3bf270cUDOEgsToPDskLzKCkE5nYn4KRyzdFTjzuW

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSI_a66gBGA&feature=relmfu

March is definitely going to be my month. I’ll be turning 20 on the 23rd and I want to be 195 by then. It would be the ultimate birthday gift to myself.

CARI, do this with me…yea?

(via pictureperfectbodywerkit)

im-on-a-mish:

k. last one i promise

This. One day. Just a tshirt and undies in my own place. Cute and comfy. (oh an if I had mish’s body, that would be dope too)