Being Comfortable in your Body.

Running. I'm starting to really love it. I enjoy my time alone, with, ya know, the iPhone and the music and the heart rate monitor, but alone. ;) I love focusing on what my body can do, and how strong my body is. I'm really starting to love my body, accepting my bigger thighs and hopefully, someday, child bearing hips. Accepting my cellulite and my dimpled thighs. It's who I am. Hopefully, I think, my body is shrinking. The scale says so anyways. There are days when I look in the mirror and really like what I see. Knowing that I am taking care of myself and making myself healthier is a wonderful feeling.

This past weekend wasn't as healthy as I would have liked, but a lot of it, I did the best with what I could. I went over my recommended calories both days, but I'm not gonna harp on it and bore you with what I ate. There was ice cream, burgers, not a ton of veggies and pasta. No big deal, moving on. It's a new start and I got up and went for a run this morning. My brother is at nerd camp, oh I mean engineering camp, for the week, so I'm running myself. It's kind of nice to not have to keep up with his pace, although I do miss having someone to talk to.

It was a do-over of Week 6, Day 1. With all the eh food I ate this weekend, I didn't want to have to stop halfway through my run, and I think it was a good plan. 2 miles completed.

Now I have some pictures. I want to be honest with my readers and I've never hid from telling anyone my weight, so now I have some progress pictures. Back in February, I bought some bikinis, hoping that they would motivate me to loose my weight so I could wear them this summer. Well they've been sitting in my closet since I bought them. I had them in the back of my mind, but I'm just so slow at loosing, I don't know that I can wear them this summer. Since I moved back home, though, and really got going on my weight loss, I'm a little more confident.

I haven't taken progress pictures regularly, but if Leah can put herself out there, I can too!

The following 2 pictures are from the beginning of December, roughly 10 pounds ago.

And these 2 are from this morning.

I think a little bit of the love handles/muffing top went away, but other than that, I don't thing the 10 pounds did a whole lot. I'm going to keep going though. And hopefully I'll take some more progress pictures. I'm almost confident to wear a bathing suit. Probably not a bikini, but I'm getting more comfortable in my skin every day!

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Are you comfortable in your skin? How did you get there, or why aren't you?