A little history and my Weight Watchers before/afters.

So I thought it might be helpful to tell you a little about where I came from and where I'm headed with this program. (This will be obvious for most of you who already know me; sorry.)

As far as my goals are concerned, I'm actually approaching this in a different way than most people. I lost a lot of weight a few years back on Weight Watchers (85 pounds, to be exact) and now I'm 138 pounds and "skinny-fat", if you know what I mean. Fitness-wise, I'm very good at doing cardio because it's just about running for a certain amount of time, but the reps and breaks and rotations involved in resistance training have always baffled me and so I've unfortunately neglected it entirely. I want to change that! Fortunately it seems like the program will tell me exactly what to do which is what I need. I hope to gain some weight in muscle and lose some body fat (17% on a 140-pounder seems REALLY high, no?) and learn some ways to effectively do resistance training in the process.

I'm an elementary school music teacher, so I do a lot of moving around and dancing. I rarely sit at my desk! I would say that I'm quite active. Part of my job is moving, so I dance and move for several hours a day. After P90X I hope that I'll have more stamina and strength and have a large palette of resistance exercises to draw from so I can stay that way.

Below you'll see before/after photos from when I changed my diet and exercise lifestyle though calorie-counting. It took a lot a discipline and I feel like if I can do this, P90X will be a breeze!















WHEW... what a difference!