Before & After Pictures

Since starting my P90X journey, everyone has encouraged me to take Before and After pictures of my body. First, let me tell you that this is something dreadfully embarrassing to have to do, because you're obviously fat or you wouldn't be doing the program, and you have to enlist the help of someone else in order to get body shots. So, I recruited my 10 year old daughter, and I hope I haven't scarred her for life. In one set of pictures, I'm wearing a blue tankini at Week 1 and Week 3, and the photos are of my front and back. In another set of photos, I'm wearing a tie dye bikini at Week 1 and Week 3, and again, the photos are of my front and back. One thing I failed to do is to pose exactly the same in Week 1 and Week 3, which would have made it easier to spot differences between the 2. I uploaded the pics to my computer and made a slide show, then sat back and watched....

Honestly, I'm disappointed. I know it's only been 3 weeks, but I still look like Miss Piggy in both of the swimsuits. I am planning to keep at it and take another pic at 6 weeks to compare the progress at that point. These pictures are highly embarrassing and I doubt I will ever share them with the world. I'm hoping to see amazing results; I am after all adhering to my 1200 calorie per day diet, and doing the P90X program. I don't understand why I still have cellulite on the backs of my legs, or why my butt looks bigger in week 3 than it did in week 1. Again, I will just try to have faith in this program and keep moving forward. If I don't see any change by week 6, I will go back to doing my own thing at the gym so I'm not wasting my time here. I might also want to add in extra cardio at the gym in order to lose extra weight.

I can't get discouraged now. It's March 4th, so I still have 3 months, basically, until summer rolls around. I want to call my Dr and see if I can get the office to disclose what my weight was when I came in back in November (after bumping my head). If I had to guess, I would say I've lost around 15 pounds since then... 10 of it was on my own with the gym/eating healthier, and the other 5 from P90x... Again, that is just my guess. Sorry if I disappointed you by NOT showing you the pictures on here, but I probalby won't be doing that unless I come out of this deal looking smoking hot... And even then, I don't know that I could do that to myself :{