Biddle Fit: Credibility

It's actually pretty strange to me, but now when people meet me and we start inevitably discussing my competition prep or workouts, they will actually tell me, 'Well but you've always been thin.' My first instinct is to say I'm not thin, I'm super jacked (LOL), but then I show them my 'before' pictures, and it seems that they start to listen more attentively to anything I have to say about losing weight and being fit.

So, to start my blogging journey out correctly, I will establish credibility by showing my before pictures. Now I will say that I was never morbidly obese or even obese, but I was definitely chubby/chunky/fat. At 5'2", I should probably weight somewhere between 115 - 125 lbs. I was usually anywhere between 135-145 lbs.

Throughout college, I was able to maintain about 140, size 8, and not gain any weight. I would do cardio or aerobics classes and use weight machines at least 4 days a week. I ocassionally ran. I was probably 'fit but fat'. However, I was still uncomfortable in my own skin and I never really felt that I looked or felt the way I wanted.

In August of 2009, I went shopping for work clothes and had to try on a size 14 pair of pants. I weighed myself and realized that it wasn't that Express was making their pants fit wrong, but that I was 164 lbs. My BMI was over 31 - I was not only overweight, I was unhealthy.

So I made the commitment. I was at a Fort Bragg Aerobathon (4 hours of non stop aerobics class fun! haha) and signed up for a free personal training session. And the rest, well, the rest I will go through in my blog posts. :)

So without further ado, here are before and after pictures with dates. :)