Pics As Promised

My pics crop up better as fairly narrow portraits. If I were to ever become as masterful at self-photography as Lara, I might be able to do better with these, but for the moment I am stuck with what I can do...

As promised, I have provided a butt dimple pic, but the rest made my gut look larger than I wanted to, so they were left off until I can do more. I'm very pleased with the way my body (for so long my foe in looking good) is responding to exercise. I am doing some extra work with my lower abdomen now, so I am hoping some of the softness there will be gone soon.

I'm taking this opportunity to re-declare at 50 lbs down. The first declaration was off the health club scale (after a big work-out) and I didn't reach 50 lbs down on my home scale until last week. I am now consistently down 50 lbs. I can see the difference in my body from the time of my first announcement so I don't know if I lost more or just shifted between fat and muscle.

I am doing a bunch of upper body work now in addition to the elliptical. I am not seeing the definition that I would like, but I am going as fast as possible from my fibromyalgia ravaged overweight out-of-shape body to something more toned at about my maximum rate. Some days I feel some pain from my regimen, and I don't ever want to miss some days because of an injury. So, I go slow.

As I mentioned above, I added more abdominal exercises in the last 10 days - we'll see how that works.

All my exercise is high reps, fairly low weight. When I was younger I bulked up on muscle fairly quickly. I want to be slim and non-bulky this time, so my exercise routine reflects that desire. Definition and lower weight, not bulk and mass.

Yes. My back and behind is less hirsute. I shaved to see how it would look. I ended up having to continue down to my butt as well just so it wouldn't look too dorky.