Baby Orca . . . I no longer feel like one!

It's amazing what a little determination, healthy eating, and walking does for the body. Still hovering at one constant weight for now, but I'm kinda okay with that. I've been doing my yoga ball exercises (a few different push-ups, and a few different ab moves) every other night, and I've been going on walks every day.

Insert side note here: Can I just say, I love having two jobs where they let me eat at the desk? I know I've posted this on Facebook before, but it honestly does make a world of a difference. So many people I know take their lunch break to actually eat. I prefer to use mine to get completely away from the desk, out of the building, and even down the road a bit. My heels are often covered in blisters (in desperate need of new sneakers), but I couldn't be any happier.

Lately, I've just felt very . . . round. It's kinda been a problem, and took quite the toll on the self esteem for a while. My mother made a comment the other day though that made me very happy. I had just gotten back from yet another epic walk, and it had started to rain. I came up to her room and started talking/kinda complaining about the fact that my feet were pretty waterlogged, and she said to me "Well, if it's any consolation, you're starting to look trimmer. Your collarbones are really coming back."

Now. Okay. For most people, collarbones are just kinda, there. Whatever. Nothing too great about them. Me though . . . I know this is weird, but I honestly think it's one of the sexiest parts on the human body. I mean, if you think about it, there are so many angles that are so hard and soft at the same time in that one little area. There's curves, and structure, and I just think it's hot. Pretty much.

When I was a kid, I always tried to pose myself in pictures to get the faintest resemblance of collarbones, and it was difficult, because I was really a porker then (almost as round as I was tall) . . . (can we tell I really didn't like myself?).

Now though, they're just . . . there. Making themselves more and more prominent by the day. My jawline is slimming down a bit too, which is also a huge deal. My face used to be super round. Like, oval.

See that? Yeah. Super round face. That was prom, my senior year of high school. And then, somehow, through lots of hard work, I discovered that I had I actually had a very square jaw line.

See that sucker? That was literally right after I had landed at JFK, so I was a little weepy. Haha. Granted, my jaw isn't that slender just yet, but it's definitely making it's way back.

I have started to notice other areas though that I would love to tweak, so now I'm on a mission to find the perfect exercises to help tone. Mainly my upper/inner thighs. I've got my arms covered, I've got total ab region covered, and for the most part, I have my legs covered from all the walking I do, but I just wanna do some extra toning.

I even got some tanning in, so I'm getting more and more set for bathing suit season.

Slowly but surely. :)

((PS. I can actually look in a mirror now in just a tank and my undies, and not totally want to gag! So definite improvement there. Hahaha.))