WORK IT!: The 2007 Labor Day Challenge Thread, Sign-up and Reporting

[Discolemonade]

Re: WORK IT!: The 2007 Labor Day Challenge Thread, Sign-up and Reporting

WOW MItzie! I notice the most differences in the back pics. You're so much LESS broad! You've done great! I envy the legs though. Your thighs in the side pic are much thinner! Your waist is much more defined in the front pics! Compare the chin! woohoo girlie! I'm SO PROUD!!!!I love that look on your face in the front after, LMAO. It's like, Gawd, here we go again...LOL!

[hopejoy]

Re: WORK IT!: The 2007 Labor Day Challenge Thread, Sign-up and Reporting

Wow! Mitzi! great job! You're definately thinner... especially in tummy and waist! y
Congratulations! You did great!
Sweet Strudel: You look thinner too! I see it! definately! Congratulations! Good job posting pictures!
Congratulations Elsy too! on lbs lost and making goal! Whoo hoo!
Just finished taking pictures... dd giving me lessons. pictures coming.
liz

[hopejoy]

Re: WORK IT!: The 2007 Labor Day Challenge Thread, Sign-up and Reporting

okay, here we go...
After: Sept 2, 2007 183lbs Impending TOM

Before: July 4, 2007 194lbs...

liz

[Sweet Strudel]

Re: WORK IT!: The 2007 Labor Day Challenge Thread, Sign-up and Reporting

Mitzi!!!!! You are so darned cute our little Pumpkin Princess! I definately see a difference in the side view of your tummy and abdomen and the back you look so petite and what a cute little hour glass figure. AND...my dear girl...you have NO back fat...I'm soooooooo jealous. Great job

Liz!!! Definate difference overall. Your capri's look too big on you girl and you can definately tell your upper body and waist is smaller...plus in your face you can see the change too.

I'm soooooooooooo proud of us all for getting thru this challenge and even prouder that we are brave enough to post photos...egads

[Adena]

Re: WORK IT!: The 2007 Labor Day Challenge Thread, Sign-up and Reporting

Mitzi and Liz -- great changes!! Congrats.

Okay, so I didn't make my goal of 15 pounds, but I'm down 8 pounds (from 204 to 196) and 7.75 inches. I'll take it!

July 4, 2007 ................................................. Sept 2, 2007

Don't see much of a change in the ones above....


But I can see it a little more in these....

It's sorta like cheating when your after pictures are smaller than the befores (because it automatically makes you look smaller, too). I think I must have cropped and resized those first ones at work (where I have better software)...

Edited to add:
Labor Day challenge final measurements:
JULY 5..........................SEPT 3
Weight 204..................196 (-8 pounds)
Abdomen 47.00in...........46 (-1)
Hips 45.00in..................43 (-2)
Thigh 27.00in................26.5 (-.5 x2)
Knee 15.50in.................15.25 (-.25 x2)
Calf 16.00in..................15.75 (-.25 x2)
Neck 13.50in.................13.25 (-.25)
Ankle 8.75in..................8.5 (-.25 x2)
Shoulders 42.75in..........41.5 (-1.25)
Arm 13.50in..................13.25 (-.25 x2)
Chest 41.00in...............40
Forearm 9.75in..............9.5 (-.25 x2)
Waist 39.50in...............38.75 (-.75)
Wrist 6.00in..................6

Total inches lost: 7.75
Total pounds lost: 8

[Sweet Strudel]

Re: WORK IT!: The 2007 Labor Day Challenge Thread, Sign-up and Reporting

Definately notice the difference on the side view Adena...your tummy is way smaller. You may not have made your goal of 15 lbs but 8 lbs is nothing to sneeze at. Good job girl!

[hopejoy]

Re: WORK IT!: The 2007 Labor Day Challenge Thread, Sign-up and Reporting

Adena! Are you kidding! I see a big difference! You are definately smaller... especially in side view... you can really see the difference! Great job!
liz
ps... thanks... Sweet Studel and Adena, I see changes too... couldn't find exact same shirt for comparison... but think chest looks smaller... it must be the pushups... oh yes, capris are much looser... but they have lyrica (sp) so the keep shrinking down too! lol!

[*Emma*]

Re: WORK IT!: The 2007 Labor Day Challenge Thread, Sign-up and Reporting

wow you guys! you all look great, pics are definitely the way to go in challenges its great to see such a difference!!

Ive lost no more pounds so ive FAILED lol, 10.4 for the challenge, i'll learn from that one!

pics - ew... lol, i see a difference mainly in the back ones as my knickers look more like the shorts theyre supposed to look like, lol...

[BLAZING IN FL]

Re: WORK IT!: The 2007 Labor Day Challenge Thread, Sign-up and Reporting

Liz, I definatly see a difference in your face, you are really slimming down to be a HAWT cal babe.

Mitzi, you are just TOO cute in your face!!!!! I love it!!! I can see such a difference all over, like disco said, you are less broad...

Adena, I really see an amazing difference in you side view in your tummy WOW, 8 lbs did a lot for you.

Emma, you are right, your backside looks so different, and i also see a big difference all over ..."knickers"...that's so cute, coming from the US!!! you UK girls are adorable.

You girls are all so beautiful, and courageous

[ValidRouge]

Re: WORK IT!: The 2007 Labor Day Challenge Thread, Sign-up and Reporting

Here are my results: 4.8 lbs lost 4.25" lost. I can see subtle changes. Like, fewer dimples in the backs of my thighs. A bit smaller in the stomach. Maybe even a bit less wide across the butt? (That's one place I don't measure)

Weight 187.6.....182.8..... -4.8 lbs
Arm 12.25.....12..... -.25" x2
Chest 36.25.....36..... -.25"
Breast 37.....37 .....-0
Ribs 33.....33.....-0
Abdomen 36.5 .....35.....-1.5"
hips 39.....39.....-0
thigh 24.....24.....-0
calf 17.75.....17.5.....-.25" x 2
ankle 10.....10.....-0
knee 15.25.....15.....-.25" x 2
forearm 10.....10.....-0
neck 13.5.....13.....-.5
shoulders 43.....43.....-0

[mitzimarie]

Re: WORK IT!: The 2007 Labor Day Challenge Thread, Sign-up and Reporting

Good Morning, Fellow Challengers

Wow, isn't this fun?! I am just loving these results pics. I can see differences in absolutely every one... I am so happy for everybody.

It's clear that we are our own worst critics. Some can't see the difference in their own pics, but can see it in others. Listen up, everyone who has posted so far: I CAN see an improvement in everyone! Well done!

And like Kathy said, we should all be very proud that we had the guts to post our photos. It was such a short time ago that I wouldn't even allow my picture to be taken when I had clothes on. Now I am exposing my most vunerable side... in the interest of documenting my metamorphosis. What better way to demonstrate the confidence we now have in ourselves that we can and will succeed in our quest for health?

Awesome job, my friends.

[Sweet Strudel]

Re: WORK IT!: The 2007 Labor Day Challenge Thread, Sign-up and Reporting

Emma....Good Job...10.4 lbs is awesome. I can see a difference in your tummy area mostly, but overall I see an even weightloss throughout your entire body!

Joy....ok...well you are a knockout, what can I say. I would die for that hourglass figure of yours and if I looked like you.....stick a fork in me cuz I'd be DONE!

Everyone has done great. We all stuck it out (no pun intended) and we should all be proud, I know I am proud of us all!

[Discolemonade]

Re: WORK IT!: The 2007 Labor Day Challenge Thread, Sign-up and Reporting

YAY EMMA! Definite difference! WOOHOO!!!

VR- you make me sick. LOL. UGH! you're so friggin' HAWT! I wanna be like you when I grow up! You can totally walk in public with that bikini!

[Adena]

Re: WORK IT!: The 2007 Labor Day Challenge Thread, Sign-up and Reporting

Thanks, Michelle and Liz. I added up my inches, and I'm down 7.75. More would have been nice, but I'll take it!

Emma, I do see changes for sure -- in your stomach (upper and lower!) and across your booty. You have less love handle to hold onto.

Joy, big differences -- how inspiring for you to already be as fit as you are, and we can STILL see changes. I agree about your stomach. Your whole backside is slimmer... from the middle of your back to your booty. DEFINITELY smaller there -- I bet if you measured it your butt, it would be down at least an inch, if not more. I agree with Kathy and Jen.... you look so darn incredible I wish I could hate you. Unfortunately, I like you waaaay too much for that, you stinker!

Great job, everyone! Mitzi and Kathy make a great point about both our progress and our (photo) bravery.

[ValidRouge]

Re: WORK IT!: The 2007 Labor Day Challenge Thread, Sign-up and Reporting

Emma, your stomach is like, TOTALLY smaller!!! That can't be called "failure" AT ALL! For whatever reason, your body is changing but holding out on you on the scale. In the meantime, the changes ARE happening. So, keep it up.

Adena, thank you so much. I was VERY VERY surprised to be able to see that much change (no, it's not nearly as much as it was in the beginning) at this stage of the game!!! It's exercise, plain and simple.

Disco, thanks! You've got the same shape, you'll get there!