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    7.5 Week Progress (with le pics)!

    Posts: 15
    edited January 2 in Success Stories
    When I started my last year at uni this September, I decided it was seriously time to get back to focusing on my weight loss (which had gotten so far away from me) after feeling like poo for the majority of the summer. I finished off my summer of binge drinking fest at 173.4lb and set the goal of losing 21lb by my 21st birthday (which is Sunday, October 21- CHAMPAGNE BDAY!). Today I was feeling discouraged because I am only at 157.6 lb (16 lb loss) and realized I couldn't make my goal in time. So to see if I'd made any changes in the past 2ish months, I took a video of myself and compared it with a starting video that I made at the very end of August. I must say, I was pleasantly surprised!!

    I ALWAYS check out the success stories on MFP to keep me motivated, so thought that it was only fair to show how you guys how you have inspired me!! So, here are some of the screen shots of what a mere 7.5 weeks of work has done for my body. It's going to be a happy birthday for me indeed!!

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    • Posts: 36 Member
      dang! you look amazing! what a difference!
    • Posts: 80 Member
      wow thats great in just 7 weeks well done :smile:
    • Posts: 251 Member
      Wow!! You look fantastic!
    • Posts: 1,272 Member
      that is great work!!

      you look so toned!

      what exercises were you doing?
    • Posts: 580 Member
      You look wonderful! You can really tell a huge difference.

      What was you workout/diet plan?
    • Posts: 36 Member
      Great job! You look fantastic!
    • Posts: 269 Member
      It just goes to show the number on the scale isn't that important. You've made excellent progress!
    • Posts: 580 Member
      great job!! and yes very inspiring!!!
    • Posts: 238 Member
      Fantastic!! There is a huge difference! Your back fat is gone!! How'd you do it??? :happy:


      Edit: Just to say... "Nice Bum!!!"
    • Posts: 43 Member
      that is great work!!

      you look so toned!

      what exercises were you doing?

      Yes... what exercises? Inquiring minds want to know!

      You look fabulous, btw!
    • Posts: 55
      wow amazing results!
    • Posts: 15
      that is great work!!

      you look so toned!

      what exercises were you doing?

      Thanks everyone! :)

      For the first month I was going to the gym before class and doing 30-40 minutes of pure cardio (couldn't make it on weekends, just too busy with work and homework). Cut my cals down to 1100ish cals per day (I'm only 5'1, almost haha), stopped eating junk, the really obvious stuff, which got me down to 162 (11 lbs). On October 1st I started the Jillian Michaels Body Revolution and am on my third week of that. She includes this kickstart diet for the first week which is high protein and lean everything, which I loosely stuck to. Now I'm just eating sensibly at 1200 cal/day, doing her exercises and some additional cardio when I can get to the gym (which is like 2x a week). That brought me down another 5 in the past 2.5 weeks!
    • Posts: 6
      Wow amazing results! What are you doing to tone up? I've lost 15 pounds but don't look that good...yet! Oh maybe that's because I've had four sons and you are old enough to be my daughter lol! :happy:
    • Posts: 15
      Fantastic!! There is a huge difference! Your back fat is gone!! How'd you do it??? :happy:


      Edit: Just to say... "Nice Bum!!!"

      Haha, thank you! Particularly proud of the butt. Cellulite is slowly falling off as well, thank god. Squats squats squats!!
    • Posts: 297 Member
      wow great job in only 7.5wks your back shot alone shows drastic change keep it up yeah it's a bunner that u (may not) reach your goal by your b-day but then again it's still a few days away anything can happen 16 down is still a great thing
      happy birthday!!
    • Posts: 188
      woooooooooooooohooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!! wtg..:drinker: :drinker: :drinker: :drinker: :drinker: :drinker:
    • Posts: 487 Member
      Great job....I see how what are you doing to makes such a great shape.
    • Posts: 15
      Yeah, you never know! I'm still holding out some hope but if I don't, I'm extremely happy with the progress I've made so far! And thanks so much for the birthday wish!

      Thanks everyone again!! The kind words just make it that much easier to continue on with my journey. <3 I'll be back at the end of the Body Revolution to let you know how that went for me. :)
    • Posts: 104 Member
      You look great! Awesome job. Thank you for sharing and inspiring. Proof that the scale isn't always the best measure of progress!
    • Posts: 234 Member
      huge difference and your body looks great!
    • Posts: 214 Member
      WOAH!!!! Hot stuff, right there!
    • Posts: 500 Member
      Great job and Happy Birthday early........
    • Posts: 711 Member
      From the back it looks like a different person, massive congrats for doing so well in such a short space of time.
    • Posts: 141 Member
      bump for reading later
    • Posts: 125 Member
      Yes, Happy Birthday!! We can def see a big difference! :)
    • Posts: 52 Member
      WOW! I have a big issue with fat on my back and I see you got rid of all of yours. What did you do to to help that specific area? Congratulations!
    • Posts: 33 Member
      Really Good!!! WTG!
    • Posts: 267 Member
      Awesome job!! what a difference in such a short space of time!
    • Posts: 710 Member
      wow!!! u look amazing! AWESOME JOB!!!
    • Posts: 158 Member
      Amazing. You look so good.

      The second best thing about your post, is your before pictures and after picture have a reversed pattern. Your before top is basically the same color/pattern as your after bottom, and the before bottom is almost the same as the top from the after pic.
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