Girl, LOOK AT YOU!!!! Amazing! :bigsmile:

Wow - that is a lot of change! Way to go!

Wow juliemouse, all curves in the right places! Bravo! :flowerforyou:

Have you really only been lifting since January? Great work! :drinker:

oh and so I can hopefully see progress, here's where the dreaded stomach area is today - both at rest and sucked in!! will be interesting to look back on. tameko2 I'm happy to have these amalgamated with the first post to save space! thank you
if you don't want to see a middle-aged post-2-c-sections stomach please look away now!!

*given up fighting with photobucket to crop and resize, it doesn't like me*


stomach at rest, front


stomach at rest, side


stomach pulled in, front


stomach pulled in, side

Hope these aren't huge!






I gained 1.6lbs this past month, but lost 6" overall. Also according to Heybales spreadsheet, my body fat decreased 1.61%. Just further proof scales are stupid.


All y'all looking so good!

Dang, Soos! You are tightening up all over! You look fantastic!

Soos you look great! Curvy in all the right places.

I never thought to take "before" photos, so these are where I was this morning. I can see a dramatic change from a few months ago - but still lots of work to do.

Oh gosh, I don't know how I missed visiting this thread, doh!

You all look great!! I'm truly amazed at how much change has happened without losing weight, just incredible.

Sometime in the future I will have photos, too. I did take some photos on January 1 but I am wearing a thong, so I won't be posting THOSE! Then I took some at the beginning of April and in a couple of months I'll have some to compare with them, so Watch This Space! :laugh:

@Julie and @Soos you look amazing! such progress!

And I didn't take notes, but I know there was one more person further up who also shrunk like nobody's business.

Wow! This is the inspiration and get 8 good weeks out of the next 2 months instead of 4...

You ladies look great!

Here's my update! Slow and Steady.
http://imgur.com/0HtuWGT

http://imgur.com/lYSHjd2


This is me today!

http://imgur.com/vnBBsgM

I think my abs are slowly trying to escape my layer of fat there. Hehe.

Edit: what? last time i checked i knew how to post photos... [ img ] url [ /img ] ??

I tried it with the "direct link" option, and the pictures work but they're too big. Can you resize?

OK, Here we go!

I started losing weight on January 1, 2013. In the second week of January I found MFP and it has made ALL the difference for me. I have used the logging to make sure I am eating in a deficit. And in early February, at the suggestion of SideSteel in the Eat Train Progress group I started doing an actual published routine for my workouts.

I've lifted weights for about 15 years. About 9 years ago my life changed and I was really sick, diagnosed with fibromyalgia. The time since then has been spent figuring out what works for my new, fibromyalgia body. In the last 9 years I'd been lifting weights only sporadically. I'd hire a trainer and they would have me do workouts that would leave me completely wiped out and that gave me no results at all. I hated the gym instead of loving it.

When I started Stronglifts, that changed. I feel better now than I have in ages. I am astounded at how much better my knees are. I love the simplicity and the results.

A pic that a friend put up on Facebook that I found devastating at the time:

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April 1:

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May 1:

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Next month I'll put up some shots that hopefully will start showing some muscles!

Ges - Fabulous progress! You can really see how your body is changing!

Holy Moly Ges, you are shrinking! Great work---and its wonderful to hear that you are FEELING better too!