You guys rock! You both are looking great. Props for doing it together!

Congrats!

Wow! This is impressive Makes me look forward to my 2-month anniversary. Thank you for the motivation

This is awesome

Wow! Congratulations to you both!

Awesome sauce

Great job! Looks like I've got some catching up to do. I'm in week 4 and still waiting for my body to wake up and smell the butter-flavoured coffee

Teamwork!!!

110challenge wrote: »

Thanks everyone! Man, I'm glad we have these pictures right now. We're both having a frustrating week - the first time we've stalled (we're both actually up, pretty sure it's water intake issues as we have both sucked at that this week...good news is we bought Mammoth Mugs Tuesday so I think they'll make a big difference in upping our water. Carrying around 2.5 litres of water really makes you realize how much you have and havent been drinking!!!).

I have biometric screening this Tuesday - pumped but nervous, and embarrassed a bit as it's through work and in a room with 6 other people. I know no one is going to mistake me for a size 10, but knowing everyone is going to hear my measurements..ugh. I'd much rather they hear my lab results (in theory, I've read they can spike during loss).

@110challenge Would love to hear your results if you're up for sharing them. It always helps give us perspective to hear about others. I've posted some of my lab work and such here before and am happy to share back, if you're interested at all.

Congratulations, amazing results from both of you!

110challenge wrote: »

okay, here goes.... results are just barely over 2 months into this journey.

total cholesterol 4.52
casual glucose 5.3
blood pressure 126/90 (I was kind of disappointed on this one. My blood pressure drops ridiculously low when I'm pregnant, to the point where I faint in ultrasounds... I'm used to hearing much lower)
BMI 36.8
waist circumference (am I really typing this... ) 46
body fat percentage 44.4

Are you in the UK or Canada? My cholesterol numbers are on the US scale, and everyone knows US numbers don't make sense anywhere else in the world (darned silly arrogant US people...LMAO)... So I don't know how that translates.

http://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/cholesterol-test/basics/results/prc-20013282

So my last one was 212 - and it is just over the scale of desirable which here is 200 and in your numbers of 5.2 being the upper limit. So you're well in the desirable range for total cholesterol. Mine is slightly high, but I know the automatic calculations are off when your trigs are lower than normal, and my HDL is improving, plus I'm still actively losing weight, which affects test levels.

Dunno what "casual glucose" is. Here we do a fasting level test and a 3 month average (A1c)... I found this explanation. Health professionals recommend that you use the post-meal glucose level as the standard for random glucose testing (called casual). Acceptable values are around 70-125 mg/dL (3.9-6.9 mmol/L).

My fasting number was 92 - slightly high, but not worrisome too much yet as long as I keep on track and my insulin levels are good (they like you to be below 90, but over 100 is prediabetic, and I think over 120 or something is diabetic.)...my average one or something is 104, so I'm in the good range there, but I'm at the high end. Sounds like you're about the same.

I'm on blood pressure meds, because my hormonal birth control triggers slight high blood pressure, so my readings before meds were like 145/90 or something (highest ever was 170/110, followed by 165/98 - the first was decided to be a glitch in equipment, but that second one was when I was already coming down off a spike. Before BCP and after meds, I'm right in the 120-125/78-83 range. So your bottom number probably has to be "watched." But your upper one is good.

My BMI is 42.3 per a calculator I just pulled up.

Waist is 44 as of June 23rd, so I'm due for a remeasure, just for giggles. I'm a plus size hour glass shape. I nip in tightly at the waist but have a heavier upper abdomen (chest band is 40" with my upper fat roll area above the waist being 44") and wider hips (54" with my stomach overhang, 50" when I measure under it). So if you do bust, waist, hips, I'm 50-44-54...LOL

Body fat percentage I don't know for sure, but most of mine come up in the 40-45% range. I need to have a biometric test done!

So we're in the same ballpark... Always helps to see someone else in our "range." I'm looking forward to more tests next month.

Congrats! Very visible differences!