Photos and progress photos

Today's pictures (12 stone):

Haha, I've just noticed you can see my actual shoulder in that back photo. Whoops! Well, I never claimed to be a photographer ;-)

I think a difference is gradually becoming apparent. Gradually being the operative word. For funsies, I have done some progress photos. These are 13 stone 5, 12 stone 5, 12 stone, in that order:

I think my back fat looks better and my arms look smaller. I am really struggling with seeing a difference in my stomach though. My arse certainly looks (and feels ;-) ) higher, although alarmingly I think my thighs look better in the middle pictures. I think that might just be a symptom of exercise though, and hopefully it will correct itself. The cellulite makes me sad but oh well. Shouldn't have been so fat in the first place!

These ones are 13 stone 1 and 12 stone as I didn't take any front and back photos when I started off:

Yes, back fat, arms and arse certainly noticeably improved! The stomach though... needs work still, right?

Just to heighten my curiousity a final comparison without the middle photo. So a comparison left and right with 13 stone 5 and then, 19 pounds down, at 12 stone:

Ok, well I can see the difference a bit better here! The whole shape of my back has completely changed! My arse is in a totally different place! My stomach is certainly less... although the shape is more or less the same - sticking out! I need to work more on stomach toning, this is obvious but there is a difference, it is clearly there. Phew!

I wonder how it will look at 11 stone 5?

1 stone lost photos

Somehow I didn't notice that I have now lost 1 stone since starting this blog. I started this blog weighing 13.5 stone, and now I am 12.5 stone. I am wondering if I messed my calculations up somewhere along the way as I was sure  I hadn't reached a stone yet... but the figures are there! So without any further ado I have new pictures and then comparison pictures. Today's pictures first:

 And the comparison photos are below. Left is the heavier ones (13.5 stone/187 lbs/85 kilos) and right is the photos from today (12.5 stone/173 lbs/ 78.5 kg). I wish I had taken a better shot of my left side when I took the first photos! Ugh!

I'm pleased to have made progress, but 1 stone in 6 months isn't great progress is it?! Let's see how we get on from here.

A positive uplift of the posterior

I weighed myself this morning and, yep, back to 12 stone 8. Phew. Although I am upset that it has taken so very, very long to lose my hormonal weight. It coincides nicely with my going away for the weekend where undoubtedly I will eat crap and do no exercise. I also had to cancel both of my classes at the gym this morning as I just did not have time. I did fulfill my eyebrow threading reward though, booya, I bet I've lost a pound right there!

As an interesting exercise, I went back to the start of the blog as I was wondering if I had lost even a stone yet (I haven't.) I put together two of the photos, one from the first photo blog entry at 13 stone 5 and one from the last lot of photos I uploaded, 11 lbs lighter. Yeesh, seeing it like that it does look like a great achivement. 11 lbs?? That's a lot, isn't it!? I'm sure I can see a difference. What do you all think?

My stomach seems a little flatter, my back fat sits a little better and there is more definition between my arse and my thighs.

I have a couple of other confessions too! This morning I was forced to go clothes shopping due to a lack of clothes that fit coinciding with some clothes shop sales as I have no money. I had to buy a pair of jeans and a new pair of work trousers. My current jeans are size 16 and my work trousers are size 18. I think I was having a particularly depressed day when I bought my work trousers and I think maybe they were a little big when i got them, but not that big. Now  they are definitely too big, and I can't spend my time working in a secondary school hoiking my trousers up every five minutes because they are falling off. The trousers I bought today? Jeans - size 14, work trousers - size 14. Yeaaaaah, baby! The jeans are just fine but admittedly the work trousers forced me into a bit of a muffin top. They feel comfortable though and I bought them anyway - I only have one more week at work before the week's school holiday, so I will work on working out over the next two weeks and I will go back to work after the holiday in my size 14 trousers. I. Can. Hardly. Wait!!!
I'm also feeling better about my body in general. More confident, even. I think the exercise is certainly helping me tone up and I can see parts of my body that I finally like. Whilst trying on my new jeans this morning I spent actually ages just staring at my arse. It's nice, isn't it? Shapely and getting toned. I think you can see the definition a little bit in the newest photo above on the left. I'm quite proud of my arse. And my stomach definitely sticks out a bit less. I think my breasts have got a bit smaller and with it firmer, which is fabulous news. One of my biggest issues is still my upper arm flab, and I think it has got fractionally more toned but clearly it is somewhere I need to work more on. Hmm, I might have to investigate more upper arm muscle exercises....

All in all, I'm feeling so positive at the moment. The last week of May is my school's holiday so I intend to go to the gym every.single.damn.day if it is even a little bit possible as I would LOVE to somehow make it into the 11's before June, or at the beginning of June. That is 8 mere pounds away, if I could get 1 lbs off by Sunday (well, monday as I will be away for the Sunday weigh-in) and lose 2 lbs next week, that gives me just 5 lbs to lose in the following two weeks.... Eek!

Starting off!

So, today let's kick everything off. I officially weigh: 13.5 stone, 85kg. (this is weighed individually on my scale, not converted - why have a scale that weighs in three units and bark yourself!)
This is down from 99 kg in January 2012, so I think this is a good improvement. However, I would like it to be a lot more and I would like to lose 3.5 stone by the end of June. (I'm aware I'm mixing metric and imperial measurements, well such is life in Britain!) This is around 2lbs a week, and I'm hopeful. Well, sort of. I'm hoping blogging, and looking at progressive photos will help. I sort of wish I had taken photos when I started out but I'm sort of glad I didn't! So, this time next week hopefully I will be down 2lbs. Let's see!