Sadly, this is the end of the Summer Solstice Challenge. EVERYONE in this contest did spectacularly! I am very proud of every single one of you.

Here is how this week worked, in case anyone is confused. There are 6 people left, and I continue my regular pattern of eliminating 2 people. There will be 4 people remaining. I put those 4 people in order in accordance to their weight loss over the ENTIRE challenge.

Prizes: I will be mailing out 4 ribbons to the top 4 people. I will be mailing out letters with those ribbons, and also to the other 2 people that were in the top 6. So will all of you PM ME with a place to send the mail to? Thank you very much.

I will not delay it any longer... here are this week's results.
This Week's Break Down:

1. Omega- 1.16% loss this week
2. lindseybot3k- 1.11% loss this week
3. kgirl- .72% loss this week
4. lisamcrn .39% loss this week
5. heathercb04- Maintained this week.
6. Eldaweesda- .83% gain this week.

Break Down of the Individual Phase:
1. Omega- 7.48% loss
2. lisamcrn- 5.26% loss
3. kgirl- 4.19% loss
4. lindseybot3k- 2.91% loss
5. heathercb04- 1.63% loss
6. Eldaweesda- 4.31% gain

Unfortunately, heathercb04 and Eldaweesda are the ones eliminated from winning the ribbons. PM me with an address so you can get the letter, and maybe a little something else. You both did amazingly.

The Winners announced here:

In first place.... OMEGA! With a 21 pound loss; which is 13.37% of her weight that she has lost since March 7th!

In second place... KGIRL! With a 17 pound loss; which is 11.03% of her weight!

In third place... LISAMCRN! With a 12.4 pound loss; she has lost 7.58% of her weight.

In fouth place... LINDSEYBOT3K! With an 18 pound loss; she has lost 6.33% of her weight.


a rty:

You all did SO WELL! I am truly inspired by all of you. And we all enter summer with better fitness levels... which is why I started this challenge to begin with.

Congratulations to ALL OF YOU.

Congratulations, Omega! You did a great job.

Oh, and congratulations to everyone else, too! We all made it through to the end!

Thanks Lindsey and Brandy for the congratulations. I really enjoy challenges as they help to motivate me so that I stay on track. I have to say that I need all the help that I can get now that I am 16 months into a long term project - it would be so easy to give in to temptation.

As the challenge ends I am now at the lowest weight that I have had for over twenty years - and have just this week celebrated getting into UK size 10 jeans (US size 6).

I would like to thank Brandy for organising a great challenge for us. I honestly believe that everyone who enters such a challenge, enjoys it and loses any weight are all winners.

Many people will have benefited from this challenge. The nature of an elimination challenge dictates that the many people that benefit and the full amount of weight lost is not visible on the final scoreboard of results.

Omega- Lowest in 20 years?? That is amazing congrats on fitting into a new low size! I'm glad you appreciated the challenge.

Great Job everyone. I enjoyed this challenge.