Weight loss challenge finale: the results are in!

Today was our Lose Pounds with Your Hounds final weigh in.  The gals did so well.  The feedback was that they learned a lot from the daily blog posts to keep them moving in a healthy and positive direction now that the competition has ended.  We calculated the percentage lost from the participants and their dogs and also their waist and hip measurements.

• Congratulations to our winners:  Cela Nash and Lynne Gardner–they won a gift certificate for personal training with Dawn Celapino, a photo shoot with David Veit, pet photograher and dog training classes with Happy Dog Happy Owner.  Together they lost 11 lbs and 5″.
• The person who lost the most weight (5% of her body weight!) also got a prize of a 1/2 hour massage with Receive Wellness–Congrats to Amy Diener–she lost 9 lbs and 3.75″.
• The dog that lost the most weight was Rylie, owned by Diana Leonard—Rylie lost 4.5 lbs and won a goodie bag filled with Honest Kitchen and Natures Select dog food and a few toys.
• During the contest, we also had a vote page where people could vote for their favorite team, the teams had anywhere from 2 – 181 votes!! Congratulations to Mary Sullivan and Lois Cooper–they got the word out and received an astounding 181 votes and won a gift certificate to Markim Pet Resort so their pups could stay in comfort while Mary and Lois were out celebrating!
• 2nd place with 113 votes again went to Cela and Lynn!  They were working it pretty darn hard too! They won a gift certificate to Cutting Edge k9 for a swim session for their pups.
• We also wanted to give a HUGE thumbs up to the person that went far and beyond the contest! Miss Patty Troup quit smoking AND still lost 7.6 lbs and 3.25″ during the contest! We are VERY proud of Patty and she won a Surf Dog calendar and a goodie bag filled stuff for her and Mr. Max!

We want to thank everyone in the contest for hanging in there during the 6 weeks, coming to our Leash Your Fitness classes and being so supportive to each other.  We also want to thank all of our sponsors who donated prizes to our winners and to Markim Pet Resort for allowing us to do our weigh in’s and our after party there!  Thanks also to Trish from Cutting Edge k9 for swimming with the dogs and actually teaching a few dogs HOW to swim at our after weigh in paw-ty!

We began the contest with 20 and the final count for the 12 participants who hung in there and finished the contest was 60 lbs and 26″ lost. Many went down a size in clothing and feel a whole heck of a lot better with more energy!  Stay tuned–our next contest is already under way–the Furry Fitness Challenge began on June 11 so we will keep you in the loop as to how they are doing!  The next contest will begin in September, let us know if you are interested in joining! Leave your comments below!  In the meantime, enjoy the pictures……..(click on image to enlarge)