Good, Bad & Funny Photos: Jenn, Allie, Tiff, Elizabeth, & Tamzin (OUR BIG WINNER!)

Welcome to the final installment of the Good, Bad & Funny photo series. I originally wrote this series to serve guest posts for an upcoming trip planned with Derek and my Dad on what was their favorite mode of travel: a transatlantic crossing. Here is a link to the last crossing that we did together as a gleesome threesome last October. As some of you know, we never got to take this last trip together, but I still needed the guest posts due to the events that transpired. So, this is the last of those posts. Personally, I love laughing at others, but I love laughing at myself even more. I guess it’s in my genes.


So without further ado, here my final ‘funny’ photo…

Well, this is highly embarrassing... I am wearing Mickey Mouse sunglasses while dawning a cammo jumpsuit. Translation: A “Onesy” for adults. A onesy for adults who go hunting.

Speaking of wearing Cammo, the first participant today actually knows how to rock the cammo look, particularly while she bangs out a few hundred KettleBell swings in the parking lots of various fast food establishments. Sounds intriguing? Meet Jenn…

Jenn from Girl Heroes:
I'm Jenn and I blog over at www.girl-heroes.com about my keeping my sanity (or not) on my quest for "insane" health. I love kettlebells, wearing water socks, and feeling self righteous about belonging to a CSA even though I end up throwing out a good part of my veggies every week. Most of all I like to celebrate women who change the world by choosing health.

Good:

"Naptime" One afternoon while I was gardening Nigel, my pug, decided that he shouldn't have to sleep on the ground while Noah got a recliner so he hopped on up and took a nap.

Bad:

"Puking in the Planter." This is a reenactment of a true event. I was really sick in India and while waiting for the elevator at a very nice hotel I suddenly had to throw up. One of my friends quickly suggested the planter and without thinking I took his advice.

Funny:

"Here honey have a chunk of chicken". Not sure what's funnier my husband's face or the fact that I had chicken strips at my wedding reception. Classy.

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Allie from Pimp My Protein Shake
www.pimpmyproteinshake.com
This is Allie from Pimp My Protein Shake, a blog specializing in plagiarizing content from Protein Hussy (also known as Smoothie Girl Eats Too). Deb blackmailed us to send us her our most funny and horrendous photos, OR ELSE she would post them on the web for all to see! Whew – dodged that bullet.
Good:

At Gold’s Gym

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Heavier, healthier and happier face of Allie (than in the upcoming “Bad” photo)…and in the back of a fire truck!!!!

Bad:

Competition or Competitive Dieting? I trained and ate salad for 6 months and all I got was this stupid rhinestone bikini?!

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Shock and Awe: OMG!

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Sleeping Beauty Meets Beauty and the Beast for a little siesta. Which one’s the beast? Incriminating photo taken by the husband, which is grounds for divorce in Idaho.

(Deb here again…just so everything is fair, I thought it was only fair to show you a “Good” photo of Allie’s bed-fellow, Chile Pepper:)

Good Chile Pepper:

No, seriously people, this IS his good photo- I promise! Honest, I wouldn’t lie to you! Let me repeat: THIS IS THE GOOOOOOOD PHOTO!

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Tiffany aka Carbzilla:

Blog: carbzilla.britehive.com

Carbzilla is a mixed bag blog but mostly about losing weight, working out even when you don't want to, other people's recipes that end up looking gross but taste delicious, and trying to take care of my husband and home while working full-time and studying Sustainable Business here in Seattle.

Good:

This was taken on a date with my then-boyfriend, now-husband in the spring of 1999. We were in the courtyard of the Brooklyn Museum of Art. I look young and happy and healthy in this picture, which is why I like it.

Bad:

I'm not sure how long I'd been dating my husband when I decided to break out this look (unshowered and possibly wearing pajamas) at his parents' house. I had a migraine and this was all I could muster. The dogs certainly didn't care. You can't tell but the poodle is wearing a t-shirt that says "Flea Market Attendant."

Funny:

Me pretending to be a knife-swallower at my Going Away party in LA at my max fitness (my trainer became my roommate, and we traded for rent). You may notice at max fitness I have no boobs. At the moment, I'm a 36D.

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Elizabeth from Cake or Death?

Blog: http://cake0rdeath.blogspot.com/

I'm a pastry chef, food writer, and ultramarathon runner based in LA. About 9 years ago I lost 100 lbs, caught the running bug, and haven't looked back. I now try to balance my healthy lifestyle and trail-running obsession with my job as a pastry chef and my extreme sweet tooth. My site, called Cake or Death?, features recipe and photos of desserts I make at home, but be warned: these are not healthy eats! View and drool at your own risk.
Good:

Along with giving me the illusion of cheekbones I only wish I had in real life, this photo also gives me a dashing mustache that would make Clark Gable himself jealous.

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Good/funny:

Leaping over the finish line at a recent trail race. I'd just run 32.5 miles and ascended 11,000 feet and was so, SO glad to be done.

Bad:

Every aspect of this photo is bad: the quality (taken with my computer webcam), the disheveled appearance (post-gym workout) and the gaping head wound (I bashed my head into the pigeon spikes on our balcony.)

Funny:

Not sure if it's cheating to have a pic that's not of me, but I took it, so maybe that counts, plus I think it's just hilarious. This is my brother visiting us in LA, posing in front of some crazy plants in Griffith Park, doing his best Dr. Seuss character imitation

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Tamzin from Salad and Sequins:

Blog: http://www.saladandsequins.com/

Hi my name is Tamzin and I write the blog Salad and Sequins. I decided to start my blog after reading some other foodie blogs and realized its exactly what I would love to do myself. My passion is health and fitness and I want to share my healthy recipes with others as well as adding some sparkle! I have also learnt so many wonderful things from all the fab blogs I read. Especially this lovely ladies. Debs thank you for bringing the guar + xanthan gum smoothie into my life! I hope you like my photos and they give you a giggle, if you get the time drop by to salad and sequins x x
Good:

This is a photo of me on my 28th birthday last year, I was in Barcelona with my best friend and I wore one of my favorite tea dresses, original 50's dress! It was a fabulous night with even more fabulous friends!
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Bad:

Ha ha ha this is from 2008, I went to the Bennicassim festival in Valencia this was my Courtney Love impression! Yes I used to be that blonde!!!!!!

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Funny:

I had a small obsession with the photo booth application on my Mac and this photo just makes me laugh so much. Whenever I feel sad I have a selection of photos like this that make me laugh till I cry! (this in particular I can't actually believe I'm sending to you, but if it makes you laugh I'll be happy!)

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Thank you to all of my wonderful participants! You've got cajones!

Q: When was the last time you laughed until you cried? What was the circumstance?