Hotties With Bodies (Closed Group)

Hello everyone! I'm Sarah, Lindsay's friend. I live in Mason, MI with my husband and two pups.

Between 2006-2007 I gained a whopping 30lbs, then over the next couples years managed to gain about 10 more. I've been trying to loose the weight for awhile now with no luck until I came to this website. I'm down 25lbs since joining and about 32lbs since I was at my heaviest. I'm very excited to knock out the last 20lbs and I was losing steam quick so hopefully you ladies will help motivate me the next 13 weeks so I can reach this goal.

I love the idea of the coast to coast. Since I live near Lansing, and Linds already said that I'm going to choose Grand Junction, CO. That's the place I'm hoping to live within the next 5 years. :-)

First, welcome Sarah! We're so glad to have you!

Now, for the hard part. Like i mentioned in the email I think it would be a good motivator for us to upload pictures of ourselves at the beginning and end of this challenge so everyone can really see their results. Even if no one else wants to, I'm still going to do this for my own accountability.

I'm warning you they're ROUGH! This was in mid June, the day after I got back from family vaca at our lake house where the only thing in the house was burgers, pizza, chips, candy, little debbies, and soda. I let myself get back up to 170, which was my weight at the beginning of our FIRST 3 month challenge!!! I seriously look pregnant from all the bloating. Luckily my stomach has slimmed down slightly since I got back on my water but I haven't lost much of the weight so I'm going to keep these as my before photos for this challenge as a motivator. I looked totally different 2 months before in April and I'm sickened at how I let myself get to this point. So anyway, here we go (please excuse the deer-in-the-headlights look on my face, not sure what that's about):



If i can post these embarrassing pics, anyone should be able to post theirs because I know most of you look much better than this!

Hello Everyone!! First off Congrats Tash (how exciting) and welcome Sarah.

I've read back through the posts and all the ideas sound great. I like the coast to coast challenge. We did this as a motivator at work for a month and as a group (12 in total) we walked to somewhere in eastern Ontario. I'm from the east coast of Nova Scotia in Canada so maybe we could use Halifax as a starting point. Or maybe my starting point could be Halifax and I'll see if I can walk to NYC to meet up with your starting point. Hey Lorraine maybe you can attemp to walk on water across the ocean to Halifax. If we use another starting point I'll pick Las Vegas as a destination as I'm going there in October. So the end of our challenge for 9/30 (our 16th wedding anniversary) works perfectly for me as I go to Vegas on Oct 8th. I've kept a continuous record of my steps since April 1st. I'll post my total steps later so you can see how far I've walked since then.

Personnally I find summer very challenging to eat healthy. Last summer I gained 15 lbs of beer and ice cream. I haven't had an ice cream cone yet this year and when I drink beer I've switched to Molson Canadian 67 Sublime. 67 cals per bottle and only 3% alcohol. One would think summer would be easier with all the fresh produce and fruit. Too many temptations and BBQ. I plan on logging faithfully even if I have to go back and do it later as we camp a lot and are away most weekends without internet. I want to be accountable for my food choices. That is why weekly weigh ins are important to me so I can look back and see where I need to focus more.

I am all for the challenges that we can find on line because we all will have access to them. I don't have any exercise DVDs but hope to have some copied soon.

Right now my personal challenge is WATER,WATER, WATER. I've had a sore throat for about 10 days from the air conditioner and I haven't drank water in about 2 weeks. I gained half a pound last week and I am sure that is why.

Lets do this together and have an AWESOME SUMMER doing it.

Hello hotties!

I was out of town this past weekend finishing up our annual 4th of July week vacation.

I am going to start back out tomorrow HARD CORE! I need it! I have done pretty well weight wise...BUT...I see things starting to get ***** slapped by gravity again...so I must do something! LOL.

For the miles challenge...put me down as Detroit too!

I am ready!!

Jen

Good morning everyone! This coast to coast challenge has really motivated me to give it my all this week on the exercise front! I'll have no excuse to miss a workout now!
I have no idea what city to pick.... Can I go with Chicago?

My new personal goal this week is to stop all food and drink intake (except water) after 9pm. I always find myself snacking on things late at night so Im gonna nip that in the bud this week and see how I do.

Also welcome Sarah! Good to have you with us

This weekend went pretty much ok. Got a workout in Saturday morning and was good during the day but I did have a few drinks and nibble on a few bits of fast food saturday night! BOLD! I dont think I was that much over because I was consciously consuming the stuff but I dont know for sure.

Yesterday was much better, I met my boyfriend out for lunch in town after doing some light shopping and we both got a healthy tuna salad and water for lunch! Much to my amazement! I have a very unhealthy habit of eating what my boyfriend eats because that's how our relationship started out! So the fact that he ordered a salad first really helped me make a healthy choice aswell. Im so proud of him cos he HATES salads but he's trying to jump on this health boat too and get back in shape (he used to be a rugby player)

So anyway, yesterday turned out to be pretty healthy even though I didnt get any exercise in but I needed a rest day anyways

So back on it today! And cant wait to start raking in those calories for our mammoth trip to LA!

Have a great Monday everyone! Get focused on what you want to achieve today and go out there and get it!

YOU CAN DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!
x

P.s. Kerri, you look 7 shades of AMAZING in that dress!!!! You're already the Hottie with the Body!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So proud of you girl! x

This weekend was a semi success. I got all my water, logged everything (even though I had to estimate most on Sunday since it was homemade) and my 1,000 calorie burn but I did overindulge with some peanut butter cups my sis got me for my bday this weekend....

So for this weekend:

I WILL drink atleast 8 glass of water on Saturday and Sunday (more if I drink any diet sodas)
I WILL NOT overindulge at the family party for my bday (lots of good homemade food)
I WILL log everything (even if I have to estimate it will still keep me accountable)
I WILL workout both days (1,000 calorie goal for the weekend)

Lorraine your boyfriend sounds like mine, our recreation is eating out which is why I loved the fact we didn't go out to eat once this weekend and even worked out together! He's trying to get on board too (he's already lost 50 lbs) but HATES fruits and veggies so every little step counts because I tend to follow his lead as far as our health goes on the weekends. Great job on making an effort to stay on track this weekend.

Disappointed with what I saw on the scale this morning but I have to start somewhere so.....

Don't worry Andrea, we're all in the same place. You've got 3 months to turn it around and you're SO close to start with.

Everyone don't forget our 1400 situps for this week (100 per girl), I got half of mine in this morning at Pure barre.

Good Morning Ladies!!
My SW for this challenge is136.18 lbs
My GW for this challenge is 130 lbs (maybe 125 lbs & a size 8) That might be pushing it.
More importantly is to exercise more and tone up. Want my clothes to fit better and feel sexy in them. Have to be a HOTTIE for VEGAS!!
Plan to complete food diary daily making healthy choices and be under cals and sodium and have at least 8 glasses of H2O daily.
Do 30 min of exercise daily even if it is only a walk at lunch. I am also up for any of the challenge posted (already did modified sit ups today YAY!!)
Seeing how our start point for the coast to coast challenge is NYC I'm picking Las Vegas as my destination.
I have totalled up how may steps I've done since Apr 1st and the total to date is.... 617226... which is 308.61 miles or 493.77 km. I calculate this using 2000 steps per mile. That gets me from my door in Lake Echo NS to my sisters in Quispamsis NB plus 88kms extra. It takes almost 4 hous to drive that far nonstop. So on average I walk just a little over 100 miles a month. Going to try to up this a bit.
Hope I'm not forgetting anything. I WILL post bikini pics soon. GOOD LUCK to everyone this week!!

Ugh, here are my starting pics! Took these last weekend.. I wasn't planning on sharing them but who the hell cares.

I'll glady trade bodies with you and then you'll have something to say ugh about! You're a "certified hottie" remember lol?

OK Ladies my BIKINI photos are in. They are in my profile, I couldn't figure out how to post them on our forum. There they are for all to see. Look if you dare. They are pretty scary. :embarassed: