Hotties With Bodies (Closed Group)

So using the excuse, "muscle weighs more than fat" is just that - an excuse. You may have a little water retention because if you're lifting weights your body can hold on to water in the muscles, but that's about it!

I'd have to agree with Kerri. Muscle weighs the same as fat, its just less dense so 5lbs of muscle is much smaller than 5 lbs of fat. And you gain muscle at such a slow pace that its almost impossible to actually see a gain on the scale from it (besides the water that it sometimes holds on to in the beginning). In fact, being in a calorie deficit makes it really hard to even gain muscle at all but that's not to say you shouldn't lift because like she said muscle burns more fat!

Wow!!! That's amazing Robin! It looks fantastic and it's so exciting to see our hard work translated into a cross-country adventure! Great work on the map! And well done to all us Hottie's for burning nearly 35,000 calories in our first week!!! WhooHOOO!

Just dropping by to leave a quick note. So my 'long' day didn't turn out to be what I thought it was! Turns out we're working a split day today so we finished at our first location at 2pm and we're back to work on our second location at 9pm tonight. So that means I was able to go home and eat healthy and also get a run in! Whoohoo! Im so happy with myself today!

Also NSV for me today, I ran an 8min mile! 4 of them! Yay! Chuffed even though I passed a group of up-to-no-good youths along the canal who proceeded to jeer at me and throw berries at me when I passed them! Ha! Typical Dubliners I was too busy trying to get my run done in under 36 minutes to care about them.

Anyhoo, Im relaxing now after dinner, catching up on season 5 of The Office (US) before I have to head back to work at 9pm

A good day for me

Oh and p.s. great to see everyone on Facebook! I feel like Ive known you guys forever now!! x

Maybe we should try to go around the world. We'll be in LA really soon!

The facebook thing is cool, especially when you find out how small of a world it really is. :-)

I'm officially on vacation, but we are staying home so I'll be around.

Robin, I love the map! I also love our speed of 23mph (miles per hottie). :laugh:

Hope everyone is having a great week. I'm trying to get some good work outs to prepare for Colorado (one week from today)! We're doing some hikes so I'll get some great exercise. I'm not going to get my hopes up because I'm sure I'll be eating bad (and drinking more than I should), but this might be a vacation where I lose weight!

Let's get some more great work outs in today!

Ladies, Challenge of the day for you: Tell me one thing that has made you smile or feel good today.

My size 12's are getting baggy again and I can sit down in my M shirts without them busting at the seams now and I'm loving it.

Also, this is a silly one but I work for a huge power company in the southeast and yesterday they sent out an email about how we were supposed to have a huge group of people protesting nuclear power out front of the corporate offices at noon today dressed as zombies, that's right ZOMBIES! It absolutely made my day. Unfortunately it just ended up being a group of about 10 people with t-shirts and signs, but the thought that someone wanted a bunch of people to come protest nuclear power, much less dressed as zombies, still makes me giggle lol. (sorry if any of you are against nuclear power...)

Ladies, Challenge of the day for you: Tell me one thing that has made you smile or feel good today.

My size 12's are getting baggy again and I can sit down in my M shirts without them busting at the seams now and I'm loving it.

Also, this is a silly one but I work for a huge power company in the southeast and yesterday they sent out an email about how we were supposed to have a huge group of people protesting nuclear power out front of the corporate offices at noon today dressed as zombies, that's right ZOMBIES! It absolutely made my day. Unfortunately it just ended up being a group of about 10 people with t-shirts and signs, but the thought that someone wanted a bunch of people to come protest nuclear power, much less dressed as zombies, still makes me giggle lol. (sorry if any of you are against nuclear power...)

Zombies in protest would have been cool. I used to work in research and we had a lot of protest threats but nothing quite as cool as zombies :-)

Ladies, Challenge of the day for you: Tell me one thing that has made you smile or feel good today.

Ok, this is proving to be tough for me cos today ended up being a total sugar overload so I don't feel too pleased with myself.
If I was to pick anything good that happened today it would be that I did a good job on set today and got praised by my director.

Im the head of the Sound Department and its my sole responsibility that everything is recorded well and sound recordists RARELY get any recognition. Most crews just assume that it's an easy job, all you have to do is just press record, right?! How hard is it to record someone talking?? IT IS HARD! It's hard to get it done well! Sure, I could stick the microphone in the corner of the room and it would record everything the actor is saying but anyone could do that! There is a lot of skill and technique involved in recording and making everything sound like it does in the movies you see in the cinema. It doesn't just happen by accident! My job ALWAYS gets overlooked and is rarely considered very 'important'. But a film is 50% visual and 50% audio!!!!! 50/50!!! No one thinks about that.
And to add to all of that nonsense it doesn't help that Im a GIRL doing a technical job! Surely I can't operate a recording mechanism?! That's madness! Why should anyone listen to me when I say that there is a lawnmower working in the background and you are going to hear it over all of the takes and its going to interfere with the rest of the scene because it's noisy and it keeps moving around so each take is going to sound different to the last one and when the editor gets all this he is going to have a heart attack because everything sounds different and nothing matches!!!!!! Why should they listen to me cos I have boobs and surely I don't know what Im talking about! It's not like I can hear or anything!!

So this is what I have to deal with 90% of the time....but today I got recognition and I KNOW I did a good job and the editor is going to thank me because it's all going to sound the same when he puts it together. I might have to be a pain in the *kitten* on set to get my way but they'll thank me in the end And if nothing else, the film will SOUND amazing!!!!

Don't want to blow my own trumpet (too much!) but today was a good day for me at work hahaha even if I did have too much sugar!!!

Goodnight ladies!(Sorry for the vent! Ive always wanted to get that off my chest)

Ladies, Challenge of the day for you: Tell me one thing that has made you smile or feel good today.

Im the head of the Sound Department and its my sole responsibility that everything is recorded well and sound recordists RARELY get any recognition. Most crews just assume that it's an easy job, all you have to do is just press record, right?! How hard is it to record someone talking?? IT IS HARD! It's hard to get it done well! Sure, I could stick the microphone in the corner of the room and it would record everything the actor is saying but anyone could do that! There is a lot of skill and technique involved in recording and making everything sound like it does in the movies you see in the cinema. It doesn't just happen by accident! My job ALWAYS gets overlooked and is rarely considered very 'important'. But a film is 50% visual and 50% audio!!!!! 50/50!!! No one thinks about that.

If it makes you feel any better you're my hero Lorraine lol. This is what I originally started college for (well film editing, not sound) but I switched to accounting because I thought I would have a really hard time finding a job when I got out of school doing what I wanted (films & trailers, not commercials and such). So everyday when I get on here and you talk about your job I'm SUPER jealous because I would love to be doing it instead of studying balance sheets and journals lol. I was over film and sound for our school films (clearly not as big a deal as what you do now) so I have an idea of what you mean here and can I just say that YOU ROCK and you shouldn't feel bad about being a pain to them because it's your job to make sure it sounds good and I'm sure you're damn good at it

Trying to think of something good from today to share. It was a lot of time with DD, and it is hard to get anything out of a three year old. :-). I didn't get a workout in either....too much laziness on my first day of vacation. :-). I guess though the fact that we braved the heat and walked to the library and dinner and back.

Lorraine, is it a major motion picture you are working on, or something that will probably only play in Europe and some indi theaters in the states?

Hoping to get a walk in tomorrow morning!

1) Kerri and Robin, thanks for the clarification.

2) Didn't have a great food day yesterday No workout ... I feel as though I have injured my back. I added kickboxing twice a week, on top of latin fusion (zumba) and that's a lot of jumping for my back. Thinking about sticking with the zumba, twice a week, and then replacing the kickboxing with aqua aerobics. The only issue is having to take the monitor in and out of the water during the exercise, which makes it difficult to track calories burned (monitor must either be in the water all the time, or out of the water all the time to get an accurate reading). We shall see how it goes.

3) I will have a better day today and will pray for my back to feel better, so that I can take zumba this afternoon. Still aiming to burn 2500 calories this week. It's still possible.

4) On Monday I shared with my hubby that I was feeling a bit down. He surprised me on his way to work with colorful balloons (which brightened my day) and an 'I think about you all the time' card. Made my day. Yesterday he stopped by work again to bring something over (can't remember what I left home) and as I pulled down the window he started singinig to his favorite tunes. I had a great laugh over that one and again, he made my day. That's my 'something good to share today' ...

Happy Thursday!

Ok I bit the bullet with the Insanity Fit Test! Yikes! It totally is insane!

1st Test: 21/07/2011

Switch Kicks 94
Power Jacks 43
Power Knees 66 (I only did this on the right leg though...should I have done both sides?)
Power Jumps 26 (Did NOT do these they way she did them in the video! Could barely get my legs off the ground! haha)
Globe Jumps 11 (I presume each set of 4 jumps is counted as 1 rep, right??)
Suicide Jumps 13
Push Up Jacks 15 (Next to impossible to do! I didn't lower myself all that much when doing these push-ups...)
Low Plank Oblique 56 (One of my favorite ones!!)

Pleased enough with my first time results. Hopefully these numbers will only get better!!

Challenge question of the day: Many of us became out of shape and unhealthy because we are emotional eaters. We eat when we are stressed or depressed. On this journey, what have you found to replace food in stressful situations?

I'd have to agree with both Andrea and Kerri. I get busy and keep occupied when I get stressed out, depending on whether I'm sad or angry I will do yoga, or get my butt kicked during some workout, clean, etc. I really enjoyed Lukas and my walks, however this week with the heat I haven't even been able to do them in the early morning! Arrgghh...