"Who Wants to Be a Hot Mom " Group 7

I just realized I didn't do a bio.

So here goes. I am a stay at home mom of 2 wonderful little girls. Riley is 5 1/2 and is going to kindergarten in the fall. Ava will be 4 Aug 16th and will be in 1/2 day preschool again this year in the fall. We lived in Haverhill, Mass about 20 mins north of Boston. I am 32 going to be 33 on Aug 10th. I just changed my activity level to "light Activity" last week. I was always hungry and have been doing more with the girls since working out at the gym. I have not been hungry this week and have been under my calorie goal.

Although today was my weigh in and I gain 0.9 lbs.:sad: so now I'm 148.6. It is TOM and I usually gain something on those weeks. I am hoping that with the working out everyday will help. I was only working out 2 days a week.

Today I didn't get to the gym. The girls and I got our hair done the went to visit my grandparent who live about 10 mins from the hairdresser. I did get about 20 mins of walking in but not like my hour and half workout at the gym. I have stayed within my calories.

Tomorrow we have the March for Babies walk which is a 3 mile walk. We do this walk because my oldest daughter Riley was born 4 weeks early. She only need to be in the incubator for the first 24 hours and a bit of oxygen right after birth.

Hope everyone is staying cool. We are in a heat wave here.

Happy Saturday! Let's have a great weekend ladies!

Sarah-Your March for Babies walk sounds like fun! Stay cool!

Heather-I'll HAVE to try those veggie sticks! Sounds like something hubby wouldn't touch with a 10ft pole! Lol. They're certain to last longer than PopChips

Just checking in. I didn't "workout" per-se yesterday because 1.) I was SOoOo sore from all the stuff earlier this week and 2.) I literally busted my *kitten* all day long painting the rest of that darn living room! Just reconfiguring and moving around that behemoth of a "genie" ladder (does A-frame, straight, expands to double length on both sides) was a workout in itself! Lol. I was bone-weary and just collapsed when I wrapped up around 11pm again. Got in a GREAT circuit weight training session today: 938 calories for 78 min on my HRM! It's kinda motivating when hubby calls just before I walk in the gym to ask about how I feel about eating out tonight... now I have a very forgiving calorie budget to work with! The coolest part is that I did honest-to-gawd pullups on the cable tower at the gym today and cranked out FIVE in my first set, then split-set those with 10 full pushups. The 2nd & 3rd sets I think I could only crank out 2-3 pullups, but it's a start! On track to my personal best of 8

That's awesome!! I am still struggling with my pullups!! I can do about 5-6, with a chair!! I'm hoping eventually I'll be able to do them on my own!! I'm thinking of joining a circuit training class at my Y, but haven't decided fully on that yet. But, seeing the calories you burned during your session sure makes it more appealing!!

Had a good time yesturday at the bday party, but did have 2 to many beers. Feeling a little under the weather today lol. I don't log food on the weekend, but try not to go crazy. And I haven't worked out all weekend. Was contemplating going for a walk/jog today, but very windy today, and I am somewhat tired and lazy. Will get back on track tomorrow once we get home. I am sure I am going to over indulge tonight after supper with a small double chocolate cookie dough blizzard. yum, yum. But then remind me of that when I weigh in this week.

Which reminds me, are you going to just get our weights off of here or do you want us to send you a message with our weekly weights.

Hope everyone is having a good weekend.

My goals for this week is to staying within my calories/points and excerise at least 20-30 min a day. On Sunday I had a great workout to make up for my pigging out on Friday. The scale hasn't budged but my clothes are very loose. So I'm happy. I'm committed to sticking with this.

I'm rotating betweetn the 30ds, my elliptical, and my kickboxing DVD

Hope everyone had a great weekend!! Mine was lazier than normal, which was nice. Unfortunately the laziness carried over into this morning, and I just couldn't get out of bed. Oh well--I guess two rest days in a one week period never killed anyone. I'll be back at it tomorrow though!

I was wondering about the weigh-in as well. I always weigh in before the weekend, so I just posted mine on this board, but I'm happy to send to Chari if that is better.

Hope you're all having a great Monday! This is a good week for me--heading out of town after work Friday for a week of vacation, woo hoo!!!

Got home today so was busy unpacking and such. Will have to admit I have been really really crabby yesturday and today. Started TOM today so I am blaming that. Haven't ate well today but have stayed within cals. Did a 40 minute 5km walk/jog tonight and burned 445 cals. It felt really good.

Chari, Good luck with the studying. I know how important it is, but still try to stay with the fitness as much as you can, it will help your brain think and make you feel good. And congrats on the weight loss.

I am going camping on Wednesday and also sending my computer in for warranty work, so for the next few weeks, I am not sure how much I will be on. As long as I am at home, I should be able to log in from my blackberry, but while we are at the lake Wed - Mon, the service is very patchy there, so not sure how well that will work. So for this week I also won't be weighing in till Tuesday since we won't be home on Friday.

Chari, thanks for the directions. I've created an excel sheet to track our weight loss, and under Chari's detailed directions have tried to upload to an image sharing site so I can paste is on here. So here goes!!!

Chari good luck on your studying.

Today I had a dentist appt. and then my family from Pa is staying over tonight so no workout today. I will get in a good one in tom. my sister is coming to the gym with me. I am hoping to stay under