Hotties With Bodies (Closed Group)

Here is a link that I would like to propose for next week's physical challenge:

http://www.self.com/fitness/workouts/2011/07/amazing-arms-video

For me, the arms are the biggest problem area! I plan to do twice a week.

Sounds great Kerri! My arms definitely need some work and I love these challenges because I push myself just a bit farther than I would have otherwise. Thanks!!

Im running late for weekend pack so ill go ahead with weekly goals

Goals for this coming week:
I WILL burn at least 2500 calories!
I WILL do at least 100 sit ups / 25 pushups / 100 SQUATS
I WILL work out more during the week, i deserve to take this time for me and WILL do it!
I WILL DO THE CHALLENGE WORKOUT
I WILL drink at least 12 glasses water daily
I WILL plan my meals to ensure healthy eating during the week
I WILL watch sugar intake
I WILL counter act my "I deserve to eat this " with "I deserve to look and feel great!"
I WILL be at/under cals at LEAST 4 days!!

Here goes ladies! :-) I hope you are having a great weekend!

Thanks everyone for the great advice, I really appreciate it Ive had a couple of days to get my head together and think about it. We haven't had a proper sit down discussion about it yet because we've been busy doing our own things the last couple of days but Im gonna try and talk to him this week. Im pretty certain he's gonna go ahead and extend his stay in New Zealand. I can understand his thinking in a way, because he said he didn't realize how expensive everything would be (flights, travel visa, insurance) for him to go to New Zealand and it's a lot of money to spend for only one month so he wants to make the most of it while he's over there and get value for money. So I agree that it would be a shame for him not to avail of the opportunity to stay there longer when he has the chance. He is also fed up with his job, he's getting very bored with it and he thinks that if he doesn't leave it now he'll be stuck in it forever. So that's another reason why he wants to go. When I think of all this I really can't be the one to stop him from doing it. He would resent me forever. And it would cost him more money to come back and plan another trip with me at a later stage.
Timing is just crap for me. It would take me almost a year to save up enough money to go traveling and he's leaving in 4 weeks! haha. All Im trying to do now is figure out how Im going to last 6 months without him. Nightmare. Hopefully when we talk about it he will put my mind at ease and tell me everything's going to be ok
As for the rest of this weekend...I think Ive done fairly ok food wise but I was out socializing on friday night and last night so alcohol was my enemy this weekend!! Oh well. I needed a few drinks to take my mind off things!!
Very VERY bad week for exercising Im sorry I didn't push myself harder. My mind was too stressed to think about working out. I know it would have made me feel a lot better but I can never channel my stress or anger into energy to workout. I need to work on that.
My calorie burn this week was a crappy 818 calories

Hi Girls!!

So sorry I have been MIA. I went to visit a friend last week, so my logging and tracking of exercise was terrible! Hope to contribute more this week. You all are doing so well and checking in and I have not!! So sorry! I had my dr appt Wednesday and everything is going great!! Our baby's heart is really strong and the dr told me walking is the best exercise for me, but to not over do it (bc I have a heart condition). My due date is Feb 29!!

Goals for the week:
*Check our topic board daily.
*Log all food (Starting on Monday)
*Exercise 5 days
*Complete our weekly challenge.

Total calories: 1,249 =( Want to burn 2,000!!!
No gain or loss this week so I will take it!
Completed the 100 squats!!

Week 1(07.08.2011): 133 Week 6 of pregnancy
Week 2(07.15.2011): 135 Week 7
Week 3(07.22.2011): 135 Week 8 *Starting to pudge out a little
Week 4(07.29.2011):
Week 5(08.05.2011):
Week 6(08.12.2011):
Week 7(08.19.2011):
Week 8(08.26.2011):
Week 9(09.02.2011):
Week 10(09.09.2011):
Week 11(09.16.2011):
Week 12(09.23.2011):
Week 13(09.30.2011):

Keep up the great work ladies!!! You are all AMAZING...don't forget it!!!

Just so I don't forget...my total burn Monday-Sunday was 3981!!!

Can't wait to catch up on posts again...I feel like I've been all over the place this weekend.

Oh and just so you know...I was over 100 squats between my Insanity workouts and my P90x leg workout. I should have kept track of how many but I can say the minimum was over 200!

Realized today that I never did any measurements before our challenge started...so...here we go:

Bust--33.25

Waist--27.25

Pouch--31.5

Hips--34.0

L Thigh--23.0

R Thigh--23.25

R Bicep--11.25

L Bicep--11.5

Hello Hotties!!

Weekend over:( Had a great one down at our camper. Did pretty well with my goals last week. Went to the doctor and got a puffer for the bronchitis, but honestly I feel worse now than a week ago. Maybe I should go again. Didn't really complete my food diary but I am really good at doing it from memory even if it isn't logged. Can't log on the weekends because we don't have internet at the camper. I watched sodium and drank most of my 8 glasses of water. I only snacked once at night and it was a handful of pretzels at the campfire. Thank God the physical challenges are ones I can do because of the bronchitis I can't do anything too strenuous or I'm sure I'd pass out. I completed 165 squats this week. I still haven't even done the fit test yet. GRRR!! It will get done when I'm better.

As for our coast to coast challenge I walked 22 miles last week. YAY!! I need to up that a bit seeing how it is the only exercise I'm getting. As a group we are doing really well with this and maybe we can do it again or continue it with different routing. BTW the map is awesome!!

My challenges for this week will be the same as last week. Get to the doctor AGAIN, complete food diary, watch sodium, drink 8 glasses of water, no night snacking and complete the physical challenge.

GO HOTTIES GO!! Let's make this an Awesome Week!!:happy:

@Lorraine, I hope you have a successful talk with your boyfriend. Kudos to you for being understanding that it is expensive for him. But make sure he understands that if he was thinking about this for a while, it would have been nice to have a bit more time to accept that he would be gone for so long My husband had to be away for 6 weeks for training for his job last year. We had just moved into our first home and it was SUPER tough. We talked a lot on the phone, but I think in the end it made our relationship so much stronger. I will be thinking about you sweetie!

@Kerri, ENJOY THE FUDGE. Mmmm, my weakness is chocolate haha :bigsmile:

I had a wonderful weekend up north with my family. Even though TOM had to come and give me a horrible backache/cramps for the last half!! I'm glad I had my husband up there with me because my grandma is a very judgmental person, and can be hard to deal with sometimes. She knows that I've been loosing weight, so when she sees me eat something like the mackinaw island fudge ice cream I had on Saturday night she always has to comment something like "ohh that's going to just ruin your diet" It's really quite hurtful sometimes. She has already started saying things like Lukas eats too much, or is a "chunk". Which is not true, he hadn't doubled his birth weight by 6 months, so the doctor actually wants him to eat more. It obviously still bothers me, but I've learned over the years to just let it go in one ear and out the other. You can't change her mindset, I've tried to explain to her my reasoning's but I've stopped doing that too, not worth my time. Ahh.. sorry for the rant!

Here's my results from doing the Insanity Fit Test again today (day 15 out of 60 for Insanity). The first number is my first day, second is today:

Switch Kicks 62 73
Power Jacks 28 32
Power Knees 61 72
Power Jumps 18 20
Globe Jumps 6 7
Suicide Jumps 10 11
Push-Up Jacks 7 10
Low Plank Oblique 22 30

Super glad I was able to push a few more reps out of each one! Impressed I got 3 more Push-Up Jacks done, I HATE PUSH-UPS!!

I also took my measurements today and from last month to today I've lost 2.25 inches! An inch of it was off my waist alone!!! Feeling so good about that!

Happy Monday everyone!