"Who Wants to Be a Hot Mom " Group 7

JUST A VENT...

Everytime I began to workout on a regular basis, my weight goes up! Its so frustrating. If I stop I go back to losing. Ive tried eating my exercise calories, and not eating them but I can't figure it out.

I do perfectly fine with my 29 WW points per day/ my 1230 calories per day. As soon as I add exercise into the equation...everything get screwed up.

I'm seriously considering stopping until I get to my goal weight then start exercising to tone.

Today was my weigh in day and I am 147.3. Down 1.3 from last week. Not sure how much exercise I will get in today because my youngest has a slight fever and is very cranky. Hoping to get at least 30 mins of some cardio.


SW 147.7
IW 135
GW 120


WK1 148.6
WK2 147.3

Current weight: 153.2
Down 1/2" off my waist and another 1/2" off my hips.
Calipered yesterday at 18.95% body-fat using 7pt skin-fold by a master-trainer and pro figure-competitor.

Pre-op went well. I'm shocked that the surgeon wants to lipo 20-30cc off my "flanks". I think I'll try to beat him to the punch by getting my body-fat even lower, lol. I have to apologize to you ladies for having such SLOW scale results, I think I have my body composition to blame. It's pretty unrealistic to think those last 7-8lbs would be pure fat... I'd be down to 14-15%! That's like body-builder have no life eating only chicken and veggies low! Not to say I'm against losing lean mass, so long as my body-fat percentage holds steady or drops. The good news is that my trainer says I need to increase my intake considerably to see more weight loss. His bikini model/competitor has less lean mass than me and eats 600 calories a day more! So I went from 1700 to 1950 yesterday.

Ken: you sound like me when I hit my plateau. 1250 is still EXTREMELY low. Try 1500 for 2 weeks and I can almost guarantee you'll see the scale start to move in the right direction. It took realizing that my 1st 6wks of weight-loss I averaged a 1500 net and my 5 weeks of plateau where I averaged a 1450 net for me to see the "eat more to lose" argument clearly. 3+ weeks at 1700 and I'm down almost another 3lbs. Now I'm bumping up to 1950 though my eventual goal is 2200+.

I was able to go shopping today and walked around for an hour. That was my cardio for the day. I got home and now both the girls have fevers. 100.6 and 103.4. So hoping that they get extra sleep tonight to help. Maybe we might have to skip a kids birthday party tom.

WHO WANTS TO BE A HOT MOM – ALL GROUPS UPDATE!!

Hello, future hot moms! I noticed no one was tracking the 10 separate groups, so I thought I’d jump in! Basically, I love to track ANYTHING, I was bored today, and I want to instill some friendly group competition. Here are the group totals from 7/25’s weigh-in:

GROUP 1 – Lost 14.7 pounds (6 out of 8 members reporting)
GROUP 2 – Lost 0.6 pounds (4 out of 7 members reporting)
GROUP 3 – Lost 16.5 pounds (8 out of 8 members reporting)
GROUP 4 – Lost 11.7 pounds (8 out of 8 members reporting)
GROUP 5 – Lost 2.8 pounds (4 out of 8 members reporting)
GROUP 6 - No Check-Ins (0 out of 7 members)
GROUP 7 – Lost 2.5 pounds (8 out of 8 members reporting)
GROUP 8 – Lost 2.8 pounds (8 out of 8 members reporting)
GROUP 9 – Lost 2.2 pounds (6 out of 9 members reporting)
GROUP 10 – Lost 2.1 pounds (3 out of 4 members reporting)

GRAND TOTALS – 55 moms checked in, 55.9 pounds lost

Bragging rights go to Group 3 for losing the most weight! (Yay, team! That’s my group!!)

But before you get too excited, I also calculated the “% to GW” totals for each group. This is important, as there are major weight differences between each group with each member having a different amount of pounds to lose to reach her goal weight. I also could only calculate this percentage for the members who reported a GW. Here are the “% to GW” totals:

GROUP 1 – 2.62%
GROUP 2 – 0.17%
GROUP 3 – 6.3%
GROUP 4 – 2.82%
GROUP 5 – 0.36%
GROUP 6 – No Check-Ins
GROUP 7 – 1.46%
GROUP 8 – 2.24%
GROUP 9 – 1.18%
GROUP 10 – 16.41%

Bragging rights go to Group 10 for the highest percentage!

Now you know how the other groups are doing.

Will someone please, oh please, adopt Group 6? I’d volunteer my group, but I’m not a captain.

Any suggestions for future updates? Did you find this helpful at all?? If yes, I can put all this info in an official chart and do it each week. Send me a message , and let me know! I included all the group names below, in case other captains want to check out what the other groups are doing….

Good luck with Monday’s weigh in!!

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CC’d to the following groups:
--“Who want to be a hot mom?!” Group 1 (closed group)
-- Who Wants to Be a Hot Mom – Group 2 – CLOSED THREAD
-- Future Hot Mamas – Group 3
-- Who wants to be a HOT MAMA group 4 (closed group)
-- Who wants to be a HOT MOM group 5
-- Hot Moms Group 6 (closed group)
-- “Who Wants to Be a Hot Mom” Group 7
-- Who wants to be a hot mom?!: GROUP 8 CLOSED THREAD.
-- Who wants to be a hot mom-Group 9 (closed group)
-- Hot Mom (Closed group)-Mommies in Control

Yep, I think that we're a strong group! I love that we're all checking in regularly!!!! My weekend has not really had any activity yet. I was in the car for 7 hours yesterday and when we got to KY it was raining. I thought about going for a walk, but I went outside and the humidity is awful! I've been close to calorie goal so far, so at least I'm doing okay on that front. Our next stops are with my BFF and my sister, both of whom are on MFP and workout regularly, so hopefully I'll get some activity in starting tomorrow! If it cools off later I'll try to get a walk in with my daughter this evening. She's only 2 1/2 so the pace won't be great, but better than nothing!!!

Keep up the great work ladies!!!!!

Okay, just wanted to remind everyone to try to get your weights in in the next day or two. So far half of us have weighed in, and we're just missing Renae, Chari, Amy and Jackie. Once we get everyone weighed in I'll put up the group's chart. Keep up the great work ladies!!! :bigsmile: :bigsmile: :bigsmile:

yay! it works!

I hope your kids get soon better, Sarah. What a drag!

Got my workout in this morning, 40 minutes of run/walk intervals. Getting ready to load up the car and head on to the next stop on our vacation. Have a great day everyone, and for those of you who have not weighed in please remember to do so!!

Weighed in this morning once we got home. But had already eaten and such and was 155.6. Hopefully come Friday it will be down. We are back from the lake but I still don't have a computer so will just be accessing site thru BB. Hope everyone had a grwat weekend. For us it is a long weekend. Must go unpack and get laundry on the go for we are off again on Wed. Hope to get a walk/jog in after supper once hubby is home to watch the kidlets.

I'll be working out on my elliptical tonight. I started eating Fiber one cereal for breakfast, I forgot how good it is and most of all it keeps me full.

I'm determined to break this plateau this week!

Im finally getting used to drinking all my water which for me is 2.5 liters
Or 2.5 large smart waters, im still packing and moving boxes, and cook and clean
at work 5 days a week so I think that's ok for exercise for the moment, im bringing salad to work everyday and
im proud of that!

Had a good day today. Stayed within cals and went for my 5km jog/walk today and burnt 490 cals. Have no prob getting water in. Prob drink around 90 oz a day.

Off to Regina in the morning. Hubby is getting his knee scoped and scraped in the afternoon. We are taking the kids to my mons for 5 days, till Monday, so it will be a little holiday for us at home. We have a lot going on this week. In the city tom, will work Thurs, quad derby Fri, Sat is Invermay's fair so there will be a dance, and Sun I play slow pitch. So won't be a great week for eating and exercising.

Hope everyone is doing well.

Just checking in really quick. I may have only gotten in one day of straight-up logable exercise last week but I don't feel guilty at all because my activity level has been through-the-roof! The two days before yesterday were dedicated to wallpaper glue removal and yesterday was all taping and painting! I'm running around like a chicken with my head cut off getting errands done and spring cleaning like crazy preparing the family and house for when I am laid up from surgery. My mom is coming into town to help, so I'll be working on cleaning up the guest room which still has moving boxes from a year ago to be emptied (eek!). If the weather is overcast enough, I might get some of the last bits of brush/weeds cleared this afternoon as well. I do think I will get my tush in the gym this morning for some strength training; that's one fitness need most of my "nesting" activities can't meet!

Sorry this is so late being posted--who knew vacation would be so busy!!




REMINDER: Weigh in for week 3 is tomorrow through the weekend. I am out of town without access to my scale, so I will be delinquent!

Despite being on vacation I'm doing fairly decent--no official exercise yesterday, but walked around downtown and went to a children's museum, etc. I'll try to get some activity in today. Keep up the great work everybody!!!