"Who Wants to Be a Hot Mom " Group 7

I was 157.6 lbs. this morning, so down 1.4 from last Friday!! Pretty happy with that considering it's been a week with TOM, back pain, and no exercise. That brings me to a total of 11.4 lost since starting Hot Moms!! I also took my measurements this morning to update how I am doing. My last measurements were taken a month ago on 8/2. In the past month, I have lost a total of 6.75 inches!! -1.25 off bust, -1.5 off waist, -2 off hips, -.25 from upper arm, -.75 from thigh, -.25 off calf, and -.75 from neck..

What awesome losses! I hope your back starts feeling better soon. I need to make my own trip to the chiro...I know my neck is out of whack ( frequent headaches), and my hips are always in need of some help!

thanks everyone for the bday wishes!!!!! eating bad for 1 day really screwed me up. no weight loss, just stayed the same! can i please change my gw to 130?

Hope you are all having a great weekend!! I went to the chiropractor Friday and my back is finally feeling better today!! My youngest daughter has been playing in a soccer tournament all weekend, so that consumed yesterday, and we are back to the field today. She scored yesterday and her team won one game and tied one...they are currently in first place!! They have another game this afternoon, but will play in the championship game this evening regardless, so will be another long, hot day on the field...but it's fun to watch and she LOVES soccer. I am doing well with food so far for the weekend. We even went out to dinner last night, for the last of our family birthday celebrations. We went Italian, but I was good...no bread, salad with balsamic vinegar, and only ate half of my 1/2 order of spaghetti with marinara...so not too bad...I did have two glasses of red wine, but was still at my calorie count for the day. Since my back is feeling better, I am looking forward to doing a workout or run tomorrow, and then just having a relaxing day, before back to routine on Tuesday. I signed up for my next half marathon, which will be on Nov. 13...staying signed up for an upcoming race helps to keep me training, otherwise it is too easy to stay on the couch...lol!! Well, gotta get to the soccer field...make it a great day everyone!! Tammy

Congrats Tammy on the great mommy moment

Today was my oldest first day of kindergarten, and my youngest preschool orientation. I am co-president of the preschool PTO so I was at the school all day. Riley had so much fun at school and she was so excited that there was chocolate milk at school. Well still really tired from vacation and getting into a new school routine. Hoping to get back to the gym on Thursday. Have to go shopping tom for school stuff. Keeping within my cals for this past week. I am going to start EA Sports again tom. missed the 30 day challenge by 5 days(vacation).

Sarah

Hi all
been away for a few days, put on 1 lb.
my goal for this week is to lose the 1 lb and another 1 lb as well
xxx

Oops--Amy--I forgot to change your goal weight to 130, but it will be correct on our next chart.

WOW!! Great job everybody!

~ WEIGH IN - 9-9-11 ~

I lost .04 lbs. and now weigh 156.8. That is a total of 9.6 lbs lost since joining Hot Moms.


Quite honestly, Im even surprised I lost ! Since going back to work this week, my whole routine has been chucked out the window and Im still trying to adapt. So even though .04 doesn't sound like much...it's was a nice surprise this morning!

I weighed in at 148.0 so I lost .8 this week. the scale is moving in the right direction. So I'm very happy! Since March I have lost 28 pounds:) 4 pounds gone since starting Hot Moms. My weight loss has been slow but that's fine with me.:happy:

Wow... I seriously thought I'd be back in the game this week, but had a total W...T...F... experience this week.

As of today, I'm up 4.4lbs from last week. :noway: :sad: Reasoning is as follows...

1.) No, I can't blame ToM, I just finished ovulating in fact.
2.) My net cals/day was 1950 until 9/2, because I was stalling, I bumped up to 2100 net/day, it has always worked before.
3.) A week at 150 net cals/day = 1,050 extra calories total that I probably desperately needed as I began hitting the gym every other day again.
4.) My master-trainer pro-figure-competitor said I actually should be working towards 2400+ net/day to stop clinging to what little fat I have left. I calipered in at 19.37% last week (after sitting on my butt for 17 days after surgery). 2 weeks before my operation I was at 18.95%. I actually lost 3-4mm off my abdominal skinfold caliper measurement.
5.) Even if I didn't need the extra 150 net cals/day, that 1,050 cals total for the week would've translated to only 1/3 of a pound of true weight gain.
6.) I would have needed to OVEREAT by 15,400 net cals for the week or 2,200/day to gain that 4.4lbs legitimately, yeah right.
7.) My Spironolactone script ran out mid-week. It's a pill used to flush sodium & water to treat edema patients but I take it off-label for clearing my skin. I've been back on it since yesterday and already lost 1lb overnight.
8.) I totally slacked off on my H2O intake since I've resumed my daily activities a week and a half ago I got in 64oz yesterday and am working back up to the 96-128oz/per day I was drinking when I was dropping weight successfully.

So between my script running out and slacking off on water intake WHILE resuming weight training at the gym (post-workout muscles hold water that my script normally mitigates) I created the perfect storm of water-weight gain EXPLOSION and totally screwed myself out of being able to jump back in this week. I'm so :mad: at myself!

The good news is that I at least could pinpoint what happened, I didn't freak out and further sabotage myself by restricting my calories. Oh, and I just plunked down a small fortune on 10 personal training sessions so I can get back to doing everything at the gym I was doing pre-op and then some