**SEXY MAMAs UNITE!!**

okay here's my weigh in:
SW:196.5
CW:196.5
WL: 0

goals:
honestly log every day
30 minutes of exercise every day

i did the 30 day shred today and im just woundering when will i be able to do the whole work out without having to stop!!!
im so mad im on day 6 i should be doing better but i find that i cant do jumping jacks any more cause they hurt my knees to much that is to much weight to be bounching on my knees right now and im still tired after like 5 push ups ahhh i wanna throw the darn disk out!!! :sad:

I have had problems with my knees forever!! One of the things my trainer told me I could do to help was do side lunges if the pain gets too bad. A little less cardio, but you are still getting a good stretch in. Keep up the hard work!

< (feels much better) :bigsmile:

thanks yall

Alrighty then. I weighed in today (even though my official day is Tuesday and it feels weird to weigh on Monday - silly, I know) and was a bit disappointed to have no change from last week :frown:

Here it is:
SW: 191.2
CW: 191.2
WL: 0
GW: 150 or perhaps 145? Will evaluate when closer.

I thought I would have gone down after this past week. I started the 30DS on Nov 2 and also do some power walking, I've heard that sometimes people level out at the beginning of the Shred - maybe that's just me being hopeful. I joined MPF Oct 12 and have lost 7 lbs so far, but I'm a little perturbed about not losing anything this week, even with being good recording my food intake and exercising. Sigh.

Anyway, I plan to exercise 30 min per day (minimum), log into MPF daily, check Sexy Mamas daily and drink water (need to do more of that).

I have yet to take a before picture - I will get my hubby to do it very soon. Kudos to all the brave souls who have already posted theirs. I'm not sure if I'm brave enough to post it (although I WILL at least, TAKE the pic).

Good luck all!!

Hiiii...so its GOOD MORNING TUESDAY!!!

Talking about strugles today right. Well I shall talk about my past struggle so that I can talk about my motiviation for future by next Sunday. I am just copying and pasting this as I had wrote this on another board. :blushing: Yup lazy me!!

I had been slim and sexy all my life (minus the last eight years). :bigsmile: At 5' 9" I weighed 140 pounds the max. Confident, gorgegous and feeling beautiful. (I mean if thats the truth I got to say it as it - calling a spade a spade.)

"My husband" (now ex) was all good . Until of course I got pregnant and had my son. It was obvious he could not stand the sight of me bloated and all. Hint hint. And was constantly grumbling :grumble: of my weight and the need of me having the baby. He was rarely around as he was in another country at that time. But when he was around he avoided me like plague. Especially I was reaching full term.

Two months after delivery I was on my way to lose the last 18 pounds. This got slower than anticipated. I had C section due to some complication and had a slow recovery. To make the matters worse C section tore up and got infected. And I choose not to have antibiotic to continue breastfeed my son. Causing the recovery to become even slower. It took me almost a year to recover completely.

Despite all that he started pressuring me to lose weight. To the point he actually told me...fat and ugly is not what he had bargained for when he married me. And thats what I had been and that it was not fair to him!!! (I think I forgot to mention that he had been overweight throughout his life.)

Now that was a low blow... But for a very long time (even after divorce) my self esteem was pretty dented. I took it upon myself...all his words literally and got myself obese. The fact is that it left me at almost 70 pounds heavier. We got divorced just 2 years after the marriage. I was weighing 210 pounds at my heavist and divorced anyway.

It took me a while to realize that I am worthy to have the life that i deserve and to provide for my son the life he deserves. That's the past struggle. But knowing how life is...it throws in new struggles!!

Hi everybody!!

I've just started getting to the gym since my doctor has given me the go ahead. (had csection in May followed by complications)
can someone give meinstructions on how to post a before picture because I am clueless. Thanks!


SW-266
CW- 266
GW - 160 (for starters)
WL - 0

My goals for this week are:
Go to the gym at least 4 times this week
Do 30DS and zumba on the days where I cannot get to the gym
Log all food an exercise on MFP
DRINK MORE WATER!!! No wonder why my skin is so dry
Stop eating after 7:30pm

And most definitely DO NOT get mad at myself if I cant do all of this everyday..I need to realize that I have 4 kids and no partner so sometimes slipups will happen and it isno reason to give up!

Awe, thank you! I have a long way to go but you just made my day! :0)

have to say... You are REALLY pretty!!! Very random, but you are already smokin' hot!!!! Can you imagine what it will be like when you reach all of your goals?!!!!! WOW!!! You are going to have to beat the men off with sticks!!! :bigsmile: Work it, SEXY MAMA!!! :drinker: Edited to say this was a reply to hannahmayr30 .... I forgot it doesn't post the OP when you hit quote.... geeezzz

okay here's my weigh in:
SW:196.5
CW:196.5
WL: 0

goals:
honestly log every day
30 minutes of exercise every day

nonafat - no worries for starting with Tuesday Struggles - it is Tuesday here in Australia too. I'm so sorry to hear about your ex - to be blunt he sounds like a it of an a-hole. I'm glad that you are now on a path to a better and healthier life - you are doing an awesome job so far - 25kg is a fantastic loss!

marmar1977 - if you have an account with photobucket you can upload your photo there then copy the link that looks like , change the uppercase IMG in the opening and closing tags to lowercase img, stick it in your post and hey presto you have an image!

nonafat - no worries for starting with Tuesday Struggles - it is Tuesday here in Australia too. I'm so sorry to hear about your ex - to be blunt he sounds like a it of an a-hole. I'm glad that you are now on a path to a better and healthier life - you are doing an awesome job so far - 25kg is a fantastic loss!

Hai Alicia...its not nonafat rather nonafit....hahaha...:laugh:

I have losed 5 kgs to date. 25kgs is the weight loss to go. I would rather I need to do than what had already happened. trying to physco my thinking. Anyway did you notice I think MFP had removed the signature totally. They only allowing the MFP ticker. That to you need to add it on at the 'settings'

starting weight is 185.8....up 1.8lbs from when I signed up for MFP...wtf?!? Anyways, not going to dwell on it, it could be because I have been chugging water like crazy...who knows.

I feel great and that is what is important!

I took before pics but will have to post them later cause I don't know how to do it yet and my husband is waiting for me to watch The Walking Dead and Dexter. I night full of romance I know

Tuesdays-Struggles:

My weight loss journey has been difficult due to my belly. I got some stretch marks when I was pregnant with my daughter, she was 8.5 lbs and I gained almost 100lbs. I didn't loose all of the weight after I had her but almost all of it. Then when I got pregnant with my son, I was instantly a balloon!!! I had to take the three hour glucose test, but it still came back that I didnt have gestational diabetes. Well, I kept getting bigger and was having issues, so they did the test again one month before my due date and sure enough, I did have it the whole time, probably with my daughter too! Anywho, Jacob arrived at a wapping 10lbs 2oz!!! Needless to say, I have strech marks galore and when I do drop weight, its everywhere but my belly. I feel like I will always have the extra skin! I will never be able to get a tummy tuck to get rid of it. But this is my biggest struggle!!!!! It is VERY VERY discourageing when I cant but cute bathing suits or jeans because the extra skin or stretch marks show (thus the tank top in my start picture).

nonafit - can I blame baby brain??? :embarassed:

hannahmayr30 - Great work - I have been logging everything and did the 30 day shred level 1 plus 10 minutes on the exercise bike :bigsmile:

Kristyz26 - The Walking Dead and Dexter are my favourite shows!!

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OKAY IMPORTANT NEWS people - Sexy Mamas Unite now have a group on MFP - so please head over to http://www.myfitnesspal.com/groups/home/70-sexy-mamas-unite and join in the fun over there!!! I think it will probably be easier if we keep all of our discussion over there in one place, so please make sure you come on over
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thanks for the link I just joined

My struggles are:
-Having confidence in myself. I've ALWAYS had an issue with this for as long as I can remember. I truely don't think I've ever said anything good about myself! I just am way to hard on myself. Most days I feel like I'm stupid and I look like crap. I've never felt like I've been good at anything or had any talents. I know I shouldn't feel this way and sometimes I feel guilty about feelng this way because I know there are a ton of people out there who have it worse than I do but I just never loved myself lol.
-Not having will power as far as food goes. I've been doing ok since I started my diet which was Halloween lol. But I can't help but give into temptation sometimes especially when I am around other people who are eating what they want. Also when the food I eat on my diet is so boring and I just crave good (and by good I mean BAD!) food lol. I know there are plenty of delicious healthy foods out there but truthfully I don't have time or $ to spend on cooking them. And especially with the holidays coming up it's gonna be really really hard for me!! I also love egg nog and hot chocolate so I know those will be my two temptations throughout the winter! lol
-Actually losing weight. Every diet I've ever done and exercise program I've ever done, I never lose weight! I always seem to put on the pounds but I feel I gain muscle. The only time I ever lost weight in my adult life was when my ex-boyfriend and I broke up and I didn't eat much for about a month and half lol. I know that is obviously not going to happen this time so I don't really know what to do. I know I've only been on this diet for about a week but I haven't lost anything and I can feel myself already starting to get frustrated! I really don't want to stay this size and just turn into muslce. Yes I eventually want to tone up whatever flab I have left, but I want to lose weight first! I wish I had the $ to talk to a nutritionist and a personal trainer about it but I don't.
-Finding time to exercise. Right now I can find the time because I am still on maternity leave and haven't started school yet. But I know when I go back to work and start nursing school I am going to struggle to work out. I know I just have to carve out the time somewhere just like I have to carve it out for studying but I know it will be difficult and I'll probably drop exercise down to the bottom of my priority list like usual. But I know there are moms out there who are way way busier than I am and if they can do it then so can I!!

So those are mostly my biggest struggles. I know it's a long post sorry!