JANUARY'S BODACIOUS WINNERS!!

The moment you all have been waiting for is FINALLY HERE!!

The numbers you all turned in were, to say the least, INCREDIBLE! I can not believe how many of you did so well. Almost everyone of you that reported lost weight and some of you lost LOTS of weight! I am so excited for you!!! I know most of you tried really, really hard, and I hope you had fun doing it and are enjoying some great rewards of your own. ....like looser jeans and smaller waist lines!

Ok. enough stalling here are the results:

The TOP 2 WINNERS are:

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JENNA L. AND SHERRILL B.!! WITH 466 POINTS EACH!

Yes they are best friends and yes they tied and yes I believe they each have 4 kids so I know they worked amazingly hard to get these numbers! And no, they didn't do it on purpose. still can't believe it but here's their story:

"We are both still in shock and laughing about the tie. Are you serious??? My only goal was to take down Sherrill!! Well, in the very beginning Sherrill and I talked about “taking down” hot momma’s and purposefully end in a tie – monitoring our points along the way. But when she asked me on that first double day thurs how many exercise points I got - I refused to share (just to tease of course…). But apparently that meant game on and she went awol from any factually hot momma conversation to just trash talk. The goal became then to TAKE DOWN SHERRILL BOWRING!! That is all nuts that we tied. Sherrill read to me your emails this morning – and I know she was going to tell you about our suspenseful revelation to each other by going week by week. This was a really fun competition – thanx for being the spirit fingers behind this. So happy (bitter) that I tied when I was supposed to TAKE HER OUT!!!"

Jenna J

This is Sherrill's take on events-

"Early on in the competition we talked about taking down SHM together with a tie, but within the 1st week I asked Jenna how many points she had and she would not tell me so then the REAL competition began. Bring it on baby!!!.....We exercised together and then would secretly work out on our own. We did the first weigh in together but would not tell each other how many pounds we had lost after that. If we lost a regular point we would work out to make up that point and then some! (Secretly) On the marathon challenge I ran extra and from then on I would run every day on my treadmill to gain points. Jenna was secretly meeting another BFF and doing turbo jam videos and running outside to make up points. All in the name to "Beat Sherrill" We both did extra strength exercises to make it a full 20 minutes with our ab workout. We were BFF, yet pushing each other farther and greater than we had before and greater than if we would of made a pack to tie......little did we know it would really end up that way! The final week was a busy one for me and Jenna knew it. She exercised more and more and did not tell me. I exercised our regular amount with a few extra workouts that I could fit in. I did my final weigh in and would not tell my total loss....jenna did her final weigh in after I left town and wouldn't tell. I returned home late Sunday night and did not have time to tally up, but when I saw Jenna on Monday morning during our regular workout she wouldn't tell her total points, but did confess in some extra workouts over the weekend to get up on me. I thought I had been defeated! I did confess my total weight loss and my continual running after the marathon challenge, which made her feel I was up on her. We left our workout more curious than we started. So when we cleared up some point questions and each had our correct total we decided to divulge our information together.....page by page or week by week. Week one we tied, week 2 I was up by just a few, week 3 I was up by 6 or 7 pts, and we had confessed weight loss, so I thought I had defeated Jenna, but week 4 she poured it on and went for a "Last Week Workout" and took it all the way. When she told me this I told her to "Get a life! Don't you have anything else to do other than exercise." haha....We thought it would be close, but no not a tie....it really couldn't happen!!' We both started screaming and laughing in disbelief. We really did tie, and did not plan on it. It really was possible when we didn't think it would be. Jenna said, "we must have planned this in the pre-existance." We have both thought of things we should of done to get one up on each other, and had we know where each other was we would of gone to that level of insanity, yet probably still tied unknown. :) We are still in shock and disbelief......yet laughing and smiling @ the same time! It was an honest & unknown tie to us both, yet one of the greatest challenges we have taken on!! :)
We did push is harder and longer, which will pay off in the long run. We will loose those never to return "muffin tops" and continue in our well rounded lifestyles!
Thanks It has been a great way to start out 2009!"

Sherrill

WAY TO GO GIRLS! AS I HAVE TOLD YOU- YA'LL ARE ANIMALS! You will both receive $40 gift cards to the shopping spot of your choice. ENJOY! You will also receive a SMOKIN' HOT MOMMAS t-shirt that we will be designing and printing up soon! You're gonna luv 'em!

I do have another set of girls that just rocked January also.

All of these winners will be receiving a Camelbak water bottle along with a Hot Mommas shirt as soon as they are ready!

Hayley B. knocked out 445 points this month! Hayley is one of my good friends here in Atlanta and I know she worked really hard to smash this challenge! Way to go Hayley!

Emily T. rocked Jan with 436 points! Emily has said her favorite was the jump rope challenge - right Emily? With 2 little kids I don't how you did it but way to go on the amazing points!

Matea B. pumped out 425 points for Jan!! Way to go Matea! Matea lost 7.5 pounds and 5.25 inches this month. Unbelievable!! I loved to see your photo of you exercising! It was great seeing a Hot Mom in action. Great job!

Jeni H. is the last Hot Momma to hit above 400 for this round. Jeni hit 400 but her 7 POUNDS?!! put her up to 414! Way to go. I hope you are enjoying some skinny jeans now!

MeKayla C. won the weight loss challenge with 11 POUNDS for this month. Crazy! She sent me this email this morning-

"Hey Bonnie!!! So I have to tell you how excited I am when today I went to get dressed and my regular pants I've been wearing were like 3 inches to big. So I went and grabbed a pair I haven't worn since before Kenya's pregnancy and to my amazement, they fit, and I didn't have to jump up and down to get them on!!! I bet the look on my face would have been classic!! Thanks for all your help in the process!" Kayla

(I love those emails!)

Way to go to all of you. I was really shocked and excited as I saw all the numbers rolling in. Of course, loads of you may not have hit the 400s but you did amazing in the weight loss category.

For those that reported we lost a combined 111 pounds in January! Whew - that feels good! I am glad to see those 3 Christmas pounds gone from me. That is FO-SURE!!

I know the above people really attacked this competition and their numbers were crazy high. So for all of us not-so-insane people out there keep on rockin', keep on sweatin', and keep on earnin' those points! You can do it. Be happy with your progress and be excited about your scale going down in numbers instead of up.

If you made goals and hit them or did better than you thought you could then you are a winner in my book. (I should be a cheesy motivational speaker.) :)

SLAM FEBRUARY!!

spirit fingers going like mad!
bonnie