It’s the end of the first week of the MomSquawk Biggest Loser Challenge, and everyone has certainly risen — or should I say, lost — for the occasion! Together, the women in the challenge lost a total of 94 pounds in one week!

In the Less-to-Lose group (those wanting to lose somewhere in the ballpark of 10-20 lbs), our very own mommasteph was the weekly winner with a loss of 4.59% of her total body weight!

In the More-to-Lose group (those wanting to lose more than 20 lbs), Lizzy won the week with a 3.15% weight loss!

Congrats to both ladies and all of the participants on an incredibly motivating first week.

Myself, I lost 3.5 lbs this first week, putting me on my way to my goal of 20.5 lbs for the challenge. From where does that magic goal number come, you might ask? That’s the number of pounds I need to lose to go from being “obese” to merely “overweight”.

Yeah, that’s depressing. Let’s instead say it’s an amount that seems reasonably attainable in this 12-week time frame.

I think my biggest success of the week was successfully following Weight Watchers Core program. With the help of lots of veggies and even more microwave popcorn, I was able to avoid such no-nos as bread and other-than-fat-free cheese. There’s something about knowing your fatness in all of its measurable glory is posted wide open on the Internet that keeps you from ordering dessert.

Hindering my success is going to be my relative lack of exercise. I took the girls on a few walks around Austin’s Town Lake with my parents, but given that my 4 month old was in the Bjorn, I wasn’t really able to move with purpose. As soon as I can get over the financial hump caused by an overzealous Christmas, I may pick up a BOB duallie to see if that helps.

How did you do?