Taking It Off Together Tuesday Week #16

I was slow in reporting in and look what was offered as a prize! Darn it. Oh, well. I guess my prize is that I'm still down just the one pound I was down after last Monday's official weigh in.

This week our contest is sponsored by Clara who writes the Coming Back to Life! She is offering a hand made tote as a prize this week! Here is a picture! Oh it is SOOO cute and perfect for fall!

The names of this week’s “losers” were dropped into a coffee cup and this week’s WINNER is Julie!

Congrats to Grace for being this week’s biggest loser of 3.2 pounds!! Be sure to cruise over to her blog and congratulate her!

Chris - 2 LOSS
Tammy - 1 LOSS
Life With Hashi-Thyroid Blog - 1 LOSS
Grace - 3.2 LOSS
Leigh - 2.5 GAIN
Clara - 2.5 GAIN
Dette - 1.0 GAIN
Julie - 0.6 LOSS
Cheryl - NO CHANGE
Audrey - no report
Christy - 2.4 LOSS
Tina - 1.4 GAIN
Danielle - NO CHANGE
Jessie - NO CHANGE
Steph - no report

And welcome back CYN who is reporting no change this week.

This week’s total - 0.8 LOSS! (not the right total...will have to insert that later since I just posted my weight loss and waiting on a couple of others)

Taking It Off Together Tuesday Week #15

Can you believe it's week 15 already? I should have lost ten pounds by now! LOL Oh, well...at least I lost the one pound I gain last week. You want to hear something exciting? Since I've been back down to 212.0 for the last few days, I kept wondering to myself WHEN will I finally get to the 211 mark. I have to wonder no longer, because when I stepped on the scale this morning, I was 211.2. Yeah, baby! Do you know what this means? I'm finally on my way to my first 'small' goal of weighing 210. It just sucks that it took me this long. Did I mention this was without exercise? Can you imagine if I did EXERCISE? I'd probably kick serious butt. LOL

Anyways, I offered to make the prize for this week and have finished it. I will put a pic up later to show Danielle what she has won this week. :)

Here it is: It's just a simple bracelet (I'm an amateur in this jewelry making thing lol, and I didn't want Leigh to have to come up with the prizes every week). I chose the charm "believe" because I 'believe' in everyone to beat the weight loss battle, and isn't it nice to have something to remind you that if you 'believe' in yourself anything is possible? :)


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Last week we continued the contest where everyone who reported a LOSS had their name added to a drawing for a lot of 100 Mary Kay samples! The names of this week's "losers" were dropped into a coffee cup and this week's WINNER is Daniellehttp://alberts-family.blogspot.com/">Danielle!

This week our contest is sponsored by Ciara who writes the Life'http://life-w-hashi.blogspot.com/">Life With Hashi-Thyroid Blog! She is offering a hand made bracelet as a prize this week!

And check it out! We had an over all loss again this week (barely, but it's still a loss)! Congrats to Clarahttp://quiltscatsandotherthings.blogspot.com/">Clara for being this week's biggest loser of 2.5 pounds!! Be sure to cruise over to her blog and congratulate her!

Chrishttp://www.loneblackspider.com/">Chris - 1 loss
Tammyhttp://crazymomw4boys.blogspot.com/">Tammy - 1 gain
Life'http://life-w-hashi.blogspot.com/">Life With Hashi-Thyroid Blog - 1 loss
Gracehttp://andthisismypart.blogspot.com/">Grace - 2.2 gain
Leighhttp://eternal-flux.com/">Leigh - 1 gain
Clarahttp://quiltscatsandotherthings.blogspot.com/">Clara - 2.5 loss
Dettehttp://muthahoodcrib.com/">Dette - no change
Juliehttp://duvallschafer.blogspot.com/">Julie - 1.4 gain
Cherylhttp://cheryl-journey-of-life.blogspot.com/">Cheryl - no report
Audreyhttp://makethisthelastone.blogspot.com/">Audrey - 2.4 loss
Christyhttp://www.myspoileddogs.blogspot.com/">Christy - 3.2 gain
Tinahttp://mom2boys2008.blogspot.com/">Tina - no report
Daniellehttp://alberts-family.blogspot.com/"> Danielle- 2 loss
Jessiehttp://jjjjspot.blogspot.com">Jessie - no change
Stephjeffstephplus5@blogspot.com">Steph - no report

This week's total - 0.1 LOSS!

Taking It Off Together Tuesday Week #14

Don't know what it is, but I've been requiring naps daily these last couple of weeks. It's becoming a bother. I gained, but I expected that with all the sleeping I've been doing. Took my hip hop dance class last night. Now my instructor wants the class to perform at the school's carnival next month. Oy vey! I'd better work out a little harder this time. I don't think people want to see a fatty dancing on stage. LOL

The names of this week’s “losers” were dropped into a coffee cup and this week’s WINNER is Dette!

And check it out! We had an over all loss again this week! Congrats to Grace for being this week’s biggest loser of 3.8 pounds!! Be sure to cruise over to her blog and congratulate her!

Chris - 1 LOSS
Tammy - 0.5 GAIN
Life With Hashi-Thyroid Blog - 1 GAIN *sigh*
Grace - 3.8 LOSS
Leigh - 0.5 LOSS
Clara - No Change
Dette - 1.5 LOSS
Julie - No Change
Cheryl - No Change
Audrey - no report
Christy - 1.4 LOSS
Tina - 0.5 GAIN
Danielle - No Change
Jessie - 3 GAIN
Steph - no report

This week’s total - 4.2 LOSS!

Taking It Off Together Tuesday Week #13

I didn't lose much this week, but of course I've been super rundown, too. I really have no excuses. I should force myself to exercise or I'll never exercise. The heat has been killer here so that did cause some swelling when I was out in it the other day. Thankfully it wasn't too bad though!

Anyways, how exciting is it to log in this morning and see that I won the first contest. I LOVE makeup. LOL I'm hoping maybe I can find something to contribute to our contest prizes. I'll have to see what I can find. :)


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Last week we announced a contest where everyone who reported a LOSS had their name added to a drawing for a lot of 100 Mary Kay samples! The motivation worked! Nearly everyone reported a loss this week. So we will have the same contest this week. Just remember that maintaining doesn't count, sorry!

The names of this week's "losers" were dropped into a coffee cup and this week's WINNER is Ciara!

And check it out! We had an over all loss again this week! Congrats to Cheryl for being this week's biggest loser of 4 pounds!! Be sure to cruise over to her blog and congratulate her!

Chris - 4 GAIN
Tammy - 1 LOSS
Life With Hashi-Thyroid Blog - 0.4 LOSS
Grace - no report
Leigh - 2.0 LOSS
Clara - no report
Dette - 0.5 LOSS
Julie - 0.8 LOSS
Cheryl - 4 LOSS
Audrey - 0 CHANGE
Christy - 1.6 LOSS
Tina - 1.4 LOSS
Danielle - 1 LOSS
Jessie - no report

And please give a warm welcome to Steph who lost 2 pounds this last week!

Taking It Off Together Tuesday Week #12

Well, looks like some of us did pretty good this week. Way to go ladies! As for me, I'm just glad I didn't retain more than that. I realized last week that I didn't mention why there was no change. If you look at the post below this one, you'll see why. There was no way to get an accurate weigh in until after all the infection, and medication for it,was out of my system. It's funny how every time something happens to my body, I swell up (including the fall that I mention in the previous post). O.K., no more excuses now. It's time for me to start over and MEAN it.

This week we are adding a contest! It seems we all need motivation after all. So, for everyone who reports a LOSS (maintaining doesn't count, sorry!) on the next weigh in will have their name put in a drawing for 100 assorted Mary Kay samples! So drink your water and count your calories. We can all do this!

And check it out! We had an over all loss! Congrats to Christy for being this week's biggest loser of 5 pounds!!


Chris - 3.2 LOSS
Tammy - 1 LOSS
Life With Hashi-Thyroid Blog - 0.4 GAIN
Grace - 0.4 LOSS
Leigh - 0.5 GAIN
Clara - 0.5 GAIN
Dette - no report
Julie - 0.2 LOSS
Cheryl - 0 CHANGE
Audrey - 2 GAIN
Christy - 5 LOSS
Tina - 1 LOSS (from last week)

Jessie - 0 CHANGE
Danielle - 2 LOSS

This week's total - 9.0 LOSS!!

Funny What Kind of Things Affect Your Weight Loss

I just realized that on my last Taking It Off Together post, I didn't mention that I did have a change in weight, but because different things were affecting my body, I could not get an accurate result. Here's the deal:

Since I have an autoimmune disease, anytime I get sick, whether it's a cold, UTI, or whatever, it usually hits me harder and longer than someone without one. I'm not sure if this happens to everyone with an autoimmune disease, but this is how it affects me. For example, if I get the flu, it will take me two weeks to recover instead of just one. I still have a bruised area on my leg from the fall I had SEVERAL months ago. I was told that my bruising would heal in about 2 months, it's now 6 months and still not completely healed. I'm sure you get the idea.

So, with the medication and the UTI, my weight was fluctuating a LOT. Then it started to keep going up and up. It went up as much as FOUR pounds in one week. I was suffering from lots of myxedema swelling thanks to the UTI and meds. Soon as I started to recover, I finally went back down and lost all those four pounds. Well, almost all of it. Stay tuned for tomorrow's weigh in.