Taking It Off Together Tuesday #17

Whoa. Just got back from Vegas yesterday and I've been bombarded with work and budgets. But I wanted to get this post up quickly - seeing as I've been MIA for a while. I didn't even get a chance to post a BAM entry last Friday! :(

Bad news is that I gained a half pound over the last week, good news is - it could've been more - since I tend to give in to the munchies much more when I'm traveling.

Hope everyone had a great weekend - I know I had WAY too much fun, and it wasn't even my birthday. ;) Hubz turned the big 4-0. :D

Check out the girls:

This week our contest is sponsored by Christy! She is offering an Earth Theraputics Foot Care set for the prize for this week! If you'd like to sponser a prize, let me know! We are currently out of prizes!

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

Congrats to Christy for being this week's biggest loser of 3 pounds!! Be sure to cruise over to her blog and congratulate her!

Chris - 1 GAIN
Tammy - 1.0 LOSS
Life With Hashi-Thyroid Blog - No Report
Grace - 1.1 LOSS
Leigh - 0.5 LOSS
Clara - 2.0 GAIN
Dette - 0.5 GAIN
Julie - 1.4 GAIN
Cheryl - No Report
Audrey - 0.8 LOSS
Christy - 3.0 LOSS
Tina - No Report
Danielle - 2.0 LOSS
Jessie - No Report
Steph - No Report
CYN - No Change

This week's total - 3.5 LOSS!

Taking It Off Together Tuesday #16

Here's me:

All Time High: 153.5
Last Week's Weigh-In: 150.5
This Week's Weigh-In: 150.0
Variance: 0.5 LOSS
Overall Loss: 3.5
Pounds to go: 25.0


This week our contest is sponsored by Julie! She is offering a copy of the Biggest Loser Cookbook as a prize this week! If you'd like to sponser a prize, let me know! We are currently out of prizes!

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

Congrats to Clara for being this week's biggest loser of 2 pounds!! Be sure to cruise over to her blog and congratulate her!

Chris - 3.5 GAIN
Tammy - 0.5 GAIN
Life With Hashi-Thyroid Blog - 1.0 LOSS
Grace - 0.2 LOSS
Leigh - 0.5 LOSS
Clara - 2.0 LOSS
Dette - 0.5 LOSS
Julie - 1.0 LOSS
Cheryl - No Change
Audrey - 0.8 GAIN
Christy - 0.6 GAIN
Tina - no report
Danielle - 1.0 LOSS
Jessie - No Change
Steph - no report
CYN - no report

This week's total - 0.8 LOSS!

Taking It Off Together Tuesday #15

This lack of sleep is really getting to me.

Hubz has been out of town. Out of state, really. But he doesn't travel very much so when he's gone?

I can't sleep.

I stay up late, late, late - until I'm about to crash - and don't get to bed until about 2am. I already know I won't sleep thru the night, and I'm up and out of bed before 7am to get the kids off to school and start the WAHM routine, 3 year old in tow.

The problem is, I'd like to start exercising again, but I can't do it on no sleep. lol - I tried that before - it wasn't cute.

So... since Hubz will be coming home tomorrow (hurray!) - I'm hoping I can get back on track and hit the ellyptical. I hope!

Then I can get rid of the pound I gained over the last week. Did I tell you about an old friend (or foe?) who's been poppin' in lately, right around midnight? Yeah, it's the "Munchies."

All Time High: 153.5
Last Week's Weigh-In: 149.5
This Week's Weigh-In: 150.5
Variance: 1.0 GAIN
Overall Loss: 3.0
Pounds to go: 25.5


Check out the rest of the gang:

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 - no report
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!

Taking It Off Together Tuesday #14

I didn't gain... but I didn't lose either...

All Time High: 153.5
Last Week's Weigh-In: 149.5
This Week's Weigh-In: 149.5
Variance: 0 CHANGE
Overall Loss: 4.0
Pounds to go: 24.5

Check out how the rest of the gang did:

Last week we contunued 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 Danielle!

This week our contest is sponsored by Ciara who writes the 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 Clara for being this week's biggest loser of 2.5 pounds!! Be sure to cruise over to her blog and congratulate her!

Chris - 1 loss
Tammy - 1 gain
Life With Hashi-Thyroid Blog - 1 loss
Grace - 2.2 gain
Leigh - 1 gain
Clara - 2.5 loss
Dette - no change
Julie - 1.4 gain
Cheryl - no report
Audrey - 2.4 loss
Christy - 3.2 gain
Tina - no report
Danielle - 2 loss
Jessie - no change
Steph - no report

This week's total - 0.1 LOSS!

Taking It Off Together Tuesday #13

OMG. I won.

[Pause] I won, I won, I won!

*happy dance*

Before I celebrate (preferably with a date on the ellyptical instead of a cup of ice cream) - here are my numbers:

All Time High: 153.5
Last Week's Weigh-In: 151.0
This Week's Weigh-In: 149.5
Variance: 1.5 loss
Overall Loss: 4.0
Pounds to go: 24.5

Check it out!!

We currently have a contest where everyone who reported a LOSS had their name added to a drawing for a lot of 100 Mary Kay samples! And since I currently don't have any other prizes, we will have the same contest this week. Just remember that maintaining doesn't count, sorry! Also, if you have a prize to donate that would be GREAT!! Just let me know!

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 - no report
Grace - 3.8 LOSS
Leigh - 0.5 LOSS
Clara - No Change
Dette - 1.5 LOSS
Julie - No Change
Cheryl - No Change
Audrey - No Change
Christy - 1.4 LOSS
Tina - 0.5 GAIN
Danielle - No Change
Jessie - 3 GAIN
Steph - no report

This week's total - 4.2 LOSS!

Congrats to Grace for the biggest loss this week ~ and special thanks to Leigh for organizing all of this!

Taking It Off Together Tuesday #12

Like a mini yo-yo, I am:

All Time High: 153.5
Last Week's Weigh-In: 151.5
This Week's Weigh-In: 151.0
Variance: 0.5 loss
Overall Loss: 2.5
Pounds to go: 26.0

What I need to do is get my head outta these books and get my ass on the ellyptical - lol!

We had a great week - congrats to Ciara for winning the 1st contest!

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!

This week's total - 10.7 LOSS!!

Taking It Off Together Tuesday #11

Ugh. Taking vacation time does NOT help one get her butt into gear. Good news is I didn't gain any this week. Bad news is I didn't lose the 2 lbs. I gained last week.

In my 11th week, here are my measley numbers:

All Time High: 153.5
Last Week's Weigh-In: 151.5
This Week's Weigh-In: 151.5
Variance: 0 change
Overall Loss: 2.0
Pounds to go: 26.5

Leigh's going to help us get motivated - check out what she had to say:

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 - 0 CHANGE
Julie - 0.2 LOSS
Cheryl - 0 CHANGE
Audrey - 2 GAIN
Christy - 5 LOSS
Tina - 1 LOSS (from last week)
Danielle - 2 LOSS
Jessie - 0 CHANGE

This week's total - 9.0 LOSS!!

If you'd like to join us, check out HQ and drop a note to our organizer, Leigh. Good luck to all!!

Taking It Off Together Tuesday #10

Leigh's not kidding - another bad week. :(

I gained 2 pounds over the last week - but Leigh's gonna kick us into gear. Check it out:

Another gain week! Okay! Time to get our butts in gear. This gain/no change has
got to stop. I am just as guilty, I know! I gained more than anyone! So I was
trying to think about what we could do for some motivation around here.

Does anyone in the group have any graphic skills? I'd love to have some
awards to hand out as people reach goals. Also I would like to have a contest
each week so if you would like to put up any prizes or are willing to donate to
the cause let me know! I have quite a bit of Mary Kay discontinued items I'd
love to award as prizes. I was thinking maybe having each pound lost as one
entry for a drawing each week (2 entries per pound for Ciara on account of her
tyroid, if that is alright with everyone...I want this to be fair).

Send
me your thoughts and ideas!! Thanks!!

Chris - 2 GAIN
Tammy - 1 LOSS
Life With Hashi-Thyroid Blog - 0
CHANGE
Grace - no report
yet
Leigh - 3.5 GAIN
Clara - 4 LOSS
Dette - 2 GAIN
Julie - 0.2 LOSS
Cheryl - 0 CHANGE
Audrey - 2 LOSS
Christy - 2 GAIN
Tina - no report yet
Danielle - 0 CHANGE
Jessie - 0 CHANGE

This week's
total - 2.3 GAIN!

Taking It Off Together Tuesday #9

Okay - so if I want to lose some weight, I seriously need to get motivated and start exercising again. It's been weeks, and if I want to lose more than 4 lbs in over 2 months, well, simply put - I need to get moving.

No change for me since last week, when I should've lost that extra pound I gained. Here are my stats:

All Time High: 153.5
Last Week's Weigh-In: 149.5
This Week's Weigh-In: 149.5
Variance: 0 change
Overall Loss: 4.0
Pounds to go: 24.5

And here are the stats for the rest of the crew:

Chris - 1 GAIN
Tammy - 0 CHANGE
Life With Hashi-Thyroid Blog - 1
GAIN
Grace - 0 CHANGE
Leigh - 0.5 GAIN
Clara - 1.5 LOSS
Dette - 0 CHANGE
Julie - 0.2 LOSS
Cheryl - 2 GAIN
Audrey - 1 GAIN
Christy - 1.2 LOSS
Tina - no report?
Danielle - 1 LOSS

Please
help us welcome Jessie to the group
with an inital report of 0 change!

This week's total - 1.6 GAIN!

:(

Taking It Off Together Tuesday #8

I seriously need to start exercising again:

All Time High: 153.5
Last Week's Weigh-In: 148.5
This Week's Weigh-In: 149.5
Variance: 1.0 gain
Overall Loss: 4.0
Pounds to go: 24.5

Check out the girls - talk about kickin' BUTT!

Chris - no report
Tammy - 1 LOSS
Life With Hashi-Thyroid Blog - no
report
Grace - 1.4 LOSS
Leigh - 5.5 LOSS
Clara - 2 LOSS
Dette - 1 GAIN
Julie - 0 CHANGE
Cheryl - 4 LOSS
Cyn Blue - no report
Audrey - 0.6 LOSS
Christy - 7.2 LOSS
Tina - 0.5 GAIN

Please
welcome Danielle to the group
with her starting result of 0 Change!

This week's total - 20.2 LOSS!

Taking It Off Together Tuesday #7

I guess I'm just inching along :)

All Time High: 153.5
Last Week's Weigh-In: 149.0
This Week's Weigh-In: 148.5
Variance: 0.5 loss
Overall Loss: 5.0
Pounds to go: 23.5


Check out the gang!

Chris - 3 GAIN
Tammy - 0 CHANGE
Life With Hashi-Thyroid Blog - 1 LOSS
Grace - 0.4 LOSS
Leigh - 2.5 GAIN
Clara - 0 CHANGE
Dette - 0.5 LOSS
Julie - 1 LOSS
Cheryl - 0 CHANGE
Cyn Blue -0 CHANGE
Audrey - 5.2 LOSS
Christy - 3 LOSS
Tina - no report

This week's total - 5.6 LOSS!

Taking It Off Together Tuesday #6

I am SO excited - we just got back from a camping trip (sorry for the late weigh-in, girls) and am happy to report:

0.5 lb loss

Whoohoo!! I still watched my portions, stayed light on the carbs, but had some snacks and definitely some chocolate (heaven!). Hubz even took us out for ice cream last night - can you say Jamocha Oreo???? Yum!!

After these last 2 weeks - I now know what works for me: Eating

As long as I have some thing to eat every couple of hours, my metabolism gets going. I have to have breakfast the minute I get up from bed, and since my body knows it's going to get some nutrition soon, it'll burn the fat instead of storing it.

So for me - it's healthy snacks, light meals - and a dinner with lots of protein and veggies. I once skipped the high protein dinner and had soup instead... - THAT was HELL. Not worth it.

Here are my numbers:

All Time High: 153.5
Last Week's Weigh-In: 149.5
This Week's Weigh-In: 149.0
Variance: 0.5 loss
Overall Loss: 4.5
Pounds to go: 24.0

Check out the rest of the gang!

Chris - 2.8 LOSS (-5.8 overall)
Tammy - 2 LOSS (-7 overall)
Life With Hashi-Thyroid Blog - 2 LOSS (-2 overall)
Grace - 1.6 LOSS (-51.6 overall)
Leigh - 4 LOSS (-31 overall)
Clara - 1 GAIN (-9.5 overall)
Dette - 0 (-4.5 overall)
Julie - 1 GAIN (-4.1 overall)
Cheryl - 2 GAIN (+2 overall)
Cyn Blue - no report
Audrey - 2.6 GAIN (-0.4 overall)
Christy - 0 (-11 overall)
Tina - 1 GAIN (0 overall)

Totals:
this week - 4.8 LOSS
over all - 124.4 LOSS

Taking It Off Together Tuesday #5

Hmnnnn... slowly, but (hopefully) surely... here are my numbers:

All Time High: 153.5
Last Week's Weigh-In: 151.0
This Week's Weigh-In: 149.5
Variance: 1.5 loss
Overall Loss: 4.0
Pounds to go: 24.5

But check out the rest of the gang!!

Chris - 1 GAIN
Tammy - 1 LOSS
Life With Hashi-Thyroid Blog - 1 LOSS
Grace - 1.4 GAIN
Leigh - 0.5 GAIN
Clara - 0.5 LOSS
Dette - -1.5 LOSS
Julie - 2.2 LOSS
Cheryl - 1 GAIN
Cyn Blue - 0 CHANGE
Audrey - On VACATION
Christy - 8 LOSS!! You go girl!

Welcome new member Tina with a 1 pound loss!

Total : 11.3 LOSS WOOT!!

NOTE: Sorry girls, I found out that Mr Linky requires an upgrade to Silver Membership at $5/year to use "shared" linkies. But just in case you decide to donate the $5, I'll leave it as "shared" if you'd like to grab it some time.

Taking It Off Together Tuesday #4

You know what's been really cool about joining this meme?

I've been trying different things each week, testing out what works for my body type, what doesn't... And finally enlightening myself about the number of calories of fat grams in a friggin' brownie!

Some of you already know I'm a chocoholic - but ever since I calculated that each brownie/ice cream scoop/milkshake would cost me an extra workout (or two!) - I've steered away.

So now that I've cut out the empty calories (except for 2 handfuls of popcorn on movie night!) - I made a wee bit of progress this week.

I lost the one pound that I had gained last week - lol.

Here are my numbers:

All Time High: 153.5
Last Week's Weigh-In: 152.0
This Week's Weigh-In: 151.0
Variance: 1.0 loss
Overall Loss: 2.5
Pounds to go: 26.0

And here are the numbers for the group:

Chris - 2 LOSS
Tammy - 2 GAIN
Life With Hashi-Thyroid Blog - 2
GAIN
Grace - 4.6 LOSS
Leigh - 1 GAIN
Clara - 2 LOSS
Dette - 1 LOSS
Julie - 0.8 LOSS
Cheryl - 1 LOSS
Cyn Blue - no report?
Audrey - 3 LOSS

Everone help us welcome our 12th member Christy with a 3 LOSS!!

Total : 11.68 LOSS

Taking It Off Together Tuesday #3

Okay - you know what? I think I've been experimenting these last few weeks:

• Exercising, or not
• Snacking, or not
• Eating until I'm stuffed, or just full/satisfied

And I'm seeing now that I'm gonna have to figure out some other changes.

(sigh)

I did really good last week about NOT gorging, and even exercising 3X a week. Did I drink my daily 2 liters of water?

Nope.

Did I have snacks?

Oh yeah. But snacking isn't the problem for me. It's friggin' snacking late at night.

After dinner.

With a late night cocktail, to boot. Dammit. I need to quit on those Goose & Seven's and Margarita's. I only had 3 all week, but the calories sure like to hang around.

What's my weight change this week?

1 lb. gain (ugh!)

Here are my numbers:

• All Time High: 153.5
  
• Last Week's Weigh-In: 151.0
  
• This Week's Weigh-In: 152.0
  
• Variance: 1.0 gain
  
• Overall Loss: 1.5
  
• Pounds to go: 27.0

Has anyone tried the Cinnamon & Honey Tea or cinnamon capsules???

Here are the reports for this week:

Chris - 2 LOSS
Tammy - 0 change
Life With Hashi-Thyroid Blog - Out Of Town
Grace - 2.4 Gained
Leigh - 3 LOSS
Clara - 2 Gained
Dette - 1 Gained
Julie - 2 LOSS
Cheryl - 0 change

Please help me welcome Cyn Blue who is reporting a 1 pound gain.

And everyone welcome my aunt Audery to the group who is reporting a 3 pound loss!

Total : 3.6 LOSS! YAY!

Taking It Off Together Tuesday #2

Ooh - if I hadn't committed to it in public format, I would've only worked out twice last week, instead of 3.

I knew this group would be good for me. I lost 2.5 pounds in the last week. =)

And instead of hiding behind weekly variances, I think I need to step up with the real deal.

Ahem - uh, here are my numbers:

• All Time High: 153.5
  
• Last Week's Weigh-In: 153.5
  
• This Week's Weigh-In: 151.0
  
• Variance: 2.5 loss
  
• Overall Loss: 2.5
  
• Pounds to go: 26.0
  

The rest of the gang is doing great - no gains!

Chris - 0 change
Tammy - 1 LOSS!
Life With Hashi-Thyroid Blog - 0 change
Grace - 0.8 LOSS!
Leigh - 7 LOSS!
Clara - 0.5 LOSS!
Dette - 2.5 LOSS!
Julie - 1 LOSS!

and every one be sure to welcome Cheryl with her first weigh in at 0!

Total 12.8 LOSS! Congratulations!!

Taking It Off Together Tuesday #1

Yikes.

It's my first week to report out since I joined this meme last week. You would've thought that the idea alone of having to share my results would've given me the incentive - or inspiration - to actually try to lose some weight.

Hmph.

Well, let me first begin by owning up, er... updating you on what I worked on last week, health wise:

• Had my daily double dose of chocolate
• Snuck into a couple of grape and strawberry laffy taffy's and even a tootsie roll pop
• Ate to my heart's (and stomach's) content

Well golly gee willakers - no surprise on my findings over the last week:

RESULTS: 0.5 gain

Doh!

My weight fluctuated all week. And today? I am actually at square one - totally even from when I joined last week. But that doesn't count since we do our weigh-in's on Mondays.

Some new things I will try this week:

• Exercise, at least 3X this week, for a minimum of 20 mins each session
• NOT reading or anything else while eating
• Drinking 2 liters a day

If you plurk with me, you've probably already heard me wishing I could STOP eating when my I'm full, instead of when I'm completely stuffed.

I'm gonna work on that. Yes on hunger satisfaction. No on stuffing my face.

There are some amazing results, though, with the rest of the gang. Check out these numbers!

Chris - 1.0 loss!
Tammy - 5.0 loss!
Life With Hashi-Thyroid Blog -1.0 loss!
Grace - 0.8 loss!
Leigh - 3.0 GAIN! ARG!
Clara - 5.0 loss!
Dette - 0.5 gain
Julie - 0 (first week! Welcome aboard!)

Total of 9.3 lost! You go girls!

And special thanks to Leigh for coordinating our Weight Loss Tuesday Meme!!

UPDATE:
Weight Loss Goal - lose 28.5 lbs by December 1, 2008