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OH MY GOODNESS! That had to have been the longest post I have ever written and it just got completely deleted! NNNOOOOOO! Okay this one won't be nearly as long or awesome but here we go ;-)

HAPPY MONDAY EVERYONE!!! I hope you all had fabulous weekends! I sure did! The retreat was more than amazing. Having Teresa break down the work outs move by move, the trainers helping you with your stance, and the huge family of T-Tappers all supporting you was incredible! The speakers were great, and I learned a lot! I ended up tearing a lateral ligament in my left knee so I was only able to do the first day of work outs but I still lost 11.3 inches! I was so shocked especially because I thought I felt heavier! Which brings up another point, Teresa says the inches are what matter, not the pounds; so measure, don't weigh. And we met so many women who have lost so many inches and dress sizes that haven't budged on their weight and they look fantastic! But since I am on the Thyroid Diet as well as T-Tapping, I will continue to do both! Also, you should see these women who have been T-Tapping for any amount of time. Their breasts LITERALLY go UP (no more sagging), their butts go up and out (in a good way) and their faces get 10-15 years younger. I met a 40 year old woman I still think is 25. T-Tapp is incredible, and you don't have to work out for however long in a day. 15 minutes every other day is what works! You all should try it! I've added the DVD I have as well as Teresa's book, which I am in the process of reading! When I hurt my knee Teresa gave me a rehab move (you can hardly call it a move, I'm just standing there) and I started doing it immediately. NO JOKE: I tore the ligament Friday night, Sunday morning I was pain free. Incredible! I even did a few work out moves this morning!

As for the Thyroid Diet, I am SO HAPPY to be back on it. I feel better about myself, and it just feels good! A big thanks to Diane who said she was starting back up with me on Thursday! (And of course everyone else who started up too!) It's not too late to start (or re-start) on your journey, start today! Thank you everyone for the encouragement and support, you and Mary have helped me so much! OH YEAH! I got to meet our fabulous Mary Shomon! She's amazing and we had a blast! I hadn't weighed myself but I told her that I thought I had gained 20 pounds since I found out I was pregnant and she says, "Why are you embarrassed? you shouldn't be!" She helped me be okay with what I had done in my healing process of the miscarriage, and actually I hadn't gained 20 pounds, I gained 24. I weigh 301, which is a little upsetting being back in the 300s but I'm going to do this! I'm IN the process of doing this! So it's not letting me get really down. I want to thank ALL of you for being there for me! You are all amazing! Have a wonderful day, until next time :)

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HELLO EVERYONE! We're half way through the work week! Thankfully it's my Friday since I am leaving early tomorrow morning for the TTapp retreat! I'm very excited for this weekend, I need it so badly! I can't wait to learn new things about TTapp and get my act together with the Thyroid Diet.

Okay so as you know I was gaining weight while I was pregnant, not a shocker, I had to eat about 600 extra calories a day and I had to stop working out completely, the morning of my D&C they weighed me of course and I was 286. So I ended up gaining almost 10 pounds in just those two short weeks! I had still been eating things that were Thyroid Diet friendly, but unfortunately pregnancy and me equals weight gain apparently! (actually...it kinda makes sense now, the women in my family start gaining weight really fast when they're preggo, and they don't have thyroid problems...)

So here's my problem...after the D&C I just let myself go. I have been eating whatever I wanted the last week and a half and of course I'm still not working out. I finally got the okay on Friday, but I haven't yet. I'm very embarrassed and ashamed to say this (seriously my body is shaking as I'm typing this because I'm so frustrated with myself, and I would really rather not tell you all this. I'd rather you think I'm amazing and kept myself in control.). But I need to be honest with you guys. I actually haven't weighed myself since the D&C, but they are weighing and measuring me tomorrow at TTapp.

I honestly can't wait to start getting my life back on track, back on the Thyroid Diet and back to working out. My husband even told me that I'm happier when I'm on the Thyroid Diet, and he's right I am. So anyway. I'm very sorry if I have disappointed any of you, I hope you can all forgive me, I'm still in the process of trying to forgive myself! Well tomorrow starts my first day back on everything...HERE WE GO! Does anyone want to start with me tomorrow? I would love it if someone else did this with me. Start tomorrow! You can do it and so can I! Even if you aren't doing the Thyroid Diet, but you're doing another diet you love...DO IT! We can all do it together! Keep me posted. When I get back from my trip I will have another post, and I will tell you how everything went (including how much I weighed) :( Love you all! Have a wonderful weekend!

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Thank you everyone for the love and prayers :) You are all truly wonderful. I realized this morning that I am finally okay and at peace with the miscarriage. I am in no way over what happened, there is no way to ever get over something like that. But I'm okay. I actually got my butt up and cleaned the house this morning and am in the process of doing laundry. I need to give a big thank you to my husband. He is so amazing and took such good care of me, he did more than I would have ever asked for. And thank you to you guys for being so patient with me while I get my life back together!

SO it's Thursday yay for almost Friday! This weekend should be good for me! I'm getting my hair trimmed and prettied up for the first time since the beginning of this year! (yikes!) and I'm going to get my hair dyed for the first time in almost a year and a half! (no bueno, I have so much gray and I'm usually good about hiding it, but there's no hiding it now haha) I believe we're doing something with the in-laws and I have a little bit of shopping to do!

I have a question for y'all, is anyone here going to the TTapp Retreat next week? Let me know I'll be there and I can't wait. I've been out of working out ever since I found out I was pregnant (and I'm still not allowed to yet, will find out more from Dr tomorrow.) and I'm ready to get back on track with my weight loss. Love all of you! Have a great weekend :) Until next time

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Hey everyone, I just found out I've had a miscarriage, I'm having a DNC tomorrow. Please keep my husband and I in your prayers. After everything is done with the surgery and I'm back up and around I will continue on my Thyroid Diet journey. but for right now I need some time. Expect a new post next week sometime. Love you all. until then.

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HAPPY MONDAY! I now look forward to Monday's because it means I'm in a new week of my pregnancy! I'm now 6 weeks pregnant and incredibly excited!!! The heartbeat starts appearing today, and the embryo starts appearing on Thursday (or is it Wednesday.....?) anyway just in time for the sonogram on Thursday morning!

This week a lot happens, the chin, jaw, eyes and ears start to take form (well the ears are just little holes and the eyes are little black dots right now but still.) Plus lots more! So exciting and so dang fun! Right now I feel great, going to the bathroom all the time but I feel really good :)

On a completely other note, Biggest Loser starts tomorrow night! WOO! I cry pretty much every episode...I'm kinda nervous to see how much I'll cry with all these crazy hormones going through me! haha!

How are all of you doing? Hope you're well and I hope you have an amazing week! Until next time :)

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So I'm kinda bummed...I just wrote this whole long post...and accidentally deleted it when I was trying to save it...it's no where, I tried to bring it back....LET'S TRY THIS AGAIN! haha (this one will probably be shorter)

I got my books yesterday! I was so excited I already read everything I can read so far! (We aren't going farther than where I am in the pregnancy, that way it can all be as it's happening) The books are great! There were parts that I already knew, and others that answered questions I'd been saving up until I see my Dr again so that was fun!

So I haven't been weighing since I found out I was pregnant, but my mom said it was a good idea to keep track of where I am so I did and I've gained 2 pounds I weigh 279.5. Honestly I'm not surprised, I was hardly losing any weight if you all remember, and now I've added an additional 400 calories a day, I knew it would happen. The baby books say to eat 2200 calories a day during the first trimester, and right now I'm only eating 1600 but I think that's okay for right now, since it is more than I was eating before, and I'm definitely not letting myself starve or anything like that. I'm still eating everything that I was eating before on the diet, just obviously adding in some more.

The books also give some light exercises you can do, but I'm not doing anything right now for exercise. I was going to go bowling last weekend and I called my Dr to see if that was okay. She said because of my thyroid problems, being overweight, and having my last pregnancy end in a miscarriage she didn't want me to exercise or strain myself for now, until she gives the okay. (so obviously no...don't go bowling) She said to take it easy, and even don't go up and down the stairs at my apartment unless it's completely necessary. (I live on the third floor, and at work my office is on the second floor, no elevators either place) But I'm not being a total couch potato either, my bladder wouldn't exactly allow it anyway. I go to the bathroom about every half hour, but when I'm at home if we're watching TV, I get up and walk around the apartment during every commercial, and at work I get up and walk around the top floor every time after I go to the bathroom.

So I'm 5 weeks and 3 days pregnant, which means the yolk sac starts appearing today! Sounds gross but that's okay because things are happening, and on Monday the heartbeat starts appearing! SO excited! My Sonogram is a week from today and I can't wait I'm practically bouncing! OH OH ALSO! The day of the Sonogram is the first day of Fall my FAVORITE season, and my friend just told me a Fall Front is coming in on that day :) How perfect for the sonogram!!! Anyway totally thrilled! That's all for now, hope you all are doing well! Until next time :)

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Happy Monday everyone! I am now 5 weeks pregnant! YAY! I'm incredibly excited I can't even tell you guys! We have our first Sonogram 10 days from now, and I feel like that is forever away! I'm so excited I want to have it now, which of course, I know we won't be able to see anything right now, but still. I have so many friends that have gone through pregnancies and have children now. I remember how they were always so anxious for their next appointment, or for their due date. Now, I've only known for 6 days and I'm practically bouncing waiting for the 23rd to come! Guess I'm going to have to learn some patience. Haha! I can't remember if I told y'all last week, but my oldest sister is pregnant as well! I'm so excited to be pregnant with one of my sisters, it is so fun! :)

I also just bought some baby books! They should be here any day now and I can't wait to start reading them! My sister strongly recommended "Your Pregnancy Week by Week." She said "What to Expect When You're Expecting" is a great book but since it's Month by Month you need something else to read and fill your mind with, which is why the first book is so great!

I'm doing really well with eating, still eating very healthy, just adding more food to my diet so I can get some more calories in. I'm eating a ton of protein and making sure I get everything the baby needs! Anyway, that's all I have for now! Hope you all have a wonderful day! Until next time :)

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Hello everyone! Okay so I have some major news! First of all, I decided this week that I wasn't going to weigh myself. I could tell that every time I got on the scale and it was barely lower I would get frustrated. I had to realize that my body is amazing, and she is doing the best she can. I knew I wouldn't be able to get on the scale this week and maintain my loving outlook towards my body so I decided NO scale this week.

THEN, just last night I took a test and guess what....I'm pregnant! I'm so thrilled, and even though the hubby is in shock he's excited too :) We weren't planning on it, and I took my birth control every day, it's just what God wanted for us. The craziest part is, I got pregnant exactly one year after my miscarriage...isn't God funny? So this is my second time being pregnant and we're praying for the absolute best! Please keep all three of us in your prayers :)

So now since I'm pregnant, I'm not going to try to lose anymore weight, I'm just going to try not to gain very much weight since I'm already big enough for the baby. I'm not going off the Thyroid Diet, but I am eating a few more calories here and there (since my OBGYN said I wasn't eating nearly enough) but they will be good snacks filled with protein (i.e. String cheese wrapped in a slice of ham...yum!)

I will keep up my blog, but it is going to expand to my pregnancy and other things as well. Hope you all have a great week! Until next time :)

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YAY FRIDAY! I'm so so so so happy that you're here finally :) AND! It's a three day weekend! Can't get much better than that, I usually don't get the holidays off, but this time I DO! One of the other girls wanted to work so yay, I get the day with my wonderful husband! What do all of you have planned this weekend?

Okay, so I don't know if I forgot to weigh yesterday, or if I did weigh and I just didn't lose weight on Wednesday; but today I weigh 277.4! YAY! So either I lost .2 pounds yesterday, or over the last two days. Either way I'm happy! Slowly getting to the 277.0 mark and hopefully going past it!

So Wednesday, I don't know why I forgot to put this in my post but oh well, I got hurt working out! Oh no! I was doing TTapp, and there was this part where you do plies (sp?) and my left knee just went CRACK! It was so painful and my husband had to help me back onto the couch. I'm doing better now, I can walk mostly but I live on the third floor, and my office is on the second floor (and some of my things I have to do are on the first floor) there are no elevators at either place. When I go up or down the stairs my knee really starts killing me again, but I think I'm getting better. So I didn't do TTapp today (I do it every other day) but yesterday and today I've been lifting light weights and working out my arms.

Okay it's FABULOUS FRIDAY. This morning I couldn't have woken up any better way. The hubbs and I woke up, we laid in bed cuddling and talking for a few minutes before getting up and that's always my favorite. Then I look out the window to find it's pouring rain! Another favorite! I think the world looks the most beautiful when there are dark clouds in the sky and it is raining :) It is also exactly three months and three weeks until I get to see my entire family! I can't wait. Nothing can put me in a bad mood today...um...*knock on wood* ahem. HOPEFULLY nothing bad happens today ;-) What's so fabulous about your day?

Well I hope you have an amazing weekend! I will try my hardest to remember to post on Monday! (it's so hard when I don't have to go to work to remember it's a week day!) Until next time :)

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HAPPY WEDNESDAY! Once again, I must say sorry for not writing on Monday. Once again I wasn't at work, but I was practically in the car from 6.45a-2.30p when I got home and fell asleep. So I'm so sorry! I hope you are all amazing, how were your weekends? Mine was nice, but kind of crazy! My hubby and his work partner were working off duty at a football game, so his work partner's girl and I decided to go watch the game; I didn't get home until midnight. (Okay just so you all know...I may be 21, but my husband (22) and I are almost always in bed by 9:30p...) Then Saturday morning I had to get up bright and early to help a friend get somewhere and baby sit for her, I didn't get home until about 4p. Then I took a shower and got ready for date night with the hubbs, and might I say it was the best one we've had in a while. Food was good (fajitas-no tortillas, rice or beans, and shared his fries) and conversation was so nice :) After, we went and bought a few movies came home got on the couch and proceeded to watch two of them. We were trying to pull an all nighter, but at midnight we kinda looked at each other and yawned "Bed?" so that didn't work out so well! Sunday we slept in til 10.30a (yay! we're normally up by 7:15a) did laundry, grocery shopping and such but I wasn't feeling well. I just had NO energy, I know you all know how that feels, so I took it easy the rest of the day.
That was my weekend :) OH! AND GUESS WHAT! I lost .1 pounds over the weekend!!! WOOO! Since Monday, I've lost an addition .2 pounds! I'm at 277.6 (darn that 277....) but I know my time is coming. I'm working extra hard, and one of these days my body is going to be like WHOA! Hey guess we're actually supposed to be doing something here! Then I'll have big news and numbers to put up here. Anyway, I hope you all have a wonderful day! Until next time :)