Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Happy Birthday to me Giveaway and Results from Romance Biggest Winner

The end results for Romance Biggest Winner challenged were announced yesterday and i came in 4th in the readers part of the challenge. Not bad. I lost 34.5 lbs total so far and 20.49% of my body weight since i started July 5th of 2011. Here are some pictures to show my progress.

July of 2011
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October of 2011
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And yesterday January 9th
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If you were wondering what i did to get the weight off I'll tell you. I used www.myfitnesspal.com to track my calories and exercise. You can use it to track your measurements and water intake as well. Find friends to to help encourage you. For exercise i tried a variety of things from walking to various Wii games including Zumba, Zumba 2, Gold's Gym, Just Dance 3 and Wii fit 2. I tried to keep myself in the frame of mind to think before i eat. I wasn't always successful but as i went along i got better. Take time to see what calories etc is in your food before you eat. Pay attention at the grocery store when your shopping. My fitness pal has a app for iPhone so you can take it with you when you go out to track yourself. Makes eating out much easier. Anyway I'm going to keep up with what I'm doing i have about 5 more pounds to lose and toning to do. I hope to add weight lifting and in the spring try running. I did one 5K walk this fall and won my age group so i would like to try more of those too. I never thought i could do this well when i signed up for Romance Biggest Winner but am more than happy with the results.

PS there is a Romance Biggest Winner in the works to begin in February. To see this RBW results click here and at the end of the post is the email address to sign up for RBW2 romancebiggestwinner.blogspot.com

Today is my birthday also and so i thought i would offer up a prize. A friend of mine gave me a new copy of JR Ward Soft cover book Lover Unleashed. If you are a fan of the Black Dagger Brotherhood series you know this series well. This book came out in softcover in November and my friend picked up at her library used sale box for 60 cents. It's new. Not even cracked open to read even once by what it looks like. If you would like to have this book for your own all you have to do is leave me a comment. Make sure you leave a email address so i can contact you. Leave it in this form please YOURNAME at WHATEVER dot com. This keeps trollies from getting it. If your so inclined please follow my blog too. Open to US only please. Sorry. Ends Friday January 13th.

6 comments:

  1. AWESOME!

    Happy Birthday to less of you
    Happy Birthday to less of you
    Happy Birthday Dear L
    Happy Birthday to less of you :)

    And many many more!

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  2. Happy Bday and congrats on the weight loss. I just lost 35lbs myself. I have gained about 5lbs back, but holidays have not been letting me work out. Working extra hours and less time at the gym. Starting back up and will lose that and hopefully more.
    I would love to win this JR Ward book. I have not read the last 2 books of the series. Just found BDB and went out and got the first 5 books and since Christmas have not been able to get anymore. Thanks for the giveaway and the chance to win.
    christinebails@yahoo.com

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  3. Lisa - HAPPY BIRTHDAY! And you look fantastic:-) Way to go!

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  4. Lisa, I can really see the weight loss! Good for you! And happy birthday too. If you have a Kindle, I have a free ebook for you. Giveaway starts tomorrow. The book is Your Words, Your Story, a creative writing manual.

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  5. Look at the sexy, slimmer, healthier you! Congrats on the astounding weight loss, and AVery Happy Birthday, to YOU! (not me, but you!)

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  6. Happy Birthday and am in awe of all you accomplished! Best wishes for a terrific year to come!

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