Gone for Good Club - May 2006

[Telly 4]

Good news Dawg! !:eek:

[PhotoNut 7]

Ooo! Ooo! I wanna be a cheerleader! I can cover my chest in little streamers and then when I jump up and down people will think I'm holding pompoms in front of me!

[Telly 4]

Rofl Omg Photonut!!!!!!!! The imagery!

Stop!!!!

Just Stop!

_______________:faint: ________________ DIES FROM LAUGHTER

[EmileeKaye 1]

Haha...hmmm...my bf would be very excited to see a cheerleading outfit in the closet.

But not sure I could compete with all those little cheerleaders on the sidelines at his games...but I'll get there!

[FunnyDuddies 6]

i think they were there for 12 weeks. then they went home and continued to lose. they were losing up to a pound and a half a day at the ranch i think. but they were doing crazy workouts, and eating around 1000 cals a day. we picked up the book. it is pretty interesting to read back through on what everyone ate and how much they lost.

[dawg 0]

P'Nut PomPom make Dawg something something.

[EmileeKaye 1]

i think they were there for 12 weeks. then they went home and continued to lose. they were losing up to a pound and a half a day at the ranch i think. but they were doing crazy workouts, and eating around 1000 cals a day. we picked up the book. it is pretty interesting to read back through on what everyone ate and how much they lost.

You're right.....the working out they were doing was insane(kind of like yours telly, j/k ) They were burning SO many calories...I have a feeling there was NO sitting around that house or watching tv. But it shows that it is possible.

[legallyKristin 0]

Yeh they were crazy about what they did on the Biggest Loser. I couldn't imagine eating only 1000 without my band. I know I would starve. But maybe that's the point?!

[MoOrLess 0]

well I have to admit -- 1000 calories is the MAX amount of calories I can eat - WITH 30 minutes of exercise every day to even lose weight......

sigh.....my body's metabolism is apparently dead - and I never even got invited to the funeral :eek:

[PhotoNut 7]

Hey Mo, check out the Starvation Mode thread. Even though we've been led to believe that we can ruin our metabolism, we can't! That's great news! I put a link on there to an article about metabolisms. Have a peek at that when you can. Knowledge is power!

One quick thing from that article that really hit me was... when we crash diet, then gain it back, diet again... doin' the yo-yo, we actually lose muscle mass from the low amount of calories but what we gain back (and we always have) is not muscle, its FAT! So everytime we do that we have less and less muscle mass. Muscles take more energy to function, so they burn up more calories. The less muscle mass we have the slower our metabolism is because we aren't burning up as much. Make sense to you all too? Sure did to me! We need muscles!

[dawg 0]

It's an interesting fact that we (the masses) view a slow metabolism as a bad thing. It's only a bad thing if there is an abundance of food.< /p>

If we were to go back to being hunter / gatherers stalking the land to find a meal, we'd beat the skinny bastards in the survival game.

A slow metabolism is actually working super efficiently. We WANT less efficiency! we demand our metabolisms speed up and stop getting nutrtion out of a frickin stone!

[MoOrLess 0]

but but.....how do I eat MORE calories and still lose weight? remember disabilities are a major factor for me -- walking 30 minutes a day at this point is the max I can do exercise-wise......

I do indeed know what you both mean though about metabolisms and starvation mode --- my sister did it to herself twice now - losing 100 lbs each time to gain it back -- THIS time she eats healthy and has a trainer and works out 6 days a week....

my family would definitely win with survival of the fittest metabolisms -- we win there -- but it is so hard to get the sucker going again....I WILL read the link P'Nut thanks!!!

Dawg --- thanks for the humor you put in every situation - it helps! lol

Edit: I read the starvation mode thread -- have 'read' or 'heard' most of the info on there before but was good to review --- I guess I AM doing something right -- I no longer count calories - I eat until I am no longer hungry (not eat until I'm full) and exercise -- I started losing weight immediately when I cut DOWN sugar and flour and quit bread completely - I don't miss bread nor do I miss the yucky way my body felt from eating too much flour or sugar. I'm content - eat plenty of Protein at EVERY meal which makes me want very little else to eat -- great tips everyone! You are all awesome and I appreciate your banded support for this unbanded soul on a daily basis!!!

[FunnyDuddies 6]

P'Nut PomPom make Dawg something something.

thanks homer. :eek:

[drj 0]

PhotoNut,

I'm still in the club. And, by the way, thanks so much for reminding that I haven't updated my info with the club. To date, there are no changes. If a period goes by again, please feel free to send me another message to update with you.

God bless.

Let go and let God.

[PhotoNut 7]

Hi Drj! :wave: I'll remind you again, thanks for checking in!

Guess what folks? Dawg and our son drug me (kicking and screaming) to the gym tonight, so I got in my 30 minutes of exercise, all of my Water and ate no flour or sugar! That's a perfect day! Yahoo!