Welcome to the Gone for Good Club

The members of this "club" are like-minded people who want to challenge each other to keep working toward our goal of weight loss and keeping it off! We have no illusions of the band being a miracle cure, nor do we believe that we will achieve our goals without working for them. We understand that if we continue the lifestyle and eating habits that got us fat in the first place, we will not achieve our goals. We come together in order to strengthen our determination by sharing our dreams, our struggles, and our victories with one another.

Everyone is welcome to join the club - banded, pre-banded, no band - all are welcome to join at any time. To join, please post a brief introduction of yourself and list any information you want posted on the main page. See the list of members below to get an idea of what info you can post. The only requirement for joining the club is a commitment to your own success in your weight loss journey, and the ability to say NO to Girl Scout cookies! (club joke *winks*)

Wednesdays are weigh-in days for those who wish to have us update your progress on this page. Please post a brief note on Wednesdays in the following format: C 265 (-42 lbs total, -3 this week)

We encourage everyone to get to know one another while sharing tips, support, struggles, and encouragement... and a kick in the rear when needed! *grin*

This is not a contest, there is no deadline, and everyone is a winner by being a "loser"!

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(H-highest weight, S-weight at surgery, J-weight when joined this club, G-goal weight, C-current weight)

AliDiane - H & S 224/ J 210/ G 120 (-14 lbs total)

Anillacookie - H 270/ J 214/ C 210 (-60 lbs total, -8 this week)

Banded Brenda - H 260/ S 239.5/ J 227 (-33 lbs total)

Bell - S 300/ J 223/ G 160 (-77 lbs total)

Betje - H 300/ S 286/ J 239 (-61 lbs total)

Chameleon - H 275/ J 269 (-6 lbs unbanded to date)

Cheri - H 266/ J 234/ G 150s ? (-32 lbs total)

Chunk - H 320/ S 300/ J 220/ G 200 (-100 lbs total)

Christy668 - H 410/ S 397/ J 384/ G 185 (-26 lbs total) Welcome to the club!

Coyotegirl - H 305/ S 294/ J 220/ G 150ish/ C-208 (-97 lbs total)

Criss Kellogg - H 245/ S 241/ J 211/ G 175/ C 205 (-36 lbs total)

Daisybelle - H 400+/ S 403/ J 343/ C 340.5 (-63 lbs total)

Dawg - H 307/ C 238.5 unbanded (-68.5 lbs total, -1.5 this week)

DianeChef - H 260/ J 208/ G 150/ C 199 (-61 lbs total)

Dongger - Vanished!

Drj - H 295/ J 234/ C 232 C-213 (-63 lbs total)

EmileeKaye - H 303/ J 227/ C 210 (-93 lbs total, -2 this week)

Feel2Young2B40 - H 278/ J 230/ G 150?/ C 210 (-68 lbs total, -7 in May)

FunnyDuddies - H 372/ J 340/ G 120/ C 338 (-34 lbs total, -12 this week)

Gloria37 - H 310/ J 285/ G 190/ C 281 (-29 lbs total)

HeatherGurly - H 365/ S 329/ J 279/ G 190/ C 250 (-115 lbs total, -4 this week)

Founder, Resident Hot Chick and Biggest Loser of the Gone for Good Club

Iziksmom - H 274.5/ S 268/ G 135/ C 232.5 (-42 lbs total, -1 this week)

Jaygerl05 - H 245/ S 243/ J 200/G 165 (-45 lbs total)

Jerseytammy - H&S 308/ J 269 (-39 lbs total)

Jill S - H 320/ S 289/ J 246.6/ G 155/ C 234.8 (-85.2 lbs total)

Joe - H 362/ S 320/ J 269.6/ G 200 (-92.4 lbs total)

Josette - H385/ J 395/ G 220/ C 385

JoyceGA - H 450/ J 409 / G 165 (-41 lbs total)

Kaybug - S 360/ J 348 (-12 lbs total)

K@t - S 253/ J 237/ G 132 (-16 lbs total) Welcome to the club!

Kelliebelly - H 265/ J 191 (-73 lbs total)

Kim 8 - H 235/ S 218/ J 192/ C 176.5 (-65.5 total)

Kimbo - S 292/ J 226/ C 212.5 (-79.5 lbs total)

Kimmcneely - H 256/ S 218/ J 163/ G 140 (-93 lbs total)

LegallyKristin - H 298/ S 264/ J 251/ G 140/ C 224 (-74 lb total, -2 this week)

Lianna - H & S 229/ J 204/ C 190 (-39 total)

LindaV - H 315/ J 299/ G 170/ C 282 (-32 lbs total, -1 this week)

Lins12 - H 222.5/ J 184.5/ G 145/ C 184 (-38.5 lbs total, -.5 this week)

LSasha - H 340/ J 280/ C256 (-84 lbs total)

Maggie63- H 285/ S 277/ J 235/ G 190/ C 229 (-56 lbs total)

Marie485 - H 275/ S 270/ J 224/ G 140 (-51 lbs total)

Maryb - H 219/ 1st Dr Visit 207/ S 201/ 1st G 180/ 2nd G 150/ Final G 130/ C173 (-46 lbs total, -3 this week)

MaryPetunia - H 342/ S 333/ J 303/ G -200 lbs/ C 291 (-51 lbs total)

Michelle43mi - S 215/ J 186/ G 125 (-29 lbs total)

Mistjin - H 304/ J 297/ C 282 (-22 lbs total, -2 this week)

MollyMolly - H 288/ S 264/ J 230/ G 140/ C 228 (-60 lbs total)

MoOrLess - H/J 278.5/ C 267/ G 140 (-11.5 lbs total, -2.5 this week)

Morsaille - S 312/ J 287/ G 180/ C 285 (-27 lbs total)

Mrycrltn - S 189/ J 168.5/ G 125/ C 151.5 (-37.5 lbs total)

Mychevygirl - H 380/ J 351.5/ C 298 (-82 lbs total, -2 this week)

NaturalBeauty - S 283/ J 228/ G 185/ C 206 (-77 lbs total)

Nightingale2u - H 257/ J 219/ C 221.5 (-35.5 lbs total)

NJGirl - H 248/ S 230/ J 220 (-28 lbs total)

Papillon - S 291/ J 255.5 (-35.5 lbs total)

Patty103 - (-99 lbs total)

Paula - S 248/ J 185 / G 150/ C 183 (-65 lbs total)

Penni - H 296/ S 296/ J 252/ G 200/ C 262 (-34 lbs total)

Pfunkem - H 333/ S 315/ J 288/ G 180/ C 288 (-45 lbs total, no change this week)

PhotoNut - H 307/ S 291/ J 265/ G 130/ C 234 (-73 lbs total, -2 this week)

PinkMary - H 265/ S 265/ J 185/ G 128/ C 181 (-84 lbs total)

Poster child - H&J 258/ G 130/ C 233 (-22 lbs total)

Pugmum - H 250/ J 240 (-10 lbs total)

RHONDAKO - S 270/ J 229/ G 150/ C214 (-56 lbs total)

ScrapKarla - H 321/ S 310/ J 250/ G 190/ C 250 (-60lbs total)

ShackDog - H 393/ J 346/ G 232/ C323 (-70 lbs total, -9 this week)

Shauntil6266 - H 223/ J 223/ G 150 (banded March 29th)

Skbishop78 - S 205/ J 185/ G 125/ C 172 (-33 lbs total)

SkyeBlu - H 210/ S 206/ J 191/ G 130/ C176 (-34 lbs total)

Sunta - (-20.9 lbs total)

Sunsett - H 268/ J 207/ G ?? (-61 lbs total) Welcome to the club!

Tellymelly - H 240/ S 235/ J 219/ G 135/ C 194 (-46 lbs total, -6 this week)

Tess L - S 216/ J 195/ C 182 (-34 lbs since surgery, -2 this week)

The best me - H 242/ S 223/ J 188/ C 181.4 (-60.6 lbs total, no change this week)

Tricia K. - H 283/ S 274/ J 216/ G 160/ C 196 (- 78 lbs total, -1 this week)

TwinkleLil_star - J 264 (Band date May 12th)

Txblue eyedqt - H 296/ S 296/ J 224/ G 140-150/ C 210 (-86 lbs total)

Valhallagirl - S 250/ J 238/ G 130/ C 237 (-13 lbs total)

VegasWildflower - H&S 285/ J 265/ G 160/ C 261 (-23 lbs total)

Wendyr - H 230/ S 226/ J 188/ G 135 (-42 lbs total)

Wonkette - S 245/ J 179 (-66 lbs total)

TOTAL GROUP LOSS PRIOR TO JOINING CLUB: 3,270.3 pounds (over 1 1/2 tons!)

Previous GFG threads:

March 2006: 223 pounds Gone for Good!

April 2006: 182.8 pounds Gone for Good!

May 2006: 321.4 pounds Gone for Good!

Total group loss reported week ending May 03: 72.1

Total group loss reported week ending May 10: 90.9

Total group loss reported week ending May 17: 53.5

Total group loss reported week ending May 24: 45.4

Total group loss reported week ending May 31: 63.5

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!

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

Stop!!!!

Just Stop!

_______________:faint: ________________ DIES FROM LAUGHTER

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!

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.

P'Nut PomPom make Dawg something something.

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.

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?!

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:

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!

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.

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!

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!!!

P'Nut PomPom make Dawg something something.

thanks homer. :eek:

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.

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!

That's awesome P'Nut! Way To Go!!!!!!!! Onward to a great weekend!!!