Happy August 1st everyone!!

This will be our home for the Gone For Good Club – August Challenge.

For any newbies out there, the gone for good Club is our way of “banding” together for support and encouragement as we take off those pounds…(I know, cheap pun)

…Once each pound is lost, we consider it Gone For Good!!!

Weigh ins are on Wednesday in this format: current weight (total loss, this weeks loss) like so: C-350 (-36, -2) This person’s current weight is 350, they have lost 36 lbs so far and they have lost 2 lbs this week.

Feel free to join at any time, by posting a brief introduction for yourself and let us know what you are challenging yourself to. Whether you are banded or not, we are very happy to have your company!

This is not a competition, but just for a little added incentive to each of us, FunnyDuddies has promised a gift to the biggest “loser”, and I will be awarding a prize to the participant with the most creative exercise idea during the challenge.

This month’s challenge will involve keeping a close eye on our BMI’s (Body Mass Index) Here is a link to a BMI calculator so that we can make sure we are all using the same one:

http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/bmi/adult_BMI/english_bmi_calculator/bmi_calculator.htm

So here’s the challenge: Let’s see how much we can lower our BMI’s over the next few weeks. I want to hear that we are all guzzling our Water, eating healthy, and moving, moving, moving. The more creative the exercise the better! Share your ideas…

And we are all going to try to fight those demons who lurk in closets and cupboards…the one’s that make us crave no-no foods and try to convince us to slip into our old habits and negative patterns. We are united, we are strong and these pounds will soon be GONE FOR GOOD!

Welcome to the club for August, and good luck!!:clap2:

Sunshine

PS

Just a reminder, when posting on this thread, please remember to take out the check mark on "show signatures". This can be such a long thread, that it gets hard for those on dial up to participate. Let's try to keep it as "clean" as possible.

Thanks!!!

I am checking in. I was 187 this morning, but I bet tomorrow I will be down, thats just how things work for me. According to my ticker that puts me up 2.2 lbs. I am getting a fill tomorrow so please pray for me that next week will bring smaller numbers. I really want to get out of the 180's. I have been stuck between 185 and 188 for weeks now. IT SUCKS!!! LOL

An UPDATE for Ericsmom - H 337/ S 322.5/ C 296.4/ CBMI 50.9 (-40.6 lbs total, -2.6 this week) and I got a fill last Thursday!

I know 1.5 pounds in a week is healthy. Since when did we do "healthy"??

Is being healthy required?? I'm going to have a lot more work to do if I'm supposed to be healthy!

Hey, I do have one cheery thought.

If I lose 20 more pounds. I will have lost the following titles:

Morbidly Obese.

Obese.

Overweight.

I will, according to the Centers for Disease Control, become.....

NORMAL

I've also figured out that since my "highest" ever weight, I've lost...

drumroll....

108 pounds!

I only don't count it because I had a slow downward trend for a bout 6 months before coming here

Woohoo! I just got back from a lovely three-hour lunch with LindaV which was just what I needed today. What a sweetheart you are Linda! I always have so much fun getting together with you. That three hours just flew by! The food was good, the company was better, and the break was refreshing.

I want to thank everyone who responded with such care and support to my posts. I would like to say, just so you don't worry, that I am not an alcoholic nor a drug addict. I take Effexor for the depression that most obese people battle, and because of some enormously emotional events in my life over these past few months, I have enjoyed escaping on the patio in the evenings with some wine to relax. My fill Dr did not refuse to give me a fill, what he did was care about me and offered support and help like many of you have done. You are all a wonderful bunch of people, and I'm sorry for what occurred in our GFG Club thread today. Anyway, thank you all from the bottom of my heart. I really do love you guys!

And Linda? You owe me lunch! *smiles*

The food was good,

I hope you got my darn voicemail to get me a take out chilli or I'm going to get all sorts of unsupportive.

Err.. uhh.. heh :nervous

Err.. uhh.. heh :nervous

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa :cry:

Quick! Jump in the car and go back to the restaurant! It's not too late!

Thanks P'Nut. I had a great time too!

and just to set the record straight, I can verify that P'Nut does indeed wear size 14 jeans! She looks great!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok I made a signature ..milestone thingy.. whatcha think? Yes, I was THAT bored today.

Telly I really want to see more GI Jane pics...please get camera happy!

Hahaha, ok Kathy.. lemme see what I've got.

LOL... I told you guys I'm getting so silly and vain with the damn camera..

This was taken specifically for Kathy. My hair is growing pretty fast now.

Excuse the dark lighting and grainyness. These were taken with my webcam.

I like the milestones thingy Telly. You should add dates to them if you can. Of course, pictures always add to the story and I love the ones you chose for your milestone thing!

Hey Susan, the reason the lotion smelled so funny was because it was body wash. I made the mistake of rubbing my eye on the way home and practically had to pull over!