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!!!

P'Nut - girl - it is the WINE! that is making you itch....mark my words.....I get hives from certain medications but mostly from spaghetti sauce and strawberries -- from the acid -- and if you have been drinking a lot of wine and didn't before -- well there you go -- don't drink any more wine for a long time -- after the hives go away - have two glasses and watch for hints of the hives and you'll know for sure!

And awesome about the cruise and photography together - woo hoo!

Yep - we have all missed you and love you dearly - glad you are back - no more hiding please lol

Hey Mo, I wish it were the wine. Problem with that theory is that I started having hives long before the wine. Ive been dealing with the hives for hm.. almost 3 months now.

argg well ya didn't tell us lol -- new theory - let me think lol

Hey Mo, I wish it were the wine. Problem with that theory is that I started having hives long before the wine. Ive been dealing with the hives for hm.. almost 3 months now.

There'a a thread on Roscea, I broke out with this 3 months after my banding. I had never had it before, check that thread out,it may be helpful, my regular doctor, and banding doctor had no idea,so I went to the Dermatologist, she diagnosed it and gave me some meds.

Day 2 of my new NSV -- I was able to jog for 1 minute after every 5 minutes of walking on my treadmill for 30 minutes - 5 minutes of jogging - woo hoo! Now only if my arthritis didn't hate me so much for running lol - it's heck to get old.......

and - I was able to buy a regular x-large at Target of all places for some workout pants! I was pleasantly surprised (well more like shocked lol) that they fit so well....thank goodness the inches come off even when the scale doesn't move.....

Hey P'nut, I had hives a few months ago. I got them after about 2 weeks of taking Wellbutrin, in a botched effort to quit smoking. I have no idea for sure if it was the Wellbutrin, but when I got the hives I quit EVERYthing. It took about a week but they slowly got less frequent and went away altogether. I bought a bottle of Benadryl gel and slathered it on where they popped up. It helped alot.

Anyhow, sorry about your hives. They are terribly uncomfortable.

Yikes on the hives P'nut! I am sorry to hear that. I hope they find out what is causing them.

I am well... trying to lose some more inches and pounds before the wedding at the end of September! I don't even know if my dress will fit. I need to get someone help me get it on. It is beautiful.

I get to hear the Bellamy Brothers next weekend guys and gals!!! I am SO pumped up about that. I will be taking lots of pictures!

Oh, by the way, ... DOWN 100 lbs since my surgery on Nov. 9th. I am pretty happy about that. Onederland isn't so far away now!

WOW Heather! Fantastic - 100 lbs in 9 months -- that is awesome!

Sorry I havent checked in...Finals, illness ya know.... I still havent wieghed, but I promise I will!!!!

Is that MO????? Your blonde????? Huh, LOL OK I was so off in my mind!!!! I was thinking brunette.... Anyways, congrats Heather!!!!

LMAO and I seem to have lost my buttons to turn off the sig!!!! HELP!

A HA!!!! I found it!!!!

lol Meow......girl I am brunette - but I have blonde highlights silly...lol.....glad to see you back - we missed you!

Thanks for the sympathy ladies. It is much appreciated. And Reeizbooje I'm still looking for that thread. I'm open to any possibilities. These meds are making me sleep too much and I still look like I have some sort of disease. (Just found that thread. Not what I have at all. Bummer)

Wow, Mo.. you are jogging?? I'm amazed and thrilled to hear that! I mean absolutely thrilled, woman!! *big hugs*

Heather ma'girl, you are doing so great!! And..

Enjoy that concert Gurly!

*sings* Let your love flow, like a mountain stream and let your love grow with the smallest of dreams, just let your love show and you'll know what I mean.. its the season!

YAY! Someone knows the Bellamy Bros!!!

So... my lazy butt went to the gym this morning. I was on vacation for 2 weeks and had no gym to go to so today was back to it!

Thank goodness. It felt awesome to be back. I bought some cute new workout clothes and I felt good there today!

I want to be in Onederland by Christmas! You know... "walkin in a winter ONEDERLAND" .......

ok enough silliness from me.

Funny~ How are you and the band getting along?

P'Nut~ What are we going to do about those hives?

Tricia K.~Where are you?

Sneak peek at weight...

227.0

Hello 80 pounds gone! w0000t :huggie:

So... my lazy butt went to the gym this morning. I was on vacation for 2 weeks and had no gym to go to so today was back to it!

Thank goodness. It felt awesome to be back. I bought some cute new workout clothes and I felt good there today!

I want to be in Onederland by Christmas! You know... "walkin in a winter ONEDERLAND" .......

ok enough silliness from me.

Funny~ How are you and the band getting along?

P'Nut~ What are we going to do about those hives?

Tricia K.~Where are you?

I'm here, sweetie. I was in Florida for a long weekend and just returned yesterday afternoon.

I'm happy to hear that you're back at the gym. I need to get my butt in gear and exercise again. I took too long of a break while on vacation. Had I known there was an exercise room at the condos, I would have brought my workout gear. I won't jog without my trusty sports bra, ya know.

I hope you get to onederland by Christmas, Heather. That would be such a great gift. :huggie:

Wazzup, Dawg? Congrats on losing 80 pounds.