TEAM: Flab-U-Less (October)

Welcome to the Challenge new and returning teammates!! This is the conversation/weigh in thread for your Team Keep on losing because our first weigh ins begin THIS Sunday! I am here for you should you need anything - simply message me or tag me by putting an '@' just before my username (NO SPACES) and I will get to you asap! ~ Ashley @AB0215.

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NaimahJSR

Hi team! This is my zillionth time using MFP but never have I joined a support group. Just gave birth and I am really excited to get back in shape. Starting at 225lbs and I am so ready!

happy7811

Congratulations. And good luck

I have been here now for 4 months an this is helping me alot to stay accountable.

jaybel777

Hi. This is my first time joining a challenge. I'm hoping to have big losses in October! Good Luck to everyone!

(what do we do now?

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pandygirl56

Hello everybody! Looking forward to this challenge. Also, hoping to lose big in October. Starting weight 297 lbs. Wish everyone the best in this challenge. 😁

mram3582

Hi again everyone! Welcome to all of our newcomers. My name is Melinda and I am acting team captain right now. I have been active on mfp since mid-Jan of 2018 and this is my 14th round on the Biggest Loser Challenge. I started at a whopping 315lbs. after quitting an active job, having surgery, starting my own business, and being on very high doses of steroids. I am now down to 245lbs. which is almost where I spent the majority of my adult life. My diary is open for anyone's viewing pleasure and I am willing to help out in any way that I am able. As far as personal life/hobbies: I am married to my high school sweetie for 20 years, no kids, 2 cats. I own a carpet, tile, grout cleaning business which keeps me pretty active and I am nightshift 911. My husband and I build arcade cabinets and program emulators (think old-school Pac-Man), we like Cons, and pretty much anything fantasy or sci-fi. GO TEAM FLAB-U-LESS!!

MellOnTheMove

Yayy, so excited for my second go-round. This group/challenge is my treat for myself to get back on track.

Main struggle: Binge Eating. I keep finding myself buying a healthy snack, which is great. Until I eat it all in one sitting.

TypingToaster

For some reason, I gained 7.2 pounds from last week. This month, my goal is to get down to 300 still.

dymphnadaniels

Below is my introduction, and really it is as short as I could get it. I'm a writer by trade. I get wordy.

I'm not sure how to keep this short. For starters I have been declared legally insane. I have schizoaffective bipolar type, borderline personality disorder, panic disorder without agoraphobia, bulimia nervosa, and traits for a couple of others. What this means is that I am often psychotic, I am right now as I am writing this, which just means I have symptoms of psychosis not that I have my meat cleaver chasing down my neighbors. I have also symptoms of bipolar the highs and the lows which enhance the severity of my psychosis. I can have psychosis without any mood symptoms at all. You can look at the list and basically sum it up that I have serious issues with anxiety and relationships. My psychosis right now is that I am hearing three out of the five possible voices for me to hear. I'm going to be brutally honest, there is one rather dark, gravely that is suggesting I harm myself and it gets descriptive. So, I distract from it and do something else. The second one, I term the witch, she sounds older, and she's mean. She is constantly putting me down, telling me how worthless I am. That if I died today the world could breath a sigh of relief. I either distract or challenge. I ask her to prove her case to me. Then there's GPS, he cracks me up. Leave the room. Go left. Turn north. Walk 200 feet. My own person random as crap GPS system in my brain. It drives my care team nuts when I listen to GPS, I don't know why. I make sure I'm safe. I just figure why not?

Backstory done. The Weight Story. Started when I was kid due to medication. I started hiding my excessive exercise in the backyard to not be detected. This was the start of my eating disorder. I was 8 and understood burning calories burnt fat and exercise burnt calories. I didn't know anything else for years. The medication screwed me up for years so I didn't go taller for years, but I did grow rounder. At thirteen a chunk of the weight just dropped off as I was exiting puberty. Weight dropped off until I was fifteen, then I was institutionalized for the first time and put on psych meds and due to meds re-expanded despite everything I was doing. I started puking up my meals, thirty minutes of exercise for a pip of chocolate, if I wasn't doing homework, at school, or with the family I was exercising, to no avail. I grew bigger and bigger until 25 went on Atkins, worked great, moved to college, kid committed suicide and I blamed myself, crashed and burned. I got it back together at 32, after the death of my best to diabetes, and lost a lot of weight, then they changed meds and once more nothing I did matter. I didn't eat for almost three weeks and gained two pounds, someone explain that one to me. Tried again a few years later when meds were changed, and I was on Clozaril, but I was doing disordered eating so I was losing weight the wrong way. That brings us to here. In January I said, I will either lose weight, lose nothing, or my butt will still get bigger but my heart and lungs will be the healthiest they can be for my size as I ain't going back to the hospital for no more acute respiratory failures again.

Goal Weight: 280's

mram3582

Hi again everyone! So....Sunday, Sept. 29th., officially kicks off our Oct. Challenge! This challenge runs from Sept 29th to Oct 26th...or possibly Nov. 2nd (Ashley is running a little behind this month so we haven't decided on a 4 or 5 week challenge yet. So the 1st weigh ins will be those people that chose Sunday as their weigh day. Sorry for the confusion, it keeps things equal.
We are also going to be running (Optional) Mini-challenges again this month: Question of the Week and Daily Posts

First and foremost is that participation in these challenges is optional. It's up to you as to whether you want to try this. If you don't want to participate in these challenges, you don't have to, the choice is yours, but I would like to encourage you to participate as it seems to help keep us on track and thinking about our goals on a daily basis and it's encouraging to see other's successes and struggles so that we realize that we are not alone!!

The Daily Posts Challenge is based on another challenge on MFP called UAC (Ultimate Accountability Challenge). The way UAC works is that the aim is to follow 5 basic rules.

#1. Track EVERYTHING you eat that has calories.
#2. Stay inside your allocated daily budget.
#3. Try to do at least 20 minutes of activity a day (anything: walk, run, cycle, swim, gardening, housework, yoga, gym, etc.. As long as it gets you active and off the couch)
#4. 1 pass day permitted per week (went over calories, could not track, not enough exercise, intentional pass)
#5. Check in daily (tracking yes/no, calories yes/no, exercise yes/no).

****End of the week. those who have managed to keep to plan for 6 out of 7 days are recognized in the thread as being part of the weekly "Winners Circle".

A side note as there has been a bit of confusion for new members in the past, this is not the same as the official results, which are weight based, this is just another tool to help you reach your weight loss goals.

**REMEMBER**
You set your own daily budget.
You choose you own exercise and intensity (no step limit, no exercises you cannot or should not do, 20 mins of gardening counts as much as a 10 mile run, activity is activity, anything that gets you up and moving!).
Is not weight based (as weight fluctuates day by day).
Can continue beyond weight loss.

Daily check in keeps you in touch with those doing similar. Longer term weight management is hard to do on your own.

It also has frequent resets (as in a circle each week).

It works on an honor system. Being honest with yourself and others is a key to making things work. Remember, this is a judgement free zone, everyone has good days and bad days, but the way to get to the finish line is by being honest and when we have a bad day, picking ourselves up and carrying on the next day!

Consistency and new habits have been shown the only long term successful way to change weight. We all want the progress made here to last a lifetime.

Your posts should look like this:
Daily Post (Sunday/Date)

Track: Yes/no
Calories: Yes/no (were you under)
Exercise: Yes/no (what type and how long)
Goals/Day/Comments: (Tell us a brief description about your how your day went or your goals for the day)

The Question of the Week Challenge is a fun participation booster and we will be using it sometimes just as fun and sometimes it can help to foster new ideas for others as we all are different and have different experiences so sharing ideas can help someone else with motivation of freshening up their routine even!! Keep on the lookout for these questions.[/color]

Please post your weight on your scheduled weigh in day, as if you miss weigh-ins, you may be eliminated from the challenge and we don't want to see that happen!!

Your posts should look like this:
Username:
Week: November Week 1
PW =(previous weight)
CW=(current weight)
Just type PW & CW if you'd like (or if it's easier, you could keep a note on your PC desktop to make it easier to copy and paste from week to week.)

Please, please setup your posts in that format as it really makes it much easier for me to track your progress for the challenges and the weight loss!!

I'd like to help us be as successful as possible and if I can help in any way, please let me know. Also, if you have any suggestions for the team or fun ideas to spice things up a bit, please feel free to share them, I look for new ways to help engagement and keep people motivated!!

I am committed to this group and to help where I can, and please let me know if I can help in any way!!

Your team Captain,
Melinda @mram3582

mram3582

Tomorrow we're live folks! Sunday weighers are 1st up. Sorry, I don't have a spreadsheet made up yet, so I can't give a list of the weighers. This is going to be an amazing month folks!! GO TEAM FLAB-U-LESS!!

mram3582

Just a heads up everyone: my pm on mfp isn't working, so if you try sending me a pm I won't see it. Just tag me by putting an @ in front of my username like: @mram3582 That still works. If you want it to be private, just do that and tell me that you want it private and I will figure out a way to contact you back outside of the public forum.

mrsjar5311

I bombed out in the last week of Sept so here's to a new month and new determination!

My goals _
#1. Track EVERYTHING you eat that has calories.
#2. Stay inside your allocated daily budget.
#3. 90 minutes of daily exercise
#4. 18/6 hour fasts

Starting weight - 73.6kg
Oct Goal weight - 70kg
Weigh in day - Friday

Let's do this!

Starshine15

I'm a 75 year-old humorist and professional speaker. I may be the oldest Flab-U-Less teammate! I may not always be the wisest!

This is my 11th month with the Biggest Loser Challenge. I, too, find that I'm more accountable as a result of being in this group.

I've maintained a 120lb weight loss since bypass surgery almost 15 years ago. I'm still considered obese according to the charts, so I'd like to get my BMI closer to 25 - that means losing about 30 lbs. I've attached a before pic which I keep to remind myself of how painful those years were that I carried 300+ pounds around. I've also included an after pic, taken a couple of years ago.

Been struggling with calories and not consistently posting daily. My goal for October is to get into the 170s and not ever go back to the 180s. The plan to accomplish this is to track daily, exercise 5 days a week, drink 64oz water and keep my calories below 1300. And also to post 5 to 7 days a week. Wish me luck! I need a hug.

Before pic:

After pic:

LenGray

LenGray
Week 1
Sunday
PW: 262.4
CW: 259.4

I'm finally in the 250's! Feeling exceedingly happy about it

WA_Teacher

LenGray wrote: »

LenGray
Week 1
Sunday
PW: 262.4
CW: 259.4

I'm finally in the 250's! Feeling exceedingly happy about it

Super drop!

WA_Teacher

I'm a 5th grade ELA teacher in Washington State. Things are starting to settle down after a busy start of the new school year. So, I'm hoping to tighten up on my exercise routine this month. My goal for October is to get to the gym at least 4 times a week, drink at least 64 ounces of water daily, and get to 215 or less.

GO TEAM FLAB-U-LESS!

WA_Teacher

WA_Teacher
October Week 1
Sunday
Previous Weight: 220
Current Weight: 218.8

pandygirl56

@mram3582, I'm new to the team! I use a wheelchair to get around and can only walk a very few steps. Can not do regular exercises. A few steps to chair, and I can do upper body exercises. Can this be accepted as the exercise part of the weekly challenges. I can complete the rest of the challenges. Thanks!!

pandygirl56

Hello, Thank you for allowing me to join this team.

Username: pandygril56
October: Week 1
Weigh-in day: Wednesday
Previous Weight: 297 lbs
Current Weight: (Will report on Wednesday)

Wish everybody the best outcome during this challenge! 😁 💕

Katchoi

Hello everyone.
This is my 3rd month doing the challenge. Did great the first month and not so well the second month. Month goal is to track everything everyday.

Katchoi

Username: katchoi
October: Week 1
Weigh-in day: Sundat
Previous Weight: 231.1
Current Weight: 231.1

mram3582

@pandygirl56 The only requirement for this team is a weigh in every week. You can skip a week if you tell Ashley or myself that you need to skip for any reason at all. 2 consecutive week skips without a reason gets you dropped from the challenge. You will be reinstated when you give a new starting weight. All other mini challenges like the daily post or questions are completely optional. They are just a tool to keep people thinking about their weight loss and goals. Exercise is completely optional too. Welcome to the Flab-u-Less team!!

mram3582

@WA_Teacher @Katchoi great goals for the month you two!

LenGray

Thanks @WA_Teacher! It was really nice to see it drop after it went up the week before.

Daily Post 9/29
Track: Yes
Calories: Over, ate a little below maintenance
Exercise: Nope, too much homework

Comments: Decided to have a maintenance day, since I haven't had one in a bit. Tomorrow, I'm back to focusing on my goals!

WA_Teacher

mram3582 wrote: »

@WA_Teacher @Katchoi great goals for the month you two!

Thanks and let's hope I won't let work stress get the better of me.

Katchoi

mram3582 wrote: »

@WA_Teacher @Katchoi great goals for the month you two!

Thanks. 😀 looking forward to a good month

missy24375

Hello everyone I am new to doing this on MFP and need to figure this all out I plan to try and lose around 25 pounds or less not to big of a goal so that I can be able to do this the right way. I been using WW and had lost 25 pounds so far then i got lazy and thought I was doing the program correctly which I was not. So I thought I would give this a go.
I am currently working 3rd shift so any ideas and insights is welcomed, so far I have been doing challenges with my son and daughter n law using Fitbit.

user name: Missy24375
@ Fab-U-:Less
Daily Post Sept 29 2019

Track: Yes
Calories: Yes (were you under) 749 calories left
Exercise: Yes In a daily showdown with my son using Fitbit walking 48 min
Goals/Day/Comments: to be able to move more and to keep it up

Your posts should look like this:
Username: Missy24375
Week: Sept 29 Week 1
PW =242
CW=239.1

Goal:
#1. Track EVERYTHING you eat that has calories.
#2. Stay inside your allocated daily budget.
#3. Try to do at least 20 minutes of activity a day (anything: walk, run, cycle, swim, gardening, housework, yoga, gym, etc.. As long as it gets you active and off the couch)
#4. 1 pass day permitted per week (went over calories, could not track, not enough exercise, intentional pass)
#5. Check in daily (tracking yes/no, calories yes/no, exercise yes/no)

WA_Teacher

Daily Post: September 29th
Track: Yes
Calories: Under
Exercise: Nope, watched too much football!
Water: 35 ounces

mram3582

Happy Rosh Hashana (jewish new year) everyone! My brother made it a bearable night by feeding me what I am sure were very Kosher Mojitos before I even got in the door. If I remember to log my 12+ shots of rum tomorrow....I'm sure that I will have to atone for it some time next week. Needless to say, I did not drive home....and I am very happy and feeling the need to sing right now...

deanit

Hello...I missed my last week...will I still (please) roll over into October with this group?