SHRINKING ASSETS Team Chat - June 2020

Cafelelia

Welcome Fat2Fit Challengers!

Here is your Team chat room for June 2020. This is where you weigh in every week, post your goals and progress, discuss any issues or topics of interest, share ideas, support your teammates, receive help when you need it, and dream big. Try to post every day, and help each other succeed!

We have six great teams. The group and team leaders are as follows:
Our Moderators:
Liselyn - @jugar
Beka - @beka3695
Lisa - @cafelelia
Teresa - @TeresaW1020

Our Team Captains:
Mission Slimpossibles - @broncobuddee and @TeresaW1020
Trimstones - @mulecanter and @jessicakrall8
Weight No More - @sleepymom5 and @cafelelia
Waist Aways - @jugar and @micki48
Shrinking Assets - @Boehle and @beka3695
Downsizers - @lindamtuck2018 and @mari_moulin

Our Team Motivators:
Mission Slimpossibles - @AustinRuadhain @katmary71 and @raleighgirl09
Trimstones - @Angmarie28
Weight No More - @GingerPwr
Waist Aways - @Terytha and @conleywoods
Shrinking Assets - @TheMrWobbly (Fitness Captain)
Downsizers - open

HOW IT ALL WORKS:
Every challenger weighs in on their chosen day, every week without fail! At the end of each week, the tallies are done to determine the team and individuals with the most weight lost. The best losers are announced with full fanfare every Sunday. The team competition is all in good spirits - may the most losing win!

We also track those small, steady losses with the Green Week count. If you lose, however small an amount, it counts for 1 week in the green. The total will be by month, and cumulative - so you can really rack them up and get to your goal even if you never hit the top of the leader board.

If you need a week off, a break, a change of weigh-in day - just ask your Captain here on your team chat page. If you take a break, you are moved to the Support Team. If you miss two weigh-ins in a row without asking for a break, you will be dropped from the team, so be sure to ask if you are travelling, sick, or just needing some time off. You can remain on the Support Team for as long as you need to. You still participate in the discussions and weigh in if you want to, but your weigh-ins will not be counted on the weekly tally.

Once you reach your goal weight, you join the elite Goal Zone! After hitting your goal, you need support to stay there, and you can help your teammates join you. You must continue to weigh in every week, and if you have 2 weeks above your self-defined goal zone, you go back to the regular team to lose that amount before it builds up. You will have a chance to hone those maintenance skills and stick with your team!

In addition to your own team, there are F2F Full Group CHALLENGES. You can do all or none - it's up to you. Participating adds a lot to your success, so we hope to see you there often! These can involve anything fitness, health, or nutrition - and they’ll get you moving, thinking, and learning about this journey. Check the Announcements section for full group challenges.

Let’s show our fellow challengers some F2F love! Introduce yourselves right away, and let the new month begin!!

boehle

I am Julie, one of your Team Captains. My counterpart and bestie is Beka, aka @Beka3695.

I am 38.. dating someone new in this very crazy pandemic. I also have an 18 year old that just graduated "virtually" in May. He also decided to up and move our graduation night so I have had a pretty rough ending to May.

I started my journey many moons ago. I was 237, got to 132 then got lazy and I am at 172.

May Goals:
-Every day that I continue to work from home, go walk/jog/run an hour at lunch.
-Log all calories before they even enter my mouth.
-Get and stay under 170.
-No grocery shopping unless its cheese, veggies, hummus or eggs (Sorry Beka, I forgot to say cheese too!!) This is to help clean out alllllllll the food that we have and to save some $$

If you have not already, feel free to friend me.

hipari

Yay, perfect timing! I'm just now doing my June planning and setting up an updated nerd sheet ( @Beka3695 !! ).

I'm 28, last year was a crazy year of graduating law school and getting married. I live in Finland with my husband and we have bought a brand new apartment that's still under construction - expected move-in date is right before Christmas 2020.

My May has been annoyingly slow weight loss -wise, but I started getting the hang of these routines again. I mean, my total loss in the May spreadsheet was a whopping 0.4 lbs. My last weigh-in was at 217.6 lbs. I've been hovering in the 210-220 range for most of the last five years, dropping to 200 twice. My first major goal is to arrive in one-derland (and after that, 198.2 lbs because I operate with the metric system and that equals 89.9kg). My end goal weight is somewhere around 165-175, but I hope to have a baby before I reasonably have time to get there, so I don't really think of that as a "goal" currently.

I'm happy with every single pound I lose and my mindset is that if I have to choose, I'd rather lose slowly and permanently than quickly and temporarily. Still, as we all probably, quick and permanent would be my favorite.

I weigh in daily, and use the Happy Scale app. I report my trend weight each Sunday as my "official" weigh in.

June Goals:
- complete food log every day
- average burn above 2500
- return to a weightlifting routine post-lockdown
- lose at least 2 full pounds, preferably 4 (see rant about slow May above)
- develop a working eating rhythm for office days, work-from-home days and weekend days
- start going through stuff to declutter, reorganize and recycle as the big move-in date approaches

Beka3695

I am Beka, one of your Team Captains and Group Moderator. My counterpart and bestie is Julie, aka @boehle, and @themrwobbly is here to keep us moving physically and mentally

I am 43, married, mom of 2 daughters, Mimi of one amazing grandson, and human mom to 3 fur babies. I usually live in the beautiful mountains of Northern Georgia, but currently residing in Florida as I am acting Nanny to my sweet grandson.

I started my journey 2 years ago at 242 lbs, lost down to 174 and maintained almost 9 months before gaining back to 232 in July. It is only failure if you quit... right???

June Goals:
- Continue the momentum I have built in this spring!
- Increase my NEAT or non-exercise activity thermogenesis
- Increase my EAT... hahah meaning I should exercise more
- focus on consistency of steps - minimum 6k a day.
- Begin training for the Peachtree.... which has been rescheduled from July 4th to Thanksgiving Day.

If you have not already, feel free to friend me. Please make your diaries open. Your teammates (umm - or me) might want to borrow your ideas that keep you in check.

Curvybaja55

Hi everyone my name is Zelda, I am new here. I am getting back into exercise after a knee injury . I started in December @202.2 lbs and my current weight is 173.8
June goals
* walk 10, 000 steps each day
* weight train 3x week
* log foods and exercise each day

biketheworld

Welcome @Curvybaja55. I'm impressed that you lost around 30 pounds since December. That's awesome!

I joined this group in May at 216 and this morning weighed 209.4. In January I was around 225. I'm making slow progress, but that's OK. If I can end the year 50 pounds down I will be thrilled.

@Beka3695 - so normally I weigh on Sundays, and I mentioned switching to a Saturday weigh-in. Does that mess things up? I weighed myself this morning - do I do anything with that or wait until next Saturday to record a weight? Hope I'm not confusing things (other than myself - which doesn't take much these days).

Beka3695

biketheworld wrote: »

@Beka3695 - so normally I weigh on Sundays, and I mentioned switching to a Saturday weigh-in. Does that mess things up? I weighed myself this morning - do I do anything with that or wait until next Saturday to record a weight? Hope I'm not confusing things (other than myself - which doesn't take much these days).

Let’s go ahead and post today’s weigh in as the starting weight in for June.

I’ll enter it

hipari

Hipari
Sundays
PW: 217.6 lbs
CW: 216.3 lbs

hipari

hipari wrote: »

Hipari
Sundays
PW: 217.6 lbs
CW: 216.3 lbs

Woohoo! I guess I’m the first one from the team to weigh in for June, and this is a glorious start at least for me. May total loss was 0.4lbs, this is already 1.3lbs so more than 3 times that, in just one week. Hopefully I can keep up the momentum and stay in green this whole month!

I’ve been trending between 98.1-98.9kg the entire May (216.3lbs = 98.1kg), and I’m so ready to see a 97 in the beginning of my trendweight next week. Scale weight already went there yesterday and today.

Cafelelia

WEEK 4

PLACE TEAM PERCENTAGE
1st Shrinking Assets 0.45%
2nd Downsizers 0.32%
3rd Mission Slimpossibles 0.28%

PLACE TEAM LBS LOSS
1st Shrinking Assets 21.7 lbs
2nd Downsizers 16.2 lbs
3rd Mission Slimpossibles 11.1 lbs

PLACE INDIVIDUAL PERCENTAGE
1st @RaisedToRamble 3.65%
2nd @Twyla77 3.57%
3rd @Gidgitgoescrazy 2.30%

PLACE INDIVIDUAL LBS LOSS
1st @RaisedToRamble 8.6lbs
2nd @Twyla77 5.0%
3rd @metonymicalinsanity 4.4lbs

HONORABLE MENTIONS
@apple852hk
@Zumba_Luvah
@guitargirl55
@jmbrown11
@Be_theBest_Me
@lindamtuck2018
@Emmajhare
@suzyjmcd2
@kirsten11872

biketheworld

Yay shrinking assets! This team/challenge has definitely kept me accountable.

Cafelelia

PLACE TEAM PERCENTAGE
1st Shrinking Assets 1.28%
2nd Downsizers 1.13%
3rd WaistAways 1.06%

PLACE TEAM LBS LOSS
1st Shrinking Assets 62.3 lbs
2nd Downsizers 57.4 lbs
3rd WaistAways 49.1 lbs

PLACE INDIVIDUAL PERCENTAGE
1st @WishfulThinning18 5.87%
2nd @samuel860 5.65%
3rd @metonymicalinsanity 5.30%

PLACE INDIVIDUAL LBS LOSS
1st @metonymicalinsanity 16.8 lbs
2nd @WishfulThinning18 16.2 lbs
3rd @samuel860 12.2 lbs

HONORABLE MENTIONS
@Angemarie28
@kyfrancik
@jmbrown11
@eggfreak
@missGYST
@mrsjhardin
@Gidgitgoescrazy
@Freeglerock
@unevano

Beka3695

Looks like Shrinking Assets are Fat2Fit royalty this month!! Woo hoo!!

Who's in for a twofer in June???

We lost 62 as a team this month. Can we make it 70 in June????

LET’S DO THIS!!!!

boehle

Good morning!
I'm headed out to a park for a walk. I'll snag some pictures to share later. Tonight, I'll meal prep then share those too!

WishfulThinning18

WishfulThinning18
Sunday
262.6

This has been an awful week. I haven't worked out in the entire week. I'm a 911 dispatcher and our city is burning. I'm so exhausted and heart broken... I'm stressed trying to keep officers safe and hearing them yell we are completely surrounded with no place to go, I'm tired of innocent peaceful protestors who are there for change being overtaken by violent "protestors" who aren't there for anything but to watch *kitten* burn and loot silencing the voices who are there for the right reasons, I'm tired of hearing a firefighter scream he's getting hit by rocks and the THREE year old he's trying to treat medically was ALSO struck by a rock that was thrown and is now even more critically injured... I'm just tired. In my multiple 16 hour shifts this week, I did not pee once. I had to have food brought to me at my console because I could not get up.. which has basically meant pizza every day that has been brought to work cause its the easiest thing to eat while answering non stop phone calls for help or talking on a radio, I had to worry about my car being burned in the parking garage, and my safety just even walking into work meant being escorted in because they even threatened to over take our dispatch center... This past week and upcoming week will be *kitten* for my diet. So i apologize now to the team.

LaurieWrobo

WishfulThinning18 wrote: »

WishfulThinning18
Sunday
262.6

This has been an awful week. I haven't worked out in the entire week. I'm a 911 dispatcher and our city is burning. I'm so exhausted and heart broken... I'm stressed trying to keep officers safe and hearing them yell we are completely surrounded with no place to go, I'm tired of innocent peaceful protestors who are there for change being overtaken by violent "protestors" who aren't there for anything but to watch *kitten* burn and loot silencing the voices who are there for the right reasons, I'm tired of hearing a firefighter scream he's getting hit by rocks and the THREE year old he's trying to treat medically was ALSO struck by a rock that was thrown and is now even more critically injured... I'm just tired. In my multiple 16 hour shifts this week, I did not pee once. I had to have food brought to me at my console because I could not get up.. which has basically meant pizza every day that has been brought to work cause its the easiest thing to eat while answering non stop phone calls for help or talking on a radio, I had to worry about my car being burned in the parking garage, and my safety just even walking into work meant being escorted in because they even threatened to over take our dispatch center... This past week and upcoming week will be *kitten* for my diet. So i apologize now to the team.

Hugs to you♥️♥️ so terrible of all that is going on; I will keep you in my prayers for your safety and strength to carry on....

Be_theBest_Me

Hey y'all I'm Lacey!! My husband and I own a residential cleaning company!! Got two girls that we homeschool!! Last year I got back on track lost 35lbs and then......gained all but 10 back I was down to 160. Currently I'm at 172.2!! My goal is 150!! June goals: drink more water, work out at least 3-4 days a week. It's hard right now cause I'm cleaning 3-9 hours a day!! So time is an issue as well as energy!! Sleep has been a struggle so waking up is not happening!! I need yoga and running so bad!! June here I come!!! Lifestyle changes!! More NEAT!! MINDFUL EATING!! GOT THIS!!

Be_theBest_Me

@Beka3695 thanks for the tip!! I've never tried magnesium!! That may help!! I have other nerve issues too maybe that'll fix that too. I fell down my porch a few years back and I literally have a dent in my hip. Hurts and makes sleeping so hard!! The more I lose the less it hurts the more I move the less it hurts as soon as I lay down for an hour it just aches!!! I'm pretty sure it's the source of my issues all the way around!!

TeresaW1020

Wahhooooo!! Your team rocked this month! Keep it up Shrinking Assets!!

Beka3695

For June - we have added a new section to the spreadsheet called “Goal Zone” for those that reach and maintain their goal weight.

We have @luciicul in the zone. @Luciicul can you remind me of your maintenance zone?

Anyone else that would like to be added to this zone - let me know

mrsjhardin

Mrshardin
PW 192
CW 190

jugar

You have one more new member on the way! @mwirebaugh just signed up today. Should be along shortly!

boehle

Park trip today

boehle

Breakfast for the week.
Egg, bacon. Lettuce, tomatoes and cheese

Beka3695

Did some food prep today. In the spoiler below is lunch for the coming week. Ham/onion/pepper frittata. I also made bacon wrapped cabbage wedge and baked chicken.

Ready for the week to come!!!

Curvybaja55

Hi everyone :
Thanks for your warm welcome I am exciting to be on this team. Can you please explain how you do the spoiler/show. I am new and may have many questions.

Beka3695

Curvybaja55 wrote: »

Hi everyone :
Thanks for your warm welcome I am exciting to be on this team. Can you please explain how you do the spoiler/show. I am new and may have many questions.

Ask away!!! We are here to help!

I’m explaining from my phone, so it might be a little different on your or a computer.

Above the dialogue box there are several commands. The paragraph symbol - click that and spoiler will appear. If this doesn’t work easily you can do this:

[ ——spoiler—-] Desired txt or photo to hide [——- / spoiler —- ]

Just take out the space and dashes. Words, brackets &!backslash are needed. I had to add them or it would have inserted a Spoiler

samuel860

Hi Guys !! So I'm alive after the longest weekend of food ever ! Like I promised you all see the pics of all the goodies I made.
I did gain weight - but I tried to control myself while not missing anything so the damage wasn't so great (I could easly gain more LOL)

Luciicul

Hi (or should I say "G'day, mate"?)! I'm Australian, and mum to a teen. I've been maintaining a healthy weight for five months now, since January this year.

When I began this challenge, in February 2019, I was class 3 obese, weighed 119.5kg (263.5 lbs), had insulin resistance, a sluggish thyroid, and was an epic snorer. Everything was fixed within a year of consistent effort. My goal is to keep on track (eating liberal LCHF wholefoods, intermittent fasting, regular exercise, good sleep, stress management), knowing that "maintenance" is actually a bigger challenge for me than the weight-loss. I've lost and gained so many times in the past 25 years, I really need to stick with this!

My stats:
169cm / 5'7'
41 years
Highest Weight: 119.5kg/263.5lbs (27th January 2019)
Maintenance zone: 62.5-66 kg/137.8-145.5lbs (6th January 2020)
Maintenance duration: 5 months.

@Beka3695 is the above goal zone okay for the new thing? I know it's kind of broad, but that's how much my weight can fluctuate during a month - lots of ups and downs on any given day (fluctuations in hydration included). Weight has been averaging out around my goal of 65kgs (143.3 lbs) over the whole month (so trend line is good despite fluctuations). Thanks

Luciicul

Luciciul
Week 1, Monday
PW: 141.1 lbs
CW: 144.4 lbs

In the maintenance zone

Luciicul

@WishfulThinning18 So sorry to hear about how difficult things are at the moment - inequality, injustice, conflict, chaos, violence, and you in the middle of it.

Even as I see the footage from the other side of the world, I can't imagine what it would like to be living among it. I find it hard to watch. It makes me so upset. Also, upset with the ignorance and arrogance of our local commentators here in Australia. Our (conservative) PM decided in all his wisdom (note I am being sarcastic about 'wisdom') to publicly quote a meme "Martin Luther King didn't change anything by burning anything down or by looting any shops"... the quickness of some people to criticise desperate protesters while simultaneously not criticising systemic police brutality, racism, assault and murder. Here in Australia we also have problems with Aboriginal deaths in custody & systematic discrimination against our first nations peoples. Despite countless civilised attempts by good people to raise this issue, and official investigations and reports clearly reveal what the problems are, nothing ever really changes because people in power like our PM turn a blind eye, and create racist policies, and thus time marches on bringing more deaths.

I wish there was something I could say or do to make it better.