Shrinking Assets - October 2020 Team Chat
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jugar
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Here is your Team chat room for October 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
Teresa - @TeresaW1020
Megan - @Megan_smartiepants1970
Our Team Captains:
Mission Slimpossibles - @broncobuddee and @TeresaW1020
Trimstones - @mulecanter and @jessicakrall8
Weight No More - @1theresamcvean and @minstrelofsarcasm
Waist Aways - @jugar and @micki48
Shrinking Assets - @Boehle and @beka3695
Downsizers - @lindamtuck2018 and @Megan_smartiepants1970
Our Team Motivators:
Mission Slimpossibles - @AustinRuadhain @katmary71 and @raleighgirl09
Trimstones - @Emmajhare and @angmarie28
Weight No More - @GingerPwr and @KUMEcyclingteam
Waist Aways - @Terytha and @conleywoods
Shrinking Assets - @hipari
Downsizers - @Marigorringo
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 leaderboard.
In an effort to recognize accomplishments, we are using an optional addition to the weigh in format called LOSS TO DATE or LTD. Please just leave this new line off if you do not want to participate. Here is the new format:
Username
Weigh In Day
PW (Previous Weight):
CW (Current Weight):
LTD (Loss to Date):
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!!
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Hi Team! Welcome to the new team members!
I started my journey in March at 234lb, and have so far lost nearly 40lbs. I had slowly gained weight my whole adult life, and tried MFP before unsuccessfully. A switch flipped for me (thanks covid), and I say "no more" to my emotional eating and poor stress management. My health is so much more important to me now, and I had no idea how much better I'd feel! Very serious about making this a lasting change.
September was a great month. I reached Onederland and moved quickly toward my next goal of 185lbs. My goal of kicking things up in September was achieved! It will probably take October and November to get to 185 lbs. At this point, I have lost enough weight that I'd like to focus a bit more on exercise and strength training especially. Ive been able to build cardio habits through spin style cycling, but I need to build strength and tone. I have not learned enough about strength training or figured out how to fit it into my life consistently yet. I'm also ready to start running again (was a daily runner a decade ago). I feel like I'm starting a new chapter of my journey this month.
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Hipari
Sunday
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Hi everyone, and a special shout-out welcome to all our newcomers!
I’m 28, live in Finland with my husband, and work in management of a smallish IT company. My weight is on a yo-yo, and currently on the high end after a switch flipped in my head mid-August and I rapidly gained what took several months to lose.... I’m trying to get my head back on track in October. I’ve resumed my daily weigh-in habit (I follow trendweight) in the last couple of weeks, next is eating and getting back to the gym. I started a weekly acrobatics class in August, and it’s awesome: hard exercise, something new to wrap my brain around, and very fun.
We’re hopefully moving to a new apartment in 2,5 months, so we’re going through our belongings and recycling what we don’t want to bring with us. We’ve lived in our current apartment for 9 years, so we’ve accumulated a LOT of stuff. The new apartment is bigger but differently shaped, and since we hope there will be a third family member moving in soon-ish, there’s actually less room for us if we count out the potential nursery. The apartment is in a consctruction project so it’s brand new and we got to make our own choices about things like flooring, bathroom tiles, kitchen surfaces etc, and instead of the default sauna (yes, this is Finland) we converted it into a walk-in closet. We get to see it for the first time in mid-October on our first residents’ inspection.
There’s also a part of me that wants to leave all bad habits behind in the old apartment, so I’m working on changing those habits already.
October goals: find my mojo again, lose at least 2 pounds.5 -
Hello new people
42 year old mom of 7 dogs. Down 26 lbs so far with another 42 to goal. Since returning to MFP, I’ve made lifestyle changes such as eating what I want WITHIN my calorie goals and finally USING the home gym my husband and I spent the last 2 years creating.
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Iamworthy14
Monday’s
Pw 155.0
Cw 154.8
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I am Beka, one of your Team Captains and Group Moderator. My counterpart and bestie is Julie, aka @Boehle.
I am 44, 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 3 years ago at 242 lbs, lost down to 174 (-68 lbs) and maintained almost 9 months before gaining back to 232. It is only failure if you quit... right???
For my second time around, I am currently down 64 lbs from my highest, and looking to continue to lose.
STATS
Age: 44
Height: 5'7"
Highest weight: 242, November 2016
Current weight: 177 ish
Goal Weight: SEXY AF
October Goals:
- 170??? Maybe????
- Continue to my NEAT or non-exercise activity thermogenesis.
- Increase my EAT - exercise activity thermogenesis.
- focus on consistency of steps.
- Continue training for the Peachtree.... which has been rescheduled from July 4th to Thanksgiving Day.
This is now a virtual race
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.3 -
Ahhh... I messed up and missed yesterday's weigh-in! Different times throughout the day I told myself to take care of this - but never at a time when I was home, or inside, or knee deep in a project..... Sorry about that. If I'm lucky I've stayed the same. Just can't seem to get my mind in the right place lately.
When I started my weight-loss journey back in January, I thought I'd be much farther along by now. It's been a snails pace, and the fault is purely my own. I just want to keep moving in the right direction, and if that's at a snail's pace, I'm OK with that - I just don't want to gain back the progress I've made.
I need to get back my motivation and focus. Suggestions?1 -
biketheworld wrote: »Ahhh... I messed up and missed yesterday's weigh-in! Different times throughout the day I told myself to take care of this - but never at a time when I was home, or inside, or knee deep in a project..... Sorry about that. If I'm lucky I've stayed the same. Just can't seem to get my mind in the right place lately.
When I started my weight-loss journey back in January, I thought I'd be much farther along by now. It's been a snails pace, and the fault is purely my own. I just want to keep moving in the right direction, and if that's at a snail's pace, I'm OK with that - I just don't want to gain back the progress I've made.
I need to get back my motivation and focus. Suggestions?
@biketheworld
It is not too late! If you hurry, you can get your weigh-in done right away! I am just working on the tallies right now, and Beka won't be posting the results until a bit late this week, so run! You can still do it!
And in general, my advice for getting back into the game? Do ONE perfect day. Plan, log, eat exactly how you know is right, get some exercise, and after that one day, you'll feel so good you'll want to keep going. Just one day - it is fast to get back on but you have to make an effort just to get that one under your belt. You can do it!1 -
I'm Kate, a Brit in Portugal who crawled back on the wagon at the end of August and despite a less than perfect month managed to lose 6.4lbs of my recent gain and ended the month on 192.4. At my lowest I hit down to just under 180 and at my highest was about 220. This year I was sitting comfortably in the mid 180s and that's where I'd like to see the year out.
Last month in managed to get nd keep consistent with my exercise and this month it has to be my food.
I'm committing to a month of weekly 80/20 splits between on plan logging and eating and drinking what I fancy the other 20 percent. So I'll log everything Monday to Saturday lunch and be under my cals. Then, I'll take it easy Satuday night and sunday.... not sure how this will work out but going to give it a go!
I'd also like to change my weigh in to Friday as I have Thursdays off at this time and a day off after weigh in will be way too tempting to fall off the rails.
Welcome to newbies,
Kilobykilo2 -
Welcome to our new recruits, you have joined a good group that make solid progress.
I live on the South coast of England, joined MFP in 2014 started using MFP in 2019. Started running 18 months ago so I'm quite tired now. Felt like I was running in circle for the last few months! A range of training (running/cycling/rowing/weights) in the current plan keep me busy as my children are both over 20 and treat me like I'm a god... they refuse to recognise I exist unless they need something.
SW : 270
GW : 199 (initially) now 18819/05 - 27027/09 - 197.2 ... 0.1 ... 72.8
26/05 - 267.0 ... 3.0 ... 03.0
01/06 - 263.0 ... 4.0 ... 07.0
08/06 - 259.0 ... 4.0 ... 11.0
15/06 - 257.4 ... 1.6 ... 12.6
22/06 - 255.8 ... 1.6 ... 14.2
29/06 - 254.8 ... 1.0 ... 15.2
06/07 - 252.8 ... 2.0 ... 17.2
13/07 - 250.8 ... 2.0 ... 19.2
17/07 - 249.2 ... 1.6 ... 20.8 weigh in early this week as I am away for a four day weekend
27/07 - 247.6 ... 1.6 ... 22.4
03/08 - 246.5 ... 1.1 ... 23.5
10/08 - 243.3 ... 3.2 ... 26.7
17/08 - 241.0 ... 2.3 ... 29.0
24/08 - 238.9 ... 2.1 ... 31.1
31/08 - 236.4 ... 2.5 ... 33.6
07/09 - 233.6 ... 2.8 ... 36.4
14/09 - 230.8 ... 2.8 ... 39.2
21/09 - 228.5 ... 2.3 ... 41.5
28/09 - 226.9 ... 1.6 ... 43.1
05/10 - 227.5 .. +0.6 .. 42.5 First blip in 4 months, acceptable for a holiday
12/10 - 223.7 ... 3.8 ... 46.3
19/10 - 220.3 ... 3.4 ... 49.7
26/10 - 219.2 ... 1.1 ... 50.8
02/11 - 216.8 ... 2.4 ... 53.2
09/11 - 215.0 ... 1.8 ... 55.0
16/11 - 212.9 ... 2.1 ... 57.1
23/11 - 212.3 ... 0.6 ... 57.7
30/11 - 212.6 ...+0.3 .. 57.4 Oops!
07/12 - 209.5 ... 3.1 ... 60.5
14/12 - 209.3 ... 0.2 ... 60.7
21/12 - 211.5 .. +2.2 .. 58.5
28/12 - 219.2 .. +7.7 .. 50.8
01/01 - 217.8
04/01 - 215.2 ... 4.0 ... 54.8
11/01 - 213.2 ... 2.0 ... 56.8
18/01 - 213.0 ... 0.2 ... 57.0
25/01 - 210.4 ... 2.6 ... 59.6
01/02 - 207.9 ... 2.5 ... 62.1
08/02 - 206.2 ... 1.7 ... 63.8
15/02 - 204.7 ... 1.5 ... 65.3
22/02 - 202.7 ... 2.0 ... 67.3
29/02 - 196.4 ... 6.3 ... 73.6
07/03 - 196.2 ... 0.2 ... 73.8
14/03 - 195.2 ... 1.0 ... 74.8
21/03 - 194.4 ... 0.8 ... 75.6
28/03 - 193.8 ... 0.6 ... 76.2
04/04 - 194.2 .. +0.4 .. 75.8
11/04 - 197.6 .. +3.4 .. 72.4
09/05 - 202.8 .. +5.2 .. 67.2
16/05 - 200.4 ... 2.4 ... 69.6
23/05 - 200.2 ... 0.2 ... 69.8
13/06 - 208.2 .. +8.0 .. 61.8
21/06 - 207.2 ... 1.0 ... 62.8
28/06 - 209.2 .. +2.0 .. 60.8
12/07 - 215.0 .. +5.8 .. 55.0
19/07 - 213.3 ... 1.7 ... 56.7
26/07 - 211.5 ... 1.8 ... 58.1
02/08 - 210.1 ... 1.4 ... 59.9
09/08 - 209.0 ... 1.1 ... 61.0
16/08 - 208.4 ... 0.6 ... 61.6
23/08 - 207.5 ... 0.9 ... 62.5
30/08 - 204.8 ... 2.7 ... 65.2
06/09 - 202.2 ... 2.6 ... 67.8
13/09 - 199.7 ... 2.5 ... 70.3
20/09 - 197.3 ... 2.4 ... 72.7
04/10 - 196.3 ... 0.9 ... 73.7
Total weight lost 73.7 lbs, 8.3 lbs to my revised goal.2 -
I dunno. It seems like you might need to change your user name if you're a god. Or not - the god stuff should wear off. I am slowly losing goddess status as my kids go through their 20s. There is hope!TheMrWobbly wrote: »Welcome to our new recruits, you have joined a good group that make solid progress.
I live on the South coast of England, joined MFP in 2014 started using MFP in 2019. Started running 18 months ago so I'm quite tired now. Felt like I was running in circle for the last few months! A range of training (running/cycling/rowing/weights) in the current plan keep me busy as my children are both over 20 and treat me like I'm a god... they refuse to recognise I exist unless they need something.
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The Green Challenge Percentage of people who lost weight this week. No matter how small the loss the weights are recorded in green. Remember that even if your team doesn’t rank the highest in weight loss for the week you can still be the Green Percentage winner by having the most losses in your team! So keep it up!! 
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Nailed it team 😊4
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biketheworld wrote: »Ahhh... I messed up and missed yesterday's weigh-in! Different times throughout the day I told myself to take care of this - but never at a time when I was home, or inside, or knee deep in a project..... Sorry about that. If I'm lucky I've stayed the same. Just can't seem to get my mind in the right place lately.
When I started my weight-loss journey back in January, I thought I'd be much farther along by now. It's been a snails pace, and the fault is purely my own. I just want to keep moving in the right direction, and if that's at a snail's pace, I'm OK with that - I just don't want to gain back the progress I've made.
I need to get back my motivation and focus. Suggestions?
@biketheworld
It is not too late! If you hurry, you can get your weigh-in done right away! I am just working on the tallies right now, and Beka won't be posting the results until a bit late this week, so run! You can still do it!
And in general, my advice for getting back into the game? Do ONE perfect day. Plan, log, eat exactly how you know is right, get some exercise, and after that one day, you'll feel so good you'll want to keep going. Just one day - it is fast to get back on but you have to make an effort just to get that one under your belt. You can do it!
I wish I'd seen this sooner - I totally would have posted - I just assumed I'd missed the deadline. Thanks for the advice - that's really good and that's what I'm aiming for.1 -
Hi Shrinking Assets ..I am the newest Moderator and Co Captain of the Downsizer's team... I just wanted to wish you all the best. I hope you have a successful October
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Video footage from my weekend. I am so glad that I am about to go to sleep and tomorrow I will wake up with the opportunity to start fresh again!!! I love routine and I will have it for at least 12 straight days!!!
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My last weigh in was last Monday, Sept 28. I weighed
157.2
My desire is to weigh 112-120
Just returned from a 5 day trip down the Monterey coast of California. Getting away from our northern fires, bad air quality, extreme heat. Did a lot of beach walks, short hikes and sightseeing walks. Every morning did a 7 a.m. 3 mile walk (hilly) for coffee and pastries (I had 2). They were all wonderful. Late lunches that were good. Also had ice-cream, chocolate and other goodies. I tried to be mindful of the amounts that I ate. Then an additional 1-3 miles of easy hikes or brisk walks. Home now and temps are down to slightly under 100, air quality is better but fires are still raging. Temps are suppose to be dropping somewhat tomorrow.
A few weeks ago I was .1 away from my half way point. I just couldn't lose the .1, very discouraging, I really just wanted to through in the towel. I kind of did by eating my favorites lots of nuts, nut bars, ice-cream, pie... by the time I left I was 1.1 lbs away from the half way point. So I guess I had to also get away from anxiety of not losing that .1 oz.
Tomorrow morning I will get on the scale and face the music. I was 35 lbs down when we left on the trip so I hope I didn't go too far backwards.
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Video footage from my weekend. I am so glad that I am about to go to sleep and tomorrow I will wake up with the opportunity to start fresh again!!! I love routine and I will have it for at least 12 straight days!!!
Joining you with that pledge..... want to kick off October in style!0
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