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WaistAways-July Chat 2021

TeresaW1020
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Here is your Team chat room for July 2021. 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:
Downsizers - @lindamtuck2018 and @Megan_smartiepants1970
Mission Slimpossibles - @broncobuddee and @TeresaW1020
Trimstones - @mulecanter and @jessicakrall8
Weight No More - @minstrelofsarcasm and @melaniedscott
WaistAways - @jugar and @micki48
Shrinking Assets - @Beka3695 and @imgwendolyn2015

Our Team Motivators:
Downsizers - @TheresaM787
Mission Slimpossibles - @AustinRuadhain @katmary71 and @trooworld
Trimstones - @angmarie28 and @JoDavo66
Weight No More - open
WaistAways - @Terytha and @conleywoods
Shrinking Assets - @hipari and @junedave3 [/center]

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. At the end of the month, we celebrate everyone who lost every week. You are heading steadily towards your goal even if you aren't at the top of the weight loss leaderboard!

To make your weigh-in easy to find for your team Captains, please put it right at the top of a message, and use this format:

Username
Weigh In Day:
PW (Previous Weight):
CW (Current Weight):

If you need a week off, a break, a change of weigh-in day - just ask your Captains here on your team chat page. If you take a break, you are moved to the Support Team. 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. 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 traveling, sick, or just need some time off.

Once you reach your goal weight, you join the Goal Zone! You need support to maintain, and you can help your teammates join you. You 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 weekly 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 and year begin!!
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  • jugar
    jugar Posts: 10,229 Member
    edited June 2021
    Welcome to July!
    This is our home for the month, where all of our triumphs and challenges take place. Please (re)introduce yourselves and set some goals and daily actions for the month. Focus on the small every day choices, and you will get where you want to go!

    I am Liselyn, co-captain along with @micki48. I live in rural Québec, about 85 miles east of Montreal, and I'm a retired university professor of music. My weight loss story? After being somewhat overweight for most of my life, I really packed it on while in an admin job that involved a lot of sitting, meetings, travel, and meals. I tried many times to lose, but it was not until I was 58 that I got really serious with both food and exercise, and lost 40 pounds. I have been in a good zone for almost 9 years now, always refining and figuring out the things that work best, and making sure I don't have to do it all over again. Yes, it is possible to lose weight and get in shape during and after menopause!

    I know there are people on this team who have a lot to lose, others who have lost a lot and are closing in on their goals, and some who might be working on losses that are stubbornly resisting. There is much wisdom here, and the most important lesson we learn from each other time and time again is that it is not a straight shot, there will be trials and errors, and sticking with it when it feels like you have fallen off yet again is the best thing you can do for yourself. Plateaus can be good, but going back the way you came is not!

    Some helpful information/tools:
    Posting your daily updates
    We know from experience that posting daily (or as often as you can!) makes a huge difference to your success. Use any format you like to let everyone know how you are doing on your daily goals and habits. You can report on food, exercise, water, sleep, or whatever you are tracking and trying to stick with. While you're there, talk about how you are, ask questions, and if you can answer someone else, please do! Congratulate others, commiserate, enjoy someone's rant, or go ahead and rant yourself. It all helps make the kind of community where we are in each others' heads when the hand is reaching for that off-plan snack, or the couch is feeling way too inviting...

    Weighing in
    Please try to weigh in on time! When you post, put your weigh in at the TOP of a message, so it is clear and easy to find. If you cannot post your weight for whatever reason, please request a week off, or if you need a longer break, you can request to move to the "Support Team" where you can still participate but your weigh-ins will not be part of the weekly tally. This is where members who are ill, on vacation, or just needing a break can hang out for as long as needed.

    The F2F Habit Tracker
    If you want a simple place to track your most important habits, give this a try. You can see how your teammates are doing too :wink: The link is under "Announcements" on the main F2F page or go directly to:
    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xTEfgKBhF3lrIoC7uKC-BI82QtIQfBHPRB_wy0rC8WE/edit?usp=sharing

    So everyone, tell us a bit about you, your goals for July, what steps you are going to work on. It's fun to know your name and where you live, if you're willing to share that, and what brought you here, how your weight loss journey has been, and where you are headed now. Let the introductions roll!
  • ashleycarole86
    ashleycarole86 Posts: 6,326 Member
    Morning team! My name is Ashley, I'm 34 years old, and I live in Airdrie, Alberta (but am currently spending most of my summer at our trailer at the lake).

    I came back to MyFitnessPal after a bad dream in January that felt so real I was instantly inspired to get on here. I woke up from it, weighed myself, logged in, set my plan, and I haven't looked back! I was at my highest weight ever, was so close to seeing the 300's, and knew I had to make a change. I like many others let COVID take me away to a non-stop fountain of indulgence, but well before that I've been struggling on and off with weight and dieting since just after high school. As a kid, I was super active and ate whatever I wanted without gaining, but the second the activity slowed, the food habits didn't, and the pounds started packing on.

    My husband @bowens1973 hopped on board shortly after I did, and together he and I are working on weight loss to promote long, healthy, happy lives together. I also come from a family with weight issues. My mom is currently struggling quite a bit but she's started tracking and losing as well so I hope we can all continue to be positive influences for one another!

    There was a time in the not so distant past I had decided to accept that I was overweight and always would be. Now I'm nearly halfway (EEEEEEEEE!) on my 125 lbs weight loss journey. This community is a huge motivator for me and I thank you all for being here, sharing your stories, the ups and downs, and just for the general inspiration and accountability.

    My habit tracker goals this month will be -
    -8000 steps daily tracked using my phone (so I need my phone on me for them to count)
    -yoga 5x per week (I feel so much more limber and alive when I do a yoga practice)
    -two pushups a day (happy to report I've got a fairly good formed one full pushup down after last month so I'm looking to build on that)
    -2L water a day (while I don't necessarily think 8 cups of water is essential for health, I also know if I don't set a target I can default to almost no water a day, so this keeps my mind on it)

    Let's make this a GREEN July folks - we can do this!!!

  • ashleycarole86
    ashleycarole86 Posts: 6,326 Member
    @Terytha Exciting about the gym... hope you enjoy your first workout back! Do you have some sort of routine when you go or do you just do whatever feels good on the day? I used to like going to the gym but I have a long commute and find my schedule makes it easy for me to rationalize not going. I could see some interest in returning there someday, but am going to see how far I make it with home workouts first.
  • Beka3695
    Beka3695 Posts: 4,126 Member
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    HONORABLE MENTIONS
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  • Terytha
    Terytha Posts: 2,097 Member
    Gym update: no pain until my fourth set of pull-ups and only like an ache at that point so I'm calling my muscle injury basically healed. Like 95%.

    That said... yikes. I'm in rough shape y'all. Not back to zero at least but it's pretty rough. The muscle soreness is legit. Gonna do 2 days a week for a bit, see how that goes.
  • once_mas
    once_mas Posts: 160 Member
    Hi everyone,

    I m masoumeh 34 from Netherlands, busy with work behind the laptop all the day and this makes me to have excuses to skip healthy habits.

    For June my focus was on enabling regular exercise habit, hopefully I manage to do at least 1 hour per day outdoor biking and manged to have 1 liter water per day from half of the month. But I failed for calorie tracking. For this month I will track my weight and intake calories again and I would like to join the challenge as well.

    Today I got an amazfit smartwatch to track my steps because the Google fit app recently was not recording properly and MyFitnessPal also did not import the exercises from app anymore, now I m wondering if it is possible to link amazfit/zepp with mfp or not? I could not find any way to do it.



    Sunday
    CW 63.1 kg
  • eggfreak
    eggfreak Posts: 687 Member
    hello all! I'm Sylvia from Massachusetts. Started with Waistaways in January 2020 and with all the motivation this group inspires, I lost steadily until I reached near enough to goal weight in the August (about 40 lbs)...I said at that time that my goal was to be the same weight this coming August - knowing how easy it is to put back on as I've yo-yo-ed my whole life. So since then, I've wobbled a bit and have really been through most options - weighing & tracking food and doing none of that, exercising like mad or not exercising, logging in here daily to barely logging in...and I find myself about 6-7 pounds from where I was last August - so with that small goal in mind, I'm going to knuckle down in July!! put my fitbit back on, weigh and log food, and check in here AND post a few habits.
    It's nice to be 'back'! See you tomorrow.
  • jugar
    jugar Posts: 10,229 Member
    once_mas wrote: »
    Hi everyone,

    I m masoumeh 34 from Netherlands, busy with work behind the laptop all the day and this makes me to have excuses to skip healthy habits.

    For June my focus was on enabling regular exercise habit, hopefully I manage to do at least 1 hour per day outdoor biking and manged to have 1 liter water per day from half of the month. But I failed for calorie tracking. For this month I will track my weight and intake calories again and I would like to join the challenge as well.

    Today I got an amazfit smartwatch to track my steps because the Google fit app recently was not recording properly and MyFitnessPal also did not import the exercises from app anymore, now I m wondering if it is possible to link amazfit/zepp with mfp or not? I could not find any way to do it.

    Sunday
    CW 63.1 kg

    You are all set for this month - report your steps if you would like to, and keep up the great work! You have a good start on water and exercise - now food and tracking.

    I do not know if MFP imports steps from Amazfit - but you can simply report them here if you like, and we'll cheer you on as you go up against some of our great steppers here on the team. :heart:
    eggfreak wrote: »
    hello all! I'm Sylvia from Massachusetts. Started with Waistaways in January 2020 and with all the motivation this group inspires, I lost steadily until I reached near enough to goal weight in the August (about 40 lbs)...I said at that time that my goal was to be the same weight this coming August - knowing how easy it is to put back on as I've yo-yo-ed my whole life. So since then, I've wobbled a bit and have really been through most options - weighing & tracking food and doing none of that, exercising like mad or not exercising, logging in here daily to barely logging in...and I find myself about 6-7 pounds from where I was last August - so with that small goal in mind, I'm going to knuckle down in July!! put my fitbit back on, weigh and log food, and check in here AND post a few habits.
    It's nice to be 'back'! See you tomorrow.

    You too! Get back to tracking a bit more and finishing off those last few pounds will happen! The small ups and downs will keep plaguing you, but gradually it will get easier. Go Sylvia Go!
  • jugar
    jugar Posts: 10,229 Member
    Hi all!

    Anyone who is tracking steps and/or exercise is welcome to report them here so we can get inspired and be accountable. Your daily steps from a tracker, minutes of intentional exercise - report them all, and we'll add it up and help you feel amazing about it.

    For last week, I need some numbers from @micki48 @gak71 and @evangsimmons170 if you're up for reporting them - thanks!

    Everyone who wants to track is welcome to join in. Just report by the end of the day Sunday for Saturday-Sunday of the previous week. Or report daily, or whatever is easiest for you as long as all the week's stats are there by end of play Sunday wherever you live. Somehow, having to report in makes it easier to actually get the exercise done. Any exercise can count - biking, exercise machines, weights, you name it. Just report the number of minutes and the intensity and you're good to go.

    It has been ridiculously hot and humid here today, and I think a lot of us are in a heat wave at the moment. Drink that water and get the moves in early if you can.

    Weigh-ins due Sunday - Monday:

    @deniners2
    @graceojo999
    @lovethyneighbor

    Off we go! State your goals for the month, and report on how you are doing daily, ok?
  • jugar
    jugar Posts: 10,229 Member
    edited June 2021
    Here is our July Week 1 Challenge. Take the time to reflect on each day, and plan for the next.
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    Join in daily at:
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10836944/july-week-1-challenge-reflection-and-commitment/p1?new=1
  • deniners2
    deniners2 Posts: 969 Member
    Apologies for my tardiness!
    PW 156
    CW 156
    I *really* tried today! I did 4 reps of weights instead of 2, & I tried not to party with food too much. We'll see if this is the weekend I don't sabotage my week.
  • evangsimmons170
    evangsimmons170 Posts: 1,188 Member
    jugar wrote: »
    Hi all!

    Anyone who is tracking steps and/or exercise is welcome to report them here so we can get inspired and be accountable. Your daily steps from a tracker, minutes of intentional exercise - report them all, and we'll add it up and help you feel amazing about it.

    For last week, I need some numbers from @micki48 @gak71 and @evangsimmons170 if you're up for reporting them - thanks!

    @jugar

    I think I owe steps for the past 2 weeks. I'm so sorry!

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  • ashleycarole86
    ashleycarole86 Posts: 6,326 Member
    Hi @jugar

    I will bite and contribute my exercise :)
    If I'm not reporting anything correctly, or reporting something you don't need, just let me know...
    Easiest for me if I mostly report as we go.. hope that's ok.
    Will start with yesterday since I think you say it starts Saturday? Again - skip it if not needed.

    Saturday - 20 minutes of playing catch (low to mid intensity) + 8,719 steps

    Sunday - 60 minutes swimming (low intensity) + 11 minutes yoga (medium intensity) + 8,552 steps
  • DD265
    DD265 Posts: 651 Member
    PW: 79.9
    CW: 79.7

    I had a huge gain overnight - water retention from the challenging walk and some salty food I should think, but still frustrating; more so because it's weigh day!
  • lovethyneighbor
    lovethyneighbor Posts: 359 Member
    Pw: 228.6
    Cw: 226.4
  • gak71
    gak71 Posts: 192 Member
    Daily Steps:
    Sun 8,133
    Mon 3,494
    Tue 3,548
    Wed 7,588
    Thu 4,019
    Fri 3,628
    Sat 4,792

    Total 35,202
    Daily Average 5,029
  • MandiSaysHey
    MandiSaysHey Posts: 304 Member
    Good morning all.

    Weigh in today 218.2

    I will reintroduce myself a little later. Running late for work at the moment.
  • Kali225
    Kali225 Posts: 720 Member
    Hi WaistAways -

    Nearly July - I read a daily newsletter about business news and today's pointed out that June 30 marks the "halftime" of the year, and a good time to hit reset! I like that idea. Crazy that half the year is gone, though.

    I'm Kay, 26, living in Boston and working in finance downtown (although I have been WFH since late March '20, and currently doing work for July from the Catskill Mtns in NY). I was a runner and a dancer all my childhood through high school, and totally dropped regular activity in college. Add in an unlimited meal plan and a general dislike for vegetables, and I gained way more than the freshman 15. I consider my start date for this weight loss to be Feb 2018, when I moved out of my parents' house and started my first post-grad job. I am very big on getting my steps in - thinking about adding some running back in.

    I love home workouts almost exclusively for strength, cardio, hiit, etc. (currently doing Caroline Girvan's Epic I on youtube, 60 day program [but it'll take me a bit more than 60 days]) and I follow Yoga with Adriene on youtube for my daily yoga practice. My biggest struggle with weight loss is bingeing on weekends and emotional eating when I get stressed/frustrated, especially on a bad workday. I joined F2F in August 2020, took a brief break for April & May 2021 (was not a great idea, I stopped tracking everything to see how it would feel to be a little less numbers-focused... yeah, I gained a big chunk of a nearly-50 lb loss back so that was unfortunate.)

    Monday motivation - I only have 1 meeting today and my workload gets very light before the end of the quarter so I have plenty of time to study for an exam at the end of August. And plenty of time for a workout in the afternoon!
  • MandiSaysHey
    MandiSaysHey Posts: 304 Member
    I will also join back in the steps tracking. My goal will be 7k steps per day.
  • EvMakesChanges
    EvMakesChanges Posts: 568 Member
    @Terytha we have limited AC in our apartment, too. I keep a fan oscillating near the cat’s bowls and that helps them a lot. Since it’s going to be even hotter, they will all get the “water treatment” - gently rubbing water into their hair to the skin to help with natural air-cooling.
    It’s lucky that we have a basement where the kitties can be cooler.
    More soon!
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