Captain's Lounge - September 2021
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melaniedscott wrote: »@jugar the idea sounds interesting. Maybe do a six week challenge featuring a different team every week. For week one, we challenge everyone to drop in and say hi to WNM or something like that?melaniedscott wrote: »I've been thinking about perspective lately ('cuz I need some, to be honest)...Maybe the 'host' team posts about struggles and the visiting teams offer a different perspective? I just finished a leadership training series and we talked a lot about engaging unusual voices... Maybe for October and November we have a big thread where we post progress/ leader boards generally (each team gets a small link to the leader board) and use the team chat to engage unusual voices...maybe use weigh day as the visit day to break it up? Of course...that might be overwhelming, too.
I think this could be interesting, but I have no idea how to do a leaderboard (everyone can go look at the spreadsheet? highlight the weekly results sheet where it is all summarized and beautiful?), nor how to go about finding unusual voices. Anyone have some ideas about how that might work?
I like the idea of a team posting struggles and another one responding, but every time we have tried something where the individual teams have to host or be responsible for a new thread, it has been difficult for many of the busy captains to keep it going, and a lot of team members are also busy and find it hard to even check in on their own team and do a challenge from time to time. One way that would be pretty easy would be to have one of the weekly challenges each month be a "post your struggles/share your help" thread. If you'd like to work that up and send it to me, I'll put it in the rotation! The team chats usually do a pretty good job of sharing struggles and ideas already and we have to be careful not to provide too many places that members have to go - but it would be fun to give it a try.0 -
melaniedscott wrote: »@jugar the idea sounds interesting. Maybe do a six week challenge featuring a different team every week. For week one, we challenge everyone to drop in and say hi to WNM or something like that?melaniedscott wrote: »I've been thinking about perspective lately ('cuz I need some, to be honest)...Maybe the 'host' team posts about struggles and the visiting teams offer a different perspective? I just finished a leadership training series and we talked a lot about engaging unusual voices... Maybe for October and November we have a big thread where we post progress/ leader boards generally (each team gets a small link to the leader board) and use the team chat to engage unusual voices...maybe use weigh day as the visit day to break it up? Of course...that might be overwhelming, too.
I think this could be interesting, but I have no idea how to do a leaderboard (everyone can go look at the spreadsheet? highlight the weekly results sheet where it is all summarized and beautiful?), nor how to go about finding unusual voices. Anyone have some ideas about how that might work?
I like the idea of a team posting struggles and another one responding, but every time we have tried something where the individual teams have to host or be responsible for a new thread, it has been difficult for many of the busy captains to keep it going, and a lot of team members are also busy and find it hard to even check in on their own team and do a challenge from time to time. One way that would be pretty easy would be to have one of the weekly challenges each month be a "post your struggles/share your help" thread. If you'd like to work that up and send it to me, I'll put it in the rotation! The team chats usually do a pretty good job of sharing struggles and ideas already and we have to be careful not to provide too many places that members have to go - but it would be fun to give it a try.
My idea is actually a little more basic. Every week the results get posted to each team, each one with one or more different team specific bits. Instead of doing six posts with all the big rah rah, we do six tiny 'hey, the leaderboard is ready for the week, look at it here' messages and one chat thread deadicated to leader board. Heck, we could even keep the leaderboard thread up for a year, rather than just a month so we could see the full scope. Maybe it wouldn't work...I don't know.
On the second...I'm not suggesting a second thread for each team to manage for their week--each team would have an open house week (not that it isn't possible every week anyway) where that would just be part of that week's posts. Captains might do a little front loading Sat before to prep--but not a whole lot extra. Non-host teams would get a little 'hey team! Let's go meet team XXX (placeholder for name, not size judgement!!!) this week and share stuff we've learned.' message and a link to the host team's thread. Maybe each team picks a topic vs posting struggles, which would invite those unusual voices to come play and maybe see other opportunities. I don't know. My brain is super tired having just finished hosting an all day Zoom training. I like Zoom...but 9-4 is LONG.0 -
@jugar I sent notes to all the people in TrimStones on the Support Team, as well as those on the Drop List. Arc130 would like to return this weekend from the Support Team please. I have filled in her beginning weight on the chart. Her weigh in days will be Saturday and she would like to start this weekend. Thanks!
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jessicakrall8 wrote: »@jugar I sent notes to all the people in TrimStones on the Support Team, as well as those on the Drop List. Arc130 would like to return this weekend from the Support Team please. I have filled in her beginning weight on the chart. Her weigh in days will be Saturday and she would like to start this weekend. Thanks!
Jessica
I put Arc130 in, and you can update the October starting weight on Saturday when she weighs in. The new spreadsheets should be done tomorrow. Thanks!0 -
jessicakrall8 wrote: »@jugar I sent notes to all the people in TrimStones on the Support Team, as well as those on the Drop List. Arc130 would like to return this weekend from the Support Team please. I have filled in her beginning weight on the chart. Her weigh in days will be Saturday and she would like to start this weekend. Thanks!
Jessica
I put Arc130 in, and you can update the October starting weight on Saturday when she weighs in. The new spreadsheets should be done tomorrow. Thanks!
@jugar go ahead and move Arc130 and myself because we're both weighing in for the last week in Sept...personally I've been working hard...started a new Captain's challenge on our team for the next 7-8 weeks and I'm excited about seeing what the team (and myself) can do over the next month or two!! Can't wait to see my first drop from when I posted a week ago that I wanted to come out of support! Thanks for your help!
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lindamtuck2018 wrote: »@jugar
Can you move bluetail6 back to the team for this week? Also, littleflutterby will be moving back for October. Her starting weight is 304.6. She will be taking November off as she will be travelling. She will remind me closer to the end of October. Waiting to here back from a few of the people on support. I do know that cesse47 and tahm42 are sitting October out as they are still recovering. Thanks!
I am not sure if you saw this one. Bluetail6 weighed in yesterday so I will enter the weight when you move her. She is a Thursday weigh in.0 -
Hey Captains! We have another month-long challenge to help you get the junk out of your diet and focus on whole foods and good health. Encourage your team members to join today! 
OCTOBER CHALLENGE
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lindamtuck2018 wrote: »lindamtuck2018 wrote: »@jugar
Can you move bluetail6 back to the team for this week? Also, littleflutterby will be moving back for October. Her starting weight is 304.6. She will be taking November off as she will be travelling. She will remind me closer to the end of October. Waiting to here back from a few of the people on support. I do know that cesse47 and tahm42 are sitting October out as they are still recovering. Thanks!
I am not sure if you saw this one. Bluetail6 weighed in yesterday so I will enter the weight when you move her. She is a Thursday weigh in.
Got it at last! Sorry it has been a bit scattered these days. I do not have a starting weight for the month for her either, and I find it a bit odd to move people back into the team in the final week of the month. It is a lot easier to simply record the weight for this week as the starting weight for October.0 -
Warning! Warning!
I will have to do the week and month tallies earlier than usual on Sunday! Please be sure that ALL weigh-ins for the week are posted and up to date by 6:00 am Eastern time! Thanks
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Sept and Oct are such massive pits of crazy, I just need to accept it. I think I need to be on support until Nov.1
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@jugar
Can you please move mszoueb to support until November. Also, right now the Downsizers have no motivators. We are in the process of looking. I think I forgot to let you know we lost them. Thanks!1 -
@jugar
Can you please change mjketo weigh in day to Friday? She is new. Please and thank you.1 -
melaniedscott wrote: »Sept and Oct are such massive pits of crazy, I just need to accept it. I think I need to be on support until Nov.
No problem!
BUT there are some problems with the correspondance between Week 5 September and Starting Weights October - @minstrelofsarcasm can you help out to fix this? I think it is right now, but there was some fudging around to get there. Thanks!0
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