Weight No More Team Chat - OCTOBER 2021
jugar
Posts: 9,416 Member
Here is your Team chat room for October 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 often, and help each other succeed!
We have six great teams. The group and team leaders are as follows:
Our Moderators:
Liselyn - @jugar
Teresa - @TeresaW1020
Megan - @Megan_smartiepants1970
Ashley - @minstrelofsarcasm
Our Team Captains:
Downsizers - @lindamtuck2018 and @Megan_smartiepants1970
Mission Slimpossibles - @broncobuddee and @TeresaW1020
Trimstones - @jessicakrall8
Weight No More - @minstrelofsarcasm and @melaniedscott
WaistAways - @jugar and @ashleycarole86
Shrinking Assets - @Beka3695 and @TheMrWobbly
Our Team Motivators:
Downsizers - @TheresaM787 and @Poobah1972
Mission Slimpossibles - @AustinRuadhain @katmary71 and @trooworld
Trimstones - @angmarie28
Weight No More - @rachelrjh
WaistAways - @conleywoods
Shrinking Assets - @hipari
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 miss two weigh-ins in a row without asking for a break, you will be dropped from the team, so be sure to inform your team captain if you are traveling, sick, or just need some time off. 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, you can weigh in if you want to, but it will not count in the weekly tally.
Once you reach your goal weight, you join the Goal Zone! You continue to weigh in every week. 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 begin!!
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Username: FaithIt365
Weigh In Day: Saturday
PW (Previous Weught): 360.6
CW (Current Weight): 360.6
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Happy New Month, Everybody! So happy to see all the new faces in the chat (and the old ones too, not that I'm calling anyone old, I swear)! Huge welcome to @FaithIt365 ,
@millerwoman7224 , and @xrj22 !!!
I am minstrelofsarcasm, also known as Minstrel, also known as Ashley, also known as "that sweaty girl in the corner"... I am one of the co-captains along with the ever-marvelous @melaniedscott. My role here is to provide some real talk, some good motivation, and a few too many jokes about stress eating for anyone's comfort levels.
The Basics:
I am 26 and currently living in Ohio. I work as a combustion engineer for an industrial manufacturing company (I set things on fire for money). I am fascinated by all facets of science, whether that be nuclear physics, nutrition, geology (I hear it rocks), chemistry, etc. Feel free to ask any of your questions when it comes to the science of things. I can't guarantee I'll know the answer, but I can definitely figure it out and provide an answer in a way that's (hopefully) understandable.
Why I am Here:
I love numbers, and when I discovered that I could get healthier (as my doctor told me I absolutely had to do) by keeping track of numbers, I signed up for MFP. My original weight was 8lbs 2oz, and while I don't think I'll ever make it quite that low ever again, my goal is to never be above my highest weight of 234 (September 2014).
Despite having joined this wonderful community, I didn't take my weight loss or my health seriously until after I graduated college in May 2017 and was told by a different doctor that my eating and (lack of) exercise habits put me on the road to diabetes. I'll admit, I was terrified. I grew up with a diabetic parent who took no actions towards improving their health to reduce their dependence on insulin and is now facing some very serious health complications. I didn't want that to happen to me - I wouldn't want to put anyone through having to worry about me in the same way I worried about them.
So I searched "gym" on Google Maps, and signed up for a free class with the first place that popped up in the results, a spin studio. Since July 1st, 2017, I have completed over 980 spin classes. I guess you can say they hooked me.
In other news, I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in December 2019 after an arduous journey from doctor to doctor, through several misdiagnoses (why is it that the first thing a doctor will suggest is anxiety if you're female and show emotion in the doctor's office?), 14 vials of blood drawn for blood tests, 3 weeks of being unable to consistently feel the left side of my body, 2 MRIs, 1 spinal tap, and a partridge in a pear tree. I could go into a long rant about everything, and I have, but there's no need to fill my introduction with things I've written time and time again (I'll post a link to my blog, for those of you interested in my madness).
In Summary:
Since joining MFP, I have lost over 70 lbs, regained about 15 while on a three-month business trip in France (wine and cheese is my weakness), lost 5 of them, gained 5 of them, maintained throughout 2020, yo-yo'ed for the first few months of 2021, and here I stand (sit) at 170 lbs, a good 64 net lbs lost. I don't have a goal weight anymore, since BMI was developed by a mathematician and not a doctor, and as long as I feel healthy, I can weigh whatever I want (somewhere in the 150's sounds pretty good right now, but I guess we'll see).
As for exercising, I still have a membership to the spin studio, but I also do regular functional training HIIT classes to build up some resistance training on top of my strong cardio regimen. I'm aiming to hit my 1000th spin class by my birthday at the end of August. I'm a bit behind my weekly quota, but I have faith I'll be able to work something out.
If you want to know more about me, or my journey, feel free to ask questions, or you can find my blog here: LINK
Blog posts I’m especially proud of:- Creating a Sense of Accountability - This is my first blog post ever, and I’ve grown a lot since then, but so many of the same factors are still present in my life
- Timeline of a Post Vacation Bloat - Follow how my weight fluctuates throughout the week after my return from a short vacation, and the factors that I believe played a role in each shift
- BMI is BS - I essentially wrote a history lesson on BMI and why you shouldn’t base your self worth on it. Most likely, your BMI is misrepresenting you.
I'm looking forward to getting to know all of you even more as we work our way through the month.
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Username: MayLan
Weigh In Day: Saturday
PW (Previous Weught): 248.6
CW (Current Weight): 2492 -
Pw 122
CW 121
Steps
Not a good week due to rain days
Sun - - 2,382
Mon- 5,325
Tues- 4,209
Wed- 11,272
Th - 1,808
Fri - 12,409
Sat - 4,9552 -
Hello Fat2Fit team members! Here is your OCTOBER HABIT TRACKER. Click the link and follow the instructions and start tracking your healthy habits today!
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Team Standings:
By Percent
By Pounds
Individual Standings:
By Percent
By Pounds
Your Team's Biggest Losers (Winners)!
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Team Standings:
By Percent
By Pounds
Individual Standings:
By Percent
By Pounds
Your Team's Biggest Losers (Winners)!
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Steps
Sun- 12,546
Mon- 8,740
Tues- 10,312
Wed- 14,128
Thurs- 13,049
Fri- 10,465
Sat- 6,9673 -
Last week I was at 221.4
Username: CassieGetsFit2013
Weigh In Day: Sunday
PW (Previous Weight): 221.4
CW (Current Weight): 219.0
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AMA3387
PW 213.2 lbs
CW 209.8 lbs
Steps
9/26- 2,175
9/27- 2,901
9/28- 6,480
9/29- 2,328
9/30- 2,366
10/1- 6,229
10/2- 4,4671 -
Pacsnc6
Steps
Sun 5058 - 1.8 mi
Mon 4916 - 1.7
Tues 5459 - 1.9
Wed 5910 - 2.1
Thu 6302 - 2.2
Fri 4851 - 2
Sat 6094 - 2.2
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Good morning Team Wait No More! This week we aren't doing a weekly challenge because we would like for you to give our
STOP EATING CRAP OCTOBER CHALLENGE a chance. If you can do the whole month that would be awesome! But if you only do one week, that will still give you some real benefits that will help you with your health and weight loss goals. So come on over and join us!
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9/27: 284.8
10/4: 283.6
Happy October! Welcome to all the new folks. 2 -
Steps for the last week..
9/26- 3,783
9/27- 11,853
9/28- 14,719
9/29- 13,977
9/30- 14,680
10/1- 7,277
10/2- 12,5482 -
Hello, I am new here. I am 53 years old and work in healthcare. I have generally been reasonably healthy, at times I have been athletic or into one sport or another, at times not. In recent years I have been less active, had a few life setbacks, some struggles with depression. About a year and a half ago, I was in the overweight range, and trying not to think about it. Then I had a physical and my cholesterol was 246. That was a shock to me as I generally think of myself as a pretty healthy person. I also have a lot of heart disease in my family (the high cholesterol tends to run in the family also - a lot of it is genetic, my eating wasn't really that bad). I went on a vegan, whole foods diet, exercised, and made a lot of changes in my life. I lost 33 lbs and my cholesterol was down to 160!!! yeah. Well, a year later, I am pretty much back where I started weight and habits-wise. I felt much better when I was eating right and exercising. I now know a bunch of recipes, running trails, and other things to help me. I just have to get back to doing it. After avoiding doctors all year, I have decided to eat humble pie and go back to see the naturopath who helped me last time. I am getting my labs checked tomorrow. Really scared to see what they are now. But I am going to use it to motivate me, not discourage me.3
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Due to additional calculations following the posting of the previous results...
I have some corrections I'd like to make to the team leaderboards for both Week 5
and the month of September
WEEK 5
SEPTEMBER
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Twyla77
Weigh In Day: Sunday Oct 3
Previous Weight: 146.4
Today’s Weight: 147.4
Ugh, I just can’t get out of this 147 zone! But I’m still getting to the gym at least 3x a week, and I’m feeling mentally good, and have more energy in general. Just hope the scale starts to reflect something lol.
Today, October 4, communities across Canada honour the memory of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and gender-diverse people by attending Sisters in Spirit (SIS) vigils, so I took the day off work so I could attend and support. Then I just walked around downtown all afternoon - i wound up getting almost 29,000 steps in, and lots of reflecting and thinking done!
Tomorrow is my 44th birthday, and I’m going to work hard to make it my best year yet! ❤️☺️5 -
Happy Birthday, @twyla77
Ugh, I just can’t get out of this 147 zone! But I’m still getting to the gym at least 3x a week, and I’m feeling mentally good, and have more energy in general. Just hope the scale starts to reflect something lol.
You could be in a state of recomposition! If you're feeling good and exercising regularly, your body may be slowly losing fat while it gains muscle. Have you seen any non-scale changes?Hello, I am new here. ... Well, a year later, I am pretty much back where I started weight and habits-wise. I felt much better when I was eating right and exercising. I now know a bunch of recipes, running trails, and other things to help me. I just have to get back to doing it. After avoiding doctors all year, I have decided to eat humble pie and go back to see the naturopath who helped me last time. I am getting my labs checked tomorrow. Really scared to see what they are now. But I am going to use it to motivate me, not discourage me.
@xrj22 - Hope all of your labs come out okay! Glad to have you here with us. Feel free to ask any questions you may have - you've got a whole team here to support you in your journey.1 -
A nice day here in NC. Took a hike near the lake today and not too hungry most of the day. I will make up for that tomorrow by celebrating my birthday. Last one this decade as I make it to 69. Lots of changes in my 60s include losing almost 20 pounds. Hoping to lose more in the next year or two.1
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PW-148
CW-148
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