WeightNoMore Team Chat - MAY 2023
jugar
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Fat2Fit has five great teams. The group and team leaders are as follows:
Our Moderators:
Liselyn - @jugar
Megan - @Megan_smartiepants1970
Ashley - @minstrelofsarcasm
Jessica - @jessicakrall8
Our Team Captains:
Downsizers - @lindamtuck2018 and @Megan_smartiepants1970
Mission Slimpossible - @broncobuddee and @trooworld
Weight No More - @minstrelofsarcasm and @melaniedscott
WaistAways - @jugar and @ashleycarole86
Shape Shifters - @jessicakrall8 and @Pupowl
Our Team Motivators:
Downsizers - @Slimmersixties & @JaysFan82
Mission Slimpossibles - @katmary71
Weight No More - @rachelrjh
WaistAways - @conleywoods
Shape Shifters - @PatriceFitnessPal
HOW IT ALL WORKS: The May challenge runs for 5 weeks, from April 30 - June 3. F2F months always start on a Sunday and end on a Saturday, so adjust your calendars!
Everyone weighs in weekly on their chosen day right here in the team chat thread. 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 celebrate those small, steady losses. If you lose, however small an amount, you are in the green! At the end of the month, we celebrate everyone who lost at least a bit every week. You are heading steadily towards your goal even if you aren't at the top of the weight loss leaderboard. Let's have a Green March!
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:
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 can be excused for a week or two, or are moved to 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. Don't worry! You can come back if you get dropped and then return.
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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Happy May everyone!
I started doing the Fat to Fit challenges in September 2022 and since then have lost a total of 23.2 lbs.
I enjoy these challenges and find that they really help to keep me motivated. Overall, since making my lifestyle change in January 2022, I have lost a total of 70.4 lbs, which is over 30% of my starting body weight. My goal weight is around 135-145. I will set a final target once I see my doctor again in a few months.
My target for May is to lose 3 lbs. Challenging for me since my rate of loss has slowed but I think it's doable.
Wishing everyone much success and good health!
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The May Week 1 Group Challenge is open and ready for participation starting Sunday, April 30th. Look forward to seeing you as we begin the Self-Love Bingo Challenge. Here's your link:
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10889636/may-week-1-group-challenge-self-love-bingo/p1?new=1
Jessica1 -
Weigh In Day: Sunday
PW (Previous Weight): 180
CW (Current Weight): 179.5
The scale isn't budging but I've upped my exercise and weights so hopefully something will give soon!
I forgot to post my steps for last week and now the comments have been turned off for April.
Steps Week ending 4/29/23
My steps are down this week, I've been focusing more on weight training this week.
Sun - 11,053
Mon - 5,735 (migraine day)
Tues - 6,259
Wed - 8,651
Thurs - 7,468
Fri - 9,029
Sat - 12,377
60,572 Total
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Team Results
By Percentage
By Pounds
Individual Results
By Percentage
By Pounds
Team Winners
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Username: Emm_165
Weigh-In Day: Sunday
PW: 281.1
CW: 280.4
Slowly going down. I continue to write down my food on paper and abstain from flour and sugar. This has surely helped ease my IBS. And overall is helping me a great deal. Ive a ways to go but again, taking it one day at a time. 🥰3 -
Team Results
By Percentage
By Pounds
Individual Results
By Percentage
By Pounds
Team Winners
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April 30th
Weigh In Day: Sunday
Previous Weight: April 23rd - 218.0
Current Weight: April 30th - 218.0
Steps
Sunday - 7216
Monday - 17652
Tuesday - 16468
Wednesday - 11207
Thursday - 11589
Friday - 8789
Saturday - 1779
Total - 74700 steps
Hasn't been a great weekend stepwise
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Shortmom5
Weigh in day: Sunday
PW: 178
CW: 183
After a couple of months off I’m back and ready to regroup and move forward. Have a great week everyone.5 -
BodyTalking
Steps 23-29 Apr
S 12041
M 8501
T 5362
W 13041
T 16709
F 16343
S 9352
It was my mum's 90th birthday today so I've not been on here much the past few days.
I hope you're all doing well and I'll catch up soon.3 -
MFP USERNAME ____Becks____
WEIGH-IN DAY MONDAY
PREVIOUS WEIGHT: 176LBS
CURRENT WEIGHT: 173.8lbs5 -
I am overweight! When I started in January my BMI was 35.7, as of today it is 29.8 8
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Wow we have had some great successes last month. I am working on getting of the rollercoaster. That is ok with me. That is one of the main things I am learning. I have had an eating disorder my whole adult life. It started when I was 15. I am in a much better place both physically and mentally these days. I have been working on the mental weight loss for the last year or so. It is tough work but I am up for it. My goal is to have the eating disorder in remission by time I retire. With all the help from friends and pals and ME, I am doing it.
My just one thing today, is to do some yoga after work. Its just one thing. I can do one thing.
How about you?
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GarysGirl78
Weigh-in Day: Monday
PW: 68.28 kg / 150.6 lbs
CW: 67.25 kg / 148.3 lbs
First milestone of 63 kg (pre-Covid) is getting closer, ultimately I'd like to go all the way down to 58-59 kg and fitness like in my competitive mountain biking years (5-6 years ago).
Changed my diet from low carb (20%), high protein (50%) to a more sustainable ratio (c40p40f20) and increased my calorie IN by about 150-200 cal daily since Friday so expecting weight loss rate to decrease a bit. Still running at a deficit, so hopefully weight loss won't completely stall
(I'm a tad bit apprehensive tbh)
Been reading some great success stories in previous month's chat, well done on all of you!
Let's keep it up for this month!!
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cyndiesstuff wrote: »My just one thing today, is to do some yoga after work. Its just one thing. I can do one thing.
How about you?
Hmmmm... That would be going to bed early (I tend to go to bed around 1 am usually
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Who else is going to share?
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____Becks____ wrote: »I am overweight! When I started in January my BMI was 35.7, as of today it is 29.8
Awesome milestone!! Congrats!2 -
Hey folks! Welcome to May - hard to believe we've already completed four months of 2023.
Typically, I post the exact same introduction post (see it in the spoiler if you want). It's a lot of information about me, and doesn't actually bring anyone into the mechanics of the group, so I decided to spoiler it this time around.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)!
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 27 and currently living in Ohio. I work as an innovation engineer for an industrial manufacturing company. 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 1,040 spin classes. There was some… drama at the spin studio, so I no longer have a membership, but will drop in from time to time.
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 you don’t have time to read.
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) around 170 lbs, over 60 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 have recently joined a new gym. Between spending time with my friend (who has a personal training certification, and who I guess is now my personal trainer) and dropping in on spin classes and all the amenities my new gym has to offer, I am hoping to get back on track. Previously, I have had memberships with CycleBar, OrangeTheory, and F45 - By no means am I an expert on fitness classes, but I know a thing or two.
I'm looking forward to getting to know all of you even more as we work our way through the month.
And if you're curious how this group works, here's some info:
What We Need From You -- On your weigh day, post your current weight (provide this by end-of-day Saturday for your updated weight to be included in the team's results for the week)
- If you want to change your weigh day, just let me know! Post here, send me a message, whatever you need
- If you are in the Step Challenge, post your steps before Melanie posts the statistics on Wednesdays (you can join the step challenge at any time!)
If You Cannot Weigh-In -- Request to be excused for the week (either send me a message or post it here)
- Request to be moved to the support team (a portion of our team where you can stay in the challenge, but temporarily take a break from posting regular updates - I highly recommend having a plan for getting back to our standard weight loss team when you decide to jump onto the support team)
- If you do nothing, you will marked as NWI (non weigh-in) for the week - two in a row drops you from the team
Basically, communication is key. If there is something you need from us, say something. We are more than happy to help you. There is a lot of flexibility in the Fat2Fit group, but you can only take advantage of it if you let us know you want to make a change. We can move you to the support team, help you transition into one of the four other teams in the challenge, change your weigh days, assist with maintenance... We're a team. We got you.
As always, if there are any questions, please please please just ask. Most likely, someone else has the exact same question and hasn't asked yet.0 -
Steps
Sun-2,486
Mon-8,490
Tues-9,870
Wed-9,063
Thurs-11,606
Fri-12,673
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Didn't have great steps last week either and yesterday I forgot my fitbit. I need to get motivated. I had big plans for when I got home from work today and so far I only stopped at the store. I don't know if it's because I have been trying to get so much done around work that I'm just tired when I get home. Today I was installing screens around the building, I can add that to my resume. Yesterday we had to go to a wake for a little girl at my school who lost her dad last week in a motorcycle accident. It was so sad. She doesn't realize her dad's not coming home, she thinks he's at work. They are such a sweet family.3
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@GarysGirl78 I'm also working on getting to bed at a certain time. Mine is 11 pm. Also no scrolling on FB or anything like that while I'm in bed at bedtime. I can check to make sure my alarms are set and last minute looks at eBay, etc to see if I have any late night sales to pack up...but besides that I will get sucked into FB or something and then it's like 12:30, so none of that.3
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I'm so sorry to be late with the Habit Tracker for May! Here it is - it is open for anyone to use.
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10889840/habit-tracker-may-2023#latest
This is a simple and user-friendly way to track those small habits that add up to success. Go for it!1 -
Hi all, very excited to be here and be on the team. I'm an almost 40 mom of two. My birthday is in 7 months and I would love to enter my forties in better shape than I have spent the past 2 years since baby #2 was born.
I have been tracking every day for almost 2 weeks now. I am trying to drink half my body weight in oz of water. I am trying to stop snacking on things, especially my kids leftover meals and snacks. Hoping for a good weigh in this week to help the team!3 -
Laurabb99
Weigh-in Day: Monday
PW: 212 lbs
CW: 213.3 lbs
I will try to read everyone's post but first I'm going to try to get my workout in. 😁. And think of specific May goals. I'm so happy to be here!
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MFP USER NAME: 2BFitgranny
CHOSEN WEIGH-IN DAY: Monday
PREVIOUS WEIGHT: 223,8
CURRENT WEIGHT (highest weight ever): 221.1
Looking forward to getting back on track. My main focus is recording my food daily and staying within my calories.5 -
May 02, 2023
Weigh In Day: Tuesday
PW (Previous Weight): 122lbs
CW (Current Weight): 120lbs
I worked really hard last week to be consistent with exercise and calorie deficit, so glad to see it's starting to pay off! I hope to keep this moment going. 5 -
Dwalms
May 02, 2023
Weigh In Day: Sunday
PW (Previous Weight): 230lbs
CW (Current Weight): 228.4bs
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kelliward1 wrote: »@GarysGirl78 I'm also working on getting to bed at a certain time. Mine is 11 pm. Also no scrolling on FB or anything like that while I'm in bed at bedtime. I can check to make sure my alarms are set and last minute looks at eBay, etc to see if I have any late night sales to pack up...but besides that I will get sucked into FB or something and then it's like 12:30, so none of that.
11:20 pm last night, that's really early for me
@kelliward1 How did you do?2 -
I'm so sorry to be late with the Habit Tracker for May! Here it is - it is open for anyone to use.
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10889840/habit-tracker-may-2023#latest
This is a simple and user-friendly way to track those small habits that add up to success. Go for it!
I'm in! I love spreadsheets
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Steps for April 23-29
Sun - 11,447
Mon - 9189
Tues - 9656
Wed - 9222
Thurs - 13,393
Fri - 9339
Sat - 19,123
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Uhm.. Silly question? Where and when should I sign up for this weekly step challenge?1
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GarysGirl78 wrote: »Uhm.. Silly question? Where and when should I sign up for this weekly step challenge?
Never a silly question! There's no official sign-up, all you have to do is post your daily steps (Sun - Sat works best) and Melanie ( @melaniedscott ) will take care of the rest. Results are posted every Wednesday, so get in your steps for the previous week before then and you're all set!
For Example: If you wanted to start with this week, make sure your steps (from Sunday, April 30th to Saturday, May 6th) are posted by Tuesday, May 9th.0
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