Mission Slimpossible Team Chat - NOVEMBER 2023
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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 & @NachDeezy
Mission Slimpossibles - @katmary71
Weight No More - @rachelrjh
WaistAways - @conleywoods & @cleaneater80
Shape Shifters - @Sbus12 and @Cyncia85
HOW IT ALL WORKS: The November challenge runs for 5 weeks, from October 19 - December 2. 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. 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.
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 want 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 always come back even if you get dropped.
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: micaroo4
Weigh-In Day: Saturday
PW: 132.0
CW: 131.8
Hi Slimpossibles!
My name is Mica, and I live in southern New Hampshire on the seacoast. I live with my partner Rich and my cat Earl (Earl is my profile pic). I am 67 years old and I work part time as a bookkeeper in a plastics factory. At my heaviest weight I was 220. I lost 90 pounds between 2001 and 2003, and I struggled with gaining and losing 50 pounds over the next 15 years, but I've been maintaining in my goal range of 127-133 (center weight 130) since 2019. I do a "walk the year" challenge every year (walking 2023 miles in 2023, which is about 6 miles/day). My favorite exercise is riding a bicycle (outdoors) and my hobbies are birding and crochet. I have a lot of exercise equipment in my house so I am always able to maintain my workout schedule regardless of weather or season. I love these challenges because they keep me accountable!
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Hi everyone! A big welcome to the new team members, and welcome back to the returning members, I am so glad you are here!
I am one of your Mission Slimpossibles captains along with @broncobuddee. Our wonderful motivator is @Katmary71!
CHECK-IN PROCESS
Along with our weekly weigh-ins, we REALLY encourage our team members to participate in regular check-ins. It’s a great way to stay accountable to yourself and it allows the team to cheer you on and offer support as you need it. We are a community, and we are stronger together!
CHANGES TO YOUR WEIGH-IN DAY/WEIGHTS
If you have any changes to your weigh-in day or reported weights, be sure to tag @BroncoBuddee who handles all of that stuff. He also handles moving people to cheerleader status/or other status changes.
LET'S GET TO KNOW EACH OTHER
Please share a little bit about you: your name, where you live, and what brought you to the Fat2Fit Challenge Group. Also share anything else you would like to, including any goals for the year. We are here to support and cheer you as you go through your weight loss adventure!
MY INTRODUCTION
Hi everyone. My name is Chris. I live in Southern California with my husband, cute one-eyed pirate pug named Daisy (7 yrs old) and pug pup name Violet who is a little more than 1 yr old. Up until my mid-20s, I was a healthy weight but then the mid-20s hit and along with that came medications that made me gain weight as well as poor lifestyle choices. For exercise, I recently joined the YMCA and I also recently bought a walking pad (like a more compact treadmill). I go to yoga and stretch classes and walk.
I have about 65 lbs to lose. My hobbies: reading, making artwork and crafts, photography, and cooking. I do straight-up calorie counting.
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@19shmoo69 My MIL likes Seattle's Best. I like it, too. I am drinking some Costa Rican coffee my friend brought me back from Costa Rica. It's delicious! Good luck with the jump start, I had a friend who just did that for prep for a gastric sleeve surgery.
@laurelfit57 I do. That's why I mostly do my exercise on the weekends. I am glad your sauces came out well, they will come in handy! It looks delicious. I did get a pic, I'll post. It was a lot of fun and people got a kick out of it. I've never froze tomatoes but I hear they don't freeze well....sauces? Yes but not the tomatoes. Where was Vannie??? I think I missed something. I'm glad she's home! Awwwww Vannie!
@DrewsAnna I love the smell of really fresh, crisp air. Enjoy the time with your hubby and friends and good luck with Leslie Sansone!
@Neon_Ninja No problem, jump back in when you are ready, good luck with the issues!
@tammymccrady6278 Congrats on the loss!
Hi all. @Katmary71 messaged me and said she will be back soon. She's doing pretty good and I look forward to hearing from her again. @laurelfit57 has done a great job as a temporary motivator! In other news, how's everyone doing with the Spooky Fitness Challenge??? Only 4 more days! I had fun yesterday at work. Here is a pic of me dressed as DJ Dewey Decimal--- the world's first librarian-DJ! And a close-up of my nameplate that says READ. My mouth looks funny because I have a diamond (CZ) studded grill in. I am dressing up tonight to go out downtown with my husband and SIL. It should be fun.
Spooky Fitness Challenge for Oct steps/minutes: 7,950 / 6,000, 87 mins / 15 active mins
My phrase for the year: "Every choice is another chance to change my health for the better."
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Hi MS ... You have a new member joining your amazing team .. Please welcome @Veta2018
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The November Week 1 Group Challenge is ready to go for Sunday! Let's aspire and plan:
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@steffiebabiie what part of Australia are you in? I was on a cruise ship a few years ago and was lucky enough to touch down in some places in Australia. We spent a week in Sydney at the end. Such a beautiful, beautiful country!
@DrewsAnna your walk with Chipper sounds absolutely lovely. There is nothing like fresh snow on the mountains! What is Golo? It sounds like a fun night out with your friends to the pizza place.
@Neon_Ninja take good care of yourself and I hope all is well.
@Cornanda Gus is such a little cutey♥️♥️. Those bed heads get me every time. Vannie is getting a haircut on Monday, her bed head won’t be nearly as cute.🤣
@Tammymccrady yay huge congrats on the loss!
@micaroo4 it seems you are so solid at your maintenance weight, good for you!
@865jessica huge congrats on the loss!
@bethanie0825 congratulations on the loss!
@trooworld with that commute, you don’t have a lot of time for the living during the week when you get home! Such good news that @Katmary71 is on the road to recovery!! Believe it or not, tomatoes, freeze beautifully! You just can’t use them as you would in a salad or sandwich or whatever. They are good to make pasta sauce, pizza sauce etc. Vannie was just with my son and daughter-in-law for a few days :-). I love your costume!!! So funny.🤣🤣
Love the nails too!
My week has definitely been off track and I am off schedule. I spent all day cooking again today (I tasted way too many dishes) made up another big batch of marinara sauce, and Italian meatballs. Everything is done up into individual portions, and in my freezer, ready for the winter. I am now officially done cooking lol I am having my family over tomorrow and we are going to have an Italian feast. I am even going to try my hand at making focaccia bread. I am going to serve meatballs with marinara sauce and a roasted tomato pasta sauce. Fingers crossed, all will go well :-). I making everything from scratch. I was able to lighten up all the recipes, when I pull them out of the freezer I will feel pretty good about them.
I am getting back to the gym next week, I have already signed up for classes on Monday and Tuesday, I can’t wait!! I took Vannie out for a short walk this morning and it was actually pretty decent outside but I had already started things cooking on the stove so couldn’t go for too long. By the time I had finished up everything this afternoon, the wind was so cold even Vannie wanted to get home right away. Well… Tomorrow we are going for a fun agility match, so we should get in lots of exercise, and have a lot of fun at the same time! Hope everybody has a great Saturday5 -
Good morning Slims!
Rich is away this weekend. Sometimes I feel like it's so much easier to stay on track when he's away, but I think I'd rather struggle with food and exercise and have him here with me, than to have an easier time with food and exercise, but be missing him. He'll be back tonight.
We had some unseasonably warm days for the past 3 days, but now it's back to reality. The high temp today will be 30 degrees colder than yesterday. Yesterday, I had the A/C on; this morning I've turned the heat back on. Such is New England.
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19shmoo69
Sunday
P. W. 285
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Username: Veta2018
Weigh In Day: Sunday
PW (Previous Weight): 180 lbs.
CW (Current Weight): 162 lbs.
Hello,
My name is Veta and I live in NW Indiana. I'm a 49 year-old homemaker with 3 adult sons. I have a King Charles spaniel named Benny. In 2013, I did a challenge with my sister and lost 45 pounds in 12 weeks. Over the years I put on a few pounds here and there. Then January 2022, I quit smoking cigarettes and put on 20 pounds. I was back to my heaviest weight of 180 lbs. and I'm only 5 ft and 1/2 inch tall. People laugh that I include the 1/2 inch. Well, when you're this short every little bit counts...hehehe. This time, I decided to lose the weight for myself. My ideal weight is between 130 lbs. and 136 lbs. By eat fewer calories each day without intentionally restricting any nutrients, along with regular exercise should help pave the way to a healthy life. I will also avoid eating refined carbs and sugars, fried foods, and preservatives. As of recently, cooking new healthy recipes has become an enjoyable experience. I also enjoy listening to music, reading, and all that nature has to offer.
Let's make this month a success!
💪Slimpossible Srong! 💪
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@865jessica @askewcr @19shmoo69 Congrats on the losses!
@DrewsAnna Good job with the workout. I'm glad you had fun with your friends.
@Veta2018 Welcome to the team!!!
Would love to see a pic of little Benny! Congrats on quitting smoking.
@laurelfit57 No I don't. I absolutely hate that commute. Yes, @Katmary71 will be back soon! Oh I didn't know that about tomatoes. Good to know! I'm glad Vannie is home. Thank you! Your Italian feast sounds yummy. I hope the focaccia bread comes out well. Yay for getting back to the gym!
Hi all. This will be short, I only got 3 hours of light sleep last night, we stayed out until 1 am and then stayed up for another hour. I am TIIIIIIIIIRED. We had a lot of fun: lots of walking and going to different parts of the city. We danced and drank some drinks as well. I got over 11,000 steps before midnight and another 1,377 after midnight. I decided to wear my husband's Tigger costume from last year and it was a hit. I'm going for a walk with a friend who just had weight loss surgery this morning at 9:30. I do not feel like it.
Spooky Fitness Challenge for Oct steps/minutes: 11,710 / 6,000, 127 mins / 15 active mins
My phrase for the year: "Every choice is another chance to change my health for the better."
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Sleepygirl79
Sunday
SW 232.2
PW 221.2
Oct.1: 218.8
Oct.8: 221.6
Oct.15: 220.8
Oct. 22: 220
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Weigh In Day: Sunday
PW: 156.4
CW: 156.0
I can’t believe it’s almost November already. My shoulder is getting better.5 -
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Username: laurelfit57
Weigh In Day: Sunday
PW: 146.4
CW: 148.2
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Username: badnoodle
Weigh in: Sunday
PW: 192
CW 188.2
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I'm badnoodle, and I live in West Virginia with a couple of cats and an ever growing mountain of unfinished craft projects. The first three weeks of October were pretty rough for me in terms of diet, but I'd like to think I finished strong with one whole week without bingeing. Let me tell y'all, it got real close last night. I'd spent ten hours outside in the woods supervising student projects, and I was starving, but I had to stop by the grocery store. I totally bought chips and cookies with every intention of eating all of them in the car before I got home, but I bargained myself into drinking a coke zero first. I'm proud to say that junk food remains unopened, and destined to go to the grad student's Halloween party on Tuesday .🎉
My goals for November are to keep going to hot yoga class at least twice a week, and get at least 7000 steps a day, and to keep planning my lunches.
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Hey everyone! Just thought I’d do a little re-introduction for anyone who missed my last one.I'm Stephanie, or Stevi (never Steph). I live on the Sunshine Coast in Australia, so I’m a day ahead of most of you, and my seasons are opposite. I’m originally from Orange County, California, but have been in Australia for around 8 years. This is definitely home now! I have two girls (daughter and stepdaughter) who are both 16 who motivate me to set a healthy example. My partner is also extremely supportive and encouraging, and I appreciate the hell out of him. Even when he eats an entire package of cookies in one day and doesn’t gain a gram.
Like a lot of people, I have a history of having a bad relationship with food, weight, and body image. My highest weight was around 100kg/220lbs, and with stress of my partner being diagnosed with bowel cancer at the start of the year, I had crept back up dangerously close to that. My partner is doing great and is cancer free (super rare tumor that was only in his appendix and hadn't spread) and I need to take care of myself now. I started back on my “get healthy” journey at the end of August 2023, after having not paid attention to what I was eating or intentionally exercising for a few years.
I’m working with a dietitian to get my calories and macros in the right place. I do roughly follow the mediterranean diet as this is just how I prefer eating, and I love intermittent fasting. While I prefer ADF (alternate day fasting), my dietitian has advised against that until I feel confident that I am able to get enough calories on my eating days and don’t have any overly high calorie days. For the moment, I have a 6-8 hour window daily and a calorie goal of 1400-1600 with a macro split of 40f/30p/30c, and no alcohol.
Even though I hadn’t been intentionally exercising, we are a pretty active family. On the weekends I can be found out hiking, at the beach, or riding dirtbikes.
I’m down 10.05kg/22.16lbs since the end of August, but most importantly, I feel better. Looking forward to the progress November brings!
Goals for November:
• log everything, every day!
• 6,500+ steps/day
• average of 20 active minutes daily
• stretching every day
• No Sugar November! (for me, this is only referring to added sugars. Natural sugars in fruit and vegetables don’t count. It extends to sweeteners, so none of the “sugar-free” substitutes. The only exception to this is my protein powder, which has stevia, but I can’t really cut that out 😅)
• No alcohol
• 4 weeks in the green
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Weigh In Sunday
SW 175
PW 169 6
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@micaroo4 it sounds like it is definitely the real thing with you and Rich♥️. I’m sure you will be happy when he is home tonight. Your weather in New England sounds the same as our weather in Alberta, huge variations in temperature.
@19shmoo69 congrats on the loss! Looks like switching it up was a good thing :-).
@Veta2018 welcome aboard! We highly encourage sharing of our pets on this team :-)! Huge congrats to you on quitting smoking, that is tough!
@Trooworld you are just so dang cute in that costume! Sounds like you guys had a super fun time, no wonder you are so tired today! The Italian feast was super yummy. I didn’t realize that I was supposed to start making the focaccia bread the night before, so that was a no go. It’s OK we had lots of food :-) :-)
@Sleepygirl79 love that downward trend you’ve got going on there!
Huge congratulations to everybody on the leaders board!
@badnoodle huge congratulations to you. Oh no benches this week! That’s huge! It’s a very good thing to have a plan for that junk food, you can say goodbye to it on Tuesday :-). I love your goals for the month!
@steffibabiie having to 16-year-old girls has to keep you very busy! Great goals for November!
This is going to be very short and sweet, I can barely keep my eyes open. I am disappointed with my gain this week, but not surprised. We went to the agility fun match today and I thought we were only supposed to do two runs, we actually did five! Vannie and I are both worn out. We were in a class of 10 dogs, anything from small terriers, border collies to Belgian Malinois. We had the fastest time and the most faults. The speed was totally credit to Vannie and the faults were totally on me. My brain can’t work as fast as Vannie‘s feet 🤣🤣🤣. I am supposed to be telling her what to do all the way around the course, she moves so dang fast I can’t think fast enough 🤣.
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Hi,
My name is Anna. I live in Wa. state across the pond from Seattle, and I'm kind of a homebody. I've been struggling with my weight for about 14-15 yrs. My first time on WW I lost about 35 lbs bac in 2008, and I've been yo-yoing ever since. I love exercising, but because of aches and pains, I'm not very consistent with that at all.
I am currently doing "Golo". I like it because it is eating whole foods, clean foods and eating 3 well balanced meals per day following the 2-1-2-1 plan. 2 proteins, 1 carb, 2 veggies & 1 healthy fat. The "Release" pills are a supplement that help with insulin resistant fat cells. There website is full of just about any kind of recipes you could want and they are good.
Today, I decided to relax and enjoy some football annnnndd, my Seahawks won. 💙💚🏈💚💙 Lol, I know it was because I wore my Seahawk slipper socks. 😂😂😂 I also stayed on my Golo plan. I'm a little short on my step goal, but tomorrow is a brand new day.4
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