Downsizers Team Chat - July 2025
Here is your Team chat room for July 2025. This is where you weigh in, 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! Bookmark this thread to make it easy to land here any time.
Fat2Fit has five great teams. The group and team leaders are as follows - contact them any time!
Our Moderators:
Ashley - @minstrelofsarcasm
Jessica - @jessicakrall8
Lauren- @lauren_989
Megan - @Megan_smartiepants1970
Our Team Captains:
Downsizers - @Megan_smartiepants1970 and [open]
Mission Slimpossible - @Katmary71 and @trooworld
Weight No More - @minstrelofsarcasm and @melaniedscott
WaistAways - @ashleycarole86 and @lauren_989
Shape Shifters - @jessicakrall8 and @frankwbrown
Our Team Motivators:
Mission Slimpossibles - @micaroo4
Weight No More - @BodyTalking and @daria0919
WaistAways - @MaddawgMadsen
Shape Shifters - @LaurieWrobo and @nancyinmiami
HOW IT ALL WORKS: The June challenge runs for five weeks, from June 29th - August 2nd.
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, and may everyone else get to work on next week!
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 single week. You are heading steadily towards your goal even if you aren't at the top of the weight loss leader board. In March we are aiming for every team to hit 50% green every week - let's do this!
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 can be moved to the Support Team for as long as you need. 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 or re-introduce yourselves right away, and let's get July on the road! 😎
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The July Week 1 Group Challenge is open and ready to begin on Sunday, Jun 29th. Please join us for the Fill the Plate Challenge and spend the week working on your nutrition with the team! Here's your link:
July Week 1 Group Challenge - Fill the Plate Challenge — MyFitnessPal.com
See you in the chat thread!
Jessica 😎
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Hi Team Downsizers, we have 2 new members joining! Please welcome @deanit and @Melobee63 😄
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The habit tracker for July is now open! You can use this to track up to 5 habits for the month of July.
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Welcome to July 2025 🌞
I am Lauren, co-captain of team WaistAways, but filling in for the wonderful @Megan_smartiepants1970 She has unfortunately been sick for the past few months, but hopefully will be back here soon!
I am 39 years old and from North Carolina, USA. I have been on a weight loss journey most of my adult life. I have done a lot of the yo-yo thing, losing a lot of weight in 2012 and then gaining it back. Over the last few years, I seem to be gaining and losing the same 10-15 pounds.
June was an ok month for me. I ended up maintaining which is never a bad thing! My goal for July is to lose 5 pounds by tracking every day, getting 7,000 steps daily, and continuing my 5k training plan.
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 (but don't sweat it if you have to use a different day sometimes)! 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, you can request a week off, or if you need a longer break, you can be moved to the "Support Team" where you 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
Step Challenge
Anyone is welcome to join our weekly step challenge! All you have to do is pledge a number of steps (set a goal) of how many steps you would like to get a day. Then at the end of the week, post your steps! You are challenging yourself and staying active is one way to hit your health goals! 🚶♀️
So everyone, tell us a bit about you, your goals, 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), what brought you here, how your weight loss journey has been, and where you are headed now. We all have information to share, things we can learn, and lean on each other as a team for a successful month!
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Misty_Putnam94
PW: 156 pounds
CW: 155.2 (0.8 loss)
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We went to the park again this morning and now relaxing inside 🥵 I also may end up taking a nap. 😴 Looking forward to a short work week!
@Misty_Putnam94 way to start the month strong!
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cormierannie
Weigh in day Sunday
PW: 132 pounds
CW: 132 pounds
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Congrats to the top winners this week/month: @Mari33a @smila1202 @rwillems @RunawayCurves @ashleyh2100 🥳
We had 61% in the green for week 4! 💚
Let's keep up the great work in July.
Also looking forward to hear from our new members!
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Just dropping in to say hello! Thanks for the add and looking forward to learning about the team.
A little bit about me: I'm Mel, from western NC. Was a fat kid growing up, then lost it in college. The last 10 years has seen a real roller coaster ride with my weight—I've been retired for most of those years so that might be part, but really, I just like to eat and I'm not too smart about it. I currently use the calories in/out method. I'm down about 4 pounds since joining MFP but hope to ultimately lose around 25.
Honestly, I'm not much of a walker but will try for 5000 steps per day, with the option to raise the amount later on if that's okay. It's nice to be here!
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Hi @Lauren_989, sorry for the late entry. Busy day today!
member: rwillemsWeigh-in Day: Sunday
PW: 268.6 lbs
CW: 271.0 lbs
I love being on vacation, but there just are way too many temptations.
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Steps
Sun
15,423
Mon
13,924
Tue
15,375
Wed
12,923
Thur
7,431
Fri
13,406
Sat
11,902
Totals
90,384
Steps
@lauren_989 Here’s my steps for last week3 -
Step Challenge - Goal 12,000
6/22: 14,094
6/23: 11,561
6/24: 10,565
6/25: 8,624
6/26: 10,843
6/27: 11,295
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@Melobee63 it's nice to meet you! I live in Greensboro, so not too far away!
I made it through Monday at work. I have a big to do list for stuff at home, but I never seem to have time. Plus with it being so hot out, I haven't been wanting to do any weeding or yard work. I am going to start with making an actual to do list so I can get things done!
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Question of the Day!
Just a fun question to get to know each other some. What is your favorite color?
Mine is purple 💜
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@lauren_989 : Hi! Yes, you're a few hours east of me. Hopefully, you're braving the heat—hot and humid here, too.
Favorite color is periwinkle—although it looks awful on me. 😂 It's a very soothing color for some reason.
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cormierannie
Weigh in day: Sunday
PW: 132 pounds
CW: 132 pounds
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@Melobee63 that is a beautiful color and hydrangeas are my favorite flower!
Today was a great day. I ate within range and even had some fruits and veggies 😄 I went out in the awful humidity and did my last 5k training workout before my 5k on Friday. Of course I will continue jogging after this, I just need to find or design a new plan for myself. Maybe one that will help increase speed.
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What is your favorite vegetable?
I would say that mine is zucchini or yellow squash. I could eat those every day!
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June Week 4 Step Results!
Top Steppers:
1st: @Mari33a 90,384 steps
2nd: @66keto 82,761 steps
3rd: @ashleyh2100 80,935 steps
Steppers and their pledges:
@66keto 7/7 days
@Mari33a 6/7 days
@myndieet 4/7 days
@ashleyh2100 2/7 days
As a group we took 290,777 steps!!
And for the month of June we took a total of 1,107,040 steps!!! 😎
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@lauren _989
Weigh in day: wednesday PW 209.7 lbs (95,1 kg) CW 211.2 lbs (95,8 kg)
Trying to get back on track but so far I didn't succeed.. 😕
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Hi i don't know if I'm looking in the right place but is there a July spreadsheet.i can see the June one x
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Congrats Steppers!
Oof, humid today. Did my mowing and weed eating for our little HOA (I volunteered to do). Meanwhile the guys were in the area to bury fiber optic cables—which no one knew about, lol—and they cut the line from the well. It only affected my house and one other, and they got it fixed after a few hours. We had to drain the water and glad we did because the soil is all clay here and it came out in chunks. Yikes, nothing like brown water to start off the holiday. 🙄 Hope everyone had a good day!
Fav vegetable? It would have to be a sweet potato—so versatile!
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@Melobee63 Oof brown water? That's not a fun day.
@66keto the July spreadsheet is below the June one on the main page.
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Weigh-In Wednesday
@Megan_smartiepants1970
@lauren_989
PW: 178.4
CW: 180.4
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Thank you found it x
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