Weight No More Team Chat - October 2025
Here is your Team chat room for October 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 - @trooworld and @micaroo4
Weight No More - @minstrelofsarcasm and @melaniedscott
WaistAways - @ashleycarole86 and @lauren_989
Shape Shifters - @jessicakrall8 and @frankwbrown
Our Team Motivators:
Downsizers: @HorsesRock9999
Mission Slimpossibles - @gemwolf110
Weight No More - @BodyTalking and @daria0919
WaistAways - @MaddawgMadsen
Shape Shifters - @LaurieWrobo and @nancyinmiami
HOW IT ALL WORKS: The October challenge runs for five weeks, from September 28th - November 1st.
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 October on the road! 😎
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The October Week 1 Group Challenge is open and ready to begin on Sunday, Sep 28th. Please join us for Tracking Micronutrients! Put together a plan for tracking important elements of your nutrition plan and join us for a daily post sharing tips and tricks for building up areas of your diet! Here's your link:
October Week 1 Group Challenge - Tracking Micronutrients — MyFitnessPal.com
See you in the chat thread!
Jessica 😁
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Good morning! This is my first time moving from one month to the next. Do I need to go back into the sign up thread and sign up?
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@kakemery - Nope! Signing up the first time signs you up for life (or until you decide to leave us). So the only reason to go back into the sign-up thread would be if you left and decided to join another team upon returning.
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Hello October! The new text editor and I are not friends, and my super long introduction post's format is no longer supported, so we're gonna write this over again from scratch and then copy and paste the new intro month after month…
ANYWAY
Hi, I'm Ashley! I'm one of your captains here for Team Weight No More. I am also one of the Moderators for the Fat2Fit group, so let's just say I keep plenty busy. If there are any questions or concerns or things you need, I'm your girl!
Here's the Basics…
Name: Ashley
Age: 30
Pronouns: she/her
Location: Ohio, USA
Occupation: Chemical Engineer and Intellectual Property Manager by day, and Certified Personal Trainer by early morning/late evening (since November 2023!)
Height: 5'7"
Highest Weight: 234lbs
Current Weight: 181lbs
Lowest Weight: 6lb 10oz (August 28th, 1995)
Lowest Adult Weight: 155lbs (although there were some heavy ED vibes, so I wouldn't romanticize that time of my life too much)
Medical Diagnosis: Multiple Sclerosis, ADHD
My (Abbreviated) Health Journey…
I've struggled with my health my entire life, spent a lot of my childhood in and out of hospitals, all that fun stuff. I also grew up in a Clean Plates Club™ household, around people who taught me how to eat my feelings (my delicious, delicious feelings) and were not fond of physical activity or spending time outside. Needless to say, this resulted in an unhealthy relationship with food, a distaste for exercise, and being uncomfortably overweight.
Around the time I graduated from college, a doctor told me that I was on the verge of being pre-diabetic. As a child of a type 2 diabetic who did not take good care of himself, this terrified me. The same week I started my first "big girl job", I took my first spin class. Little did I know it would be the first of over 1200 spin classes (and counting!). Even littler did I know that it would lead to me attending bootcamps, trying out every fitness studio in the area, and eventually getting my personal training certification. And now? Now I coach group fitness classes (approx. 8 classes every week), have a personal trainer of my own, and design my own workouts.
This isn't to say that all the results I've reached are from exercise alone. I've established healthier eating habits, begun drinking more water, getting better sleep, and giving myself proper time to recover. From experience, I can say that your shape is determined by how you move, but your size is determined by what you consume. At over 180 lbs, I am more comfortably wearing clothing that I bought when I was "skinny-fat" at 160 lbs - I have more muscle, less fat, and noticeable muscle definition. That number on the scale is not a sign of health, just a measure of how much mass you have.
I have struggled against an eating disorder, an exercise addiction, a multiple sclerosis diagnosis (which still shapes my life to this day), long-term international travel, frequent work trips, dramatic break-ups, the general dating scene, debilitating health complications, family drama, holidays… whatever you're experiencing, know that you are not alone in your struggles. Whatever your situation, things are not hopeless, even when they feel like they are.
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Excellent, thank you!
Would it be okay to change my weigh in days to Saturdays? The other program I do is Saturday so it'd be easier to weigh in on the same day.
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Hi Weight No More Team!
My name is Nancy and I am one of the Motivators on the Shape Shifters team! I just wanted to pop in and introduce myself.
I am a native New Yorker who is now retired and living in Miami, Florida. I worked in human resources for many years, but switched careers mid-life to become a high school English teacher. I've lost 100 pounds since starting my journey, and have been able to help keep it off by living a more active lifestyle here in sunny Florida. I am addicted to Zumba, pickleball, tennis, and I teach aqua aerobics as well. I live with my husband, and our 23-year old daughter lives about an hour away in Boca Raton. We enjoy traveling, reading, and concerts (I took my daughter to Lady Gaga earlier this month, and I'm taking my husband to Vegas to see Duran Duran for New Year's). It's never boring lol.
Did you know that our Fat 2 Fit group has a book club? You can find the
Page Turners & Portion Burners Book Clubpage under "Announcements." We read a different genre each month, and then we vote on the next month's selection from titles that are suggested by book club members. For October, we are reading a historical fiction novel,The First Witch of Bostonby Andrea Catalano. And, we are also having a GIVEAWAY for our October read! Head on over to our page and check us out! We are a relaxed, fun group😊 Hope you'll be joining us!
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Weigh In Day: Monday
PW (Previous Weight): 213.6
CW (Current Weight): 215
Back and leg was in a lot of pain for 5 to 6 days so I didn't move a whole lot, probably didn't eat the best either. Pain has let up, going to try and move some more this week!
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@kakemery - Absolutely, I can make that change for you. What's the other program you're doing?
@CassieGetsFit2013 - Oh no, what's going on with your back and leg? I'm sure your body is holding onto water while they recover properly. Recurring pain is always an unfortunate source of water retention.
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Weigh in day: Monday (I actually weighed in Tuesday)
CW: 271.8 lbs
PW: 270.9 lbsSteps - Week of Sept 21-27
S-5831
M-8642
T-7049
W-8456
T-6513
F-5230
S-10660Struggling this week. I feel tired and sluggish and my foot/ankle hurts, I think I overdid it with activity on the weekend. Just decluttering my house and lots of chores, then did a round of disc golf. Maybe I need to chill a bit this weekend, get caught up on sleep.
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steps
Sun-2,541
Mon-1,654
Tuesday-5,264
Wed-0
Thursday-7,674
Fri-10,145
Sat-6,673
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@minstrelofsarcasm Thank you! I am just doing a monthly Weight loss challenge. I find the more places im accountable, the better I will be about staying on track:-D
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Pulled something in my lower back Tues. so I have not done my strength workouts. Did take the dogs for a walk yesterday. Hoping to get another nice walk in today as the weather has been beautiful these last couple days.
is there anyway to mark this group as one of my favorites ? It takes me a while to find it everytime I go back in to MFP.0 -
@kakemery - That's a great way to look at it! Keeping your goals as an active part of your routine and habits is the easiest way to make them stick.
@vicky2767 - There is! If you click on the little ribbon icon at the top of the page next to the thread title (mine is blue because I have this chat bookmarked), it will be saved as one of your pages on MFP and you'll get notifications (that little red dot on the bell in the top right) whenever there are new posts
On the main Categories page, you can click on My Bookmarks and it will show you all the pages you have saved.
You can also use the bookmark feature on your brower to save the address of this page - if you're using Chrome or Edge, it's the little star in the search bar at the top of your browser.
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thank you
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Previous Weight: 181.2 lbs
Current Weight: 181.7 lbs
This is essentially a maintain, I'll take it. I haven't been paying too much attention to my calorie limits, so I'll consider this a success. The past couple weeks have been so ridiculously busy, I feel like September completely slipped away from me and I'm playing catch-up. I am sure I'm not the only one, so please know that you are not alone.
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JM216
Previous/ Starting Weight for October: 224.2
Current Weight: 222.6
October Steps:
1st: 6,413
2nd: 9,309 - Cut the grass
Happy Friday! ☕️
Jill
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@jm216 - Hey! Welcome to the team!
October week one for the step challenge runs from September 28th - October 4th. Do you want to log your steps for the end of September as well?
ALSO! What is the significance of the 216? Do you happen to live in Cleveland?
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PW 203
CW 202.8
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