Hello everyone!!! I’m so excited about a new month, a new year, and a whole new decade!! Welcome to our new members - and welcome back to returning members!!

I am Teresa a Mission Slimpossibles captain along with captain Mark(@broncobuddee). Team leadership also includes our awesome motivator @AustinRuadhain. We are looking for one more Motivator. If you are interested please message myself or @broncobuddee.

Here are some pointers to get our new team members started:

1) Weigh-ins

Moderators have already posted instructions on the weigh-ins but as a reminder on your weigh-in day please post your weight in the following format:
Username: (Your MFP username)
Weigh-in week: (The week you are entering your weight for ex. Week 4)
Weigh-in day: (The day you weigh in each week. Sat-Fri)
Previous Weight: (The last weight you entered)
Todays Weight: (Your weight on your chosen weigh-in day)

2) Check-ins

Along with our weekly weigh-ins, many team members also participate in daily check-ins. We recommend them as a way to stay accountable and provide the following information each day:

Calories: over/under?
Water: over/under?
Exercise:
Goals or Improvements for tomorrow:

3) Challenges

We love challenges because they help us stay mindful of our goals and they allow us to get to know each other better! Look for challenges that you can be involved in within the group and also from the different teams. These will be clearly posted on the front page and posted inside the group.

Your participation is key!! Have a success today? Share it! A challenge? Share it! A question? Please ask! Some else is likely to benefit from your participation.

Finally, let's help welcome our new members with some introductions. Please share your name, where you live, and what brought you here to The Fat 2 Fit Challenge Group. If you have specific goals for this year, please share those as well. We are heard to support and cheer you on!

I’ll go ahead with my introduction

As I said above, my name is Teresa! I’m an almost 54-year-old wife and mother to a fur baby named Maggie Mae. I am the ministry assistant at my church and a 3rd to 5th grade Sunday school teacher.
I’ve been a member of The Slimpossibles for well over a year and became a captain a few months ago. I love having the opportunity to serve this team and, in the process, keep myself motivated on my own weight loss and fitness goals.

I’ve struggled with my weight for most of my life and in 2017 got serious enough to join Weight Watchers, which I stayed with for 2 years and lost 60 lbs. I have another 40 to 50 lbs to go and over this past year have tried several different plans with varying degrees of success. I’m currently entering 2020 by doing intermittent fasting and calorie counting with a focus on lower carbs and whole foods. I work out at home on my treadmill and with Beachbody On Demand programs. I like how working out makes me feel and after just a couple of months, I can now even do a plank or two.

As one of your captains, I promise to stay active in the group and do my best to keep you all motivated and committed to your health goals. It is also my goal that Mission Slimpossibles will be at the top of the leader board for the most weight loss! Are you with me? Let’s rock 2020 and make it the best decade ever!!

Yay! We have a January Chat thread!

Official Weigh In is in the Red at 198.2. My sweet intake has been higher this last week causing my carbs and sugar to be higher than normal AND I have increase my strength training from “maybe I feel like lifting once a week” (a big maybe at that) to 2 times this week. I always see a slightly higher number on scale when lifting. Fingers crossed, if I stick with it hopefully I will start to see more positive changes with my body plus see the scale start moving down again. These last two days my sugar intake has decreased (by 50 or so). Today will be better!

jugar wrote: »

UPDATE! F2F's own Habit Tracker

Everyone on any team is welcome to use our habit tracking spreadsheet. The tracking starts on Sunday, but please go in and set up your name and list of habits before then if you can. Here is how it works:

1. open https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hGjC7OQrH9Cb8U5gmkeax8VXYm2wsTiSYg43Dg0s_LE/edit?usp=sharing
2. go to the bottom, and choose your team from the tabs
3. put your MFP use name in the column on the left (highlight "name" and type in yours to replace it)
4. add up to five habits you want to track daily
5. check the box when you do it!

It is completely up to you to update your own tracking. Do it every time you finish, daily, weekly - however you want. Just be sure it is complete at the end of every Saturday so we can include this in the weekly winners circle!

Any problems? Message me @jugar or ask here and your Captains can find out!

Wow - I love this! Thanks @jugar and all who helped get it off of the ground! Looking forward to using it!

Friday check-in/weigh in
Calories- way over
Exercise- none
Water- under
Weight: 198.5

mrmcgrath wrote: »

1/4 checkin!

What’s everyone’s health plans for the weekend? Today I plan to pull out cookbooks and plan my weekly menu. I failed to do that these past few weeks and I think it made a negative impact on reaching some of my basic goals. Also, I plan to do some restorative yoga today with a rest day tomorrow!

@mrmcgrath me too! I have had a loose weekly food plan for a few days, tightening it up today for the week - first I had to figure out what I am doing! Also - fitting in exercise today around going to one of the kids' house and watching the baby while sick mama sleeps - and taking them a dinner and making sure we're all set for our dinner here at home! Tomorrow is shop for the weekly plan, do the pre-cooking so we have entree choices during the week. Hey - what kinda plan do all my Slimpossible peeps have, if you also food prep? I am starting a weekly plan around a structure that fits our lifestyle and is a loose representation of what has happened somewhat naturally in the past - see below and what this week's will be. Breakfast is usually eggs because it's easy for home or work - or whatever sounds good and I usually try to stick to the 200-250 range. Lunch is dinner leftovers or wraps with salad and deli turkey. Dinner is the eat whatever sounds good among the prepped choices. This week I can do nachos, grain bowls, amp up a salad by throwing on any of the prepped or available proteins. And everyone can eat when they want to, not around a cooking schedule which could be dependent on the tired factor....

• 2 entree choices (sheet pan fajitas with chicken and roasted veggies and sheet pan tofu)
• Soup (turkey veg which is already done, yay me!)
• On hand (chicken salad, cooked rice, frozen shrimp)
• Salad fixin's (we have been all about the Greek salads of late so we'll do that)

I think (think - as in - guessing at this point) that if I follow my own basics and adjust as needed, it will make prepping weekly a lot easier - just pick what I'll do from each category! Happy Saturday, peeps!

Hey Team! Did I get your attention? Good!! I am super excited to see that many of you have already signed up for the new habit tracker!! I just know that it's going to make a big difference in my life and I hope it will in yours too. I've been learning a lot about the importance of creating good habits because that is what will get the results I want for my life. Today, I watched a video from B.J. Fogg and he says, "Simplicity changes behavior." Well, you can't get much simpler than having a free habit tracker created just for you to use. Even if it's just one little change, I hope you will sign up and take advantage of this useful tool.

Please click the link and let's make it happen! I want to see the Mission Slimpossibles achieving our goals this year.


Habit Tracker!!!

1. Everyone on any team is welcome to use our habit tracking spreadsheet. The tracking starts on Sunday, but please go in and set up your name and list of habits before then if you can. Here is how it works:
2. open https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hGjC7OQrH9Cb8U5gmkeax8VXYm2wsTiSYg43Dg0s_LE/edit?usp=sharing
3. go to the bottom, and choose your team from the tabs
4. put your MFP use name in the column on the left (highlight "name" and type in yours to replace it)
5. add up to five habits you want to track daily
6. check the box when you do it!
7. It is completely up to you to update your own tracking. Do it every time you finish, daily, weekly - however you want. Just be sure it is complete at the end of every Saturday so we can include this in the weekly winner's circle!

Weigh in
Apple852hk
Week 1 - Jan 2020
Sunday
PW 163.5 (74.2kg)
CW 165.12 (74.9kg)

This might be up but I'm determined that I'll eat better this coming week. I have no excuse with festive food anymore.

I've managed 5 days in a row this January to walk 40 minutes in the morning before breakfast. I've also meditated 5 mins in the morning. I hope these changes will become daily habits.

Wishing everyone a good start to 2020!

jugar wrote: »

@mrmcgrath -- a small request!
Can you make your official weekly weigh-ins clearer please? The best for those of us looking to fill in the spreadsheets quickly and easily if if you make the official weigh in a completely separate message from anything else.

Even if it says nothing more than "weigh in this week" or "weigh in week 5" or whatever week it is - and then your weight - that is fine! You don't need to include last week's or anything else, although it is fun if you do.

But please, make it a separate message so we don't have to search for it. Thanks!

Sorry I missed it @jugar ! I usually know what to look for but am battling a sinus infection, I wasn't all "there" yesterday and only I made a quick pass through the posts.

Weigh in

Name: cleo
Week: 1
Weigh in day: Sunday
Previous weight: 157.6
Current weight: 158

A little bit frustrated. I overdid it on New Year's but then I worked hard the rest of the week to get my cals back on track, so it's disappointing to see a gain. I just have not been able to lose any weight since the summer (and I gained back what I had lost at that point).

I'm grumpy today, but I will just keep at it and focus on the habits more than the scale.

Username: Motiv8tedmom
Weigh-in week: Week 1
Weigh-in day: Sunday
Todays Weight: 219.5

I NEED HELP 😕

I've been trying unsuccessfully to add my name and habits to the spread sheet. Ive tried for several hours on two different devices and can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.

If I click on "name" my only options are to copy or share, no keyboard. If I click on the edit pencil I get 2 options "no thanks" which takes me back to square one and "use edit app" which leads to "no web page available". I can't figure it out