Hello everyone!!! Welcome to our new members - and welcome back returning members!! I am soooo glad you are all here!

I am Teresa a Mission Slimpossibles captain along with captain Mark(@broncobuddee) as well as one of the Fat2Fit Group Motivators. On Team Mission Slimpossibles we also have three incredible motivators, @AustinRuadhain, @raleighgirl09 and @Katmary71 who work very hard to keep the conversations going and are always willing to give advice and support!

Here are some of the things you can and need to do as a member of the team:

1) Weigh-ins

It is VERY important that you follow the following format for posting your weights. @broncobuddee takes care of recording our weights and he appreciates being able to find your weigh-ins easily.
Tip: I keep my weight in an excel spreadsheet and then I can copy-paste right into a post on my weigh-in day. And it’s a great visual record of my progress.

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, we REALLY encourage and hope that our team members will 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. Remember the purpose of joining a group like this is not only for accountability to a weigh-in but also because working towards our goals helps when we are surrounded by like-minded people. We are stronger together!!

3) Monthly Step Challenge

The Slimpossibles Step Challenge is going high tech using the website Fitrockr to set up a team league that will track our steps. To join click the link and follow the directions to set up a FitRockr profile, connect your fitness tracker, and then join the Slimpossibles Weekly Step Challenge.
https://www.fitrockr.com:443/#!/join/league/5e42db924dbe5b0001973d73/c81a3fad-1c5a-450d-aef7-6dc1a64a3e7d

NEXT, JOIN THE SLIMPOSSIBLES CHALLENGE ON FITROCKR by going here (you'll need to log in or be logged in to FitRockr):
https://www.fitrockr.com:443/#!/join/league/5e42db924dbe5b0001973d73/c81a3fad-1c5a-450d-aef7-6dc1a64a3e7d
If all went well, you will see the message "Congrats! You just joined the following league: Slimpossibles Weekly Step Challenge"

Once You Are Set Up, you can view the Slimpossibles Step Challenge league at any time using this link, https://www.fitrockr.com/#!/challenge/5e42dbe44dbe5b000197407b
You can also download the Fitrockr app for your iPhone or Android and keep up with your personal profile and your team challenge

3) Habit Tracker
Fat 2 Fit has an awesome Habit Tracker on the main page. It will begin fresh each month and you can choose up to five habits that you want to work on. Then it’s up to you to go into the habit tracker each day and check off the habits you have completed.
“You’ll never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.” ―John C. Maxwell

4) Monthly & Weekly Challenges
We love challenges because they help us stay mindful of our goals and they allow us to get to know each other better! We will post challenges for the entire Fat2Fit group to do together as well as challenges for just our team. These challenges will always be voluntary.

Finally, let's get to know each other! 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 here to support and cheer you on!

I’ll go ahead with my introduction

As I said above, my name is Teresa! I'm 54-years-old and live in Georgia. I'm happily married to the love of my life and we are parents to our little fur diva, Maggie Mae. I am the ministry assistant at my small which has been shut down and learning how to do church life via online and Zoom meetings has been interesting, to say the least.
I’ve struggled with my weight most of my life and have lots of ups and downs but I will NEVER give up!! Right now, I do WW online and work out to Beachbody on Demand workouts and use my treadmill. I also have been doing intermittent fasting for over a year and really enjoy how it makes me feel.
As your captain, I promise to remain available and supportive! This group means so much to me as does the success of each one of you.

OK…your turn to share!

This is a couple months old but the only thing that has changed is my workout.

Hi everyone, I'm Kathy and I'm one of the motivators along with AustinRuadhain and Raleighgirl. I don't recall the exact month I joined, I think it's been around 6 months now and I love our group! My weight hit it's highest after quitting smoking and having a double back fusion 12 years ago where I was bedridden and had to wait a year out for another back surgery to get my hardware removed (best results I've had from a surgery!). To make a long story short I was bedridden for years from chronic pain, went off hardcore medication a few years ago after 20 years, treated for depression, and have been slowly picking up the pieces since. I lost 45lbs over two years cutting back what I ate, then plateaued after a cruise. I came back to My Fitness Pal last January 2 but this time actually weighed food and jumped off the deep end changing everything at once. I didn't want another year to pass being as unhealthy as I was, on medication for diabetes, obese, having pain and vomiting from fatty liver disease, plus chronic back and nerve pain and had just been in the hospital for a week with pancreatitis. I hit 100lbs down in September and was notified the same day that I could discontinue diabetes medication.

I love working out, I can't believe what my body can do now! Standing for 10 minutes is so amazing. Every time I grocery shop and especially when I go to Costco and can actually walk around and lift a bulk container of cat litter I'm overwhelmed with gratitude. I usually use my recumbent bike at home or stair treadmill at the gym , weight lift three times a week, do a short back yoga routine, then do strength exercises like pushups and planks. I'm interested in doing other stuff but also like my routine so I'll probably slowly branch out. And I'm super psyched about having a Fitbit now! I've also been cooking for the first time in my life which has been fun, I enjoy trying new recipes and produce items.

Hello Slimpossibles! I'm Trooworld. I'm happily married with no children but we do have a pug that we are obsessed with. My husband and I live in Southern California. I'm a librarian (not in the public sector) and I love my job very much. My hobbies include reading, digital artwork, camping, walks in nature, hiking (sometimes), and cooking.


I'm having trouble getting physical activity in, I'm in a rut, so I'm committing to 5 minutes of activity today.

Thursday
Calories: over/under: over
Water: over/under over
Exercise: ----
Goals or Improvements for tomorrow: 5 minutes of YouTube video, 52+ oz of water.

veryhotmails wrote: »

Hello slimpossible, still new to it all. When do we start weighing in for the month of May and any challenges for the team? 🤨

Good morning! I see that your weigh-in day is set for Saturday. If that is right then you will do your first May weigh-in day on May 9th. Our week runs from Sunday to Saturday and our new month technically starts tomorrow. As for challenges we have our step challenge using Fitrockr that you can join. You can find how to do that in my first post in this thread. We will have other challenges coming soon so keep checking in!

WEIGH-IN CHECK IN

Username: trooworld
Weigh in week: Week 5
Weigh in day: Saturday
Previous Weight: 235.0
Todays Weight: 235.6

Hey Team!! Make sure to check in tomorrow for a brand new Fat2Fit challenge that our own very awesome @AustinRuadhain and I are putting together! You do NOT want to miss out on doing this challenge!


Well, today was a pretty good day. I ate on plan and made the tastiest pork stir-fry with brown rice that had been frozen and then thawed. Have you all ever heard of resistant starch? I've been reading a lot about it lately. Look at this link from Healthline that explains it very well. Resistent Starch

I also reorganized my workout room to make room for my newest toy that will be here in a week or so. It's called a Booty Kicker and it's going to come in very handy with my new barre workouts that I'm loving so far. Using a plastic shelf to help hold me up just wasn't working and buying a ballet bar would cost much more. I did show DH that he could make one out of PVC but he was not up to the challenge. The Booty Kicker will be useful for lots of different exercises. I also just got a new little weight rack so now my weights are all over the place. I'm excited!!!

Weigh in
Apple852hk
Week 1 - May 2020 Sunday
PW 154.7 (70.2kg)
CW 153.6 (69.7kg)

Loss - did gain but tried hard to not eat chocolate. Also noticed that I have a bog lunch but ny portion is too big so might as well have a medium lunch and dinner or just a smaller lunch an just veg at night.

My sister brought me potatoe salad so its hard to include that at every meal so as to not waste food uneaten.

I've eaten less rice this week but I have some leftover rice to eat but will try and eat it over 2 days instead of one bigger lunch meal.

Still forgetting to say grace before first mouthful. I'm taking a picture of the meal but I'm not being mindful.

GOALS next week the same:
1. Say grace silently to myself before eating a meal or snack.
2. Drink water before eating chocolate if I do snack on it.
3. Thank myself every morning for eating right that day.

Hopefully you will have one new member on the way! @deadpheonixrising has signed up and hopefully received my message that we need a starting weight. Have a great May week 1!

Saturday Check-In!
Good day 🟢
Calories: 🟢 all good, on-plan choices
Water: 🟢
Exercise 🟢
I continue to be inspired by the amazing @Katmary71 ! Yesterday I did several things that she found or pointed me at - THANK you! I did: Jenny Ford Step by Step 3 - Intermediate Step Aerobics (Um. I so did not keep up with some of the fancy footwork! I had fun, got sweaty, and stretched my brain trying to keep up!) ; Jenny Ford Chicago Marching Quick Walk at-Home (Soothingly simple footwork after that intermediate thing, and I got to enjoy the Chicago skyline!) ; Deep Stretch on the Mat with Sydney Cummings: Got my husband to do this with me!

Sunday Goals
- Work on Habits to track in May and get them posted on the Fat2Fit Habit Tracker! This is a challenge -- optional -- but I am going to play, for sure!
- Another platform workout!
- Weights with Sydney -- missed those yesterday
- 10K steps
- Stretching - Classical Stretch or foam roller series with Sydney
- Tiny Habit - Gardening (pull at least one weed!)

P.S. To follow up on what @TeresaW1020 said -- watch for the new Fat2Fit Challenge! We are so excited about this!

Are you ready to jump-start your health and fitness journey?

Join our Fat2Fit May Challenge TODAY!! In this challenge, you will learn the importance of how it's the tiny habits that we do every day that add up to create the big changes we want in our life.

Click the link to get started! Tiny Habit May Challenge

About to go get my produce box but just finished chair workouts. I'm come across this woman before and she's another one with walking videos. In the chair video she giggled a lot which was kind of annoying but I'll probably try a walking video once I'm better. I know I'm not the only "walker" here and she has a bunch, here ya go:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PLxEW_OukMMsqYUnuBFdpuIFpw3TSk3IWe

raleighgirl09
Sunday check in

Hi team! I'm one of the motivators buuuuuut I've been around a lot less often in the past few weeks. Multitude of reasons, I guess, none of them is really a good reason but more of an excuse so I'll spare you.... => I've been with this group since July of 2019 and have found it super helpful. 29Apr2020 was my 1 year with MFP (this trip) and I've lost over 50 pounds in that time (120 overall from my highest weight). I need to remind myself of that more often and use it for continued motivation! I'm about 10-20 pounds from goal - I think - and have set my next goal of 170 by my birthday, 11Aug2020. That's about 12 pounds away and from there I just have to see how it goes. I just want to be in a size 8 pants and not really sure what number that is on the scale. Truthfully, I care less about the number on the scale than on the inside back of my pants!!

Welcome to all of our new members and to everyone who posted intros, loved reading them!

Thanks @TeresaW1020 for sharing the May link and the info on where to look on the F2F page! I'm going to back to the Habit Tracker this month as that really is a great visual - and I'm going to add a daily check in here on my Habit Tracker as one of my critical habits. When lackluster efforts are not netting desired results, a girl has to do something to kick her own butt into gear!!
@Katmary71 I'm going to try the low impact for ladies over 50 vid - I'm still having trouble with my hip, several weeks later, and I really get the frustration with not being able to do what my spirit feels capable of! It des seem to be easing but very slowly and I'm jumping out of my skin to be able to do more - but am often reminded with pain that it isn't a good idea.
@its_cleo I'm in the same boat - feeling some discouraged and then also working on a different story to tell myself - it's very much tied to being disappointed that I'm not being 100% all in. I agree - I think checking in will help, maybe if nothing else it will help me just be more aware and do less evening mindless snacking!

Wahhoooo Slimpossibles for making 3rd place this week! Special shout out to @davors19 for being our team’s number one!!

@Katmary71, I wanted to order some 2 lb weights for the new barre program and there are NONE to be had. Well, I take that back. I did find one set on Amazon for $39. Talk about your price gauging. I’ll use my 3 lbs and when I can’t then I hold water bottles.

@apple852hk, congrats on the weight loss!! You should join the Tiny Habit Challenge since you already have three great goals. It might help you stay more mindful.

@its_cleo, sorry that you feel like you haven’t been doing well. Yes, do check in more often. I will try to do that too!

@AustinRuadhain, let me just say........you're AMAZING!!!!

@deadpheonixrising, welcome to the group! We are very happy to have you here. Many find the accountability of these kinds of groups very helpful. So jump right in and make yourself at home.

@gberin, welcome to the team! You have some good goals for yourself and yes life is hectic. But, I’m sure you know the importance of taking care of yourself. I look forward to getting to know you.

@raleighgirl09, Yayyyy for checking in and for doing the Habit Tracker. I LOVE the goal that you have set for your birthday and it’s totally doable. This past month has been hard on many of us but this is a new month and we can change it around.

Sunday Check-in:

Hi Team! Today was another quiet day in quarantine. Hubby and I watched church on Facebook and we have a Zoom fellowship in a couple of hours. I’m doing my best not to wallow in the fact that we have at least six more weeks of this. While it’s true that my state has started to reopen, I still have to remain super careful since hubby is a senior. And then there is my mom who lives with us and has multiple health issues. They are still told to shelter in place until June 12th. Anyhoo, today was an active recovery day in my workout so I just walked on the treadmill for 35 minutes and then did some housework. I worked on my puzzle and got a small done. Only about 4700 pieces to go.

I’m excited about the Tiny Habit Challenge that our amazing, super talented @AustinRuadhain put together for the entire Fat2Fit group. I really hope that you all will at least Click This Link!! and take a look at the challenge. Even better if you sign up to do!! Let’s show the other teams how to rock a challenge!!


The Tiny Habits that I will do this month are:

1. After I turn on my computer in the morning, I will track what I plan to eat that day (even if I don't track it all). Then I will go on social media and turn on the TV.

2. After I eat lunch, I will read at least one page of my book. Then I will play with my jigsaw puzzle!

3. After I use the restroom, I will walk in place for 30 seconds, and then when I get 6000 steps for the day I will do the happy dance!

raleighgirl09
Sunday check in (nah, yer not seein' things - this is twice)

Hi gang. Well, my check in needs to be in the evening, kind of for a wrap up tally for the day so despite an earlier check in, I'm baaaaaack!

All of my Habit Tracker items are good, except the night eating. I raided the kitchen for some tortilla chips with melted cheese and well, that is just what happened....twice. It may be ok calorie wise as I had great choices the rest of the day but it's the actions and behaviors that are the thing, and that is where the nugget of truth of my weight loss stalling comes from. So - just checking in with it.

@its_cleo oh my gosh, Dracula. I watched those movies as a kid and watched Dark Shadows. Hey, my clinky/clanky/cranky knee also does better up the incline than down, stairs or otherwise, I think it's the amount of pressure and force on the knee during the movement.
@TeresaW1020 I agree - seems like it's been forever already and if/when there are people in your household who need that time, it's pretty precious. I bet Maggie Mae helps a lot here... I think about this going on for another 4 weeks and I'm just sad - and I don't even know what will happen here in NC. I know in a year and 5 years and 10 years, there will be a different perspective and it does help to think about and realize that. Not wishing the time away, just thinking that it's good to have the perspective