Weight No More Team Chat - April 2025
Here is your Team chat room for April 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 @Pupowl
Our Team Motivators:
Mission Slimpossibles - @micaroo4
Weight No More - @BodyTalking and @daria0919
WaistAways - @MaddawgMadsen
Shape Shifters - @LaurieWrobo and @Cyncia85
HOW IT ALL WORKS: The April challenge runs for four weeks, from March 30th - April 26th.
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 April on the road!
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@melaniedscott @minstrelofsarcasm
I’m excited to join fat2fit again this year! I’m a stay at home mom, so finding the motivation to move (and stay away from my pantry) can be challenging at times. My goal is to lose 40 lbs this year and maintain it. I would also love to join the steps challenge here.Weigh In Day: Saturday
PW (Previous Weight): 208
CW (Current Weight): 1922 -
Hello April! 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…
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: 29
Pronouns: she/her
Location: Ohio, USA
Occupation: Chemical Engineer and Certified Personal Trainer (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
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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@melaniedscott sorry I have been feeling a bit deflated by all the exercise I am doing and not much change on the scales, and I haven't checked the group much. I need to find my motivation back
I am not sure if you still need those steps for monthly statistics so here they are (very late)
Sun 16th 12138
Mon 17th 19232
Tue 18th 12005
Wed 19th 23589
Thu 20th 19443
Fri 21th 16922
Sat 22nd 20428
Sun 23rd 11778
Mon 24th 19632
Tue 25th 10670
Wed 26th 10020
Thu 27th 8247
Fri 28th 7680
Sat 29th 3482
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https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48547372#Comment_48547372
God, I hate the new editor.
@Emilienewme I will include yournumbers in the monthly totals later this week!
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WEIGH IN DAY MONDAY
PW: 170.9lbs
CW: 171.9lbs
Oops 😬
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@melaniedscott@minstrelofsarcasm
golf2bFit reporting in for my weight and steps for the week:PW: 226.8
CW: 225
Steps
M 3/24: 5,475
T 3/25: 5,562
W 3/26: 6,565
TH 3/27: 5,351
F 3/28: 5,773
S 3/29: 5,364
S 3/30: 5,620
Goals: Habit tracking, Fruit and veggies bingo
Looking forward to Fat 2 Fit!!!
Please let me know if you need anything else from me!
Thanks!
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I can't say enough how thankful I am for this group. I was able to do my seminar yesterday and I was able to take some time to exercise on Saturday. Spring yard work is awesome workout. @minstrelofsarcasm I forgot you are in Ohio too. I hope the storms we had last night were not to terrible where you live. I live in the country near Springfield. I actually am very central. An hour to Columbus and Dayton, 30 minutes to Springfield, Xenia, and London.
Here are my steps: Not as good as I had hoped
03/23-6,965
03/24-10,405
03/25-9,079
03/26-9,245
03/27-13,726
03/28—7,305
03/29-9,132
03/30-9,349
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@blessedgrandma5 You did fantastic last week!
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I looked over the whole month of steps. I was discouraged at first but then when I looked at the big picture I am pretty proud of myself. Without counting today, I walked a total of 289,457 steps for the month. The average comes down to 9,648 a day. I will look when I get home from work, but I think that has me on target with last month. My goal is to beat last months steps.
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@blessedgrandma5 - I am ALL the way north in Cleveland, almost directly in downtown. Storms were certainly energetic last night, but they didn't interrupt my travel plans - I'm currently in Phoenix for a work trip, I forgot how good sunlight feels on my legs.
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Hello my name is Kayla!
My current weight is 228
Weigh in day: Sunday
My main goal is to get back under 200!
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cedarfoxy / Emery
Day: Tuesdays
SW: 185.1 (3/25/25)
CW: 185.6
Hello all! (mostly copied from the end of March post)
I'm Emery (they / them) and I will be joining the April challenge! It's my birthday month and I have some travel and school going on, so my intention is to maintain awareness of my food. I do want to lose weight, but my first step is just to track my food and get in the habit of being aware of the food I put in my mouth and how it affects the number on the scale.
I am a person who uses a weighted rolling average (Hacker Diet) which helps me focus on the trend of my weight rather than the day-to-day numbers. The weights that I report are the trend weights rather than whatever shows up on the scale. I have found that if I report the scale number, then I tend to dehydrate myself the day before so I weigh in less which is not healthy for me.
In order to maintain awareness of my food, I'm planning on using cronometer to track what I eat. It says I should consume 1864 calories daily to lose 0.5 pound per week, so my goal is between 1600 and 2000 per day. Unless I burn a lot of calories (hiking specifically), I don't want to add activity calories to that number. I know most of my calorie intake is mindless and not nutritional need. I hope that my simply attending to the food, I will make different choices, but at this stage, I'm not worried about it.
I plan to get an average of 6000 steps per day in April (minus my hiking days or other days 10k+ steps). I want to be moving consistently. I want to do an inside activity like calisthenics or jumping on my trampoline daily, and also an outside activity like a walk, run, or hike.
I'm also focusing on other self-care activities: journaling, meditating, and getting some non-screen relaxation (read a book, hot tub, massage, board game, etc.). Another big focus is planning the following day.
It feels like a lot to focus on, but I know these habits work really well together.
TL;DR
- track food but don't try to change it
- weigh-in daily and report rolling average weight on Tuesdays
- get 6000 steps a day with inside and outside activities
- practice self-care: journal, meditate, non-screen relaxation & plan the following dayI'm going out of town this week Wed-Sun with my mom to a conference and I won't be near my scale, so I get a pass on that. I do want to to do my other things, and use the Habit Tracker to keep track of how I'm doing. I'm also going to try to do the bingo challenge!
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cedarfoxy / Emery
Day: Tuesdays
PW: 185.1 (3/25/25)
CW: 185.6 (4/1/25)
I'm just sitting with noticing that my weight is higher, and I'm going to keep working on my habits. I like that I am posting my weight first thing this morning instead of waiting. I shall weight no more! ;)
- Track food - getting back into it (C+)
- Weigh in daily - when I have access to my scale (A+)
- Steps -
- 3/25 = 9702
- 3/26 = 2195
- 3/27 = 2684
- 3/28 = 17637 (10k for average)
- 3/29 = 6724
- 3/30 = 4687
- 3/31 = 13851 (10k for average)
- Not counting steps over 10k, I have an average of 6570 steps per day this past week which is over my 6000/day goal. Yay! I would like to get over 6000 per day though, and I didn't three times this week. (B+)
- Self care - Pretty good. Could be doing more journaling and meditation. (B-)
- OVERALL - (B)
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Monday's weight was 174.6lb 79.4kg
Monday 24th 2,271
Tuesday 25th 3,287
Wednesday 26th 5,217
Thursday 27th 4,272
Friday 28th 19,702
Saturday 29th 4,692
Sunday 30th 7,947
Monday 31st 6,127
Tuesday 1st 6,823
Sorry I forgot to post.
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Welcome to all the new ladies & gents!
I'm Melanie, 48 and I'm from Kansas. I’m the other team Co-captain. Truly, Ashley does most of the heavy lifting. I generally do the steps challenge.
Welcome to April! Sometimes I post an intro and sometime I forget until the last week. I've been on MFP for a long time (more on that in spoilers, if you're interested). I am happily childfree, married for 24 years and I don't love exercise but I do like walking. I need to lose weight to aid medical conditions and because I don't like what I see in the mirror.
The rest is my standard stuff, read it or don't; don't if you've been around a while and already did, up to you.
My (really short version) story
Once upon a time, I was very skinny and could eat anything I wanted and not gain weight. I was pretty active and took meds that probably ramped up my metabolism (and put me at risk of severe medical problems). But that was a long time ago and things are different. Now I an the opposite of skinny, stress eat and I look at anything yummy and gain five pounds. I need to lose 80 lbs.
My special snowflake challenges
I'm fairly significantly asthmatic (on meds all the time).
I have terrible allergies, mostly mold. Which is literally everywhere. And cats. Anything that doesn't have square pupils (but not things with square pupils!?! I have no problem with squid, apparently!), including people sometimes.
I have migraines.
And I have connective tissue issues (not enough collagen, too stretchy, lots of joint slippage).
August 2020, I acquired some vertigo problems and persistent deafness on one side. Yay. Fall of '23 the ENT decided to call it Meniere's and recommend hearing aids, which are good.[/spoiler]
What I do about it
Sometimes I whine. April is singularly unpleasant EVERY. SINGLE. YEAR. No idea why. But then I put on my big girl pants, suck it up and deal. I take glucosamine and collagen supplements for the connective tissue problem. When I have bad days, I also drink collagen peptides (but I really dislike them). I've been supplementing with Vitamin C for decades, not really knowing why. In the past few years, I learned Vit C helps the body produce and process collagen. Suddenly, my lifelong obsession with the C makes sense.
My neurologist recommended I take 500 mg of ginger and 400 mg of Vitamin B2 every day to reduce migraines, it has helped a lot. The migraines are so much better (almost non-existent) and manageable when they happen. The ginger also helps with the vertigo. I have no excuses for not doing exercise when the vertigo is managed, except for being lazy.
After adding some nasal sprays and sinus irrigation, adjusting my diet a bit, adding copious amounts of ginger, and stopping coffee (EXTREMELY, TERRIBLY sad), I’ve got the vertigo mostly under control.
What is the point behind all this?
The special snowflake stuff is not woe-is-me drama llama. It is that everyone has to do what works for them now. The stuff a lot of people go on about (like HITT) are not good for me, and are sometimes dangerous, for me. Sometimes people get down on themselves because they don't do the stuff everyone talks about (HIIT, Insanity, stair steppers, etc). I not only don't do those things, I shouldn't. But I should exercise.
My Goals
My daily goal to get about 30 minutes of walking a day at least during the week isn't doing much for me. I try to get a walk in otherwise but frequently fail.
Anyway, I've been with WNM for a long while now. Early days, I lost a lot but blah blah blah, it came back and brought friends. I changed jobs a year ago. The new job gives me opportunity to I move more but I also drive a lot and do a lot of documentation, which means sitting at a computer so...I don't move enough. Need to work on that. Some days I do great…some days, not so much.
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@cedarfoxy Are you a teacher? I like how you grade each of your goals! Is everyone supposed to do that?
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Laurabb99
weighin day: Wed
PW: 186.1
CW: 186.1
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Ljdanny
Thurs
Cw 189
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steps
Sun- 2,336
Mon- 6,294
Tuesday- 8,335
Wed-7,508
Thursday-7,244
Fri-6,827
Sat-8,593
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Friendly Reminders!
Late Weigh-Ins:
I wonder if the low participation in here is partially due to difficulty in finding this chat. Format changes to MFP always lead to problems, it seems. If anyone needs to be excused, let me know! I'll go back through the March chat to make sure I didn't miss anyone requesting an excusal for this week.
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So Sorry! I'm a couple of days late.
In my defense, my boyfriend injured his foot and we have done nothing but go to different doctors to find out what is wrong. Urgent Care said it was sprained. The primary doctor said he didn't think it was broken His foot is HUGE! We had to go for an ultrasound to rule out any blood clots. Now it's turning colors. We really don't know. Tomorrow is a visit with an orthopedic doctor. He hasn't been able to walk since Friday last week. He's been using a desk chair to get around the house.
Weigh-In Day: Tuesday
Start Weight: 154.6
Last Week: 150.2
Current Weight: 150.2
Steps this week:
Tues: 10,113
Wed: 14,158
Thurs: 17,397
Fri: 7,831
Sat: 15,199
Sun: 16,117
Mon: 17,054
Total: 97,869
April Goals:
392,000 Steps. I missed that last month by 45,000 (+,-)
[]I still need to organize the feed barn.
[] Build 2 chicken pens[] Move the dog kennel I built last monthI was in control of my snacking habits last month. My meals are very balanced. I just have a hard time making better choices for snacks. I feel like I made strides in the right direction last month. I'll call that a win.
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@minstrelofsarcasm I gained. I was 193. I forgot to post my weight.
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@minstrelofsarcasm Sorry for the late weigh in. It's been a week. I did weigh in but I didn't post it. My uncle passed so I had a funeral to go to, and then I hurt my back.
CW: (as of Monday Mar 31) 269 lbs
PW: 267.9Steps: Week of Mar 23-29:
S - 6870
M - 6036
T - 5245
W - 8474
T - 6358
F - 8592
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@minstrelofsarcasm @melaniedscott
04/05 Saturday weigh-in:
PW: 192
CW: 191.4I forgot to mention that my steps goal is to get at least 10,000 a day. Here are my numbers for this past week:
03/30- 10,638
03/31- 10,193
04/01- 12,783
04/02- 10,605
04/03- 16,521
04/04-16,897
I’ll come back to post my steps for today later.
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Zumba_luvah
Pw- 224.2
Cw- 223.8
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The April Week 2 Group Challenge is active and ready to begin on Sunday, April 6th. Please join us for the Write Your Own Ticket Challenge…should be a fun one! Here's your link:
April Week 2 Group Challenge - Write Your Own Ticket Challenge — MyFitnessPal.com
See you in the chat thread!
Jessica 😎
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Melaniedscott
PW: 244
CW: 241.4
Not sure it's actual loss and last week wasn't just a chinese food sodium high but I'll take it.
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~~ Step Challenge Results -March Week 4 FINAL~~
March 23-29
Team Statistics -
Total Steppers: 8
Total Steps: 443,522
Average Steps Per Stepper: 55,440 - (1.8% higher than last week)
MONTHLY TOTAL: 1,692,872
Individual Statistics -
@IDebraK - 94,377 total | 18,384 average | 343,812 monthly total
@Emilienewme - 71,509 total | 10,216 average | 374,783 monthly total
@blessedgrandma5 - 66,074 total | 9,439 average | 223,216 monthly total
@purple1butterfly - 49,429 total | 7,061 average | 199,716 monthly total Most Steps in One Day!!!
@jennyell85 - 49,182 total | 7,026 average | 223,626 monthly total
@Ljdanny - 47,137 total | 6,734 average | 180,712 monthly total
@BodyTalking - 31,724 total | 4,532 average | 112,917 monthly total
@golf2bfit* - 34,090 total | 5,682 average Most Consistent!!!
Way to walk Weight No More!
Big welcome to our new walkers!
Kudos to top of the leaderboard, @purple1butterfly for most steps in one day! @golf2bfit was Most Consistent! Strong start! And of course, bolded members have a step goal and reached it!
The steps team walked more that one and a two thirds MILLION steps in March! That is more than 750 miles! What a great achievement!
* Members did not post for the whole month but had enough posted to deserve recognition!
If you want to join the step challenge for April...
Just post your steps by the end of Wendnesday after the week ends. I'm flexible and might wait a day or two for you. If we're 'friends', I may drop a personal note to you to check in. If we aren't, and you'd like a personal note, send me (melaniedscott) a friend request.
Part of the challenge or new and want to add or update a goal?
If you want to... be bold (heehee), let us know how many steps you want to hit every day on average and we'll keep track of it for you!
For anyone confused about where we are ...
This is post is for March 23-March 29. For those interested in joining the April step challenge (you can join any time!), the week of March 30 (3/30-4/5) steps should be posted by Wed, April 9th.
Awesome walking steps team!
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