WaistAways Team Chat - May 2025
Here is your Team chat room for May 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 May challenge runs for four weeks, from May 4th - May 31st.
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 May on the road!
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Welcome to May 2025 🌺
I am Lauren, co-captain along with @ashleycarole86
I am 38 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.
April was a great month for me! I feel like I started staying within my calorie range goal and started my 5k training again! I am going to do a 5k on July 4th, just trying to decide which one. My goal for May is to lose 5 pounds by tracking every day, getting 7,000 steps daily, and getting more sleep by not being on my phone in bed.
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: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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Does anyone have any new ideas that they would find helpful for us to do/try as a team for May? Keep everyone's motivation up and stay interactive?
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I'm Joann, I'm 44, live in Alberta and work full time in Public Health. I have a 10 year old daughter and 2 year old German shepherd dog that keeps us active. I'm slowly taking my MPA and just finished my Capstone. It was intense but I'm so happy to have the spring and summer off. I have 2 more classes to do and then I'm done. April was a ok month but didn't see any progress with my weight loss. May will be better. I will have some time and energy to focus on myself and with the weather turning around I"ll be out with the dog.
Anyone have any good books they have read recently? I can't wait to do more reading.
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I'm Al, I'm 45 and live in Australia. I recently lost my husband, and now it's just me with my 2 dogs and cat. One of my dogs is a 7 month puppy, extremely high energy, and he gets me out of bed every day and keeps me moving.
April was a horrible month and I lost a bunch of weight through stress, not good habits. I did distract myself by focusing on movement, and I ran my first (and second!) 5k without stopping, and now I do Parkrun most Saturday mornings. May I am focusing on getting back to taking care of myself, eating sensibly, continuing my fitness work and learning my place in my new world.
In 2 weeks time, I am flying to Alice Springs in the outback to complete a 25km trail walk/run with a group of girlfriends. I've been training for it with lots of walking and hiking, and I'm very confident in my abilities, which I NEVER would have thought or said a year ago.
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PW 146.6
CW 146.4
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PW=83,90Kg
CW=84,50Kg🤐1 -
The May Week 1 Group Challenge is live and ready to begin on Sunday, May 4th. Join us for the Move It in May Challenge!! Get a good 4 of 7 days of activity and post your adventures! Here's your link:
May Week 1 Group Challenge - Move It in May — MyFitnessPal.com
Looking forward to lively discussions! See you in the chat thread!
Jessica
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PW: 228.8
CW: 228.4
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My goal for this month is to move every hour walking through the house and make healthy choices. I don't walk outside when I'm alone because I'm a high risk for falling. I have arthritis in my right knee from a fall in winter 5 years ago. I felt it was the perfect excuse not to excercise and justify making unhealthy choices. The less I move, the more it hurts when I do. Some day, my desire to weight less and be healthy will take priority.
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@pizzafruit that's a great goal for the month! Safety is definitely important, so I like how you modified walking around the house.
I had a terrible migraine all day yesterday and ended up taking medication and going to sleep at 6:30 last night. I slept for 12 hours! 😴 Then, this morning I went out for a 4.5 mile walk/jog. One of the local running guys and some sponsors, host "Run the Boro" which is 8 walks/jogs on Saturday morning around different areas in Greensboro. Hundreds of people come out (it's free) and it's a lot of fun!
My FIL just came over and checked out our AC unit, I think we have a small leak somewhere 😕 We will probably go out to Sam's Club later and still trying to plan out everything else I want to do today.
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Sunday
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PW: 143.0
CW: 144.6
Today: 12,122
Friday: 10,051
Thursday: 7117
Wednesday: 12,900
Tuesday: 14,680
Monday: 12,429
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Hi Team, we have a new member joining! Please welcome @turnercarly123 😄
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Since @ashleycarole86 was busy packing and moving last month, I will start tracking steps for May. Please let me know if you would like to join the May step challenge and your goal steps for the day!
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@cleaneater80 I loved the book Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera. I also read Brain on Fire by Susannah Cahalan which was really interesting (you may like it since you are in the medical field). This month we are reading The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife by Anna Johnston. I haven't read this one yet, but several people in my book club loved it!
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Celebrations 🥳
We came in 2nd place for the month of April!! 🎉
Congrats to our top winners for the last week of April and the month: @Alatariel75 @babyw8gone and @Rigibann 😊
@babyw8gone had 5 weeks in the green for April! 💚
Average in April, we had over half the team lose weight and be in the green!
@Alatariel75 has hit 85 pounds from her highest weight! (Any tips for us?)
Let's keep the momentum going in May!
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I know I'm late on this. I was sick on Thursday and Friday.
PW: 179.2
CW: 178.8
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Good evening!
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Haaha thank you! Honestly, I'd love to give tips, but my weight loss has been the effect of controlling the one thing that was controllable in a sea of turmoil and trauma. I guess that's the tip - when all is crazy and out of control, one thing you can still control is what goes in your mouth!
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Does anyone have a good core workout that they do? I feel like that's one area I need to add in some daily exercises.
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Pizzafruit
Weigh-in day: Monday
PW: 268.8
CW: 270.0
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