Weight No More Team Chat - June 2025
Here is your Team chat room for June 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 June challenge runs for four weeks, from June 1st - June 28th.
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 June on the road! 😎
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The June Week 1 Group Challenge is open and ready to begin tomorrow, Sunday, Jun 1st. Please join us for Warm Weather Workouts. Have a warm, safe and active week! Here's your link:
June Week 1 Group Challenge - Warm Weather Workouts — MyFitnessPal.com
See you in the chat thread!
Jessica
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Hello June! 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: 29 (until August!)
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
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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@minstrelofsarcasm I am sorry, I have been out of town. I didn't have any wifi at the campground. I maintained this past week. I am expecting a loss this week because I did a lot of walking this weekend.
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As I am trying to beat each month I was able to beat this month by 2 thousand steps.
Steps-
05/25-8,775
05/26-11,573
05/27-11,066
05/28-10,851
05/29-8,854
05/30-12,867
05/31-14,609
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I have just added my steps since January. I have a total steps of 1,462,630 in 5 months
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@blessedgrandma5 - Not a problem, I'll make sure your weight is updated properly in the spreadsheet. How was camping??
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Weigh In Day: Monday
PW (Previous Weight): 219.2
CW (Current Weight): 221.6
Well, this sucks! But I know I haven't done as good as I need to, so I'm going to keep trying! Also, that was a 2 week gain since I didn’t weigh In last week.
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Weigh in day: Monday
CW: 267.2 (loss of 2.4 lbs)
PW: 269.6Steps for week of May 25 to June 1:
S- 4278
M- 5423
T- 6382
W- 6537
T- 6622
F- 8122
S- 4925Goals: (For accountability) I didn't stick with my strength training last week, I only got one session done. I felt SO tired the whole week and my ankles and feet have been hurting so much. I am getting back at doing my physio exercises. I did very well with eating more mindfully - I used a different app to track this, the Ate app - taking photos and writing down the reason for eating and how things made me feel, and I did prioritize my fruit and vegetable consumption. I am going to keep that up but not make it a goal, just go with the flow and see how I feel. I drank my water, and did a little better on sleep, but I need to still improve. I came in just short of my goal of 7 hours per night most days.
So this week, my goals are:
- Drink 2L of water daily
- Sleep 7 hours per night
- Walk 20-30 minutes daily
- Strength train 2-3x this week
- Ankle/foot exercises at least 3x this week
Sorry for the long post! Cheers all, and good luck with your goals this week!
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Hi Team! You have a new member joining. Please welcome @annliz23 😊
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@minstrelofsarcasm camping was great. A lot of walking. The weather was perfect! Here hubby and I were making hobo packs the dogs tried to help
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Let’s go team!! Going for 10 lbs in June!
pw-222.5
Cw-221Steps-
05/25-7186
05/26-7906
05/27-7324
05/28-6769
05/29-14420
05/30-8763
05/31-9734
06/01-7141
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BodyTalking
Weigh-in 21 May
Starting weight: 81.7 kg/180.12 lb
Previous weight: 80.7 kg/178.13 lb
Current weight: 80.8 kg/177.91 lb
BodyTalking
Steps 25-31 May
Total: 29,168
S 1590
M 1579
T 5406
W 8969
T 6263
F 901
S 4460
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@annliz23 - Welcome back! It's good to see you again! Let us know if you need anything or have any questions, we are more than happy to be of help!
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@blessedgrandma5 - Hobo packs! I completely forgot about those, it's been way too long since I've been camping. What kind of things do you usually put in yours?
@golf2bFit - 10lbs is ambitious, but you can do it! What's your strategy for the month?
@jennyell85 - Being too tired to do strength training is rough, but it's definitely a sign that your body needs time to rebuild (I don't like it either!). Grant yourself some grace, do what you can with what you have, you got this :)
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@melaniedscott could I please be excused from the step challenge for last week and this week
My Garmin is sometimes refusing to synch with my mobile and I am losing my steps / exercise / sleep randomly (my mobile is temperamental) it is so frustrating! On Monday I did a 6km run and 3.5km walk on top of my work steps, but I only have a total of 130 steps for the day 🤷♀️
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welcome back @annliz23!
@Emilienewme no problem, thanks for letting me know!
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Hi all,
Sorry I missed last week. This week weigh in:
PW - 220.0
CW - 224.6
That is quite depressing. I've been away this past weekend and know I did eat off-plan, but also did quite a lot of walking so didn't think it would be that bad. I was back late Monday night, so weigh in is from yesterday morning and now am on a new kick start this week. Was good yesterday, homemade soup for lunch and just a small tea. I'm going to a comic-con weekend at the end of the month, so am determined to lose some for that.
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steps
Sun-7,141
Mon-8,553
Tuesday-12,097
Wed-10,985
Thursday-6,520
Fri-6,670
Sat-3,910
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@minstrelofsarcasm This past weekend I did hamburger with taco seasoning and potatoes. I also put asparagus in a foil pack too. In the past I have done chicken. I want to try fish sometime.
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Ljdanny
Thurs
Cw 187.4
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cw- 198. I am not sure how accurate that number is. When I first got in it this morning it said 195.6. Then I got off and on it said 198. Yesterday it said 200. My other scale battery is dead.
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Laurabb99
weighin day: Wed
PW: 181
CW: 181
Sorry, I'm late again. @minstrelofsarcasm I think that I'm ready for a break. I really like our group, but I'm just not on the computer very much. I feel the need to simplify life a little. Can I let you know when I'm ready to jump back in?
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