Weight No More Team Chat - July 2025

lauren_989 · June 28

Here is your Team chat room for July 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 five weeks, from June 29th - August 2nd.

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 July on the road! 😎

jessicakrall8 · June 28

The July Week 1 Group Challenge is open and ready to begin on Sunday, Jun 29th. Please join us for the Fill the Plate Challenge and spend the week working on your nutrition with the team! Here's your link:

July Week 1 Group Challenge - Fill the Plate Challenge — MyFitnessPal.com

See you in the chat thread!

Jessica 😎

Emilienewme · June 29

Previous weight 178.5 lbs

Current weight 177.4 lbs

Sorry I am late posting, I had a crazy week (it's my son's last year in primary school, so lots of extra events, show and things to remember) and it was my daughter's ballet show (rehearsal Thursday, show Friday and all day yesterday, with me chaperoning)

Sun 15th 22,611. Sun 22nd 25,687

Mon 16th 22,303. Mon 23rd 21,080

Tue 17th 12,021. Tue 24th 14,868

Wed 18th 11,357. Wed 25th 16,643

Thu 19th 18,629. Thu 26th 11,065

Fri 20th 13,337. Fri 27th 12,019

Sat 21st 16,448. Sat 28th 2,958

annliz23 · June 29

Current weight 114.9

Saturday 21st 7624 steps 3.14 miles

Sunday 22nd 16589 steps 6.87 miles

Monday23 rd 14949 steps 6.52 miles

Tuesday 24th 16872 steps 7.04 miles

Wednesday25th 17583 steps 7.50 miles

Thursday26th 14548 steps 5.84 miles

Friday 27th 13931 steps 5.63 miles

Sorry its late.

minstrelofsarcasm · June 29

Hello July! 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.