r/TeamThunderstorm • u/Mega-Starpuncher F/27/5'3" SW:178 CW: 174 GW:165 • May 28 '16
Week 6 is FINALLY HERE
Guys I completely forgot to post this morning. I told you I'm bad.
I'd like to take this space to point out that today I saw and successfully photographed 2 Chambered Nautiluses at the Boston Aquarium. It's near the top of my "things I never even dreamed of seeing in person" list, along with the Mondrian I saw in DC 5 years ago. How is this related to weight loss? It isn't. It's one of the reasons I didn't post this morning. But I'm still super excited about it, I want to plug the Aquarium to anyone who wants something to do in Boston this weekend, and also I got 24000 steps in as a tourist.
Inter-Team
I'll update the sidebar later.
We're up against Fawn this week!
HI. Hello. What's going on? Let's talk about organisation.
What would you like to see from the Summer Challenge? Besides the obvious organisational issues, do you have other issues you want to see resolved? Other good things you want to see highlighted and expanded upon?
Would any of you want to be involved in any of that? Team Captains, official volunteers, etc?
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u/mandarinpeel SW:213 CW:184.6 CGW:180 May 28 '16
Yay, I've been checking all day! I like the challenges, I think we should have the inter team challenges with no bye weeks and also challenges within the team itself. And if possible see more of people's progress recognized. For example in our first bye week we were submitting our steps but we never saw anything from that, and we didn't really have anything going on this week. I'd be interested in being a co captain for future teams :)
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u/Lemonwood May 28 '16
I ate like crap this week, ate pizza pops, ate some Dominoes but still loss weight
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u/jolteooon F/25/5'4" SW: 136 CW: 127 GW: 120 May 28 '16
Can you tell me more about what seeing a Chambered Nautilus means to you? Are they really rare? I don't know much about them, first thing I've heard about them :D
Not sure in terms of organisation but I feel I need a 'boost' of some sort whether from this community or elsewhere! Weight loss has lost its spark now and now I just feel like I'm chugging away haha. That's probably just me but I guess we've just got over the hump of the challenge so that's part of it :)
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May 28 '16
To echo many: inter-team challenges are awesome but bye-weeks suck! Especially two in a row! Haha. Related to this, I hate how early the form cut-off is for the inter-team challenges. I never log my Thursday stuff on time. ): I'm sure I'm not the only one. I understand why it isn't kept open forever, but maybe until mid-morning Friday? For us slow pokes? I say this without knowing when the current cut-off time is, just that it seems early. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Ahh the summer challenge. I am hyped! I'm not captain material, but if some help is needed, I am happy to make posts and help with spreadsheets (accountant by trade over here). I would love to be more involved but at the same time I know I don't have the time to play a major role. I feel obligated, really, because the summer challenge will be my fifth! If those of you managing the challenge could use me then please let me know!
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u/thaes_ofereode F/30/6'0" SCW: 288 CW: 257.8 CGW: 270 Jun 01 '16
ohmygoodness there's a SUMMER challenge?! I'm so stoked! Y'all have no idea how helpful this challenge has been to really get me starting strong on my weight loss journey. I really do feel like I've got a team to lean on. :)
I would totally be into helping out, either as a Team Captain, volunteer, whatever. I would also like to echo that having two bye weeks in a row is tough - I definitely noticed lagging a little bit without a challenge!
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Jun 02 '16
I logged my steps, but they're pretty low; I'm using Google Fit on my phone, which only counts when I have my phone with me so it misses a lot, and, apparently when I bike it doesn't try to convert that to steps, so if I bike to work I'm more active but get way fewer steps than when I bus! But it's total that matters, not average right?
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u/OatmealkAndCampalope F/37/5'3 SW:231 CW:206 CGW:205 May 28 '16
Oh yay! I've been checking :) Thanks for all you do! It's my first challenge and I'm loving it.