Slytherin Common Room
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Maintained weight.
1052 exercise minutes, for 4846 calories burned (a personal best)!!
0 NEWTs.
6 OWLs (6 days completed).0 -
Got a few questions for my Slytherin seniors ^_^
1. When you add up your exercise minutes for the week, do you start with the week beginning being Monday or Sunday?
2. Same for NEWTS & OWLS. When does a fresh week challenge start?
3. Do u just count the cardio activities or do you include the strength training as well? If you include strength training, do u just estimate the time taken to do all those reps?0 -
Got a few questions for my Slytherin seniors ^_^
1. When you add up your exercise minutes for the week, do you start with the week beginning being Monday or Sunday?
2. Same for NEWTS & OWLS. When does a fresh week challenge start?
3. Do u just count the cardio activities or do you include the strength training as well? If you include strength training, do u just estimate the time taken to do all those reps?
1) You can pick however you want for your week. You can report any day between Friday and Monday. If you choose to report on Friday, then you would add up your minutes, OWLS, NEWTS, from Friday to Thursday. If you pick Saturdays, the it would be Saturday to Friday.
2) explained above ^_^
3) For my strength training, I have a heart rate monitor and I add it into the cardio section on the "exercise" tab so it the calories and minutes count towards my numbers. If you add it until the Strength Training section, it doesn't count.0 -
Here's my check-in:
Weight - down to 240.5
Minutes exercised - 270
NEWTs - 1
OWLs - 30 -
Check in:
I maintained this week, so no loss for me.
290 mins / 1680 cals.
4 OWLS / 0 NEWTS0 -
Hi everyone,
Apparently this was a week of maintenance, because I'm at 0 loss for this week too!
SW: 243.6 lbs
Last Weight (LW): 234.0 lbs
CW: 234.0 lbs
This week's loss: 0 lbs
2 NEWTS / 0 OWLS
649 mins / 4329 cals << Up 205 mins from last week, but only up a little over 100 cals. Looks like I know where the 0 lbs lost came from. ^^;;
Good luck this week meeting your goals everyone! I eat out a lot, so I'm a big fan of this week's NEWTS.
Also: WELCOME NEW SLYTHERINS! :flowerforyou:0 -
Haven't checked in for a while, but I'm doing it today!
SW: 350
OW: 330.2 (Last time I checked in)
CW: 324.6 (Went from 329 to 324.6! o_o)
Loss: 4.4lbs!
0 OWLs
0 NEWTs
248 Exercise minutes
2514 Calories burned!!!0 -
Love to join Slytherin :-) Can you send me the details and Ill start striaght away!
On my way to Aqua Zumba later tonight so I start today :happy:0 -
aqua zumba?! wow that sounds fun. I have the zumba wii game, and will hopefully gather the courage to go to an actual class soon.
checking in..
no weight change again
140 exercise minutes, 1519 calories0 -
I think I'm down 1 lb for the week, need to check my newts and owls when I get home but exercise minutes I'm going to estimate at 400 this week just in case I forget to log when I'm finally home. Next week will be better as I am resolving to pump in those minutes this month. For feb I mean.
Since aquazumba came up, let's discuss! What kind of excersise have you been doing? What have you tried and likes, hated etc? Any exercise you are interested in starting?0 -
Got a few questions for my Slytherin seniors ^_^
1. When you add up your exercise minutes for the week, do you start with the week beginning being Monday or Sunday?
2. Same for NEWTS & OWLS. When does a fresh week challenge start?
3. Do u just count the cardio activities or do you include the strength training as well? If you include strength training, do u just estimate the time taken to do all those reps?
I personally do Monday to Monday.
If I do weight training I use my heart rate monitor and add it in under weights or strength training in the cardio search. But it has an estimate burn for weight training under cardio so you can use that if you don't have a HRM.
Under the actual strength training section I just log it so I know exactly how many reps and what weights I used for future reference.0 -
We had another awesome week ladies and gents!!
House Points: 523.70
% lost: 0.56% Which is a total of 8.5 lbs lost with 10 people accounted for!!
Even though we had a lot of people maintaining (maintaining is better than a gain!) we still got a great numbers!! Let's keep it going in February!0 -
Hi, I'm quite new to MFP, and am looking to loose weight and essentially get fit and tone up. My target is a 60 mile bike ride for charity in July and I have already started my training for this in the last few weeks. I'm looking forward to meeting others and as I'm a big Harry potter geek I'm keen to earn a few owls and newts along to way!
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I tried aqua zumba last night...it's not for me I'm afraid. I find normal zumba works me alot better, found the aqua version a little too easy - I did get chatting to a few ladies there who said the aqua aerobics classes at the same gym gave them a better workout- I'll try this next time as currently working my way through all the classes on offer :happy: As they are free with my membership0
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good for you for trying out the free classes. I never get to any of them, they seem to either not mesh with my schedule or its something where I think "eh, I won't enjoy that" but maybe I should just TRY them at least once to see.0
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I'll get the ball rolling on the NEWTs for this week!!
So on Tuesday I went out to lunch with an old co-worker who came to visit for the day. At the restaurant downstairs in my building, they have 1/2 price burgers every Tuesday. So, I already knew that I would be getting a burger. Now, burgers normally come with fries, so my first decision was to get a side salad with the dressing on the side instead of the fries, even though I REALLY wanted fries. And instead of getting a regular beef burger, I got the turkey burger and added the bacon and veggies that I wanted on it. Good decision #2. And then, the third good decision, which I always try to do when going out to eat, is I got a to-go box right away. I asked the waitress to bring it with my food. When my food and the to-go box arrived, I immediately put half of my meal into the to-go box! $5.99 for 2 lunches! Not bad at all! 0 -
Number 2 there is one of my favorite strategies! I just tell myself "look, you can have 1 bad thing but not TWO bad things" - I do it with carby things especially because its easy to wolf down a lot of bread/pancakes/potatoes/whatever and it adds a lot of calories without a ton of enjoyment (whereas I will enjoy the heck out of bacon).
So yesterday I decided I really wanted a custard pastry (yes I did!) so I got one - and then trimmed my lunch way down from its usual (2 mini pancakes, eggs, toast, bacon, fruit, potatoes) to a much smaller 2 eggs + bacon and fruit. IT was still a hefty lunch, calorie wise, but not nearly as hefty as if I'd added my pastry to my usual. (That's not my daily lunch, just what I get when I go to that cafe).
Today I got up and walked away from the rest of my rice. Because I could totally have eaten it but I was full and didn't NEED to eat it.0 -
I'll get the ball rolling on the NEWTs for this week!!
So on Tuesday I went out to lunch with an old co-worker who came to visit for the day. At the restaurant downstairs in my building, they have 1/2 price burgers every Tuesday. So, I already knew that I would be getting a burger. Now, burgers normally come with fries, so my first decision was to get a side salad with the dressing on the side instead of the fries, even though I REALLY wanted fries. And instead of getting a regular beef burger, I got the turkey burger and added the bacon and veggies that I wanted on it. Good decision #2. And then, the third good decision, which I always try to do when going out to eat, is I got a to-go box right away. I asked the waitress to bring it with my food. When my food and the to-go box arrived, I immediately put half of my meal into the to-go box! $5.99 for 2 lunches! Not bad at all!
I LOVE the early to-go box idea!!0 -
On Monday night I went with my boyfriend to one of my favourite restaurants! It's a sushi restaurant downtown in Redwood City (where we live), called Suisha.
I always order the same thing there... the waiters even know what I want so I don't even have to ask!
I get the salmon teriyaki salad, but ask for no teriyaki sauce on the salmon (I don't do well with gluten, which is in the sauce), and I ask them to leave off the crunchy fried noodles that come on top of the salad. So it's just grilled plain salmon, lettuce and sesame dressing. It is so tasty!
I also share an order of edamame with my boyfriend, and get a glass of plum wine.
The food comes to about 370 calories and the big glass of plum wine is around 320 calories, so 690 total and SO delicious!0 -
Yum, plum wine! its the calorie-devil though as far as alcohol goes. 320, ouch!0
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Yum, plum wine! its the calorie-devil though as far as alcohol goes. 320, ouch!
Yeah, it is high in cals. But I only have one glass and it definitely gets me drunker than one glass of other kinds of wine! 0 -
Hi, would like to join this house. Please send me info to get started.
Looking forward to meeting you all…
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Hi, would like to join this house. Please send me info to get started.
Looking forward to meeting you all…
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Just jump in and go Marla!
So its 4:30 am my time. I've been awake since 1:30. I desperately hope that I got at least 2 hours of sleep because I've been lying in bed and then on the sofa for 3 hours with no ability to fall back asleep. I gave up0 -
Hey Slytherin - I don't THINK we even have any Friday Check-in people but just in case I apologize for being late on this!
Also please stop by during the week if you have a moment and say hi.
NEWTs: You've got goals! Calories, carbs, sugar, whatever. You get 2 NEWTS for coming in and talking about them. You get 1 additional NEWT for every day that you meet or are within 100 calories of your calorie goal. Max of 7 NEWTS.
OWLs: Does this look the same as last week? That's because it is - but THIS week you have to do 3 per day. If you didn't do last week's OWLS, then you can drop it back to 2 a day if you need to.
Pick 3 per day:
30 sit ups or crunches or reverse crunches or any other ab exercise you would like. If you are going to do really basic plain crunches those are easy so shoot for 50. I will link a bunch of variations that I really like later today if you want to try something new, work some different muscle groups, etc.
30 squats -- side squats, sumo squats, whatever. drop that butt down and pick it back up for you. If body weight squats are easy pick up some dumbbells and hold them while you squat. Remember to keep your weight mostly over your heels - NOT on your toes or the balls of your feet. My boyfriend thinks this looks like someone squatting down to go to the bathroom and thinks it is hilarious but if your knees are pushing out over your toes you're doing it wrong and could injure yourself.
20 pushups -- use your knees if you have to. do wall pushups if you have to. Alternately try putting your hands on an elevated platform like a step (so you are at an angle but not vertical or on your knees)
10 Burpees (I know, EW!)
Plank for 30 seconds - elbow, side, etc. If a 30 second plank is already easy for you its time to start raising up one arm. If you can't hold the raised arm for the whole time just do 3-5 seconds on and 3-5 seconds off. You can also switch off arms and legs - just get a limb off the ground.0 -
Hi, first weight with you guys. I weigh on Sundays. 146.3 lbs. My goal is 125.
I just started yesterday so exercise min. 45 and will start Newts & Owls this week.
I have been getting over hip and low back pain from a gym class over a week ago, its almost gone now so good time to start exercise. Probably will do the Owls slowly and modified for this week.
My goal for this week is to cut out desserts and not eat after 7pm. I can do fine all day then end of day want to snack when not hungry. On good days tea works on bad days…well…desserts seem to happen lately when facing stressful time. Like I went off diet a few days last week when pain was at its worst…had a pity party…ugh…
I live on top of a small hill so walking around the block involves up and down (and its a few miles) or treadmill is my exercise until gym...0 -
Hey everyone. Maintained at 171 pounds. 1035 exercise minutes. 7 owls and newts. I don't usually eat out much but my girlfriend is in town visiting, so here is what I did when out:
Did the thing mentioned earlier where I divided my meal in half from the beginning and put in a to go box that I ate later for supper. Also, I substituted turkey sausage, bacon etc and egg whites instead of regular. I always have a healthy 100 calorie snack each day.
Hope you all have a great week!0 -
Lost 0.5 lbs this week. Not much, but better than the zero last week...
889 exercise minutes for 4121 burned this week. Burninating :-D
4 NEWTs, 7 OWLs.0 -
No loss again, waaaaa!
430 mins / 2265 cals burnt
0 NEWTS, 5 OWLS0 -
weight - 238.7 - 1.8 lb loss!! woohoo!! FINALLY our of the 240's that I've been stuck in for about 5 months!
262 minutes / 3731 cals burnt
OWLs- 2; NEWTs - 50 -
Hiya, first week done as slytherin, no weight loss this week, think with the exercise I'm under calories every day and I need to try and eat them. Anyway
1newt
2owls
402 minutes of exercise, 2575 calories burnt0
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