Harry Potter Weight Loss Challenge - Ravenclaw

Checking in! I tried a new exercise yesterday and I'm so excited about it! I got on the stairmaster machine!!! Those things are so intimidating, but I did it! WEEEE!!!!
I think Friday I'm gonna try out a spin bike! Oh how exciting!

We reached a milestone - Ravenclaw House has lost over 100 pounds!! Great job!! :drinker:

WOOT! Yeah Ravenclaw!!!

I can't see the chart for the weight loss. =(


---Nevermind. Refreshed the page and it showed up.

Today's trivia from the main thread:

HP Post of the Day:

QUOTE OF THE DAY:
"excuse me ? what d’you mean, a bit of whoever we’re changing into ? i’m drinking nothing with crabbe’s toenails in it – "
- ron weasley, harry potter and the chamber of secrets

DID YOU KNOW ?
in the film harry potter and the order of the phoenix, harry's scream at the department of mysteries was cut out because it was too agonizing.

We're still waiting for Slytherin to check in with their weekly stats - but as of right now, Ravenclaw is in the lead for week 3!!

Am loving the food challenge for this week, I was craving a Monte Carlo Biscuit today after I found 2 packets in the cupboard this morning, I am so excited to say that I only ate ONE biscuit, I used to eat like 5 or 6 in one go. Am looking so forward to the last Harry Potter and am planning on re reading all the books in preparation, My own special challenge.

Am loving the food challenge for this week, I was craving a Monte Carlo Biscuit today after I found 2 packets in the cupboard this morning, I am so excited to say that I only ate ONE biscuit, I used to eat like 5 or 6 in one go. Am looking so forward to the last Harry Potter and am planning on re reading all the books in preparation, My own special challenge.

I'm rereading the 7th one right now! I'm so excited for the final movie and also really really sad. I don't want it to be over!

Trying the whole "new" workout thing- and honestly not liking it. I am a creature of habit so chaning my routine (evenif its pilates instead of kickboxing in the am) kind of throws me for a loop- but I'm doing it!!!! Yesterday tried pilates and today did a beach body aerobic workout that was new- today's wasn't that bad, so maybe there's hope for me yet

Am loving the food challenge for this week, I was craving a Monte Carlo Biscuit today after I found 2 packets in the cupboard this morning, I am so excited to say that I only ate ONE biscuit, I used to eat like 5 or 6 in one go. Am looking so forward to the last Harry Potter and am planning on re reading all the books in preparation, My own special challenge.

I'm rereading the 7th one right now! I'm so excited for the final movie and also really really sad. I don't want it to be over!

I'm going to be really sad when they're over too - it will be like losing a friend.

I'm not going to read the books again until after the last movie. I made the mistake of reading the 5th book right before the movie came out and was so dissappointed that the movie left out so many details. Now that the details are no longer fresh in my memory, I'm ok with the movie.

Am loving the food challenge for this week, I was craving a Monte Carlo Biscuit today after I found 2 packets in the cupboard this morning, I am so excited to say that I only ate ONE biscuit, I used to eat like 5 or 6 in one go. Am looking so forward to the last Harry Potter and am planning on re reading all the books in preparation, My own special challenge.

I'm rereading the 7th one right now! I'm so excited for the final movie and also really really sad. I don't want it to be over!

I'm going to be really sad when they're over too - it will be like losing a friend.

I'm not going to read the books again until after the last movie. I made the mistake of reading the 5th book right before the movie came out and was so dissappointed that the movie left out so many details. Now that the details are no longer fresh in my memory, I'm ok with the movie.

I so agree...they leave out some terrific details so I am not reading #7 again until after seeing the movie. I am sad to see them end...I agree, it is like losing a friend.

Pam

also rereading #7 right now. so sad to lose such good friends. when the last book came out at least we had the movies to look forward to.

Today I ran on the treadmill for 5 minutes. I haven't run that long in over 19 years, let alone run at all!! I thought I was going to pass out, but I didn't.

Also, I had a huge craving for reese's PB cups, so I indulged, but not too much. Stayed completely within my calories.

Total house points for today = 2

Seems like everyone is doing really well this week! I'm not having such a good week though. We're low on money, so I've been eating leftovers or foods left in the pantry since before I started the challenge - some of them not so healthy or wise. Tonight was spaghetti - yummy for sure - but threw me over my calories again.

Exercise hasn't been much better - my energy level has been low and I haven't felt like working out. Wonder if it has to do with my diet this week...

I'll keep my fingers crossed for Sunday's weigh-in!

I'm in the same boat until I start my new job with the low on money thing. Isn't it horrible that the good for you healthy food is *SOO* much more expensive than that crap junk food. I find that so wrong.

Gonna add my voice to those of us deciding not to re-read the book before the movie comes out. Everytime I've done that I've come out ranting . Which is normally ok because I generally see it with friends who are similarly HP nerds, but still. Like I got so angry in HBP, in the scene where Dumbledore died, and instead of having Harry magically paralysed, he was just paralysed with shock/or something? Made absolutely no sense for his character! *shakes fist* Also, they could have left it a bit more mysterious as to whether Snape was a baddie or not, that was such a cliffhanger in the book, I remember some intense discussions over that as a kid, in the wait for book 7.


Anyway, came here to make a note of a craving averted. My mum made a delicious curry for dinner, and really wanted to have another big bowl when I got hungry later in the night, but instead had a small bowl about 1/3-1/2 of my dinner size. Also this probably doesn't count, but I hadn't done push ups for about a week, and tried them again yesterday. Yesterday, I felt fine, it wasn't too strenuous, I was a little smug that my muscles were still intact. Today I am so sore! :laugh:

I'm in the same boat until I start my new job with the low on money thing. Isn't it horrible that the good for you healthy food is *SOO* much more expensive than that crap junk food. I find that so wrong.

I agree! Between me wanting to eat healthy, my husband's celiac disease (can't eat anything with wheat in it) and my son's ADHD-type response to additives and artificial colors, my weekly grocery bill is outrageous! OK - rant over. :bigsmile:

Gonna add my voice to those of us deciding not to re-read the book before the movie comes out. Everytime I've done that I've come out ranting . Which is normally ok because I generally see it with friends who are similarly HP nerds, but still. Like I got so angry in HBP, in the scene where Dumbledore died, and instead of having Harry magically paralysed, he was just paralysed with shock/or something? Made absolutely no sense for his character! *shakes fist* Also, they could have left it a bit more mysterious as to whether Snape was a baddie or not, that was such a cliffhanger in the book, I remember some intense discussions over that as a kid, in the wait for book 7.

I agree. I've been relatively pleased with the movie adaptations EXCEPT for HPB. I think that they completely botched that movie. It was a good movie if you're a pure movie fan but if you know the books....it left plenty to be desired. My little brother and I watched the midnight release and as soon as the credits rolled we looked at each other and said "what the hell was that?"

I was sorely disappointed about how they handled Snape's storyline (among MANY other things) and instead of the big fight at the end they give Snape a mere moment to divulge that he's the half blood prince...it was completely out of whack. And I read that the reason they didn't incorporate the fight at the end of HPB is because DH part 2's fight scene is so epic that they felt HPB didn't need one....what a bunch of baloney!

The two things I *hated* about HBP movie was that first off they have a fight scene at and destroy the burrow.... wtf... no seriously... WTF????

Second the way they handled the kiss with Ginny... they never said that her and Harry got together and started dating they never had Harry tell Ron and get his approval... that really bothered me.

Then of course I agree with everything everyone's said about the whole freaking Snape issue

okay rant over ... sorry :-)

Also adding my 2 cents on the movie thing: My 2 biggest complaints with HBP were the Draco story line and the Snape story line- I think the movies left both of those characters short and we didn't get to "see" the intricacies that are Draco and Snape. I hate how Harry was just not doing anything when Dumbledore is killed, and how . . . . well just about everything so I'll stop.