Gryffindor Common Room

Hi guys! Sorry I missed last week... went on vacation and in all the hubbub forgot to mention it here. :blushing: Also, I like the calorie burn challenge!

Hope everyone had a good week! I gained this week, which I'm attributing to the vacation...

SW: 154.2
Week 2 - 157.6

Getting my butt back in gear now!

What are your goal weights for Sept 1 and for Oct 1?

Good morning, Gryffindors! I've gotta say, it makes me so happy to see you all working so hard to get those BIG burns this week! Whether you made your goal or didn't, I'm proud of your attitude and your effort. Let's keep it up!

As far as this week's challenge, a lot of you seem to be really killing the calorie burn challenge, so I think its a good time to change it up. Also, lots of you seem to be of the competitive variety, so I propose adding House Points into our challenges (like the Ravenclaws do) to make who becomes Prefect each week less about the scale.

House Points would be earned like this: at the beginning of each week, I'll say how many House points are possible for each part of the challenge. Then, when you check in each Monday, you would also post how many House points you've earned (based on the honor system) and that will factor in to the percentages lost as well. What do you all think of that? I think it could make those of us plateauing a little more motivated to kick butt!

Ok, to give this a shot, here's our first House Point weekly challenge (10 points max):

Rainbow Challenge (max 5 pts): Eat at least 1 meal with 4 or more colors in it for at least 5 days this week. Junk food doesn't count (as much as we wish it did, eh?). 1 point for each day you have at least one 4-color meal (max 5). I encourage you to use this challenge to learn how to do this for every meal you can, but aim for 5 for this challenge.

Water Challenge (max 5 pts): Drink at least 8 cups of water at least 5 days this week. Ideally you should be hitting your water goals every day, but for those of us that find it hard, aim for five. IF YOUR GOAL IS HIGHER THAN 8 CUPS/DAY: I encourage you to make that your minimum to receive a House Point for each day. 1 point for each day (up to 5) that you drink at least 8 cups (or your personal goal, if it's more than 8 cups).

I think we'll keep it at that for this week to get used to the points, but in the future we can have a food and exercise goal each week. I encourage you to keep aiming for those big burns if you can, or at least do some working out as many days as you can, even tho our challenge isn't exercise-related this week. We all know its good for us

And just to keep me accountable, my workouts have sucked the past 2 weeks, so I'm adding the 1500 cal burn challenge to my personal goals

Ok, to give this a shot, here's our first House Point weekly challenge (10 points max):

Rainbow Challenge (max 5 pts): Eat at least 1 meal with 4 or more colors in it for at least 5 days this week. Junk food doesn't count (as much as we wish it did, eh?). 1 point for each day you have at least one 4-color meal (max 5). I encourage you to use this challenge to learn how to do this for every meal you can, but aim for 5 for this challenge.

Seeking clarification on the "colors" challenge - so, my Jazz apple would be red, my banana yellow... can I count my vanilla yogurt as white? Does the color of the meat in my sandwich also count? (Or the bread/cheese/lettuce?) Not trying to pick nits, just want to understand what does and does not qualify as "color" for my meal.

Those all count as colors! As long as its a healthy food you're counting, its fair game.

Am I brave enough to be let into Gryffindor?? I would love to be part of the House!

Yup! Welcome! post your weight this week, then post your goal weights for September 1 and October 1. And read back to see our challenges, and weigh in here every Monday!

Hey, Gryffs! I just wanna let you all know that I plan to send reminders to those of you who haven't weighed in by Friday each week. I also want you to know that I'm not sitting in front of my computer stewing over the fact that you haven't checked in yet! I know when I'm busy I appreciate little reminders, and I just don't want anyone to miss out on the fun of being dorks together just because they forgot. Some of you have written back to me apologizing, and that's REALLY not what I intend my messages to convey!