Gryffindor Common Room

Yes, post the House Points (30 max) with your weight on Monday. So if you set yourself that 350 goal, you can give yourself 30 points. If you change your mind, but do at least 150, you can still give yourself 30 points. Make sense?

This post might help make it clearer for you. So you earn 5 points for each 25 completed

Yes, up to 30 points max for the week. We're still working out the bugs to the House Points, so no worries

WEEKLY CHALLENGE!

Hey, Gryffindors! It's good to see all of you working so hard! You make me proud to be a Lion

A lot of you have probably already seen it, but in case you haven't, we're starting a new, 4 week long, Inter-House Challenge next week. We'll start a new one every month until people lose too much interest, too. Here's the link to The Great Hall: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/326416-the-great-hall-of-hogwarts-school

Bump or bookmark that because that's where the Inter-House challenges and results and rules and all that important stuff will show up! Also, I'm going to be posting a blog with all the important information that you can always refer back to, so keep your eye out for that, too (signature badges will also be coming your way for lots of fun things by the end of the week)! And as always, I'll do my best to keep you all posted in case life gets busy!

We're going to be changing things a tiny bit to accommodate all four Houses competing together, so each House can also make their own decisions from week to week. The Inter-House challenge will be a 2 part thing, minutes of exercise and percentage of weight lost. We will still have food and exercise challenges each week as a House (separate from the whole school).

Here's where things get a little tricky: We will still earn House Points, but they will be earned for minutes of exercise (for every House). 1 House Point (HP) for every minute exercised. The HPs will decide which House wins the House Cup at the end of the 4 weeks, and the 2 people out of all the Houses with the highest individual HPs will be Head Boy/Girl. More on that by the end of the week!

Percentage of weight lost will be calculated as a whole House and at the end of each week the House with the highest overall percentage wins that week's Quidditch Match. At the end of the 4 weeks, the House with the highest overall percentage win's the Quidditch Cup! Since the other Houses weigh in at slightly different times during the week, we're going to say you can weigh in (also report your House Points and NEWTs/OWLs) ANY TIME from Friday to the end of Monday every week of the challenge (starting this Friday 9/2), so Heads of House can have their numbers by Wednesdays and the results for the week can be posted by Fridays and we start again

As Gryffindor House, we will still award Prefects each week based on food and exercise challenges separate from the minutes exercised. To add a bit of extra geeky, the food challenges will now be called NEWTs and the exercise challenges will now be called OWLs. They are worth the same amount, just named to be geeky These points are how I will choose Prefects from now on.

*****Ok, now for THIS WEEK'S OWLs/NEWTs!

NEWT (aka Food Challenge): Eat at least a serving of veggies with 3 of your meals per day.

This could be an omelet with some spinach mushroom and tomato, a salad at lunch, some carrots or broccoli as a snack, and some green beans with your dinner, or ANY variations in between. You just need to have veggies at 3 different times during each day this week. (1 point per meal w/veggie, but aim for at least 3 per day as much as possible)

OWL (aka Exercise Challenge): 60 Cross Over Crunches (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihSmBvM3tw4&feature=youtu.be)

I stole these from another challenge I'm in, and I never got around to doing them, so let's do it together! This works out to 10 per day (Tuesday - Sunday). You get 5 points for every 10 you do (up to the total 60, so 30 points total), and 1 point for every 2 crunches if you don't do the full 10 each day. If you need to double up on some days to get them in, that's totally fine! Just aim for 60 total by the time you check in each week. If you can do more, challenge yourself. If you can't do 60, pick a lower number and push to meet it!

Don't hesitate to ask me questions, and keep your eyes peeled for the Inter-House Challenge updates by the end of this week!

Good luck, Lions! Let's kill it!

Hi guys! Looking forward to the Inter-House challenges! Here's my weigh-in.

SW: 154.2
GW Sept 1: 151
GW Oct 1: 145
Week 2: 157.6
Week 3: 155.2
Week 4: 157
Week 5: 158

Think it's safe to say I won't be meeting my first goal. Also, I did 3 days of the 25 jumping jacks, but reading through everyone's posts, I'm a little confused about what point value that works out to. :blushing:

Hope everyone has a good week! Looking forward to the OWLs and NEWTs!

If you did exactly 25 on those 3 days, then 5 points for each 25 = 15 points! Way to go!