Ravenclaw Common Room

Hi!

Checking in for my spirit owl. I am doing good and avoiding the scale!!

Had a great dinner, we are got a sample box from a local produce coop to see if it is worth. BOY, it is totally worth it. Had a great salad, red onion, purple peppers and other veggies.

Have a great night Ravenclaws

Let me tell you fellow Ravenclaws, it has been SO HARD for me to avoid the scale this week. I just want to know the numbers! While I have not caved to temptation yet, it is always present. I know that the scale is not the only thing that matters... but I just hate not having a mid-week check in to see if I'm on track.

As a side note, I've been going over on sugar every single day. Eugh. Tomorrow it is my personal goal to try and rectify that. Lol.

good morning Ravenclaw!! looking ahead to a pretty busy day today. hoping to get at least a brief workout squeezed in after work. had a really nice bike ride home yesterday. sadly both time and weather will prevent a ride today!! hoping for a quick trip to the gym after work for some elliptical time. i'm still on track with the no scales challenge but it's been really hard for me!! as far as the sugar challenge...some days good some days not so much . still trying tho-missed it by only 1g yesterday!! hope everyone has a great day.

I've been trying to strenthen my arms to be able to do pull-ups. I've never been able to do them even as a very active child. My attempts yesterday rewarded me with pulled muscles down both sides of my back today - owwwie!! I must be doing something wrong - I just can't get my feet to even leave the ground unless I do a little jump first. Anyone have any pointers for me??

I used to go to a gym that had a machine called a Gravitron (I kid you not). Basically an assisted pull up machine. You enter your weight and the difficulty level, an air compressor turns on and compensates the lift for your weight, and then you do your pull ups and dips. Basically, it lets you lift a percentage of your current weight. I liked it, because I could do all sorts of pull up variations I would never have been able to do normally, even in the best conditions. Unfortunately, it looked like a pretty expensive piece of equipment.

I did a quick Google search, and ran across this article which looks promising: http://kayak-fitness.kayaklakemead.com/pullups-for-beginners.html. The advice makes sense, though I haven't tried it. There are a ton of U-tube videos out there too, but I didn't spot anything I would recommend.

*Progress towards week of 9/11 OWLS -9/15 update*
House Spirit (post ) - +4
Food (sugar) - +4
Exercise (Don't look at scale) - +4 - <--This is HARD!

*September exercise minutes*
Month to date total = 290
Week 9/11 to date total = 120
9/15 exercise minutes - 30 min walking

So... I have finally discovered the reason that I go over on sugar every day... and it's name is HONEY! I've been a little under the weather, so I've been drinking a ton of tea. And I like my tea sweetened with honey... but that unfortunately means lots of sugar. Oh well!

I took one of those sorting hat quizzes and came up ravenclaw too.

Doing good today on sugar - the scale thing is just a lost cause, I thought it wouldn't be too bad but it is. I like stepping on there. Dunno why.

Sadly, I'm too out of shape to do the exercise challenges (sad, I know, but true) so I'll be focusing on the fiber and spirit, I guess. I'll do as many of the exercise items as I can, but don't expect any owls for it.

Checking in for the day aside from that, and I just had to check out the HP sorting quizzes. I came out a Ravenclaw for 2 and Hufflepuff for one, which isn't terribly surprising (I usually refer to myself as a Ravenpuff). So, pretty happy. I like the first one a lot, although I was dangerously close to Hufflepuff on that one as well.

Daily Stats from 9/14 and 9/15:
Food: 0
Exercise: 2
Spirit: 1
House Points: 33

Weekly Stats (week of 9/10 - 9/16):
Food: 1
Exercise: 4
Spirit: 4
House Points: 63

Some evening silliness:

Sorting Hat Quizes: (I'm 3 for 3 Ravenclaw-I was sure I was going to be sorted into Slytherin at one point!)
http://www.thealmightyguru.com/Reviews/HarryPotter/Docs/Quiz-House.html
http://timidity.org/tests/sortinghat.html
http://sorting-hat.com/sorthatq.htm

And exams for First through Fifth year:
http://sorting-hat.com/exams.htm

I took the First year exam and scored a 94 (47 out of 50). I do not recall ever hearing/reading about the ingredients for a boil-curing potion. :grumble: I mixed up the leg-locker curse with the full-body bind and mistransfigured my mouse.

Oh well, I'll have to study harder for the Second year exam.

:happy:

bookmarked for weekend silliness!! crossing my finger for Ravenclaw!! had a bit of a nsv last night. it was open house at school. last one as my daughter is a senior :ohwell: . anyway, i tend to run into people i've known for years but don't really see often except at this type of function and had several comments about my weight loss and a couple of folks that gave me the "full body look" without comment but had clearly noticed my loss. my ticker doesn't show it but i had lost some weight before discovering mfp so my total loss is actually 40lbs-quite noticeable. anyway, made me feel really good!! happy friday to all. :flowerforyou:

Just a question about the fiber challenge what exactly do we have to do?

Short answer - Track your fiber and meet or exceed your daily goal.

To change what nutrients are tracked in your Food Diary, go to your Food and Exercise Diary Settings at http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/diary_settings

Under Nutrients Tracked, use an empty category, select Fiber. from the drop down list, and then click OK.

You'll now see your Fiber counts calculated for you in your Food Diary.

If you want to change the amount of your daily fiber goal, go to your Your Fitness Goals page at http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/my_goals

Click Change Goals.

Click Custom, and then click Continue.

Fiber is on the left hand side, sixth from the bottom.

Update the amount for Fiber and then click OK.

Good morning everyone!!!! Its PAYDAY Friday (and weigh in day for me!!!)

SW- 135
LW- 132
CW- 129!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Seriously- can NOT believe my eyes- or the scale. Apparently the whole low to no carb thing is working (I have 2 servings of fruit a day so its not really no carb). Now let's see if I can keep it up through the weekend.

Today's Stats:
Exercise- 0 (I had to weigh myself for weigh in)
Food- +1
Spirit- +1

Weekly Stats
Owls: 16
House Points: 300 even

Now on to a new week of exercise and food challenges!!!! The food one will be tough- I definately don't get enough dietary fiber- but I'll see what I can do.

Did a bit better on my Second Year exam. 96% (48 out of 50). I was wrong on the number of times Gilderoy Lockhart won Witch Weekly's Most-Charming-Smile Award and the number of Hogwarts School Governors.

Checking in for my spirit OWL for the day. Was a bad girl and stepped on the scale yesterday. And upon seeing the exercise challenges for the coming week, I see I'm going to fail on those. I don't even WATCH tv lol. I mean, I have a few things I watch on dvd to put myself to sleep in the mornings, but I don't ever even see a commerical break, let alone be able to exercise during 3 of them throughout the day.

On a side note, was having my first real low moment since starting my diet. I love how much weight I'm losing...and not sad to see the fat go.....except in one place. Wish I could keep the fat in my chest. I'm feeling pretty down about how much I've lost there and even beginning to think about once my whole weight loss odyssey is over, checking into the cost and what all is envolved with an enlargement. Anyone ever had one?

weighing in at 142.6 today almost back down to before this little setback.
can I add how excited I was to finally step on the scale.
+4
I didn't make it on the sugars at all.
+6 for spirit
and 450 House points
I hope everyone has a great weekend.

I forgot to include the house points on my last post.

I had 246 exercise minutes this past week. The last couple weeks have been a little hectic, so I missed another workout this week. Hopefully things will be back to normal 6 days a week this week.