Hufflepuff Common Room

Weighing in at 170.00 today I am down 3.6 pounds from last week. I didn't get any exercise in yesterday my hubby and I were fighting. I did get all my water in for the day and some. I am happy to be a prefect but have no idea what to choose for the food challenege at all.

Congrats!! You weigh less than me!! I am checking in tomorrow! (Maybe we will be tied!!) Great Job Lady!!

Thanks I was really shocked I stepped on the scale like 10 times lol. I am so excited even my skinny jeans are turning into my too big jeans. I am having a garage sale this weekend and getting rid of a few of my big girl jeans so maybe I can get some smaller jeans. I hope fingers cross we sell a lot of stuff. I will be out both saturday and sunday trying to make some money. Two of my kids birthdays are coming up so they need cake and presents!!!! Sorry to go so far off topic.

I am open to suggestions on the food challenge! I am excited I get to be a prefect!!

Well let's see maybe we could do a try a new healthy each day ... Just a suggestion!

Stats for 9/30

OWLS- 0... oops
NEWTS- 5
House points- still 0

Weigh-in- 180.2

more numbers (totals for the week so far):

newts - 30
owls - 50
house points - 281

I quite liked the challenge to eat at least 3 veggies daily - for a week there I was eating pretty well so I'd welcome another of those. I also like the water challenges like this week and the first one.

So far no one has said if they'd be up for a dance challenge. I also thought skipping might be fun - please say if you have a preference or better suggestion, I don't want to be the one to set a challenge everyone else thinks is crud :flowerforyou:

I vote for the squirms ... Now that I know what they are! They seem like a real challenge!

Dancing is awesome also! I love to Zumba so this could be a great opportunity to get back into that!

On the subject of the food challenge I find it really hard not to eat one (or sometimes two) packets of crisps (potato chips, although we get them in smaller packets here in the UK) each day so maybe something about resisting cravings? Not sure how it would be measured though because I'm sure we all have different vices!

I'm definitely interested in a dancing or skipping challenge. I think skipping is easier to measure though! I don't have an idea for food yet but I'll be sure to let you know if I do come up with one. Perhaps another of the level monitoring ones - watching our sugar levels for instance?

I am totally for Dancing!! My favorite Exercise of them all!! (could do based on 10 or 30 min workout... aka DVD, Zumba class, or any other dance class, etc.)

I will fail everyday if we measure sugar.... The amount of fruit I eat per day puts me over by 11am... You could to reach your cal goal daily.... Over 1200 but under for the day... Or Watch carbs, eat protein/fruits/veggies... I think the food goal is the hardest because of each persons VERY different daily diet. Good Luck picking something!!! :-)

Unless we don't include the sugar in fruit? Log it as usual but deduct it when posting our results/stats for the duration of the challenge since it's natural sugar? Obviously we could watch something else instead! Carbs would be a good one though.

I would like to do the calorie challenge this week. Can you come up with the rules on it please?

I am not being a good prefect the past two days I promise to be back tomorrow. I was sort of celebrating my twenty down!!!

Hello everyone, I've been up all night drinking and dancing for no other reason than I went to visit a friend I've not seen in ages and he served me tea all day, when I've been drinking decaff for about a year now so I'm just about getting tired at 6am :drinker:

First of all, my stats for the whole week are:

newts - 35
owls - 80
house points - 491

I've been measuring it as:
5 news for each day I've met/exceeded 8 glasses of water
5 owls for each 30mins of exercise in a day
and the house points are pretty simple 1 point per minute of exercise

I hope I have got this right! If not, my apologies; I am simply rubbish with numbers. Please recalculate if I've been measuring it wrong!

As for the exercise challenge, dancing got the most votes but I appreciate that not everyone is likely to like it so I thought we could split it.

3 owls for every 4 minutes of dancing (round up or down to the nearest whole number I reckon)
3 owls for every 2 mins of skipping - either with a real rope or an imaginary one - 4 owls if you do this with weights (and an imaginary rope!)

I'm likely to get 0 points tomorrow since I'm likely to sleep most of the day - my alarm is due in an hour but I won't be getting up :laugh:

OH, also I'm going away from 7th until 16th, I'm going on tour with a singer as a groupie to keep my sound engineer friend company. I may be able to get online but I won't know until I get there since I'll be living on a tour bus roaming through Europe. Perhaps I should delegate my prefect duties for next weekend or I could just think of a challenge in advance. Sorry I appear to have typed a lot (but that's probably because I drank a lot too! haha)

Just thought I'd share this- if you're doing skipping as your exercise rather than dancing and you want to log it in your exercise diary, please note it is called "jump rope" and not "skipping" on the database. It took me a while to figure out!

So those of you who are in North America, skipping is the same as jump rope

Oh yeah, sorry about that!

My calorie goal is 1200 and I have read that it is not wise to eat under that amount but I guess If I do extra exercise perhaps it wouldn't be so harmful? I guess that would be "not eating back exercise calories". Anyway I'm normally over my calorie goal so this would be a challenge for me, definitely.

Obviously it was only a suggestion and I know people may not feel comfortable going under their calorie goal, which I can understand. I'm not a prefect so ultimately it isn't down to me, but I just thought it'd encourage us to do more exercise, which will earn us OWLs and therefore more NEWTs.

Something simple like watching our carbs could be effective too, as I know there could be an issue with 'rewarding ourselves' as such for going under our calorie goal, which could be unhealthy. Plus that way everyone can take part. Hopefully we'll have momie0205's input soon!

2/10 stats

OWLS - 24 (16 minutes of skipping, 8 'sets' of skipping. 3 x 8 = 24.) Please tell me if I have calculated this incorrectly.
NEWTs - None thus far, due to a lack of challenge. I will post my stats for the food challenge when possible.
House Points - 16
Weight - 166

I would like to do the calorie challenge this week. Can you come up with the rules on it please?

I am not being a good prefect the past two days I promise to be back tomorrow. I was sort of celebrating my twenty down!!!

Ok so with the calorie challenge the challenge is to stay make your calories or stay below. I would not recommend going more than 10-15 calories under your recommended calories. If you go over by a bit run around your living room, count that as exercise and you should be good. If you stay at or a LITTLE below your calories you will receive 5 NEWTs per day you meet the challenge!

Final day's stats from me!

1/10

OWLs - 6
NEWTs - 5
House Points - 220
Weight - 167

Sadly only 1lb lost this week, I am very disappointed but I've done 525 minutes of exercise so I'm happy with that. I had hoped to do lose more but as my best friend just said, 'slow and steady wins the race'.

I've just realised that on the results I posted for Tuesday 27, I said I had 15 OWLs from 110 minutes of exercise. Obviously this is wrong! I don't know what possessed me to write 15 but it should in fact be just three OWLs for that day. Please could you amend the spreadsheet/chart accordingly as I wouldn't want false results to be recorded

I hope everyone has had a fabulous weekend!

I would like to remind you how small you are! 1lb is amazing! You want to lose weight slowly so that it is easier to keep it off! Great job!

Final day's stats from me!

1/10

OWLs - 6
NEWTs - 5
House Points - 220
Weight - 167

Sadly only 1lb lost this week, I am very disappointed but I've done 525 minutes of exercise so I'm happy with that. I had hoped to do lose more but as my best friend just said, 'slow and steady wins the race'.

I've just realised that on the results I posted for Tuesday 27, I said I had 15 OWLs from 110 minutes of exercise. Obviously this is wrong! I don't know what possessed me to write 15 but it should in fact be just three OWLs for that day. Please could you amend the spreadsheet/chart accordingly as I wouldn't want false results to be recorded

I hope everyone has had a fabulous weekend!

I would like to remind you how small you are! 1lb is amazing! You want to lose weight slowly so that it is easier to keep it off! Great job!

Thanks a lot! You've made me feel a whole lot better. Today I've lost another 1lb so I'm happy!