Hufflepuff Common Room

:sad: Man I have a horrible migraine tonight and my son is sick. Please pray my baby feels better soon. It makes for a crappy time when any of them are sick. :sad:

***Warning...LONG post!***

Guys! The thread is so dead nowadays, we need to liven it up a LOT! I understand everyone has busy lives, because I know I do, but we need to get more active on here! I was thinking we could play some games, and the 'interesting fact about yourself' idea was well received so I'm going to expand on it and post 5 things about myself and you should too! I'm going to avoid the really obvious things such as name etc because you already know all of that

- I want to become a nurse when I am older. Well, in all honestly, not want, NEED. There is physically nothing else I can both concede doing with my life, nor actually do with my life than become a nurse and I will do anything possible to make this happen. I want to become a children's nurse in particular, and I've just sent off my application for University. Now I have a wait to see if any University will offer me a place to study nursing, but I cannot possibly do anything other with my life career wise so I'm praying to God I get in.
- I'm a very personal and secretive. I find it hard to trust people and therefore I am hesitant about telling people things, especially my feelings, secrets and thoughts. I'm a lot more open on the internet, because I feel that while you can judge me, you don't know me well enough to form an opinion of me or what I have just said.
- I spend most of my time worrying about what people think of me, and it really is not a good thing!
- I'm an only child, but I do not know my biological father so this may not be the case. However, I am 99% sure it's just me! As a child, I always wished for a sister when blowing out the candles on my birthday cake, and then I learned that wishing is not how I'm going to get the sister!
- London is my favourite place in the entire world. I live an hour away from it and I'd go there daily if I could. I feel free when I'm there.

Okay, so that's me. Now your turn! Hopefully this'll get us talking a lot more and if it doesn't...you now know a lot about me! :laugh:

Not sure if I am posting the food challenge for this week so I'll go ahead and do it anyway. Another simple one from me I'm afraid, purely because it's late here and I'm not a creative personal at all! We'll be monitoring our fat levels this week. Sorry that it's so simple, boring and un-inventive, but it can be very effective. 5 NEWTs for being under your fat goal or allowance, and 1 NEWT per glass of water consumed, meaning an unlimited amount of NEWTs can be gained this week.

Stats for 22/10

OWLs - 100
NEWTs - 13
House Points - 210

Enjoy the rest of your weekend guys, and try to get posting more!

Yesterday was not the best! I went for a quick one mile jog in the morning and then felt HUNGRY all day. We hung out with some freinds last night and they had loads of yummy snacks and I made horrible choices. I went over on calories and sodim and the scale was not forgiving this morning-blagh!

For Yesterday:

Weight 144lbs (same)
3 newts
0 Owls
10 house points

Jenn, congratulations on the weight loss this week. You're so close to 100lbs off, you must feel amazing at the thought of having lost that much. Well done you!

Diet Mountain Dew? That sounds interesting! We have MD here in England, but it's so different to the American version. It has a lot less sugar and not the same ingredients as apparently one/some of the ingredients in the American aren't allowed to be used hence the change in our version of it. I'm not a fan of MD, but it's very popular here.

Christmas is only 9 weeks away...crazy!!

WOW you are doing an AMAZING job!!!! Kudos to you!

Congratulations Hufflepuff on the new thread! 500 posts - that's awesome!!

Bumping in this thread.... Just paid $170 to get into my locked apartment. Suck! I am ready for next weekend!!!!

sorry i have been MIA the last couple of weeks not posting and participating but i'm hoping to get back to posting frequently.

last week's weight 303 and house points 351
this week's weight 303 glad i didn't gain any weight. i've been eating back my exercise calories and i know i shouldn't but i'm hungry.

OMG i did 4 days of 30day shred i love it.

what are the challenges for this week?

Bumping in this thread.... Just paid $170 to get into my locked apartment. Suck! I am ready for next weekend!!!!

OMG!!! I did the very same thing this weekend. I locked my self and my 2 small children out of the house. We were sitting in my van for almost 2 hours. Luckily my awesome maintenance man only charged me $20 to get it open!

WOW! I had a lot to get caught up on. If you haven't weighed in please do so asap! Thanks

5 interesting/confessional type things about me
1.) I am 23, but I drive a minivan LOL I love my minivan I always dreamed of being a minivan soccer mom so I am even though I only have 2 kids. We have a whole row of the van we never even use.

2.) I have a type A personality. Everything has to be perfect or I freak out. As you can imagine I am stressed about a lot of small things A LOT! My mom is sure I am going to die at least 10 years early from the stress overload. I just don't know how to let go and let things roll off my back sometimes.

3) I have been a series of abusive relationships that have left me with a bruised ego and severely low self esteem :mad: I am getting myself together now and I want to be healthy and happy for my kids. I am feeling happier everyday even though I am alone I a much happier than I was with any man.

4) I dream of teaching overseas. I have an interview to teach in Dhubai sometime in November. I hope I can get this job it would be an amazing opportunity for my kids and I. Teaching is my passion it is all I have ever wanted to do.

5) I am like a big kid. I love to watch disney movies and play games with my kids, but in my free time I often watch Disney classics from my old VHS collection.

6) I love the Hufflepuffs!

@lhurtubise- OMG i love disney movies too! i'm so behind i finally saw Tangled and only saw half of the princess and the frog but i loved them both. i have to confess sometimes i spontaneously bust out into a disney song. don't forget you're strong and you can work on your self-esteem. it will take time but you can do it.

i have an test and interview this friday for the sheriff's department to a be a deputy trainee. not a career move i would make if the economy and job market wasn't so bad but hey i might find a husband, always looking on the bright side. hopefully, i can get the day off.

reverse crunches here i come! we should do a 30day shred challenge. i'm going to do level 2 to night.

I love this! We should definitely do a 30 day shred challenge. That would be awesome. The dvd is pretty cheap and I think you can also get it online with amazon for the people not in the U.S. I need to think about it a little but I am definitely interested in doing this. Nice career move. I was considering joining the police academy, but I would much rather join the Navy. I still need to loose 40-50lbs for the Navy though so it will be a while before I can do it.

Still missing some weights for this week. I think I got all the information from the last thread so I still need weights from

momie0205
heyhayleelee
becky_turcotte
megz4987
heathally
daddylion87

Please get me your weight asap! Thanks

Double Post Sorry

Good morning, I tried to post yesterday, but was unsuccessful, so hopefully will be able to today. Do we post our stats everyday or once a week? I didn't do so well yesterday, but today is a new day. Hope everyone has a great day!

Do whatever you can manage. Most people try to post everyday but, some days that may be tough. The challenges for this week are:

Stay under the fat goal that MFP sets for you=5 newts + 1 newt for every 8oz glass of water
A set of 10 crunches=1 owl

Also, be sure to report your total exercise minutes for our friendly competition with the other houses. Last month, we won!