Hufflepuff Common Room

So Griffyndor House selects Prefects each week. I was thinking maybe we could select Prefects every 2 weeks so that each person would have a chance to choose the exercise and the food challenge. If we can pick every 2 weeks I would have less to keep up with, but this is a democracy so let's vote. Let me know what you want to do by Sunday please! I will announce the new Prefects on Friday and they can start posting the challenges Saturday. Thanks Hufflepuffs!

So Griffyndor House selects Prefects each week. I was thinking maybe we could select Prefects every 2 weeks so that each person would have a chance to choose the exercise and the food challenge. If we can pick every 2 weeks I would have less to keep up with, but this is a democracy so let's vote. Let me know what you want to do by Sunday please! I will announce the new Prefects on Friday and they can start posting the challenges Saturday. Thanks Hufflepuffs!

This sounds like a good idea. I vote for changing Prefects every 2 weeks.

Hey ladies (and gent) I'm fine with whatever is easiest for you Queeda!

For Today:
4 glasses of water but, I ended up slightly over my fat goal -booo!!
60 house points
0 crunches

Glad tomorrow is Friday-I need SLEEP!!!

I am ok with whatever works for you Queeda... There is so much too keep up with!!

10/27
OWLs - 0
NEWTs - (5+15) 20
House Points - 191

It was cold and yucky misty/rain.... but I pulled through and rode my bike to work. Gotta love the extra calories burned and the House Points earned for doing something I have to anyway.... Work! Yuck! TGIF! I am ready for the weekend!!

Hi guys! Just started tonight so I'm not sure what all Im supposed to be doing My starting weight is 276. (ugh). Hope to get to know everyone well!

Yay so glad you decided to join! We have weekly challenges and we check in with our weight between Friday and Monday. You can check in with your weight any day during that time. We also have an exercise challenge and a food challenge each week. This week we are doing reverse crunches and monitoring our fat intake. So for 1 set of 10 reverse crunches you earn 1 OWL and if you stay under your fat goal for the day you earn 5 NEWTs. You also earn 1 NEWT for each glass of water you drink. The OWLs and NEWTs are used to determine the "Prefects" who choose the weekly challenges. You can post your OWLs and NEWTS daily or every other day or whatever works for you really. We also report our exercise minutes as house points for a inter-house competition we compete in. You can also just have conversation here ... Complain, report NSVs ... anything. We are here to support each other. We did something where we said 5 interesting things about ourselves so feel free to do that. If I have confused you I am sorry lol ask me any questions you need to. For clarification on the OWLs and Newts here is an example:

10/25-
OWLs- 3 (3 sets of 10 reverse crunches)
NEWTs- 13 ( under fat= 5 NEWTs + 8 glasses of water)
HP- 60 ( 1 point for each minute of exercise)

Hope this helps! We are so happy to have you! :happy:

TGIF: Here are my stats for yesterday

10/27

Owls: 2
Newts: 7
House pts.: 22

I just wanted to share something I read yesterday. This was in Fitness magazine:

"The best routine is one that's flexible; all-or-nothing thinking leads to stress and burnout" --Mark Aoyagi, Ph.D., director of Sport & Performance Psychology at the University of Denver.

This is something I have had to change my way of thinking about, I know we are all busy folks, so if you can only do 15 or 20 minutes of exercise, go ahead and do it. By the end of the week , this 15 or 20 minutes adds up. I have in the past just skipped exercise all together if I didn't have at least 45 minutes or so to devote to it. Anyway, I liked this quote so thought I would share.

Ahh, I've lost another 2lbs! That means I've lost 4lbs since last Friday which I know, is a lot. I've set my goal to 1lb a week, which is the recommended amount, so how I've lost 4 I don't know! I have done a lot of walking during the week, which is probably a huge contributing factor but still, 4lbs!! I won't lie, I cried when I stepped on the scales this morning and saw I was 2lb down. 5lb to go until I reach my target of 154lbs, woooo! I'm then setting a new target, but I haven't worked it out what it'll be yet, so I'll review the ultimate figure as I go along.

Thanks for making me a prefect Queeda, I feel honoured! When do we start our prefect duties?

And finally, it's friday (friday, gotta get down on friday. Grr, Rebecca Black! :laugh: ) What has everyone got planned for the weekend?

Yay congratulations. You start your Prefect duties tomorrow! I am not sure if I said it before, but you can post the exercise challenge this Saturday and Jenn_W can post the food challenge this Saturday. Also you earned the Prefect title for sure!

Ahh, I've lost another 2lbs! That means I've lost 4lbs since last Friday which I know, is a lot. I've set my goal to 1lb a week, which is the recommended amount, so how I've lost 4 I don't know! I have done a lot of walking during the week, which is probably a huge contributing factor but still, 4lbs!! I won't lie, I cried when I stepped on the scales this morning and saw I was 2lb down. 5lb to go until I reach my target of 154lbs, woooo! I'm then setting a new target, but I haven't worked it out what it'll be yet, so I'll review the ultimate figure as I go along.

Thanks for making me a prefect Queeda, I feel honoured! When do we start our prefect duties?

And finally, it's friday (friday, gotta get down on friday. Grr, Rebecca Black! :laugh: ) What has everyone got planned for the weekend?

Yay congratulations. You start your Prefect duties tomorrow! I am not sure if I said it before, but you can post the exercise challenge this Saturday and Jenn_W can post the food challenge this Saturday. Also you earned the Prefect title for sure!

Thanks so much, I'm so happy to be a prefect! I'll have the exercise challenge up tomorrow evening (my time).

Stats for 29/10

OWLs - 4
NEWTs - 13
House Points - 35

Weight is at 159!! Woo! I've lost 4lbs since last Friday as I said in a previous post, I'm so happy!

Good evening Huffles,
It is with a very full belly that I am checking in tonight. My school had a spaghetti dinner fundraiser and boy do I know how to put back some pasta! Anyway, still managed a good weigh in:

141lbs ( This morning before I ate all that scrumptious pasta)
Owls0
Newts 7
House points0

Good night!

well done jen and molly-louise! I vote change prefects every 2 weeks


Owls - 15
newts - 39
house points - 212

Weighed in; I'm 134 pounds again which means I've gained some pounds...I suppose this is likely to have happened while I was living on a tour bus for a week - not a lot of scope for doing much exercise on a bus!