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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!

Now my stats:

10/28
OWLs - 0
NEWTs - (5+12) 17
House Points - 172

Weigh-In - 163.2

Taking my son to see the movie 'Real Steel' today --- I typically get a slushie and/or popcorn. Trying to avoid those calories.... Ugh! Why can't they just make plain un-salted, un-buttered popcorn.... It always come with crap on it. LOL!! (I should make some trail mix.... )

Yayy!!

**Exercise Challenge!!**

Please don't hate me but this week's exercise is tricep dips! 2 OWLs per set of 10 dips. It was mentioned previously a few times that people wished to work on their arms, so I thought we'd get right in there with some tricep dips.

Simple video if you don't know what a tricep dip is, or want some additional help.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0326dy_-CzM

Best of luck Huffles!

Yay for exercise challenges! Forgive me ladies and gent if this makes no sense, but I have had a few long islands tonight so Yea! Anyway I think we should definitely do the 30 day Shred challenge! I have been thinking about it a lot. I want to make it as fair as possible for all of the participants. We have a wide range of weights in this group so I don't want to do lbs lost because it is incredibly difficult for some people to loose the same lb that other people loose relatively easily. If you want to participate in the challenge let me know by the end of Monday October 31st. Here are the rules. I want you to take measurements for this challenge. Post your starting measurements including arms, waist. hips, right thigh, left thigh, and BMI. You can use the tools section on MFP for the BMI. For the measurements use the standard body tape measurer or the one you use for sewing. If you do not have one you can get it for less than $3. Also if you do not have the dvd Jillian Micheals 30 day shred you can purchase it on amazon.com for about $8. You can use hand weights for this dvd but if you don't have any do it without them or use milk jugs or something like that. I use 5lbs hand weight which were about $4 a piece U.S. dollars. The hips measurement should be taken 8 inches down from where you took the waist measurement. The person with the biggest change in inches/BMI will when a amazon.com gift card for $20! I know I can buy the gift card and just email it to you so there is no need for addresses and all. All I would need is your email address. The competition will begin on November 1st and last until December 1st. I would love for all the Hufflepuffs to participate, but if you can't or REALLY don't want to I totally understand. If you have any other questions about the challenge let me know! Other wise Let's Do This! For those of you that don't know the 30 day shred dvd is not know for helping people loose a lot of weight, but it does help (women in particular) really tone up and gain strength. So the difference in inches should be significant. If you are comfortable I would love for you to take before 30 day shred pictures and after 30 days shred pictures so when we report final results on December 1st we can really see the difference. Maybe we can vote via private message to me on who we think had the biggest change visually and I can give a gift card for that as well. Let me know what you think Hufflepuffs! We can chat daily about how that day of the 30 day shred went and how much we hate Jillian :laugh: Feel free to switch up the 3 levels as needed. Each day is only 20 minutes long so there is no excuses about not having time! Love you all! :flowerforyou:

Checking in!
Weight 194.0lbs
Friday: 0 crunches, under fat and 13 cups of water, 312 mins of exercise
Saturday: 0 crunches, under fat and 11 cups of water, 289 mins of exercise
Sunday:TBA I'll post this later tonight or tomorrow.

I am in for the 30 day shred challenge. I'll get my measurements and post soon.

NEWTs Challenge for the Week:

-Keep up the water. One 8 oz Glass = 1 NEWT
-Eat your daily veggies! Get your 5 servings of veggies = 5 NEWTs (Or Queeda do you wanna do 1 per serving with a max?)

Cool - I'm having a roast dinner later :happy:

Also arm dips - haven't seen the demo of how it's done yet but seems like a good challenge.

As much as I would love to say I'm going to do it every single day I know I probably won't. I have 2 small children and I'm a teacher besides that life just happens, but if you can commit to trying to do it at least 3 days a week I think you'll see amazing results. Totally up to you. I'm not actually expecting anyone who joins this challenge to do it every single day.
I would have loved to have done the 30ds challenge but I can't commit to doing it every day. what a cool leader we have!

Thanks for including a link to the demo video. Maybe some day I will like like the girl in the video 8 )

Loving the exercise challenge! My ARMS hate it but I like it, because that is a problem area for me Thanks for the video, it helped!

Considering the 30 DS challenge. I keep trying ti and keep stopping so I want to make sure i will actually commit to Jillian this time. (she annoys me hahha!)

OWLs - 4 (and I think I'm going to die lol)
NEWTs - 9
HP - 20

NEWTs Challenge for the Week:

-Keep up the water. One 8 oz Glass = 1 NEWT
-Eat your daily veggies! Get your 5 servings of veggies = 5 NEWTs (Or Queeda do you wanna do 1 per serving with a max?)

Can we do 1 NEWTS per serving? I know its hard for me to do all 5 servings, but everyone should get some credit for what they can get in.

I think 1 NEWT per serving and a Max of 5.

Good morning, I am in for the 30day shred challenge. I will post my measurements later this evening.
Here are my stats for 10/30:
SW: 168 (although my starting weight on MFP is 167, I actually was up to 168)
CW: 164.6
GW: 140

OWL: 0
Newts: 5
House pts.: 48

Have a great week everyone, and I will try not to eat ANY Halloween candy tonight.