Good evening Ravenclaw! OK - Sami, you're in detention - no trips to Hogsmeade for you!

Penny - I've been bingy today too. I'm making it through my challenge and staying away from the candy at work, but when I get home - I just want to dig into the chips! ARGHHHH!

Korki - I hope your plan works! I find that I do much better when I plan my days out like that. Good luck!

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And now - the Ravenclaw results for Week 2:
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DefiningRaquel lost 1.69% - Fantastic loss, Raquel!!
Korkster earned 20 OWLs - Good job!!
Congratulations to this week's Prefects! Raquel, please email an idea for next week's exercise challenge by Thursday and Korki, please send a food challenge.

Hey, guys - please make sure you give me your house points when you weigh in each week. If you weigh in and don't report house points, according to the Inter-House Challenge rules, I have to put a zero down for you (unless there's a valid reason why you can't exercise). Since the house points are an average of all our exercise minutes, that zero makes a huge difference! OWLs are in-house only - so if you can't keep up with them for the week, that's no big deal.

I'm still waiting for a couple of you to report house points, but here is the current chart:



Another great week, Ravenclaw!! Let's really kick some butt this week!

Does anyone have any tips for lowering sodium intake? 3-4 of my meals are eaten on the way to or while at work and so I tend to go with what's easiest / quickest to prepare in the morning, which ends up with a lot of sodium more often than not.

I also tend to be really lazy when it comes to preparing food. Does anyone have any quick tips that they've learned (my diet is protein heavy, so easy ways to prepare some lean protein meals are appreciated )

I usually stay within my sodium limits pretty well - feel free to poke around my diary. I make most of my own food so I can give recipes for most anything you might see. I don't add much salt at all to my foods. If you cook something large (like a roast), it lasts for several days and limits the amount of cooking that needs to be done. If you can stay away from prepared, processed foods, your sodium will stay a lot lower.

Hello my wonderful Ravenclaws. What a day!! I'm glad to be able to slow down for a minute to say "hi". Doesn't look like I'll have time for exercise tonight - hope my dinner is within bounds (hubby's cooking and ya never know :laugh: ) I've been doing really good with my food challenge this week though - maybe it will stick with me this time!

Well - off to eat dinner and get some homework in. Keep up the good work everyone!

Good Morning,

I read this weeks challenges, and I think It would not be fair for me to put my goals down this week. Sorry. But, so i don't end up with a zero for at least excercise, I am doing a challenge for 600 Burpees in November. that works out to 20 a day. I have been doing that. Can I count those? Or should I just start with today's and count going forward? I will my fellow housemates decide what would be fair.

Thanks,

Sundancer - that is fine to use your burpees as your exercise goal. The OWLs we earn in-house are optional anyway - they just help determine Prefects and keep things interesting. The important pieces are your weekly weigh-in and exercise minutes - those are reported as a house average for the inter-house competition with the other houses. We're just glad to see you here! :flowerforyou:

Hope all of you Ravenclaws are having a fabulous day!! :bigsmile: