Just noticed that we're going to be the last house to have to roll over to a second thread. We're small and not chatty. We should do something about that. Look, I'm doing my part.

Thanks for the clarification! We definitely need to be more chatty!

I will get busy with selecting my very best recipes later, at work atm.

Hello and happy Tuesday fellow Slytherins!

I just wanted to let you all know of our numbers for the month so far! I think we've all been doing great!
The House Points are the average of our minutes exercised each week and the % lost is the % lost by everyone during the week.

Week 1 (Jan. 6-9 check-in): House Points - 483.7, % lost - 0.20% (total of 4.7 lbs lost, 10 people counted for.)

Week 2 (Jan 13-16 check-in): House Points - 452.2; % lost - 0.57% (total of 13.5 lbs lost, 10 people counted for)

Week 3 (Jan 20-23 check-in): House Points - 413.4; % lost - 0.51% (total of 5.6 lbs lost, 5 people counted for)

We're going awesome everyone!! Let's keep those numbers up!! :drinker:

That tofu scramble looks really good sam!

If i tried to serve my boyfriend a tofu scramble I think he'd kill me.

PC - I don't know how they do it either! but to be fair I used to do an hour every day of low intensity exercise, and once I dialed the intensity up I was able to dial the time down for the same results (Well better since the low intensity wasn't doing as much as I got more fit)

Oh I cannot do tofu. Only way I can eat is if it's in miso soup! Haha. I think its a texture thing for me. I don't eat beans either because of their texture. It seriously gives me the creeps! Haha

PC - well, Troy is a HUGE contributor to our high numbers! That man is a machine! I dont think he's ever reported less than like 700 minutes of exercise in a week. But I understand with a busy schedule. I work full time, have an hour and a half commute each way to work, and I'm taking grad courses., plus trying to maintain a household. Its rough, but I've worked my schedule out. I try to get up in the mornings to get in some sort of workout. I haven't been doing it lately because I've been sick and I could use the extra sleep to help recover. But then I always to to the gym on my lunch breaks at work. I get an hour break and there is a Planet Fitness across the street, so myself and 3 other co-workers all go together at 1. So on days that I do that, that's about 2 hours of exercise a day. Sometimes I push further and get in another hour after I eat dinner. Depends on how I'm feeling and how much homework I have. Then on weekends, I block out 2 hours of my day and workout. I make sure it's the first thing I do after eating breakfast, that way I don't put it off and then never get it done. Whats helped me with this is writing down my weekly schedule without exercise in it. Then I find times where I can fit it in. It takes a little getting used to once you creates a schedule for yourself, but once you get used to it, it becomes second nature!



For a food that I had this week, I will post the recipe for the hamburgers that I made last night! They were so good! I got the recipe fom Special K and substituted the ground beef for ground turkey. What I really like about them is that you mix in the ketchup and mustard so you don't have to put it on the bread! It does call for extra ketchup, but I personally find that there is enough in the burger itself. And another great plus - the fiancé like them too!
http://www.specialk.com/tips-and-tools/healthy-recipes/hamburger/#/1

Hi everyone!

Joined Hogwarts today, and am just checking-in! Looking forward to spending some really great times here

PS. I tofu xD

I want to hug that pig. Or possibly turn him into bacon. Maybe both.

Hug the pig before turning it into bacon or after? o_O

In case anyone missed it, I'm going to Vegas to get married this weekend (if you missed it its because we pretty much decided to do it like. ... a couple days ago. Whee!) sooooo keep up the weight loss while I'm gone because I'm going to eat like the zombie apocalypse is coming. I freaking love eating in vegas. Hopefully I don't get run down by tiny chinese ladies, I'm terrified of them.

(Its Chinese new year and Vegas should be packed with people)

Soooooooo!

NEWT: If you eat out this week (or maybe at someone else's house?), make a post talking about your strategies when going out to eat. 4 points for sharing 1, 6 points for sharing 2. To earn your 7th NEWT, fit a treat into your planned calories at least one time this week (its okay if part of your plan is to go over your calories as long as its something you did on purpose).

OWLS:

More Combos! Pick 3 of these exercises, do at least the number listed every day.

Superman/Banana = Hold each position for either 3 seconds, 6 seconds, or 9 seconds. Do each position 5 times.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evZILvDdQT4 <-- the girl is doing a much better job than the guy)

Pushups = 15 pushups. knee pushups if you can't do regular ones, wall pushups if you can't do girl pushups. Really push yourself - if you need to do these in 2 sets or 3 sets that's fine but the last one should be tough. Try doing 1 during each set that is one level harder than you do the rest (so if wall pushups are all you can do - try doing one knee pushup then do the last ones on the wall).

Side Plank Crunches - 20. you can either do the kind where your top arm comes down and curls under your side (So the front of your body tilts toward the floor) or the kind that work your obliques where you dip your hip down to the ground and then straighten. If you find the actual sideplank too challenge to crunch with it, sideplank for 30 seconds. This can be 3 sets of 10 seconds, 2 sets of 15, whatever.

Lunges -- 20 http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/lunge/MM00723 If these are easy, grab some weights (a dumbell in each hand, anything appropriate heavy) and do them with that. Make sure your front knee doesn't go over your toes, if it does your feet are too close together and you can hurt yourself.

Tricep Dips -- 20 http://www.ehow.com/video_2360796_weekend-warrior-workout-triceps-dip.html

Dad dug out a digital scale from storage. Not too sure how accurate things are... but here's my 1st weigh-in: 45.3 kg.

Did some measurement and filled some numbers into an online home body fat test and results are as follows

- You have 18.9% body fat.
- You have 8.5 Kilograms of fat and 36.5 Kilograms of lean (muscle, bone, body water).

I have my doubts, since my last body fat composition test at the gym a year ago gave me a result of 23% and I have been so lazy the entire year (eating more, working out less) so I don't think I've done any reduction. Plus my jeans kinda got tighter and my tummy flab more obvious. Well, I'll check again in like a week and see how it goes o_O

PS. don't eat the little piggy!!

Whoops, looks like I forgot to check in last week!
Here's this week:
Weight down 0.8lbs
0 NEWTS or OWLS (sorry, never remember to check what they are)
223 exercise minutes

Welcome to the new Slytherins! So nice to have you join our wonderful house!