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Hello everyone! Sorry I've been absent for a few days. I really appreciate all the messages I got in the time I was away - only 3 days but it felt like a life time. I needed a little break as things haven't been easy recently and things worsened at the weekend and I just needed to get my head straight. I'm fine so please don't worry, you haven't gotten rid of me quite yet!
In the three days I was gone, I've managed to lose 1lb! This brings me down to 150 and a 25lb loss since I started MFP in August. I am thrilled!
Okay, stats. Because of recent events, I haven't been able to put my 100% into exercising as I was so preoccupied, so forgive me for this.Thankfully I remembered the exercise I've done (well, minutes for H.P's) and so I was able to log that today. The same with food
24/1
OWLs - 0
NEWTs - 11
H.P - 30
25/1
OWLs - 0
NEWTs - 6
H.P - 45
26/1
OWLs - 0
NEWTs - 14
H.P - 45
Slacking on the challenges I set, sorry guys! Also, I haven't finished my third and final week of EA Sports Active 2 so I have missed 4 workouts on there. I need to get back on track!
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Hi everyone, weighing in today at 129.8 60 house points but more to add later0
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Grumble. I'm still down from last weeks weigh in.
But, I pulled out my old "skinny jeans" - like the ones I'm so glad I can't wear anymore. I outgrew them a couple years ago but keep them around as a reminder of where I don't want to be anymore. Any idea how hard it is to find a 23 inch waist jean? Anyway, I sometimes try to put on the old pants just to show myself that I am gaining. As usual I got 'em up to my hips and that was it. So, that feels nice.
I also laid the old jeans on top of the ones I wear now and it really is noticeable that I'm in a bigger size now.
Congratulations to those of you seeing weight go in the right direction this week!0 -
I managed to keep on track with exercise this week, though it was a weird week at the gym. I went to a stability ball class today and learned a lot of new core exercises. I am going to going to feel them tomorrow for my brick workout (bike followed by walk).
Last nights dinner was much to be desired in the way of healthy (though it was yummy) and tonight is going to be no better. Trying to eat light today in anticipation of tonight. It is restaurant week where I live, and many of the local restaurants in the area have special menus and prices for the week.
Amber, I borrowed the chi running book for the library and glossed though it. I can already tell I am going to have to go to a seminar. It looks really cool. I have slowed my running (just enough jogging to make sure my HR stays in range). I don't want to risk injury, and my reality is that I will plateau with my weight again. Each plateau has taken an combination of increase in exercise and decreasing of processed foods to break. Thinking it may be a good strategy to learn the form and then truly start running when the dreaded plateau hits. Fresh veggies and fruits are a lot of work but worth it. I do not do a lot of freezing (usually just berries) because I have limited freezer space, and because of the longer availability of the growing seasons. I would say the Farmers market will start to warm up next month and have a selection of seasonal fruits and veggies through Nov-Dec. It has been a mild winter, I think increasing the range for this year.
Will post stats later...my hubby and I are off to shop!0 -
Hi, I would like to be in Huffelpuff...
Hi Veganboi,
Welcome aboard. I'm a bit new here myself!
I'm not sure how much you've looked around - but we keep track of a few things as a competition in house, and some stuff to compete with the other houses.
You can earn house points on a 1:1 ratio for minutes exercised, so get moving to help us compete with the other houses!
In house, we earn OWL and NEWT points. Those challenges change weekly, so you'll probably want to stay tuned to find out what they will be so you can start with us next week.
Our head of house is in the process of moving out of the country, I think she gets on the plane tomorrow! Understandably, she's a bit busy right now! I'm sure others will fill you in on anything I've missed.
And your ticker says you lost 16 pounds, good job!0 -
Hi, I would like to be in Huffelpuff...
Welcome to Hufflepuff. Amber did a great job explaining how the the house works. The only thing I would have you do is post a starting weight. Our challenges run Sunday-Sat and we weigh in on Sat-Mon each week. If you want you can start tomorrow.0 -
Hi everyone. Sorry this is a rushed post from me, it's late here, I'm tired and even more stressed than I was a few days ago. Gahh. If only life was easy, right?
Unless I post otherwise, or unless someone else wants to create new challenges for the week, OWL and NEWT challenges will be the same for this coming week. If someone else would like to create the challenges that's absolutely fine. I have a lot going on right now and I can't even begin to think of challenges, so forgive me for this.
Queeda, I'm sure I read that you were moving today. Wow, that's so exciting. Please let us know you've arrived whenever you can.
Welcome Veganboi, I hope you like it here in Hufflepuff.
Okay, stats.
27/1
OWLs - 2
NEWTs - 6
H.P - 55
OWLs - 3
NEWTs - 5
H.P - 240
Dreaded weigh in tomorrow, not looking forward to it at all.0 -
Hi Vengaboi and everyone else. My house points total for last week was 90 mins and I lost 2.2 pounds - can't remember if I said that already.
I'm not playing the Newts and Owls challenges at the moment - not even sure what the challenges were last week though - maybe worth reposting in case there are others who don't know what it is hope everyone's having a good weekend. 0 -
Welcome veganboi, We are the best house to be in 8 ) and we love to have new people join us.
We are doing the same Newt and Owl challenges as last week. Normally they change every week. Queeda-our house leader--will choose prefects, who then will choose and post an exercise challenge (OWLS) and a nutrition challenge (Newts). These new challenges are usually posted on Saturday, and then they start on Sunday. These are interhouse challenges and the people who earn the most newts and owls get to be prefects. The house points challenge is between the four houses. The house that earns the most points gets the Quidditch cup for the month. We have done very well in this challenge. Each minute of exercise is worth one house point. Our challenge for this week:
Owls: Crunches with punches, 1 owl for every 10 crunches with punches, there was a link provided that demonstrated this.
Newts: 5 newts for getting in your daily water of 8 glasses, 1 glass for each additional glass of water over eight. and 2 newts for each food group that you stayed in the green for (carbs/fat/protein).
Hope everyone has a good week. NO exercise for me this past week 8 ( I am going to start the week of by going to Zumba tomorrow though.0 -
Hey Everybody,
Sure is quite around here. Hope everyone is on track! Where are you all?
I had a good run this morning, went for 6 miles with a friend. Running is always nicer with company!
My house points for the week: 260. Doing the OWL challenge bumped my minutes up, I've been doing the crunches and working on push ups too!
I did not do a very good job keeping track of OWLs and NEWTs. I'll just put up a low estimate and call it a day.
OWLs = 12
NEWTs = 47. I drink a lot of water! I think I counted this up appropriately, 5 for getting all my water, and then more for being in the right range for macros? I try to go OVER some of the macros because I'm trying to gain weight - so if you look at my log, you'll see some things in red that I gave myself points for. If folks feel this is not fair, just give me 5 points for water per day.0 -
maintained weight (given the big meals late this week, I think that is good!) 195
stats
Thurs
HP 60 owls 2 newts 6
Fri
HP 95 owls 3 newts 11
Sat
HP 80 owls 0 newts 9
Amber just use your best judgement with the newts...and no I don't mind if you call me Carolinagirl!
Suzie thanks for reposting the challenges!
Hope everyone had a great weekend and is ready to get started on Monday---I know I could use another day!0 -
I forgot to put my weight in that post! Sunday, I was at 89.6. So, im going in the wrong direction! Grumble. At least it's only a tiny loss.
I'm sure my body will come around next week.
And I messed up the newt thing too.
Owls should be correct at 12.
Newts should be 37, not 47.0 -
Hope everyone has a good week. NO exercise for me this past week 8 ( I am going to start the week of by going to Zumba tomorrow though.
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Enjoy your class tonight! I lead running group this evening. I've never been to a Zumba class. What's it like?0 -
Argg, so so so stressed right now and behind with my school work because of recent events. I doubt there will be much exercise from me this week, I am disappointed in myself already. Just making this post to check in my weight - still at 150.0
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Hey Molly! See if you can get out for a stress relieving walk!0
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Molly, my MFP little sister, I adore you! Sending happy thoughts to you... IE baby laughter, puppy dog tails, my country accent... :0)
I have sucked as a Hufflepuff lately. Just here to post my House points from last week. I did my most minutes yet this year!! Toot-toot!
January 22 to 28 my total is 757. Thank God for my daily commute!!
Cyber Hugs!!0 -
Well sadly I didn't make it to my Zumba class, something came up at home and I wouldn't have made it in time. I did however get on the treadmill and got some exercise in. Looking back, it has been two weeks since I have exercised--guess I didn't like when my weight dipped below 160 for the first time in who knows how long *Sigh*. Well persistence is what will get us there ladies, so on the bright side, my week is off to a good start. I exercised AND am in the green 8 )
Amber--Zumba is sooo much fun. It is a latin dance class and even though I think it is a stretch to call what I do in class 'dancing' it is a great workout. MSRobinson (my daughter) kept encouraging me to go. I finally gave it a try and she is right, what a great workout that is fun.
I did not post my weight this weekend, another gain, no suprise, I am going to work hard this week to get the scale moving back in the right direction though.
My weight was 163.6.
My other stats:
1/29 Newts: 4, Owls 0, House points 0
1/30 Newts: 11, Owls 1, House pts.: 31
Good night all.0 -
hey everyone. molly don't stress out, only worry about the things you can control and realize what you can't and let it go. my mom always says 'let go and let god."
i've been sick this whole weekend and stress eating enough though it's painful to swallow my food. i have to chew it into liquid practically.0 -
Hi all. Sorry I've been awfully absent for the past week or so, as well as an awful member of Hufflepuff. Please forgive me for this as you're all probably aware I've had a lot going on in my personal life, but in and out of school. I am under a lot of pressure at school right now, with very little support at home, so I am staying at focused as possible.
To our new members, I'm sorry if I didn't welcome you to the group. I probably didn't introduce myself either. I'm Molly, I'm 18 and I live in the UK. When I'm not losing my mind, I'm in school but I'm going to University (college to our North American huffles) in September.
Stats!
28/1
OWLs - 0
NEWTs - 11
H.P - 240
29/1
OWLs - 2
NEWTs - 14
H.P - 20
30/1
OWLs - 0
NEWTs - 6
H.P - 50
31/1
OWLs - 3
NEWTs - 6
H.P - 30
Phew, finally caught up!!0 -
Good morning huffles,
Hang in there Molly! It will all be worth it. You have done such a great job.
My stats for yesterday 1/31
Newts 7
Owls 1
House pts. 30
Have a great day everyone! 8 )0 -
Wow, nobody has posted in 24 hours...that is unusual. Here are my stats for yesterday
2/1
Newts: 13
Owls: 0
House Points: 27
It's almost Friday 8 )0 -
Hello Hufflepuffs! I am still alive! EXTREMELY Jet lagged and exhausted , but alive. Thanks to amber we now have a googledoc to record our stats. This will make everything SO much easier for me! All you have to do is put in your name and stats ... The googledoc will save it for me and I will be able to calculate everything easier. We will start using this googledoc this week. Welcome to February! Who is excited for Valentine's Day! My kids are my Valentine's this year so we will do something cute together. I miss you all ... Please continue to excuse my absence I promise I will be more involved soon. Thanks! I
all the beautiful Hufflepuffs!
Googledoc link:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkCoTRlaFXkodEFkNDNiOUVVd0ZLclFIOElxN1F5Rnc#gid=00 -
Molly= Don't stress everything will be ok. Try to do something relaxing ... Maybe a message. The one thing I do know is stress is bad for your health and we want you to be healthy.
Amber- Don't get discourage weight loss is difficult, but healthy weight gain is extremely difficult. Keep working at it and eventually you will see results. I am unsure of how you are eating, but high protein foods are a great for gaining weight ... Just a suggestion!
Jenn- You have been through a lot recently. No worries and I haven't been the greatest Hufflepuff either. This whole moving across the world this is crazy.
Carolinagirl- Thanks for your continuous posts and keeping up with the board so well. It's great to have your encouragement and comments.
Suzie- You are doing so well keep up the great work!
Danizaga- I am sorry you are sick. I hope you feel better soon though.
Bump- I hope you feel better soon. We miss you on the boards.
MsRobinson- Great work so far. I know it can be stressful when you have so much to do!
A HUGE thank you to Molly for helping me keep up with Newts/Owls challenges and to Amber for helping me with the googledoc. I have the best team a girl could ask for! XOXOXO0 -
All google doc glory to the Ravenclaws! They were kind enough to share a template - which I sort of mucked around with to fit our needs!
Queeda - glad you are safely arrived. I look forward to getting know you better.
Everybody else - I miss you!
Last night, I had a great workout. Went to the track and ran with some faster folks. It was fun to be around some quick folks and put in a good effort. With my normal schedule, this Wednesday night thing won't work for me, but I'm going to try to move some things around so I can make this workout happen more often. I think I'll see significant speed gains. 0 -
Evening guys. The google thing looks a good idea...Amber, clearly the Ravenclaws will have found the best, most efficient way of doing things but well done you for nicking their ideas
So do we update it on Sat/Sun this week for week 1 then? I'm going to approach this in a "monkey see monkey doo" kind of manner. Do we put our names under where it says house? Also is this spreadsheet just for Feb or is it somehow for the whole year? (sorry, if this is obvious to everyone else)
I have 45 house points for the week so far. Not much but it's something.
I left work an hour and a half early and thought: great, I will go to the gym in the first time in ages. Then I drove past the gym. So I thought: excellent, I'll tidy the house a bit, since I've neglected this for some time. And I haven't done that either. So I'm going to put an album on and make myself tidy downstairs (with a no sitting down rule) until the music runs out.
I hope everyone's ok.0 -
Bump - good catch!
I'd sent Queeda a link to the TEMPLATE which she posted above. Please don't write on the template. Each month, we can make a copy of the template and add dates as we go. This means each month we will use a new link to get to the document, but it'll be less work than creating a new document each time.
I made a copy of the template and added February dates. I used Saturdays - because I did not know what else to do. If someone wants to change those dates, go for it.
To use this document, you'll need to be signed into your own google account. If this is a problem for people, it can be changed.
Open the document, add your name and your goal weight - what you hope to be at the end of February. Then, add your starting weight when we weigh in this weekend.
Add your own house points, OWLS and NEWTS each week. The program adds everything up, so you don't have to worry about that.
Please use this link instead of the one from Queeda!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkCoTRlaFXkodDZXZ2hZLUhlUEpKODdaSEhXR0FBWUE0 -
Please use this link instead of the one from Queeda!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkCoTRlaFXkodDZXZ2hZLUhlUEpKODdaSEhXR0FBWUE
This appears to be a joke spreadsheet that is un-editable. Either that or I'm being an idiot again.0 -
Queeda, it's great to hear from you! I am glad you and the children arrived safely. When do you start your new job? I know some people living in Dubai and they are at the Dubai British School so they can continue their British education. Is your son in school yet and if so, will he attend an American/international school?
Amber, thank you so much for creating the spreadsheet. It'll make things a lot easier for everyone I'm sure. I am unable to edit the document though, so the settings will need to be changed in order for us to add in our own details.
I am a little confused about the weeks though - is week 1 the week we are currently in? As in Jan. 29 - present day (will be until Feb. 4th as new challenges start on sunday), or are we starting week 1 on Sunday 5th? I weigh in on Sunday's so I will add my weight a day later than scheduled, which I hope is okay.
I'm posting my stats in this post, just so I can look back through them and see them if I need to add them to the spreadsheet.
OWLs - 2
NEWTs - 11
H.P - 60
I promise that as of next week I will be so much more active!! I've had so much to do, especially within school. I had an exam last week which I think went horribly, so I am expecting to have to resit that in the summer. I've also had a big project to do for psychology (I took the exam in this subject too) so my brain has been overloaded with psychological things to say the least. I haven't put my all into weight loss this week so I will be surprised if I lose 1lb this week. I am hopeful though!
Does anyone have Skype? Jenn (Jenn_W) and I spoke on Skype a while back and it was a lot of fun! We should all try and arrange a Skype session sometime.0 -
I have missed you all this week! I have been taking a graduate course in math (for recertification) and it's been keeping me uber busy. My Cohort is getting ready to present at the statewide Math conference in a few weeks, which is leaving me no time to play and mess around on the computer-boo!!!
Anyhow, I have been working out and logging, but I am so behind in the current owl/newt challenge. I think I'll have to start fresh on Sunday when we have a new challenge. My current weight is 135 and I have 150 House Points so far for the week. I decided to try something new and got a pilates video to spice up my routine. Woah baby-my abs are on fire!!
Amber-thanks for making us a doc. I wasn't able to edit it though???
Queeda-Hooray- you made it!!! Can't wait to live vicariously through you!
Mom/Suzie-You are doing great! Don't be too hard on yourself about the gain. Remember the tortoise-slow and steady!
Molly-Hang in there sweet girl-College/University is such a wonderful experience and it's just around the corner!
Jenn-Have a wonderful weekend with your little man! BTW you look smokin' hot in your work outfit:-)
To all of my other hufflepuffs-Have a great week!
Looking forward to a new week of challenges:-)0 -
OK, you should now all be able to edit.
And I changed the dates to make things more clear. Hope it works now!0
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