From alpha testing to the QUERCUS 200

Yesterday completed my first week on the wagon. It's now day eight. It's the socializing which is the hard part, but I'm managing. Oddly I seemed more social than usual last night.
 
Hello again! You are doing so well! -- all of you really - who stuck around here - so proud of you!!! You are doing an excellent job!!! Now I have to catch up!!
 
Welcome back Justina!!!!

That's really sweet of you, but I've done terribly. :blush5:

So cate "lost" before I knew we were competing. Luckily she's beating me handily at losing weight, but not as badly as you are MrVee.
 
Hi Q- I'm a winner/loser! That is funny! I just went & had a look as I thought I had told you somewhere that I had "weakened" & had a bubbly. Maybe I'm not as competitive as I once thought. Once I join something I feel like quitting it. Weird I know. I really enjoyed my 6 days without ANY alcohol & I think doing that will help me keep my consumption to an absolute minimum. Having my sister staying is lovely & she never drinks at all when she's at home & was looking forward to sharing some wine with me. I am going to keep my drinking to a ONE ONLY & not every day. 3kg lost in 8 days is enough incentive to do so. Hope you start to lose again soon Q!! Hang in there mate, xo Cate
 
Hey Q :) thanks for the welcome back! Actually you did a h*ll of a lot better than me!! So go you!!!

Cool pic btw - I need to catch up on your diary.
 
Just wanted to say good luck to you Q, Cate, and MrVee on your challenge. Good motivation to stay on wagon. This is one challenge that I hope never ends... meaning, that you all stay on the wagon for a very long time! :)
 
http://weight-loss.fitness.com/threads/61006-Who-wants-to-set-a-record

So I started the above thread for people to track there success with their goals. People can try to best others with personal records and you aren't "out" when you slip up, you just record the PR and start the clock over. I hope some folks will join me. MrVee you already beat Cate and myself with staying off the sauce, but I start again today.

I didn't weigh or count calories since Saturday. Being on vacation Monday and Tuesday and getting up at 4AM every day to hunt threw me off any sort of schedule, but I am on track today and will have success every day from today until Thanksgiving.

No drinking, no overeating, and daily exercise. I will overeat on Thanksgiving day and possibly drink, but then back on track until xmas. I'm making this happen. I will lose weight through the holiday season. Usually our Thanksgiving (last Thursday of November) through New Years eve is a time of overindulgence and rebound, but not this year. I will finish the contest strong and make progress every day. My transformation starts today. No excuses.
 
I was within my calorie range and I completed day 1 no alcohol. I didn't exercise and I had a soda with dinner. The exercise just slipped my mind and the soda was a conscious decision as I had already bought some root beers for the house and it was within my calories. I didn't weigh this morning and I probably will just wait until Saturday as the scale hasn't been good to me and I don't need the discouragement.
 
Last night's chess meet up turned into beer drinking and burger eating. I'm so weak. I had a good time and judgiung by my coworker's hangover this morning I did the right thing by leaving early. I did get in some exercise yesterday and today as well.
 
Another one I've fallen behind on!

Sounds like that chess meet was good and bad...glad you left early! And got in some exercise too, good job!

Good luck on setting and beating your records on the new thread :) I haven't joined...perhaps I will when I finally start exercising again.
 
Booze is where I always fall down--I'm back up to 5 bottles of wine a week! Hideous! Hope you're okay, my lovely. I've missed you all--But now I'm baccccck! :coolgleamA:
 
Quercus said:
Last night's chess meet up turned into beer drinking and burger eating. I'm so weak. I had a good time and judgiung by my coworker's hangover this morning I did the right thing by leaving early. I did get in some exercise yesterday and today as well.
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I m weak too. And sometimes (for me) it's peer pressure... especially with starting a new job.... There was cake in the office last Friday!!! That's soooo mean!! I really have to strengthen my willpower!!! lol Good job for getting exercise in!!!
 
I drank on Saturday hanging out with the tiny fraction of my family that I enjoy spending time with. The good thing is that I have kept drinking social, which wasn't the norm before, but I just need to leave it alone entirely. I've been getting my exercise in small amounts, but the hope is that I am forming the habit. My back hurts quite a bit lately. I'm not letting it slow me down, but I do hope it will start feeling better. I'm starting to get sharp spasms again with shooting pains instead of just soreness. I'd be on my medicine this morning if I had remembered to bring any with me today.

I guarantee that losing weight will help. I'm really trying to make that happen despite all evidence to the contrary.

I found a very inspiriting write-up yesterday that I thought I would share.



It's Ryans01's wall o'text, but worth the time to read IMO.
 
If you can do alcohol in moderation then there's nothing wrong at all with the stuff. However last time I drank I wound up getting sick in the cab on the way home, turning an expensive cab ride into a really expensive cab ride.

I feel for you on the back problems, do the best you can taking care of yourself.
 
That's rough Vee. I don't think I've hurled from drinking since the late 90's. That doesn't mean I'm good at moderation, I'm just good at not hitting that limit. Drinking just doesn't mesh with my goals very well. I'll allow for the odd social drinking, but I need to keep it to a minimum. I eat a lot when I drink and the day after. If I drink I generally feel more like drinking again so long as I don't get hungover. My problem these days is that I feel pretty rough regardless. Drinking makes me feel better during and I don't notice much different after. The real solution is to get healthy enough that I realize how crappy drinking makes me feel and then I will have that negative reinforcement. Like humans do, from what my studies indicate.
 
I'm thinking the sickness is a direct result of the weight loss. My mind is used to one tolerance level, but my body has changed so dramatically it can no longer handle that kind of intake.

That's my theory anyway. In any event, the alcohol was really my only calorie trap, and with it gone very little should be in my way now.
 
Speaking of lightweight..my husband always tell what a cheap date I am - hahaha one glass of wine and I am singing lol
 
Me too Justina. I just need a really big glass. ;)

Got my old recumbent stationary bike working again and did a quick 15 minutes in the aerobic HR zone last night. That was on top of field work. I was out all day today and I will be riding again this evening. I think adding 5 minutes a day until I hit 60 minutes is the way to go. 15 minutes was sadly difficult, but it loosened my hip up which has been hurting along with the back. I've had to start taking the pain pills again. I'm not pleased about that. Diet was good yesterday. Good so far today.
 
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