From alpha testing to the QUERCUS 200

Hi Q, sounds like you have a very challenging week coming up, just for something different! All we can ever do is the best we can, under the circumstances. I hope things start to improve for you soon & you see those scales move down. You deserve it. You'll get there! Cheers, Cate.
 
Well my back is still good after the week out in the field. I ran/walked 3 days this week on top of the field work. My diet was very good Monday through Wednesday. I had a big dinner Thursday night and again last night. The scale was right at 330 this morning.
 
A very lazy weekend with too much food. I followed my diet, but I ate too much of it. I am back to focusing on the 1,800 calories today. I didn't weigh this morning. My goal pants for last week fit the same as before my trip. No tighter is better than nothing I suppose. The weather is going to be warm this week, so getting my run/walks in will be easier. I have some field work lined up as well so that will be good too. I feel like avoiding the scale for a while, but that's subject to change as usual.
 
Well it's good to hear the back is holding up. If that continues it should make progress that much easier. Since you tend to get my weather about a day or two after I do, you're in fro some good stuff for a bit as the weather the last four days has been amazing.
 
Quercus said:

I'm fat.

You should eat less and exercise more.

Oh!

Now I'm skinny!
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You wrote this in my diary just a bit ago and I wanted you to know that when I feel the urge to snack because I'm having a bad day, I repeat this in my head and I smile. It helps me remember that if I want to lose weight that I do indeed need to eat less as well as exercise and that the obstacles that are holding me back are indeed mental ones.

Thanks for taking the time to write what you did. It has made a positive impact on my way of thinking!

Glad your back is feeling better. Hope the weather is indeed good for some outdoor exercise.
 
I'm glad that made a positive impact. I'm a very logical person and the knowledge that the solution is so simple and at the same time so difficult for me drives me bonkers. I know my issues are mental as well and more specifically emotional. I tend to do very well with problem solving, analysis, and logical debate. I don't do well with emotions. I have an unhealthy emotional relationship with food and I'm afraid that I am an emotional dullard. I'm trying to learn to deal with my emotions without using food and I am a failure more often than not. I am trying and having some success and the best I can do is try to get better at it all the time.

Your comment helped me to verbalize some things and I appreciate that. We will get there Jade. Kudos to you for taking action while your still at a healthy weight!
 
32 min 44 sec run/walk avg HR 145

It was cooler than I expected, but the running was the easiest yet since I've gotten back to it. I also legit ran rather than jogged. Like really hit long strides and moved fairly fluid (for me). It felt good.
 
Hey, well done Q on the fair dinkum running! Stop being so hard on yourself by the way. An emotional dullard? I think not. Cheers, Cate.
 
Didn't run tonight but that's because I walked more than 6 and a half miles today at work. I'm sore and tired.
 
Quercus said:
32 min 44 sec run/walk avg HR 145

It was cooler than I expected, but the running was the easiest yet since I've gotten back to it. I also legit ran rather than jogged. Like really hit long strides and moved fairly fluid (for me). It felt good.
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Loved reading this post! I'm not one to distinguish between jogging and running... Maybe because I take freakishly short strides no matter what I'm doing... But I remember how good it feels when your body just does things *right*. And I've had my fair share of runs where I felt like this guy:

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I'm guessing running in the light of the full moon I rather looked like him as well. We have very similar build come to think of it. My complexion is a bit nice and I win on ears and full head of hair as well.

Off to the field. Everyone have a great day!
 
Hello Quercus. I'm glad you are having success [Success as in being able to do it consistently] with the exercise. I hope the scale starts reflecting it soon. :)

How is your back feeling lately? I hope it hasn't caused you major inconveniences/discomfort.

Have a great day and take care. :)

-Athala.
 
Hey Athala! It's good to hear from you. It's been a while. The back feels much better. The best it's felt since May.

I think the scale will have some issues with the xmas holiday so close. I chose a healthy breakfast and lunch and got back to the office to find a huge tray of brownies, cookies, cheesecake, and muffins. I knew the bakery they came from and couldn't resist. The half brownie and whole cookie were great, but they aren't helping me out. I'll do my best to run tonight and have a light dinner.

I am afraid that I am getting sick. So far just a cough and feeling flush, but a coworker went home earlier this week with the flu. I hope it's just a chest cold.
 
Glad your back is better, hopefully you aren't coming down with anything. Maybe a run will do you some good tonight on that front too, sweat out whatever is there :) There was/is something going around here too (here being my evening job and the city in general) and luckily I haven't got it yet. Hoping I don't because I cannot afford to take time off work.
 
I hope you're not getting really ill too Q. I was sick over Christmas/New Year last year with the flu, in the heat. It was horrible. While everyone was out gallivanting I was home feeling very sick & sorry for myself. I'm glad your back is feeling much better xo Cate
 
Quercus said:

I tend to do very well with problem solving, analysis, and logical debate. I don't do well with emotions. I have an unhealthy emotional relationship with food and I'm afraid that I am an emotional dullard. I'm trying to learn to deal with my emotions without using food and I am a failure more often than not. I am trying and having some success and the best I can do is try to get better at it all the time.
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Wow we are very similar in this regard. You communicate very well in writing and I suspect that maybe much like me, that form of communication is easier for you? I think that by identifying that this is an issue for us, that quite honestly took me a very long time to do, that we can then improve :) I grew up in a house where I wasn't really allowed to express emotions without being criticized or made fun of. Maybe it was the same for you?

Kudos to you for the great workouts both running and walking. I think both of those things can be good stress management!
 
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I got something nasty. Screen was negative for flu, but it ceratinlyfeels like the flu. Maybe I'll be over it in time to get my work done this weekend and start my time off. My back was killing me over the Thansgiving holiday and now this. Without getting too graphic I ought to lose some weight as this runs its course.

Icy, I went downhill to quick to get that run in.

Cate, flu in the summer would be terrible. Winter is generally flu season here I assumed it would be the same for you guys? Maybe you got infected from a snowbird yank?

Thanks for the compliments Jade. I believe I am far better understood in writing than in person unless I am comfortable with a single individual and even then I tend to be a bit too talkative. I work a job where I roam around in the woods with one other person who is doing their own thing and then I generate technical reports for clients and regulators. Over the course of several years I have sent countless reports to a dozen or more clients at a time while knowing 1 or 2 of them.

I always prefer when they email me instructions that allow me to get to my survey area and I get rather anxious when I have to meet with someone in the field. I grew up at the end of a dirt road with no neighbors. That's why I'm a biologist and that's why I'm socially akward.

Despite having slept a lot of the day I have to go to sleep now.
 
Sorry to hear you've got a Christmas bug, but yeah you're right: that will probably fix the scales for you for a few days. It did for me last time I got sick like that.
 
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