From alpha testing to the QUERCUS 200

Nice to hear the back is better. Makes exercise much easier when you don't have pain everytime you move. Good job on keeping the streak alive. Sounds like you are busy. How do you eat or prepare the beans? Are they like a broad bean? I have never heard of them up here.
 
Thanks Stacy! We'll see how green it is.

Thanks Cowboy! This is my first time to grow them. They are stringless so they can be easily eaten green and the mature bean looks like a Pinto. I'll probably just cook the mature bean by boiling in salted water the first time do I can get a good sense of their flavor and texture and go from there.

I planted a dozen each of my sunflower and sorghum starts last night after my run. 1,900 calories yesterday.

Time to confess my weight. I was 260.2 on Tuesday which is a bit more than 15 pounds over my low 61 days ago. I'm 257.0 this morning and I'm going to eat 1,900 calories every day until I leave the obesity category at 239. I'm tracking cals and weighing daily as well as using a simple weight tracker app so I don't have to keep up with a spreadsheet., 1,900 is a 1,500 calorie cut from my calculated daily calorie requirement. This represents a maximum recommended cut for obese persons and is above my bmr.
 
15 pounds gained must hurt, but considering what your health has been like these past weeks I think you still did a good job. Half of that is probably water weight. I quietly chuckled into my non-existent beard on reading your last sentence; you know the internet well :)
 
Thanks LaMa! My brain instantly beats me up via stats.

Me: *Steps on scale.

Brain: You gained 15 pounds in eight weeks. You could have lost 16 in that time frame. You're actually 31 pounds heavier than you should be. So with 15 weeks of really good weight loss you'll still be a pound shy of what you should weigh today.

Me: But my back!

Brain: Not my problem fatty.

We're both working on it. Well really I'm keeping him occupied with a mix of botany and existential paradox so he'll be nicer for a while, or at least busy. /crazy
 
That´s funny, I was just telling Polly how I may only have lost 10 kg since I joined the forum (I have another 5-10 to go) but since I definitely would have gained another 10 without you guys in my life I´m actually around 20 kg ahead of the game. Some days my brain can be really nice :D
Also, Q-brain: fat-shaming is neither kind nor constructive, so cut it out.
 
LaMaria said:
Also, Q-brain: fat-shaming is neither kind nor constructive, so cut it out.
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:iagree: Q. Enough already! :grouphug:
The harder you are on yourself the harder it is to lose weight. Please don't do that Q. Please be kind to yourself, xoxo
 
Wow LaMa you took my world-class self-loathing and turned it into an affirmation. Some people just don't get it. ;)

Don't worry Cate, I'm really in a good place mentally. I can't help that my initial reactions are pretty brutal. That's just how I am. What I do with that negativity is what matters. I used to just throw a big pity party and pigout or magnify and add to the negativity until I was throughly depressed. Now I react to that negativity with repulsion and turn that energy to positive change that I know will make me feel better.

I was initially in a dark place and I went to bed hungry with penance for my weakness as my motivator. There is till truth to my reaction, but it's the pessimistic and mean lens that I viewed my circumstance with that's changed/changing. Yes I could be further along, but I also could have been done years ago. I'm not though and like every other thing in my life it's in the past so there is nothing to be done for it. All anyone has is the present moment. Right now in this present moment I am making choices to be healthier mentally and physically.

255.2 this morning so I've dropped 5 pounds since Tuesday. I'm 10 pounds above my all time low and away from the 260s again. I ate 1,900 calories every day since Tuesday and I'm still taking it easy with running. I may run a bit further today. Day 521 of the streak.

Thanks for the support! I realize excessive negativity is unproductive and I'm working to be more positive.
 
I ran 2 miles Saturday and a mile yesterday after a full day of garden and yard work. I'm at 255.4 this morning after a jump up yesterday. I'm still spot on with calories.
 
Glad to hear the back is feeling better! I also understand about the negativity. This has been my internal monologue all week:

Me: Wow, I'm really sick. I honestly don't think I could cook. Guess it'll have to be takeout.

Brain: Great choice, landwhale. Do you really want to get to the end of this week and weight more?

Me: But....I'm sick. I can't even sit up straight.

Brain: Man the fuck up and make good choices.
 
We can't be positive all of the time Q. Cory just made me laugh :D What more can I say? I'm glad that we are able to support one another when we are feeling down. We don't have to pretend we are something or someone that we are not. :grouphug:
 
Thanks LaMa! Minor increase in pain which is a victory these days.

Thanks Cory! I censored my internal dialouge. Mine is pretty foul mouthed too. ;)

Thanks Cate! Most people are a hot mess. Being able to admit it and work on it puts us ahead of many.

256 this morning. I went over yesterday because dinner upset my stomach and I chose to have salty tortilla chips to calm it. I ran 1.25 miles.
 
254.6 this morning after a couple days of intense field work. I'm so tired today, but I had an amazing experience training for a federal permit for the endangered Red-cockaded Woodpecker. I didn't eat perfect, but I'm back to routine this morning. I covered about 5 miles in the woods each day with much of it carrying a 50-foot telescoping pole with camera and other equipment. So tired!
 
It was so cool LaMa! I saw at least a hundred birds, dozens of eggs, and a hatchling still wiggling from it's shell. I saw them in all four species of pine that they occupy in Texas and I saw a carnivorous plant wetland that only occurs in seeps within fire influenced mature longleaf Pine. Tons of other cool plants and animals too. Best of all, I got paid to do something I'd have spent money to do.

LaMa or others: Message me if you're on Instagram and I'll give you my account name. No bird pics, but good plant/habitat pics.

The back feels great!
 
What a wonderful experience Q! Although your job, I'm sure, must be a hard slog at times, & require lots of patience, you must love it, especially when you are rewarded for your persistence. Nothing beats nature.
 
Ooo, carnivores! I love me some pretty plants :)
 
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