From alpha testing to the QUERCUS 200

Happy holidays Vee and Cate! A belated Merry Christmas Kaplooie !

So my mom made some treats garlic free just for me which turned out to have garlic I them. So Christmas eve ended early with benadryl and throwing up on the side of the road. I didn't feel better until Saturday and today is really the first day I've felt 100%.

The positives from this is that I'm giving up eating things with ingredients unless I've made them myself. So a whole food plant-based diet without alcohol or wheat.

259.8 this morning. I have to cut back on my portions, but otherwise everything is perfect diet wise. Day 396 of the runstreak.
 
I am so sorry to hear your Christmas was ruined by one of my bestest friends :( And you still kept up your running streak? You, Sir, are a beast. (And, incidentally, not a lady looking to lose weight with Venus´ help. Neither am I, but at least I´m closer.)
 
That sucks Q! You can't actually trust even the ones you love very much, says Cate, with a very swollen belly & a guts ache from eating "Stag snags" last night. It seems G didn't ask if they had gluten in them when he bought them. Ouch. He would not forget if it was him with the side-effects.
259.8- holding steady, about to drop! xoxo
 
Thanks LaMa! I ran before the poisoning and waited until later the next night to run, but it succeds pretty hard. I wore heavy layers and tried to sweat it out. Yuck.

That's no fun Cate! So far I've avoided everything with ingredients since then. My body is telling me that a plant based whole food diet is the way to go.

I'm a bit torn about hunting and fishing. It's something I've always done with my father, but food was always the motivation. I really don't want meat of any sort any more, but I want to keep up our traditions as they are the basis of our relationship. I'm going to have to have a conversation with him. I have to figure out what to say first. I might keep hunting and fishing with him if he will take what I catch or kill, but I'll be rather hesitant to shoot a deer in that circumstance.

Exactly the same this morning at 259.8 this morning. My systolic has been a bit high the last couple of days which is odd because when I measured it before the diastolic was high and systolic was fine. Hopefully it will go down as the weight does. I've been overeating in the evenings still, but I'm chiseling away at that.
 
Good luck with that conversation Q, it may be a tough one if he feels your veganism is somehow in judgement of him and his lifestyle. No kind elderly ladies around who´d be thrilled about the occasional extra bit of fish/game?
 
I wish you luck with the conversation you'll have with your dad. Also, serious kudos on continuing your run streak on Christmas.

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Thanks LaMa! My reclusive lifestyle doesn't result in my knowing hardly anyone. It also feels hypocritical too. I'm vegan so take these animals I killed. I don't think I want to kill them anymore.

Thanks Cate!

Thanks Cory! It was only a big deal because I felt bad. We aren't too big on holidays.

So the weight is holding steady when it should be dropping. Oh well. I need to work on getting enough sleep. That's the only thing I'm chronically bad at now.

E and I have our 18th wedding anniversary on the 2nd.
 
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I don't think I want to kill them anymore.
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Ah, that is of course a different situation. Totally understandable though. You guys got married on January second? There´s got to be a story to that! 18 years is a good amount of time by the way, congratulations to the both of you :grouphug:
 
That does sound like a story Q. Congratulations to you both on choosing well & being loyal & committed. Here's to another 18 & then another, xoxo Cate
 
The story is that I asked her out on January 2nd 4 years earlier. So Saturday will be 18 and 22 years.

A mile and a half for day 398 of the old runstreak.
 
We were together 4 years before we got married too-40 years married, 44 together. Some of us have to buck the odds Q xoxo
 
Nice Cate! Congratulations on 40! We are halfway there on years together and a couple years shy on halfwy there married. Numbers are weird. I don't know about Tas, but in the U.S. there is a national chain of convienience stores called 7-11. We went to a 7-11 on our 7 and 11 anniversaries and bought slurpees. That doesn't seem long ago at all, but 11 years have gone by. Time flies when your having fun.

Thanks LaMa! We don't generally make a particular fuss about our anniversary as we are pretty expressive to each other every day and aren't "fuss" kind of people. I just realized tht this year's anniversaries are my ages when the two events occured. I was 18 when we started dating and 22 when we got married. Next year will be E's ages as she is a few months older. I think about how immature and clueless the early 20's folks are at work and that I don't believe I could handle being around 18 year olds at all. It makes me realize that you can make some great decisions in life even when you're still essentially an idiot. She was the more even-keeled by orders of magnatude, but I came around and now we are a couple of loving nerdy hermits out in the woods. It suits us.

So 258.6 this morning which is down 1.2 pounds from every dy this week which is nice.
 
"I was 18 when we started dating & 22 when we got married." SNAP! :) We're the same too with the no fuss & show our love to one another daily. I see a lot of people make a lot of fuss over things, including big weddings etc & I see most fail equally spectacularly. We'e doing well Q. Well done on the drop btw :D xoC
 
I like happy, no-nonsense love stories, thanks guys :) The glittery, loud dramas really don´t make me feel like even trying :D
 
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323.2 again this morning. The exercise is going to be a painfully (literally) slow ramp up. Yesterday I went to the mall and walked so I didn't have to deal with the heat as the cholesterol medicine has my stomach messed up and I needed to be near facilities. I feel absolutely geriatric at this point. I haven't been doing field work this week because I really can't.

I plan to look into massage. I never liked the idea of a stranger rubbing on me and I've never done it, but maybe it would help. I need to do something to get some relief.

The diet has been great so far. I'll avoid counting calories as long as I can lose without doing it. Right now I'm hungry all the time, but this is the adjustment phase. It will get better. One silver lining is that I don't take any boredom trips to the fridge/pantry because it's not worth the pain/effort at the moment.

Mandy sorry the pic freaked you out. I like looking at ants as much as a fluffy bunny so I don't consider the freak out factor.

Omega, happy belated birthday! Sorry I didn't mention that before.

Nostalgic, thanks for the advice. I'm limited in what I can do at the moment, but I'm well equipped to ease back into things as I can. I have a GPS HR monitor watch from when I started running that does everything but move my feet. I just can't do enough to need it at the moment. I'm going for a swim this evening. Hopefully that will loosen things up.
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Welcome to my world Q:hurray:

Happy New Year from a very wet UK. I gave up making New Year resolutions 30yrs ago but I've made one this year: To stick with aqua aerobics. First session Monday.
Congrats on anniversary. We clocked up 40rs this year. Met in January 1975, got engaged in the following Feb and married in December.
I had a rethink on hunting when I saw hounds rip a fox apart
 
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Thanks Tru!
Awesome Cate! Great minds etc.
Thanks LaMa! Our relationship is extraordinary in how great it is not in the story it tells.
WOW Polly that quote was a blast from the past! It really makes me Consider how far I've come. Thanks and congratulations on 40 years! I'll always remember that since I showed up that year.

Thanks Vee and happy new year!

So I will update on me tonight.
 
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