From alpha testing to the QUERCUS 200

I agree, it doesn't matter how far back it is, that's where you started and it does count because I did have to lose those pounds.
 
Hi Q. Great stats, great achievement & more to come! GO Q!!!! xo Cate
 
Just sharing the same thought as everyone else, if you don't include your highest numbers you're also not including the effort you had to put forth to get rid of them. You've done some incredible work here...but you know that already :D
 
Great work, Q. I agree with the others about including your highest weight. They are pounds lost... and they all count! :)
 
Thanks LaMa!
Thanks Risty!
Thanks Cate!
Thanks LJ!
Thanks Oaks!
Thanks Jen!

A little background/summary:
So the 400 pound mark was 2003 I believe. I lost 100 pounds being vegetarian and stayed around that mark for a long while. In late 2012 I reached 349 and joined here. I've roller coastered and stalled while on here until late last year. Once I started working towards running the change became steady. Steady but very slow and from a starting point just 15 pounds less than late 2012. After my knee injury/infection/surgery I had regained 12 pounds that had taken most of the year to lose. That spurred me into my final phase of realizing that I had to count calories. So since I've made running and 2,300 calories regular habits progress has been swift. So my goal will be around half my weight at heaviest and around 12 years in the making. Now that is slow weight loss! About 0.3 pounds per week if it takes me a year from now to reach goal (1.5 lb/week).

AM Run
2.2 miles
30:43
141 BPM avg
546 calories by my GPS watch
491 calories by
 
Awesome!! Those are great drawings! You should definitely draw more. I've found it very helpful at night... keeps me from snacking. haha!
 
You've broken the 280s!!!

Fantastic work. I hate to say this, but welcome to needing to buy clothes that you know won't fit in a couple of months. A small price to pay.

Don't know what to say about using your all time high, since the day I started this current weight loss journey was almost certainly my all-time highest weight (or close enough). In any event you've done wonderfully and I'm proud of you.

BTW, that second calculator is the one I use (though I've already transferred the formula to my own spreadsheet). Nerd alert. :)
 
Thanks Jen! I will try to break out the sketch pad tonight.

Thanks Vee! I'm wearing a practically brand new shirt that's made to last forever and it fits me like a robe. I'm giving my leather jacket to a coworker as I look like a kid wearing his dad's coat in it. I think my watch may be the same as the calculator as it was only ~50 calories higher and it had an older (and therefore higher) weight in it. I corrected it now and I'll compare tomorrow. I bought 2 size large short sleeve shirts on clearance for goal shirts. My undershirt today is an xl and plenty big and the larges will go on, but they don't fit. I never thought I'd wear smaller than xl and now I realize that in 80 pounds the larges won't fit at all. I think I'll wear all of the 2xl tshirts until they are worn out. A baggy tshirt looks better than a baggy button up shirt on me.

The all time high stuff doesn't matter one way or the other. I'm still headed for 199 and I'm the same distance from it no matter what I call my starting point.

I ate 500 calories for breakfast and about 1,500 calories for lunch. I'm miserable. I doubt I will eat any dinner. My Levi 550s in 36 fit this morning, but I may fall in half at some point this afternoon. I'll still be at or below my calories for the day, but I can't imagine eating like this and not jumping back up on the scale. We'll see. This doesn't feel like following the rules. So many good foods and almost none of them part of my normal diet.
 
That wasp is absolutely gorgeous! Hope you´ll be showing us more of your stuff on here.

What did you have for lunch? My head isn´t working properly today so maybe I just missed it.
 
Thanks LaMa!

It was work's non-traditional thanksgiving lunch. I ate so many different things and none of them were on my regular diet. I had at least a taste of everything: 2 kinds of wild hog, two kinds of deer meat, pasta salad, dip and crackers, bread, baked beans, and chicken tortilla soup. A molasses cookie and a dark chocolate cake ball too. I feel miserable.
 
Oh man, no wonder you feel miserable! That's quite an interesting mix of food to have in the middle of the work day. Nothing you can do about it now but drink lots of water and change into clothes that won't slice you in half. Was everything yummy at the time, at least?
 
They were great! Some of it was literally one bite and most just a couple to a few bites, but yeah it was a shock to the system. Luckily my shirt I'm wearing is way too big so no one knows that I have my pants unbuttoned :D...Except you....and anyone else who reads this.
 
I managed to not eat for the rest of the day yesterday. I drank a ton of water and felt pretty normal by bed time. I actually slept like a ton of bricks. I think I was around 2,000 calories with no dinner, but 100% certain that I was below 2,300.

279.6 this morning. 1 pound rebounds happen anyway. I was surprised not to be heavier with the salt that went with all the food. I had a vegan breakfast and a vegan lunch packed.

AM Run
2.22 miles
30 mins
152 BPM avg
30 damn degrees

I wore a size large hoodie this morning. It's tight, but for running in the dark it fit fine and was warm and a safe neon green. We don't have any lights on our road so a headlamp is a must. The batteries in mine crapped out this morning starting out dim and fading as I went. By the end the grey dawn was brighter than the headlamp. Luckily there is no traffic either.
 
Ahh, the secret pant unbuttoners. We're a dangerous sort. Unsuspecting passers by completely unaware we are in glorious, unbuttoned heaven.

I was on a conference a few months ago and was wearing Bridget Jones style knickers in bid to appear slim line and svelte and instead, by the end of lunch, was in so much horrific pain from all my fat bits being smushed into tiny pants that I went to the loo and took them off. So I was knickerless all day, at a Looked After Child Conference. Reason number 4 to be LESS FAT, HANA.


Have a good day, lovely!
 
That's hilarious!

It was quite temporary and in pants that were snug to start with.

When I was at 349 just before I joined here I kind of hit rock bottom one day when my biggest pants were cutting me in two. I unbuttoned them and hid it with a loosely buckled belt. This was my state of dress for a few days before I finally said enough. Not a proud moment in my life, but I'm happy to say that those pants are long gone. I'm pretty sure I've never admitted that before. I described my starting point pants as "very tight" size 42s, but "can't button" isn't "very tight". The too tight afternoon yesterday was in size 36s.

They had Spanx for men in a department store I went to a while back. I considered it as a "preview" for weightloss to come, but I was quickly self-ridiculed into not considering them any longer. Plus they were really expensive.

Okay I've shared enough.
 
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