From alpha testing to the QUERCUS 200
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Little John
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Well-done, Q, you've done great work!
Cool summary of your dietary choices, I agree that you're better off by catching/growing your own vittles, I wish I could drive myself to do something like that. Maybe by spring I'll have weaned myself of enough bad habits to start doing something - fishing, maybe a vegetable garden. Who knows...
Cool summary of your dietary choices, I agree that you're better off by catching/growing your own vittles, I wish I could drive myself to do something like that. Maybe by spring I'll have weaned myself of enough bad habits to start doing something - fishing, maybe a vegetable garden. Who knows...
Quercus
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Thank you Cate!
Thank you LaMa!
Thank you Oaks!
Thank you LJ!
So still at 282.4 this morning which is fine.
Run
2 miles
30 mins
I need to start pushing a little on these AM runs. My stomach wasn't great this morning, but I could have done better still.
So I have figured the problem out with my digestive issues. The 10 out of 5 star Thia food is having the opposite result from what I would expect. My guess is that it's knocking out a good bit of my gut flora and halting things for a while. Last week was following Thai and this week I have the same problem. So no more 10 star for me. I'm taking probiotic and hopefully that will be enough.
I really like super hot food, but I need to temper it so it doesn't make me ill.
I ate 2,300 calories yesterday.
I finished the summer sausage last night and had that for dinner. It turned out well, but I really don't have the craving for meat much anymore. I brought a pound in to work today and I'll bring some to my parents and more to work. I'll freeze a lot of it and eat it on occasion. It will be good for taking on work trips.
I reloaded and tested my new 44 load yesterday, we did all of the laundry, and I cooked 13.5 pounds of summer sausage. I also did more house cleaning.
More reloading junk:
I manage to finish load development for my new 44 round. I had really impressive results from my first load configuration which made it easy. I'm pushing a 240 grain hard cast Keith style semiwadcutter at a >1,400 fps and about 1,100 ft/lbs of energy at 8 feet from muzzle with no leading and really good accuracy. I chronographed and averaged 12 rounds and loaded 36 more. I will shoot it a bit more this week and take it hunting on Saturday. I'm as accurate with this round as the one I have been carrying hunting.
Thank you LaMa!
Thank you Oaks!
Thank you LJ!
So still at 282.4 this morning which is fine.
Run
2 miles
30 mins
I need to start pushing a little on these AM runs. My stomach wasn't great this morning, but I could have done better still.
So I have figured the problem out with my digestive issues. The 10 out of 5 star Thia food is having the opposite result from what I would expect. My guess is that it's knocking out a good bit of my gut flora and halting things for a while. Last week was following Thai and this week I have the same problem. So no more 10 star for me. I'm taking probiotic and hopefully that will be enough.
I really like super hot food, but I need to temper it so it doesn't make me ill.
I ate 2,300 calories yesterday.
I finished the summer sausage last night and had that for dinner. It turned out well, but I really don't have the craving for meat much anymore. I brought a pound in to work today and I'll bring some to my parents and more to work. I'll freeze a lot of it and eat it on occasion. It will be good for taking on work trips.
I reloaded and tested my new 44 load yesterday, we did all of the laundry, and I cooked 13.5 pounds of summer sausage. I also did more house cleaning.
More reloading junk:
I manage to finish load development for my new 44 round. I had really impressive results from my first load configuration which made it easy. I'm pushing a 240 grain hard cast Keith style semiwadcutter at a >1,400 fps and about 1,100 ft/lbs of energy at 8 feet from muzzle with no leading and really good accuracy. I chronographed and averaged 12 rounds and loaded 36 more. I will shoot it a bit more this week and take it hunting on Saturday. I'm as accurate with this round as the one I have been carrying hunting.
Quercus
New member
Way too spicy. Like sweating, runny nose, flush face, and lightheaded spicy.
Motility no, but bacteria break down macromolecules so a significant reduction in flora is a significant reduction in intestinal digestive activity. I can't say definitively that I'm killing off my gut bacteria, but I can say that the only times that I have experienced issues of constipation are following super spicy meals. I could also be fouling up bile production in the stomach since I am ingesting large amounts of acidic peppers. Usually the spicy causes irritation which in turn causes spasm and the opposite problem occurs.
Regardless of why/how it's happening I think the best idea is to make the spicy level a bit more sane from now on.
My diet has plenty of fiber and water and the other major factor for healthy digestion is bacteria. I took about 14 billion little buddies this morning so hopefully I will get back on track.
Motility no, but bacteria break down macromolecules so a significant reduction in flora is a significant reduction in intestinal digestive activity. I can't say definitively that I'm killing off my gut bacteria, but I can say that the only times that I have experienced issues of constipation are following super spicy meals. I could also be fouling up bile production in the stomach since I am ingesting large amounts of acidic peppers. Usually the spicy causes irritation which in turn causes spasm and the opposite problem occurs.
Regardless of why/how it's happening I think the best idea is to make the spicy level a bit more sane from now on.
My diet has plenty of fiber and water and the other major factor for healthy digestion is bacteria. I took about 14 billion little buddies this morning so hopefully I will get back on track.
Sunflower2
New member
Wow! Bet you can't believe where you started.. So many changes in your diet/routine and all for the better! Well done xx
Quercus
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Hanna I do live a different life. It's still changing pretty rapidly.
LaMa they are very effective friends. I think my amateur diagnosis was correct.
Oaks, a lack of moderation is the root of most of my problems.
I have a lot of really positive memories in my life associated with my friendships with Thai people. In college I really made close friends with a Thai dorm mate and when we and a lot of his friends moved into the same apartment complex the spicy food and beer were a daily event. Being close friends with people from a very different culture changed me for the better. Going to good Thai food and ordering it "pet ma ma" or "ow pet pet" brings me back, but yes I need to cool it to "pet ma" or "ow pet" from now on. Now there aren't any Thai people to make friends with here, but burning my guts out won't change that.
If anyone is reading this that is Thai: Pai taan khao duai gan na khrub.
LaMa they are very effective friends. I think my amateur diagnosis was correct.
Oaks, a lack of moderation is the root of most of my problems.
I have a lot of really positive memories in my life associated with my friendships with Thai people. In college I really made close friends with a Thai dorm mate and when we and a lot of his friends moved into the same apartment complex the spicy food and beer were a daily event. Being close friends with people from a very different culture changed me for the better. Going to good Thai food and ordering it "pet ma ma" or "ow pet pet" brings me back, but yes I need to cool it to "pet ma" or "ow pet" from now on. Now there aren't any Thai people to make friends with here, but burning my guts out won't change that.
If anyone is reading this that is Thai: Pai taan khao duai gan na khrub.
BlueBean
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Wow that sounds like some hard-core spicy foods! My family loves spicy foods, but I wince at the thought. Although I do *love* wassabi on sushi.. Go figure!
I hope the probiotic helps you
Probiotics are awesome!
50lbs is AMAZING! How does it feel? How do you feel in your own skin now? That's brilliant work mate, I am so happy for you The hard work has truly paid off.
I hope the probiotic helps you
Probiotics are awesome!50lbs is AMAZING! How does it feel? How do you feel in your own skin now? That's brilliant work mate, I am so happy for you
The hard work has truly paid off.
ChefChiTown
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HAHAHA, wwwwwwhaaaaaat?
Quercus
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Thanks a lot BlueBean!
To be honest I feel fat, but that's okay. I know I've lost a lot of weight and that I feel better than before by leaps and bounds. I'm relatively certain that I am in the best health of my adult life (excepting my back). I made my last drastic change at the beginning of October and now I have adjusted to that change. Running early in the AM and increasing the running frequency hasn't been as drastic of a change as I'd thought. That's because I'm in better shape. Changes are easier now. Pushing is easier now.
Still being > 80 pounds overweight sucks. I'm still fat. I've worked hard. I have achieved a lot. I have to come to terms with the fact that if I do everything right I will still be fat for a long while yet. Please don't take this as whining or complaining. I gained every pound of fat myself and I will lose every pound in a healthy gradual way and keep it off. My resolve will not falter because this is how I live my life now.
This is me.
A fat guy that is becoming less fat every day by living a healthy lifestyle until one day he'll just be a guy living a healthy lifestyle. I'll be the guy enjoying a treat and overweight people will think "Man I wish I could eat like that and be skinny. That guys lucky!". Right now I'm just a fat guy that surprises people when they see me running. I'm the fat guy that never has a beer or doughnut. It beats being the fat guy that acts like a fat guy all the time. The guy you can hear breathing across the room. The guy that sweats walking around in winter. The guy Chinese buffets were invented for.
I'm enjoying the new me, but I really look forward to the end of the weightloss journey and the beginning of the rest of my life. It won't all be good. It won't all be easy. But it will be much better.
Let's do the math:
So for the year I've averaged 1.1 pounds per week and since starting to count calories strictly at the beginning of October I've lost 3.6 pounds per week. What this means is that I will stop being overweight sometime between Late April 2015 and late April 2016. That's the date range of 1.1 - 3.6 pounds per week. Do I expect to lose 83.4 pounds in 5 months? No. I do expect to do better than 1.1 pounds per week. If I can average 2.3 pounds a week I would be done by my 40th birthday. I don't expect that to happen either.
Okay Chef "pet" means "hot" and "ma" means "very" so "pet ma ma" means "very very hot". "ow" means "I want" so "ow pet pet" means "I want it hot hot".
run
2.16 miles
31 minutes
Tough run this morning. I'm having a hard time pushing myself. More frequent, but less intense runs are probably for the best for me, but I still want to be going faster, but I'm really dragging in the morning.
2,300 calories yesterday, but I'm up 1.2 pounds to 283.6. I ate a lot of sodium yesterday with the summer sausage and tortilla chips late. My blood pressure is good so salt is really about water retention and screwing with the scale for me. I did feel sluggish and really thirsty during my run this morning. I'm guessing that's salt and meat. I'm drinking lots of water today and skipping anything too salty. I'd really like a big drop this week so more water, less salt, and lots of running.
To be honest I feel fat, but that's okay. I know I've lost a lot of weight and that I feel better than before by leaps and bounds. I'm relatively certain that I am in the best health of my adult life (excepting my back). I made my last drastic change at the beginning of October and now I have adjusted to that change. Running early in the AM and increasing the running frequency hasn't been as drastic of a change as I'd thought. That's because I'm in better shape. Changes are easier now. Pushing is easier now.
Still being > 80 pounds overweight sucks. I'm still fat. I've worked hard. I have achieved a lot. I have to come to terms with the fact that if I do everything right I will still be fat for a long while yet. Please don't take this as whining or complaining. I gained every pound of fat myself and I will lose every pound in a healthy gradual way and keep it off. My resolve will not falter because this is how I live my life now.
This is me.
A fat guy that is becoming less fat every day by living a healthy lifestyle until one day he'll just be a guy living a healthy lifestyle. I'll be the guy enjoying a treat and overweight people will think "Man I wish I could eat like that and be skinny. That guys lucky!". Right now I'm just a fat guy that surprises people when they see me running. I'm the fat guy that never has a beer or doughnut. It beats being the fat guy that acts like a fat guy all the time. The guy you can hear breathing across the room. The guy that sweats walking around in winter. The guy Chinese buffets were invented for.
I'm enjoying the new me, but I really look forward to the end of the weightloss journey and the beginning of the rest of my life. It won't all be good. It won't all be easy. But it will be much better.
Let's do the math:
So for the year I've averaged 1.1 pounds per week and since starting to count calories strictly at the beginning of October I've lost 3.6 pounds per week. What this means is that I will stop being overweight sometime between Late April 2015 and late April 2016. That's the date range of 1.1 - 3.6 pounds per week. Do I expect to lose 83.4 pounds in 5 months? No. I do expect to do better than 1.1 pounds per week. If I can average 2.3 pounds a week I would be done by my 40th birthday. I don't expect that to happen either.
Okay Chef "pet" means "hot" and "ma" means "very" so "pet ma ma" means "very very hot". "ow" means "I want" so "ow pet pet" means "I want it hot hot".
run
2.16 miles
31 minutes
Tough run this morning. I'm having a hard time pushing myself. More frequent, but less intense runs are probably for the best for me, but I still want to be going faster, but I'm really dragging in the morning.
2,300 calories yesterday, but I'm up 1.2 pounds to 283.6. I ate a lot of sodium yesterday with the summer sausage and tortilla chips late. My blood pressure is good so salt is really about water retention and screwing with the scale for me. I did feel sluggish and really thirsty during my run this morning. I'm guessing that's salt and meat. I'm drinking lots of water today and skipping anything too salty. I'd really like a big drop this week so more water, less salt, and lots of running.
MrVee
New member
Hmm, sounds familiar
So yeah, welcome to the completely normal reaction to the process you're going through. It caused me to sign up here for a little support and that seems to have worked out nicely.
That said what was amazing to me was how quickly the time went from roughly 275 to 225. It was like a blur, and I barely remember any times in between those two. So while it's natural to still see the amount of progress ahead as a lot, the first part of it anyway should go by a lot quicker than you think.
Keep up the outstanding work Q, and you need any help at all, just ask.
Oaks
New member
Do you run most days? It seems like you do, but then you mention doing more frequent runs and now I'm not sure what your frequency is now. Mornings are definitely tough, when your muscles are just wondering why on earth they are moving at all, let alone fast. I try to make sure I get a decent amount of brisk walking in before I pick up the pace, but sometimes that's tough if it's chilly out and I just want to warm up!