From alpha testing to the QUERCUS 200

Quercus said:
Vee it makes you aware of how limited the control over your body is. You can regulate what goes in, but that amazing brain can't explain to the rest of you that the reduction is a temporary and positive change and that we aren't going to starve or be malnurished so nobody freak out. Nope the guts scream at you and your energy plummets like you have no track record for keeping yourself alive.
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I hate this. And it is SO HARD to resist something your body is screaming at you to do. It's terrified because you've suddenly lost 40 lbs and are eating less and all it can think about is eating more food.
 
-Cory- said:
I hate this. And it is SO HARD to resist something your body is screaming at you to do. It's terrified because you've suddenly lost 40 lbs and are eating less and all it can think about is eating more food.
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The good news is that it is orders of magnitudes easier if you can just hold out for a time through the screaming (easier to state than perform for sure).

Day 177 29:53 5k on the indoor track as I sneak with all of the stealth of a Hippopotamus amphibius up on 6 months of daily runs. 6 months sounds curiously like the halfway point for some reason.

A couple that has been very fleet and consisent in their runs showed up at the track tonight, after the longest abscence of our streak, with the lady walking in an obvious pained gait despite her being the fastest of the two previously. E talked to her afterwards to discover that she has lost more than 70 pounds through running and her hiatus is due to a tummy tuck surgery 2 weeks ago. I can't fathom why you would have a weightloss surgery after you managed to lose all of the weight, but it was nice to learn that someone so fast and so seemingly predispositioned to running was 70 pounds overweight at one point. It gave me hope to being fast one day, but I can assure you that I won't have weightloss surgery once I'm done. Suum cuique (To each their own).

I haven't lost any weight so far this week and I am currently drinking a lovely Malbec wine. I know. Holiday weekend? Crainal incontinence? Slaviliskiel blantalismic spectrolisis?
 
The lady that got the tummy tuck probably did it because she had a 'flap' of skin and some fat that she wanted to get rid of that would have likely not have never completely gone away. Kinda like surgery to just remove excess skin, just maybe still had a small amount of fat in it.
Great job on 6 months of running!
 
What Mystic said. If the flap of skin was large enough, it can lead to some pretty gross medical/hygiene issues. Rashes and bacteria that crop up in the fold of skin. Some people get the skin removed for purely medical reasons.
 
254.4 this morning is 2 pounds down for the week, but more importantly I'm almost certain that it's a lifetime new low. I could be a bit dehydrated but I drank a lot of water last night.
 
-Cory- said:
What Mystic said. If the flap of skin was large enough, it can lead to some pretty gross medical/hygiene issues. Rashes and bacteria that crop up in the fold of skin. Some people get the skin removed for purely medical reasons.
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That also is a common way for people to try and get their insurance to pay for what is often deemed a "cosmetic" procedure. My plan is to just get my body fat low enough to where there just isn't any fat left to hang over. Probably easier for a man to do than a woman just because of the different physiology.

CONGRATS! on the lifetime new low Q. You've definitely earned it. And that's the best thing about "new lows," it matters not whether you're dehydrated or not: you've most certainly been dehydrated before and never weighed that little.

And in many ways the lower fluid levels are often not really dehydration but just your body storing less glycogen due to the calorie deficits (and the lower number of carbs that usually come with them).
 
Great job on the (hopefully adult... otherwise: poor mama) lifetime low! I feel sad for anyone who loses all that weight, goes through the pain and expense of having skin removal surgery and then goes back to working out before the scars (tummy tuck means huge scars, even if most are on the inner tissue and not visible) have healed properly. She must be terrified of regaining what she´s lost.
 
Thanks Vee!
Thanks Mystic!
Thanks Cate!
Thanks LaMa, and yes a new low since at least age 14. She was walking slowly which I think the doctor had approved. No running or workouts until July she said. She looked pained to be walking.

I had wet boots first thing this morning out in the field and I got ate up with mosquito bites. I had to wade a creek and there was a water moccasin in the crek after I got accross which made me a tad nervous wading back across at the end of the day, but it was long gone apparently.

Saturday I was stung on the wrist by a red wasp while cleaning my gutters. My whole forearm swelled up which has never happened before. I had to take anihistamines so I was grogged out for lots of Saturday and Sunday. It stormed really terribly Monday and so E and I ran circles in our house to make our 1 mile for the run streak. It was silly and you had to go too slow for it to do much good, but it kept the streak alive. Saturday and Sunday where slow miles because of my arm and the antihistamines and today was 1.25 miles because I was pooped from the field work. Today was day 181 so pretty close to 6 months of streaking. Back in the field every day the weather allows for a while.

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Here's the water moccasin or Cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorus). Venemous and rather surly.
 
Eek! & you say Australia is full of venomous creatures! I think you have your fair share. I pictured you & E running around your house! Funny. Streaking here is naked running :D
 
Water moccasins freak me out so bad! I've never actually seen one, but even on television they make my hair stand on end. Something about the fact that I can't swim, maybe, I don't really know why it is. A copperhead on the ground doesn't get the same reaction out of me.

Great job keeping the streak alive! A silly little run sounds awesome. The couple that plays together stays together, that's what I say.
 
How far are you from the bad stuff weather wise Q? The floods and stuff in Texas are making the news everywhere.
 
Cate we have a few for sure. Streaking means the same thing here. :D

They aren't my favorite for sure Oaks.

It's bad here Vee. There is lightining and thunder shaking the house again tonight. I'm surprised we have power. We are on high ground and it isn't as bad as the hillcountry or Houston, but it is getting close. There were lots of trees that were just removed from the highway this morning as I went to work. Look at the radar for Gilmer, TX at the moment. That's been the norm for too long. The entire town near where I worked was without electricity and one of the FM roads was closed due to flooding. The grass in my yard is yellowing from all of the rain and I can't even get to part of my property because of the overbanked stream on our place. It makes wetland delineation really difficult. I'm going to have a yard of lilly pads if this keeps it up.
 
That snake is so cute. Dangerous as fuck, but cute. We don't get many moccasins up here. Gets a little too cold for them in the winter, I think. I won't say I've never seen one but you're far more likely to see a rattlesnake, a copperhead, a black snake, or a garter snake.

I'm sorry to hear about your bad reaction to the wasp sting, but massive kudos for going running while doped up on antihistamines and swollen all to hell.
 
Hey everybody! A low mileage week of running because I was in the field every day. I'm feeling pretty beat up today. I overate and ate lots of salty foods because I was sweating so much this week. I'm sunburnt, bug ate, and scratched up with a bit of poison ivy rash for good measure. It was a productive week and a nice change from the office. The scale is up above last week's number by a pound (255), but I'm not worried. I bought a new pair of size 34 jeans, a medium pair of gym shorts, and a couple large tshirts last night. Everything fits so kiss my ass scale.

I have another day in the field Monday and then it will be back to the office. I will likely do a short run today and possibly tomorrow as my legs are feeling sore and heavy.
 
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