The big oak (Quercus) needs to drop some dead limbs!

Thanks guys. I'm not at all discouraged. I know for sure that it's water retention. I ate several hundred below goal and got too damned much exercise. It's already subsided a lot. My ring fits again and the snug pants that I didn't wear a belt with this morning are loose. I'm drinking a ton of water today. Of course I had been losing faster than it was possible to lose fat for the past few days, but that was following stalls and rebounds.

My body is going to have to adapt to heavy field work because not only do I have a large project starting, but after the first week I'll be working every day until it's complete. It will likely be 7 12 hour days a week for at least a couple weeks straight. To say this is going to be a challenge to my body is a bit of an understatement. This would have challenged 20 year old me. I'm afraid 37 year old me is about to get ground to bits. I'll emerge on the other end of this, stronger and slimmer if it doesn't break me first.
 
hey, wow big project coming up! Challenging yes, impossible not. You have been "training" for it in the past few months. It will make you stronger!
You can totally pull this off! :smash:
 
Hey Justina, thanks for the encouragement!

I upped the resistance on the spin bike and knocked out an hour and 7 minutes. Th extra 7 minutes was neccesary to finish out the episode of the documentary that I was watching. Another hair and shirt soaker, but I had to increase the resistance to get the sweat and heart rate up. I gave it 20 minutes of fast pedalling and it wasn't challenging. This pleases me. :)
 
It won't break you, you will come out slimmer, stronger and totally awesome!!

20 minutes fast pedalling - that's really good. I would at this stage of my fitness level probably drop dead!
 
Thanks Mands!

329.0 this morning. That's up 6 pounds from Wednesday. I'm out of positive attitude. I haven't slipped up on diet or exercise. My body is being an asshole.
 
If you haven't slipped up on diet or exercise I wouldn't worry about it.

I have had exactly _one_ constant problem this whole time and that has been my natural tendency for impatience. I want fat me consigned to the dustbin of history, and I want it yesterday. My very first post on here (and what motivated me to join in the first place): "I prepared myself from the outset that this was going to take a while, but that's not really making it any easier today. I started this because I was tired of being fat, and I'm not any less tired of being fat three months later." I checked in at 336 on that day from a starting weight of 375.

Eating well and exercising regularly is a great way to lose weight, but it's an even better way to "eat well and exercise regularly." Do what you know you need to do to make your life longer and happier, and let the scale make the adjustments when it wants to.
 
Do what you know you need to do to make your life longer and happier, and let the scale make the adjustments when it wants to.
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Sooooo true.....but sooo against our "want it now" nature.
 
You know that what you're hearing here is true... if you're doing it all the right way, then don't worry. But it really is irritating when these things happen. It WILL come in time. Maybe you're just building muscle. Maybe you're holding water. Who knows. But I am sure that if you're eating and hydrating right and exercising and sleeping well, then certainly aren't doing anything wrong. It will come.

I just get ticked that when I eat less I don't lose weight, because I guaran-freakin-ty you that if I ate a big pizza today the scale would jump up tomorrow. It doesn't seem fair somehow.
 
Thanks guys!

I have been super stressed lately and the weight rebound just caught me at a bad time.

I'll be working nights and weekends for a while and I have realized since the stress has started adding up that I have always used food and booze to cope with stress to the point that I don't really have a good system for dealing with it. I've been using exercise to cope, but add in heavy field work and my body has a limit to how much I can tack on top of that. My muscles and joints hurt from head to toe today and I need a rest.

I cheated on the diet last night and then slept for 12 hours. I feel a bit better. I'll be getting a tremendous amount of exercise starting Monday and I'm back on the diet.
 
Quercus said:
I'll be working nights and weekends for a while and I have realized since the stress has started adding up that I have always used food and booze to cope with stress to the point that I don't really have a good system for dealing with it.
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I made the much the same point a few months ago. Haven't really figured it out yet, but I have two advantages: one I can go back to work anytime I want and just work through it. And two: if all else fails, I can sit here and stew and lousy as that is, I live by myself so it won't have any real bad effects on anyone else around me.

Truth be told, the food never really helped anyway, and the weight gain only increased how often I had those sorts of moods. Even if you were perfectly thin, there's probably better ways to deal with such things than food anyway.
 
Quercus, it is all so closely tied together... our mental state, emotional state, physical state, eating habits, water consumption, exercise levels, sleep cycles... and on and on. I'm starting to think of it as walking a tightrope in the dark, getting all of these things to align so that the weight comes off. It's insane.

I am sure that when your mind and body are screaming at you to step back and regroup, you should do it... just as long as you get right back to it when you're feeling stronger. Get healthy and hit the ground running on Monday.
 
Thanks MrVee, Don, and Justina! I really appreciate all the good advice. I haven't been too good with the diet the whole weekend, but just a little over. I'm just taking a quick break between writing reports. The project starts tomorrow, but I have a trip planned, a 3 day weekend, and a show I'm looking forward to. I'll try not to think of it as my last weekend for a while.

Positives:

I'm down 20 pounds and 5 inches on the belly.

I haven't had a drink in 7 weeks.

I've exercised more since January 7th than in all of 2012.

I'm in better shape than I have been in a long time.

I've got some badass support here!
 
Great job focusing on the positives, Quercus. Those are some great accomplishments.

As far as the recent eating... what's done is done. Deal with it by being better today.
 
Thanks Don and Anna! I am 100% back on track. I'm staying off the scale until I feel like getting back on or by Friday which ever comes first,

I bought a book Saturday night that I finished Sunday. I highly recommend "Heft On Wheels" by Mike Magnuson. It is his personal story of transforming himself from a drunk, smoker, and fatty into a slender competitive cyclist. He didn't do everything the "right" way, but he did it. It is an inspiring story, remarkably human, and pretty funny to boot. I intend to reread it soon.

He and I are very different people, but his past problems are mine and he spoke to me and solidified attitudes that I have been forming. His battles with self-doubt are mine as well. I wasn't looking for a book of inspiration or even a book on cycling when I found it. The book has allowed me some perspective and to distance myself from my frustrations that I'm currently feeling.

I got sucked into the idea that the adjustments were made and that it would be a breeze from here on out. Now I realize that this will be a struggle even after the weight is off, but that it is a struggle worth having.

Keep in mind that I am not a religious person, but I find it easiest to speak of my situation in terms of religious invention.

I have been lazy.

I have been gluttonous.

I have been a drunk.

I have been a sloth.

These are my sins and the suffering is my penance. I'm not asking for forgiveness. I will atone for them so I won't die from them.
 
Another positive.

I have just tightened my belt another notch. A belt that did not fit January 1st is now on the fourth of seven notches.

I've decided that I must be gaining muscle.
 
I have been lazy.

I have been gluttonous.

I have been a drunk.

I have been a sloth.
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The only one of these I have not been is a drunk.....powerful look in the mirror
But the key word is have (past tense)
This is who you were not who you are.
 
Quercus said:
I have been lazy.

I have been gluttonous.

I have been a drunk.

I have been a sloth.

These are my sins and the suffering is my penance. I'm not asking for forgiveness. I will atone for them so I won't die from them.
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Amen, brother. There is a LOT of suffering when you've lived a life that can be described with these words. Some suffering delivered by the outside world, but much of it self-inflicted. It's time to forgive yourself, accept the realities, and slay this beast.
 
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