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

Hey Quercus - rocking it on the spin bike! 1 hour stretches...great stuff. LOL at the standing up issues misunderstanding - I thought you meant it was weight related!!

Don't get hung up on the scale lottery. I stopped weighing myself everyday as the fluctuations messed with my head and made my motivation dip. I try now to make it once a week and then I get a big "WOW!" moment...sometimes I fail and weigh in every 3 or 4 days. Get your wife to hide them somewhere and only bring them out on a certain day!

10lbs down already - you are so going to smash your goal of 299. I'd put money on it!
 
Quercus said:
Thanks Justina and Jen!

My weight was 340.4 this morning. I'm frustrated with this yoyoing as I'm doing EVERYTHING right. I may just weigh on Fridays for the competition. I spent the morning in the field which was nice. A few hours in the woods really worked the soreness out of my legs.
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Aye, when I started doing this I was weighing every day but I find it gets to you as soon as you put something on, for whatever reason. Now just doing weekly weigh-in (sats for me, Fri morning for chall), and things seem to be more even.

Keep up the good work, and just remember even if it's yoyoing it's likely to be going down a lot more than up! :)

Steve
 
Thanks jjjay and Steve, solid advice. Not hitting the bike last night and doing lower impact exercise really did the trick for my weight,

337.4 this morning -7.6 -2.2% for week one and -11.8 total. I'm sure it will rebound after my first 1 hour bike session, but obviously this is pleasing.

I've lost 3.4% of my body weight since joining in mid December. Considering I did horribly between xmas and new year that's really good. Going to post in my team thread and then off to the field!
 
Thanks Justina!

A weekend of survival camp means high level of exercise and low calories. It was really fun! I also drank more than a gallon of water each day as well. It was cold sleeping outside last night. I started a fire with 3 sticks and a string, built a shelter from sticks and pine straw, chewed cactus for water, learned to signal for distress, and a lot more. We gathered all the firewood we burned and roamed through the woods quite a bit.
 
Hey Quercus, your survival camp sounds like a lot of fun!! & useful too. Combined with exercise it's like you hit the jackpot this weekend!
Good for you! I hope you have an equally good week this week!
 
Thanks Justina!

Came in 400 calories under and got my hour of exercise walking and field work.

The survival class is practical as I've come close to spending the night in a swamp a couple of times at work. One occasion was in running water and below freezing temperatures and they were scrambling a helicopter to try to get us, but we managed to get our amphibious vehicle running and got out. That was pretty scary and I feel like I would be better prepared now than before.

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That's the amphibious vehicle we were in.
 
Lifetime city dweller here. I live in the sixth most populated city in the country, and it bothers me sometimes why I moved to such a small town. Survival training in the city generally involves knowing what neighborhoods not to go into, and what diners not to eat at. :D

That said, driving that amphibious vehicle through downtown Phoenix on a Tuesday afternoon would be oodles of fun.
 
thanks for the support Quercus, Argo's are great fun, which is something I could do with about now.
 
So I haven't been as active here in the last few days, but I wanted to say that I'm taking care of buisness. I've been out in the field again which is very nice and my evenings have been filled this week as my mother-in-law is in the hospital.

I've eaten right at my calories except for yesterday which I went over around 100 calories. I've drank a minimum of a gallon of water and I'm getting my hour of exercise in. I intended to do exercise in addition to the field work, but so far I have not done so. I hope to get on the bike this evening, but my field day looks to be pretty intense. I hate not weighing more than seeing the yoyoing so I think I'll make this my only week of Friday only weigh-in.
 
Well done for staying on track. More points for the team and very good for your project too... :biggrinjester:
I hope that your MIL is back home soon and on the mend.
I know that weighing every day is what worked for me...
 
Yo, seems like you are having a busy day. Good job still fitting the exercise in & drinking the water!
You are champion!
 
Thanks everybody! The MIL is getting out of the hospital tonight.

I walked for miles today including a couple commando crawls under an overgrown fence. About 6 hours of actual time on foot.

My legs didn't want the bike after that so I deadlifted instead.

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135x5x2

225x3

315x2

365x1

I was hoping for 405, but 365 felt heavy. Not bad for zero lifting I guess. Field work again tomorrow.
 
I'm nervous about it because I haven't been weighing.

A client treated me to a huge late lunch after a tough 5 hours of machete work and hiking up and down creek beds. I'm not sure of the calories, but I'm going to call that it for food today. Hopefully not eating in the evening will make for a low weight, but I know the rapid weight loss has to stop soon. I just hope not yet.

I've had about a gallon and a half of water today as I was sweating a lot. It's humid and in the mid 70's today.
 
334.8 this morning. I lost 2.6 pounds this week and 10.2 for the contest with a total loss of 14.4 since last month. 2.6 will not get me to my 10 week goal of 299.2. I'm increasing my efforts. I will do this.

I got to choose the mini challenge for this week and I decided to go with drinking 0 calories with meal replacements not counting. I am taking it on myself to also eliminate artificial sweetners in my drinks. This leaves me with water, plain coffee, and teas. I think getting off artificial sweeteners (especially diet drinks) will reduce my appetite and my carb cravings. Plus they are unhealthy chemicals that don't belong in the human body.
 
10.2 pounds is a very good weight loss over a two week period. Do not lose sight of your achievement.
 
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