{"id":339,"date":"2009-08-12T04:05:21","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T08:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=339"},"modified":"2009-08-12T04:05:21","modified_gmt":"2009-08-12T08:05:21","slug":"yet-another-on-the-weight-loss-bandwagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=339","title":{"rendered":"yet another on the weight loss bandwagon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Along with I&#8217;m sure others on <a href=\"http:\/\/planettrilug.org\">planettrilug<\/a>, I&#8217;ve been working on losing some of my heft.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve gone back and forth on caring for a long time, but now have some incentives beyond just &#8220;it&#8217;s good for me&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>My first month in Singapore I dropped ~11 pounds. The 4 weeks after that were only an additional 2.5, but now that I&#8217;m back, I somewhat expect the dropping to continue apace. It&#8217;s hard to eat a lot when it&#8217;s hot and sticky, and having an environment that encourages walking, at least to some extent, makes the process a bit easier.<\/p>\n<p>Diabetes does exist on both sides of my family, though it&#8217;s all been late-onset, Type-II &#8211; so while I&#8217;m paying attention, I&#8217;m not going crazy in the process.<\/p>\n<p>When I left, my official weight from my physical was 254. I picked-up a scale today so I can track relative loss over the coming weeks and months. I won&#8217;t scare the world by posting photos of myself during the process, but I will endeavor to post ~weekly updates with how much (if any) has been lost, and hopefully that will help to keep me honest.<\/p>\n<p>My initial goal is 210 &#8211; which is about 45 pounds away. If I could keep-up the rate I started when I first got here, I&#8217;ll hit that in 4 months. My lovely fiancee is also assisting by helping me plan grocery trips and meals to some extent (thanks, honey!)<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully there will be a pleasant stream of more to come on this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Along with I&#8217;m sure others on planettrilug, I&#8217;ve been working on losing some of my heft. I&#8217;ve gone back and forth on caring for a long time, but now have some incentives beyond just &#8220;it&#8217;s good for me&#8221;. My first month in Singapore I dropped ~11 pounds. The 4 weeks after that were only an &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=339\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">yet another on the weight loss bandwagon<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31,46],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-update"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=339"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}