{"id":108,"date":"2006-05-08T11:46:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-08T19:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/wordpress\/?p=108"},"modified":"2006-05-08T11:46:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-08T19:46:00","slug":"problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/problem.html","title":{"rendered":"A problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So&#8230;. I&#8217;ve been having a&#8230;.problem lately&#8230;. with my pants&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>And that is, my pants are too big!<\/p>\n<p>As I have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/little-health-kick.html\">posted previously<\/a>, I have recently been embarking on a bit of a health kick.  I still am doing that, at least sort of.  As you may or may not be aware, my &#8220;revolutionary&#8221; diet plan is called &#8220;eat less, exercise more&#8221;.  I haven&#8217;t really been exercising more.  I do exercise some, but that is mostly just incidental stuff &#8211; play basketball occasionally, mowing the lawn, walking around the block, working in the yard, etc.<\/p>\n<p>But I have definitely been eating less.  For awhile, I was tracking my caloric intake daily on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calorie-count.com\">website<\/a>.  I haven&#8217;t been doing that lately, but I still have been trying to limit myself to approximately 2000 calories a day.  Mostly what this entails is not snacking in the middle of the day, and especially at night. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also been trying to not eat late.  I have always heard that not eating right before you go to bed can help weight loss.  Though <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mydna.com\/wellness\/topten\/dietmyths.html\">this<\/a> seems to indicate that that is a myth (Myth #10).  So I&#8217;m not sure about that.  It seems to make sense to me, along with its corollary that eating right after you exercise is good since your metabolism is good.  Though I suppose if you think about it, if you didn&#8217;t eat right after you exercise, then your high metabolism would be put to work burning off fat stores.  So I&#8217;m not sure about the timing.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, I feel good about my 2000 calorie diet.  The results have been good so far too.  As I posted back in March, I was at 210 lbs.  We later got a new digital scale, which seemed to indicate that the other scale was off by 4 lbs, so I think my start weight was 214 lbs back on 3\/22.  I currently tip the scales at 194.4, as measured this morning.  20 lbs in a little more than a month and a half is a pace I don&#8217;t expect to continue.  Part of that I think is due to the fact that I started (at 214) at the high side of general weight fluctuation.<\/p>\n<p>Goal remains 170 lbs by next March.  Phases 2 and 3 involve exercising more as well as eating better.  Right now I am just concentrating on eating less.  I do believe that exercising more and eating better are both important but I am not currently focusing on that.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t really feel like I&#8217;ve lost that much weight, besides my pants problem.  Though Carolyn says that she thinks I look skinnier, and I guess she looks at me more&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So&#8230;. I&#8217;ve been having a&#8230;.problem lately&#8230;. with my pants&#8230;. And that is, my pants are too big! As I have posted previously, I have recently been embarking on a bit of a health kick. I still am doing that, at least sort of. As you may or may not be aware, my &#8220;revolutionary&#8221; diet plan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}