{"id":11965,"date":"2013-06-16T11:08:55","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T11:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/?p=11965"},"modified":"2013-06-18T02:56:11","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T02:56:11","slug":"party-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/?p=11965","title":{"rendered":"Party Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend has been a weekend for the weightloss warrior in me.  We had my friend&#8217;s 40th birthday and a couple of Father&#8217;s Day celebrations.  In addition to just seeing lots of family and friends (we also whooped it up my my parents, brothers and their families on Friday), I had to deal with lots of food choices.  There were chips, sour cream dips, cake and all kinds of stuff to use self control around.  I did pretty well.  I was no angel, but I did well.<br \/>\nI encountered more than one person asking me if I was going to skip a certain food choice because of the high calories.  I explained each time that while I&#8217;m losing weight right now, I am not on a diet, per se, rather, I made a life change.  My life change is intended to last for life and I am not giving up chips and dip or birthday cake for life!  I need to include those &#8216;no-no&#8217; choices now so I know how to do it later as well.<br \/>\nI hope no one felt awkward eating around me.  I&#8217;m so vocal about losing weight and stuff through my blog, not to mention that it&#8217;s also just very physically obvious that I&#8217;ve made some changes, that I wonder if people feel guilty by association.  You know how there&#8217;s a stereotype that girls won&#8217;t eat in front of guys because they don&#8217;t want them to think they are fat (and if they are fat, clearly this is an anomaly because you&#8217;re modeling how little you eat)?  Like that.  Because to me, it&#8217;s all about being happy.  If you&#8217;re happy as a clam at 350, that&#8217;s your business.  If you&#8217;re not happy, I&#8217;ll try to help you.  But I&#8217;m certainly not the one who will stand in judgement of your choices.  It&#8217;s your business and I certainly understand my place.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130617-195357.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130617-195357.jpg\" alt=\"20130617-195357.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis is my random picture of the day.  Nothing significant- Bradley just said he liked my hair so I had to check it out.  Yup- looks good.  Happy accident!  LOL!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend has been a weekend for the weightloss warrior in me. We had my friend&#8217;s 40th birthday and a couple of Father&#8217;s Day celebrations. In addition to just seeing lots of family and friends (we also whooped it up my my parents, brothers and their families on Friday), I had to deal with lots &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/?p=11965\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-littlejohnt","4":"post-11965","6":"format-standard","7":"category-diary"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11965"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12113,"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11965\/revisions\/12113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}