{"id":16674,"date":"2014-06-08T13:13:12","date_gmt":"2014-06-08T20:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/?p=16674"},"modified":"2014-06-08T13:13:12","modified_gmt":"2014-06-08T20:13:12","slug":"revisiting-208-with-pleasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/?p=16674","title":{"rendered":"Revisiting 208- With Pleasure!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20140608-130952-47392013.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20140608-130952-47392013.jpg\" alt=\"20140608-130952-47392013.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis morning I weighed in at 208!  Woohoo!  You may be saying to yourself, well, Tamara, that is a higher weight than the previously reported 205 pounds.  Why are you doing a happy dance?<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nYou know how I&#8217;m all like, &#8220;I&#8217;m going to be totally real with y&#8217;all on this here blog,&#8221; all the time?  And I&#8217;m all like, &#8220;This blog is the place for me to hold myself accountable with public airing of my successes and failures,&#8221; quite often?  Welp, sometimes it&#8217;s hard to publicly fail.  <\/p>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t even say I failed, outright.  Mostly I faltered, got overwhelmed, got frustrated&#8230;  Failure would have been completely going backwards and gaining a blue million pounds.  I didn&#8217;t gain a blue million pounds, rather I almost got to my <strong>holy crap!<\/strong> panic weight of 220 pounds!  That is the magic number- I have promised myself that I will never weigh more than 220 again, and when\/if I do, I have to fall back on my mad dieting skillz and lose it before the fat literally takes over again.  I have no doubt in my abilities to reach 340 in record time, without even trying.  Fortunately, I only got to 218.  Revisiting 220 and having to hold myself accountable to my promise happened way faster than I thought it would, so I set my mind to it and I whittled myself down to 212-214 then kind of hung out there for a month.  I decided to train hard for the half marathon and let go of the diet, to just work and work out.  I stayed at the same 213ish and was pretty okay with that.  212, to me, is pretty stinking skinny.<br \/>\nI figured out that what was making me gain and maintain was that I started snacking at night again (the increase in activity made me ravenous, so I just let myself do it) and I figured out, again, that night eating is my greatest down falling, my greatest weakness, and my greatest opportunity to binge.  Last week I reinstated my nighttime 12 hour fast rule again.  That means that I try to <em>truly <\/em>make my breakfast an opportunity to break a  fast.  I stop eating at 7:00 at night and don&#8217;t eat again until 7:00 in the morning.  I try to make my dinner loaded with veggies with lots of fiber so I&#8217;m not starving by 8:30 and it works pretty well.<br \/>\n<strong>Just that small change made me lose four pounds this week.<\/strong>  If I had doubts before, they are vanquished.  I have been practicing the exact, same eating habits, I haven&#8217;t been exercising beyond packing boxes and teaching, and I lost four pounds!  I&#8217;ll take it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I weighed in at 208! Woohoo! You may be saying to yourself, well, Tamara, that is a higher weight than the previously reported 205 pounds. Why are you doing a happy dance? &#8230; You know how I&#8217;m all like, &#8220;I&#8217;m going to be totally real with y&#8217;all on this here blog,&#8221; all the &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/?p=16674\">[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-16674","6":"format-standard","7":"category-diary"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16674","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=16674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16675,"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16674\/revisions\/16675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}