{"id":7716,"date":"2005-01-13T10:51:03","date_gmt":"2005-01-13T17:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/01\/13\/a-terrible-thing-to-waist.html"},"modified":"2005-01-13T10:51:03","modified_gmt":"2005-01-13T17:51:03","slug":"a_terrible_thin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/13\/a_terrible_thin.html","title":{"rendered":"A terrible thing to waist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back in the &#8220;Geek Diet&#8221; saddle again &#8212; I&#8217;ve reinstalled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthetech.com\/balancelog\/\" target=\"_blank\">BalanceLog<\/a> on my PC (whence it had been lost during all the PC changes), and have started counting calories on it and\/or my Palm.<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of the holidays (Thanksgiving to, well, just now) and vacations and business trips and the like, I&#8217;ve managed to go from the 207 I was at to 215 (as of this morning), and all those Size 36 pants are getting a bit uncomfortably snug.  Worse, I&#8217;ve fallen back into some bad habits, which is the real danger.<\/p>\n<p>My goal (beyond restoring the previous <em>status quo<\/em>, and getting the good habits back) is to go from 215 to 175, 40 lbs., losing a pound a week (which means I would hit the target as of 20 October).  I have a calorie budget of 1920\/day, which means any exercise I take counts as &#8220;gravy&#8221; (figuratively or literally).<\/p>\n<p>I think I can do it.  Wish me luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back in the &#8220;Geek Diet&#8221; saddle again &#8212; I&#8217;ve reinstalled BalanceLog on my PC (whence it had been lost during all the PC changes), and have started counting calories&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11894,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/01\/07\/weigh_in.html","url_meta":{"origin":7716,"position":0},"title":"Weigh-in","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 7-Jan-08 6:41am","format":false,"excerpt":"And with the return from the holidays, it's time to get back on the Geek Diet.\u00a0 I did my official weigh-in this morning, landing at 215 lbs. -- which,...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Weight&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Weight","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/health\/weight"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/narrowing1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":51406,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/08\/kitchen-project-day-215-drinks-are-on-us.html","url_meta":{"origin":7716,"position":1},"title":"Kitchen Project &#8211; Day 215: Drinks are on us!","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 8-Jun-15 6:23pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So two not-insignificant occurrences the past few days.1. 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