{"id":191,"date":"2018-07-26T16:52:53","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T16:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/b\/?p=191"},"modified":"2018-07-26T16:52:55","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T16:52:55","slug":"day-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/b\/day-four\/","title":{"rendered":"Day Four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m posting this a little earlier today, during my lunch break at work rather than after getting home from work. In large part, that&#8217;s because I&#8217;m procrastinating forcing myself to eat this chicken breast.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t really felt hungry at all today, which is new. I ate my 3 hard boiled eggs for breakfast, but I felt like I could have easily skipped it. Still feeling kind of lightheaded from time to time. I need to sit down with a blood pressure monitor this evening and see what it&#8217;s saying.<\/p>\n<p>My brain is also significantly less muddled today. I&#8217;m not back at 100% yet, but I feel a lot better as compared to the last couple days. That&#8217;s a good sign, let&#8217;s hope the trend continues!<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t really do a weigh in when I started &#8211; the doctor did weigh me when I was there though. I believe I&#8217;m up roughly 10 pounds from a year ago &#8211; still about 20 below my highest ever &#8211; but I was a little above 200 a year ago, and I really should have forced myself to lose then &#8211; anything above 200 should really be unacceptable for me &#8211; In 2015 I had been down to 184 &#8211; I&#8217;d say that&#8217;s my target. That would be roughly 2 and a half pounds a week during this 90 day period &#8211; doable perhaps, but that&#8217;s a pretty high rate &#8211; I&#8217;ll say the 90 day goal is just..  under 200, which should be easily achieved.<\/p>\n<p>But, as I said before, the REAL goal is to come off blood pressure meds &#8211; and I was still on them at 184, so my ultimate long term goal is something less than that. 175? 170? Maybe. Really, that&#8217;s what BMI says is the upper end of the recommended weight range for my height. I guess that doesn&#8217;t really mean anything in regard to me and my blood pressure, but it seems as good an arbitrary number to pick as any for the time being.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m posting this a little earlier today, during my lunch break at work rather than after getting home from work. In large part, that&#8217;s because I&#8217;m procrastinating forcing myself to eat this chicken breast. I haven&#8217;t really felt hungry at all today, which is new. I ate my 3 hard boiled eggs for breakfast, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/b\/day-four\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Day Four<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192,"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}