{"id":380,"date":"2014-05-04T11:42:19","date_gmt":"2014-05-04T11:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/scale-victoryat-the-bottom-of-a-decade\/"},"modified":"2014-05-04T11:42:19","modified_gmt":"2014-05-04T11:42:19","slug":"scale-victoryat-the-bottom-of-a-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/scale-victoryat-the-bottom-of-a-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"Scale Victory&ndash;at the bottom of a decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defining a decade as a weight between say 140.0 &#8211; 149.9&#160; especially since my Aria scale weighs that finally.&#160; I\u2019m .8 pounds from entering a new decade.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve whined before how my weight works \u2013 I\u2019m usually in a 5 pound range depending on how efficiently my gastro-intestinal system is working.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>My scale also weighs about 5 pounds higher than any doctor\u2019s scale I\u2019ve been on including the scale they used the day I had lap band surgery.<\/p>\n<p>And I\u2019m coming up on the anniversary of that.<\/p>\n<p>I choose the lap band because I knew mentally and physically I couldn\u2019t handle a drastic weight loss \u2013 when I got the surgery I was gaining 10 pounds a month over more than a six month period&#160; (no, I\u2019m not kidding or exaggerating).&#160; In fact, in light of that fact, one of my counselors pointed out even if I\u2019m not losing weight, I\u2019m STIL not gaining that 10 pounds a month.&#160; I\u2019m not sure that is really true, BUT<\/p>\n<p>The deal is, the lap band is accomplishing what I wanted \u2013 allow me to lose weight at a rate my head and body is comfortable with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defining a decade as a weight between say 140.0 &#8211; 149.9&#160; especially since my Aria scale weighs that finally.&#160; I\u2019m .8 pounds from entering a new decade. I\u2019ve whined before how my weight works \u2013 I\u2019m usually in a 5 pound range depending on how efficiently my gastro-intestinal system is working.&#160; My scale also weighs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}