{"id":667,"date":"2010-11-01T15:38:40","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T21:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.squids.ca\/Blog\/?p=667"},"modified":"2010-11-01T15:38:40","modified_gmt":"2010-11-01T21:38:40","slug":"plateau-arghhh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/?p=667","title":{"rendered":"Plateau &#8212; Arghhh&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, look at the graph.  Things were going swimmingly for a couple weeks &#8211; down about 12 pounds, but now they have almost completely stalled.\u00c2\u00a0  It&#8217;s NOT through increased caloric input, it&#8217;s not through lack of exercise &#8212; not even because I&#8217;m drinking beer (I haven&#8217;t had one in a month, er, um, well, one in a month).<\/p>\n<p>So what&#8217;s going on?  I couldn&#8217;t tell you.  It&#8217;s hard to stay motivated when you don&#8217;t see any results, but I&#8217;m sticking to it &#8212; it&#8217;s just harder.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m hoping something gives in the next couple days&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>This reminds me of the time I tried weight lifting.\u00c2\u00a0 For the first month or so (of six nights a week training) I made good improvements.\u00c2\u00a0 Then it stopped entirely and I gave up.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure what I&#8217;ll do if I go for another month and nothing changes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Sigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, look at the graph. Things were going swimmingly for a couple weeks &#8211; down about 12 pounds, but now they have almost completely stalled.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s NOT through increased caloric input, it&#8217;s not through lack of exercise &#8212; not even because I&#8217;m drinking beer (I haven&#8217;t had one in a month, er, um, well, one&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":668,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions\/668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}