{"id":8850,"date":"2016-08-08T22:55:07","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T02:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=8850"},"modified":"2019-05-15T13:51:17","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T17:51:17","slug":"target-achieved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=8850","title":{"rendered":"Target achieved"},"content":{"rendered":"

It took five months. But today I achieved my target weight. I’m finally at a “normal” weight, instead of “overweight,” for my height, according to the standards of the Body Mass Index<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’ve lost 25 pounds since March 1. That’s an average of about a pound a week, which is the pace at which weight-loss experts say you can keep it off.<\/p>\n

My diet plan is in this previous post<\/a>. My exercise is five times a week, at least 45 minutes each time – hiking, swimming, walking, elliptical, kayaking, water aerobics. The other crucial element was relaxation methods, because so much of my eating was sheer nerves or boredom.<\/p>\n

I actually hit my\u00a0target weight on Saturday, but I don’t count the weight as “achieved” unless I hit it three days in a row.<\/p>\n

And today was the third day.<\/p>\n

To celebrate, I wore a pair of extremely\u00a0short, skimpy shorts to the grocery store.<\/p>\n

Tom growled appreciatively.<\/p>\n

Today’s penny is a 2001. I think that’s the last time I weighed this little.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It took five months. But today I achieved my target weight. I’m finally at a “normal” weight, instead of “overweight,” for my height, according to the standards of the Body Mass Index. I’ve lost 25 pounds since March 1. That’s an average of about a pound a week, which is the pace at which weight-loss … read more Target achieved<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[318],"tags":[129,931,622,1156,41],"class_list":["post-8850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-refraction","tag-129","tag-diet","tag-exercise","tag-target","tag-weight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8850"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8854,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8850\/revisions\/8854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}