{"id":746,"date":"2004-08-12T14:34:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-12T19:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/2004\/08\/12\/my-arms-are-too-short\/"},"modified":"2004-08-12T14:34:00","modified_gmt":"2004-08-12T19:34:00","slug":"my-arms-are-too-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/2004\/08\/12\/my-arms-are-too-short\/","title":{"rendered":"My arms are too short!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Too short to pat myself on the back, that is.<\/p>\n

I am feeling relatively pleased with myself at the moment. and I have been trying to go for nightly walks lately. I need it, he needs it, the dog needs it. We've been doing fairly well with it, working up to going every night.<\/p>\n

So today is a beautiful day, sunny and breezy, and not cripplingly humid (I miss Arizona). I decided that I could, and damn well would<\/i> walk down to the Blockbuster to return\/get movies and have lunch at Subway.<\/p>\n

Sure enough, I can<\/i> do that, and it didn't even kill me! I'm not sure how far that is. thinks it's about a mile, but I plan to check with the car odometer soon. It took me 25 minutes both ways, which isn't too bad. I walked at my usual relatively brisk pace – I didn't push to go fast but I didn't dawdle either.<\/p>\n

So anyway, on my so-called weight loss journey, I'm not doing too bad. I've lost 42.2 pounds in one year. I'm mildly disgruntled that I haven't lost 50, or even better 100, but you know what? That's too damn bad. I've stuck with it. I've done it this far with virtually no exercise. I feel 1000x better than I did before I started – before I started Weight Watchers walking around the block<\/i> was painful, and walking upstairs left me panting for breath. Sometimes now I take the stairs at the mall and can chat on the way up. I picked up a 40 pound bag of dog food the other day and couldn't believe how heavy it felt. I was carrying that around?? I'm still<\/i> carrying close to three more?? Screw that – it's coming off, even if it's another year or two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Too short to pat myself on the back, that is. I am feeling relatively pleased with myself at the moment. and I have been trying to go for nightly walks lately. I need it, he needs it, the dog needs it. We've been doing fairly well with it, working up to going every night. So today is a beautiful day, sunny and breezy, and not cripplingly humid (I miss Arizona). I decided that I could, and damn well would walk down to the Blockbuster to return\/get movies and have lunch at Subway. Sure enough, I can do that, and it didn't even kill me! I'm not sure how far that is. thinks it's about a mile, but I plan to check with the car odometer soon. It took me 25 minutes both ways, which isn't too bad. I walked at my usual relatively brisk pace – I didn't push to go fast but I didn't dawdle either. So anyway, on my so-called weight loss journey, I'm not doing too bad. I've lost 42.2 pounds in one year. I'm mildly disgruntled that I haven't lost 50, or even better 100, but you know what? That's too damn bad. I've stuck with it. I've done it this far with virtually no exercise. I feel 1000x better than I did before I started – before I started Weight Watchers walking around the block was painful, and walking upstairs left me panting for breath. Sometimes now I take the stairs at the mall and can chat on the way up. I picked up a 40 pound bag of dog food the other day and couldn't believe how heavy it felt. I was carrying that around?? I'm still carrying close to three more?? Screw that – it's coming off, even if it's another year or two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}