{"id":302,"date":"2013-03-30T20:52:08","date_gmt":"2013-03-31T02:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arcanasphere.com\/blog\/?p=302"},"modified":"2013-03-30T20:52:08","modified_gmt":"2013-03-31T02:52:08","slug":"weight-loss-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcanasphere.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/weight-loss-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"Weight Loss Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve lost about 37 pounds since roughly March of 2012. \u00a0 If you believe that the BMI charts are set in stone, then I have another 36 pounds to go before I&#8217;m in the healthy range. \u00a0However, I have about 7 pounds to go before I can shake the &#8220;obese&#8221; label.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arcanasphere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/daz-me-shrinking.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"303\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/arcanasphere.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/weight-loss-goals\/daz-me-shrinking\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arcanasphere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/daz-me-shrinking.jpg?fit=600%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"I want to lose weight\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;A very poor quality Daz render of my weight loss goals.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;A very poor quality Daz render of my weight loss goals.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arcanasphere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/daz-me-shrinking.jpg?fit=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arcanasphere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/daz-me-shrinking.jpg?fit=525%2C525&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-303 alignright\" alt=\"I want to lose weight.\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arcanasphere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/daz-me-shrinking-300x300.jpg?resize=300%2C300\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arcanasphere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/daz-me-shrinking.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arcanasphere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/daz-me-shrinking.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arcanasphere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/daz-me-shrinking.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhlbi.nih.gov\/guidelines\/obesity\/bmi_tbl.htm\">According to the BMI chart and mathematics<\/a>, I should weigh no more than 161 pounds. \u00a0As much as I hope to some day actually hit 160 again, my long term goal is to stay at or below 170 pounds. \u00a0If I can enjoy life in the 150-160 range then that would also be very awesome. \u00a0170 is my ceiling.<\/p>\n<p>The thing is, I&#8217;ve started making goals:<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Keep losing weight until my left breast and right breast have shrunken equally.<\/li>\n<li>Learn to moonwalk.<\/li>\n<li>Lift more weights.<\/li>\n<li>Go swimming without a T-shirt on.<\/li>\n<li>Lift more weights.<\/li>\n<li>Reach the end of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shin_Megami_Tensei:_Strange_Journey\">Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey<\/a> while playing it my exercise bike.<\/li>\n<li>Let my friends see my tattoos.<\/li>\n<li>Get more pictures taken to totally spruce up my Facebook\/Twitter\/Tumblr\/LinkedIn\/Livejournal profiles.<\/li>\n<li>Dance in front of my friends. \u00a0I don&#8217;t drink any more, so this is kind of a big goal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m staying a lot more active and eating a LOT of vegetables. \u00a0My favorite technique is to cover them in locally made salsa. \u00a0This stuff is low sodium, made of more vegetables, and tastes amazing. \u00a0I get the stuff with habanero peppers. \u00a0The thing is, I\u00a0<em>love<\/em> vegetables naturally. \u00a0I love them as close to raw as they can be eaten. \u00a0So, I&#8217;m capitalizing on this good dietary instinct that&#8217;s already within me.<\/p>\n<p>I really don&#8217;t like fruit but am eating about two servings a day anyway.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m very lucky and happy to be this deep into a new &#8220;me.&#8221; \u00a0I want that to be the best and most authentic &#8220;me&#8221; that it can be. \u00a0I want to moonwalk with my tattoos showing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve lost about 37 pounds since roughly March of 2012. \u00a0 If you believe that the BMI charts are set in stone, then I have another 36 pounds to go before I&#8217;m in the healthy range. \u00a0However, I have about 7 pounds to go before I can shake the &#8220;obese&#8221; label. &nbsp; According to the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arcanasphere.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/weight-loss-goals\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Weight Loss Goals&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[107,108,106],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nightly-update","tag-diet","tag-moonwalk","tag-weight-loss"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8uTsK-4S","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanasphere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanasphere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanasphere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanasphere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanasphere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/arcanasphere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307,"href":"https:\/\/arcanasphere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions\/307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanasphere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanasphere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanasphere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}