{"id":5519,"date":"2014-01-27T09:58:44","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T17:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.wavewithoutashore.cwgservices.org\/?p=5519"},"modified":"2014-01-27T09:59:27","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T17:59:27","slug":"triumph-a-pesky-weight-plateau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/triumph-a-pesky-weight-plateau\/","title":{"rendered":"Triumph! A pesky weight plateau!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t seen 172 since the 1980&#8217;s. Jane was right: I was using about a cup of cheese a day for each of us, and it was not our friend&#8230;so I went to parmesan, not cheddar, on the morning eggs, and everything through the day quite light, and bingo! off comes the pesky pound.<\/p>\n<p>Your weight has set-points that your body remembers for decades. And when your diet hits one it can take weeks to break through. The set-point then becomes a ceiling rather than a floor you can&#8217;t get through&#8212;you now will rise to that point if you are &#8216;bad&#8217; and have a little grace before getting beyond it.<\/p>\n<p>Physiology is a weird and wonderful thing. But y&#8217;know, when you&#8217;re good on a diet for most of a year, you&#8217;ve gotten rid of most of your bad habits, and it&#8217;s time to start finding the pony under all this effort.<\/p>\n<p>I think Jane was quite right. Far less cheese. I may make it to size 10 jeans.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s snowing! Glorious fat flakes! Hurrah for snow! [with apologies to places that have had way too much of it!]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t seen 172 since the 1980&#8217;s. Jane was right: I was using about a cup of cheese a day for each of us, and it was not our friend&#8230;so I went to parmesan, not cheddar, on the morning eggs, and everything through the day quite light, and bingo! off comes the pesky pound. Your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":751,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}