{"id":44,"date":"2006-07-23T22:36:05","date_gmt":"2006-07-24T05:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sackrider.org\/myblog\/category\/family\/let-them-eat-cake"},"modified":"2025-06-15T06:07:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T06:07:49","slug":"let-them-eat-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/let-them-eat-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Let Them Eat Cake!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sackrider Slimdown is a family effort to loose weight.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s about support from your family to push you to work out, eat right, and get the weight off.\u00c2\u00a0 Saturday, the Sackrider Slimdown wasn&#8217;t losing weight&#8230; instead we lost ground.\u00c2\u00a0 We all, Stephanie, Dianne, Dad, and I were at a birthday party for a church member and not one of us said &#8211; &#8220;DON&#8217;T EAT THAT CAKE!&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 No, we all ate cake.\u00c2\u00a0 I had more than one piece.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The real question is what are we going to do to correct it.\u00c2\u00a0 We have to hold each other accountable to stay focused on the goal.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s been said, &#8220;<em>Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels<\/em>&#8220;.\u00c2\u00a0 Doesn&#8217;t that sound awesome!\u00c2\u00a0 The problem is being thin doesn&#8217;t taste like cake. :)\u00c2\u00a0 I know that the only way I&#8217;m going to lose this weight is through focus.\u00c2\u00a0 The Bible says in Habakkuk 2:2:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Then the LORD replied:<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;Write down the revelation<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 and make it plain on tablets<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 so that a herald may run with it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The function of this blog is to help me stay focused and accountable to my goals (bet\u00c2\u00a0you didn&#8217;t know that).\u00c2\u00a0 By writing down my goals, I make them clear and measureable so that I can run with them.\u00c2\u00a0 I can check my progress; record my successes and my failures.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to loose this weight.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to do as much as possible to help my wife and parents loose their excess weight.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8212; NO MORE CAKE, NO MORE CAKE, com&#8217;on say it with me &#8212; NO MORE CAKE, NO MORE CAKE&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sackrider Slimdown is a family effort to loose weight.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s about support from your family to push you to work out, eat right, and get the weight off.\u00c2\u00a0 Saturday, the Sackrider Slimdown wasn&#8217;t losing weight&#8230; instead we lost ground.\u00c2\u00a0 We all, Stephanie, Dianne, Dad, and I were at a birthday party for a church [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2919,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/2919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}