{"id":78,"date":"2006-08-16T07:13:59","date_gmt":"2006-08-16T14:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sackrider.org\/myblog\/category\/mythoughts\/115-pounds-so-far"},"modified":"2025-06-15T06:07:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T06:07:49","slug":"115-pounds-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/115-pounds-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"11.5 pounds so far&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check in the Weekly Update section &#8211; I&#8217;ve lost 11.5 pounds so far!\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve got a long way to go, but its only been 6 weeks, and I&#8217;m close to 2 pounds a week.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At my heaviest, I weighed in at a huge 330 lbs!\u00c2\u00a0 I lost 30 pounds in Columbus, OH two summers ago through walking, geocaching, and at the end riding my bike.\u00c2\u00a0 It took me 10 years to pack on the 100 pounds I once carried.\u00c2\u00a0 I weighed a mere 230 lbs when I left high school, but I also bench pressed 300 lbs, and box squatted over 1000 lbs.\u00c2\u00a0 Each winter in Ohio, I would put on 20 lbs, and each summer I would take off about 10 lbs.\u00c2\u00a0 Ten years later, I was 100 lbs heavier.<\/p>\n<p>But now&#8230; I have lost a total of 40 lbs from my heaviest; 11.5 pounds since I started cycling to work.\u00c2\u00a0 At this rate, I&#8217;ll be down below my high school weight in\u00c2\u00a0about a year&#8230; to bad the 10 year reunion is\u00c2\u00a0in about a month &#8211; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check in the Weekly Update section &#8211; I&#8217;ve lost 11.5 pounds so far!\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve got a long way to go, but its only been 6 weeks, and I&#8217;m close to 2 pounds a week.\u00c2\u00a0 At my heaviest, I weighed in at a huge 330 lbs!\u00c2\u00a0 I lost 30 pounds in Columbus, OH two summers ago [&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-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","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=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2908,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/2908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}