{"id":439,"date":"2009-01-02T11:56:35","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T16:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikew.ca\/wp\/?p=439"},"modified":"2025-01-13T20:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T20:24:11","slug":"new-years-resolutions-and-weighing-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/?p=439","title":{"rendered":"New Years, Resolutions, and Weighing In"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;d like to wish everyone a <em>Happy New Year<\/em>. But more than that, I&#8217;d like to remind us all that, for that wish to be fulfilled, we need to support and care for our friends and family; we are living in interesting times, and our love for each other is our best defense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those of you who see me regularly know that I have been putting on weight lately. I&#8217;m currently over 250 pounds and, even for me, that much weight is a problem &#8212; the obvious indicator being that it is now difficult for me to get &#8220;crunched&#8221; enough to put on my snowboard boots. <em>Ugh!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As such, I&#8217;ve decided to join the ranks of the New Year&#8217;s resolution makers: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>I will lose 50 pounds this year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p> Now, in general, I&#8217;m pretty good at sticking to a resolution (particularly, one that I&#8217;ve told the world about \ud83d\ude42 ), but losing that much weight will be a challenge, so I am asking for your support. Please feel free to remind me if you see me acting in a way that would run counter to the goal. I won&#8217;t let it happen deliberately, but it&#8217;s certainly possible that I just might not notice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wish me luck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d like to wish everyone a Happy New Year. But more than that, I&#8217;d like to remind us all that, for that wish to be fulfilled, we need to support and care for our friends and family; we are living in interesting times, and our love for each other is our best defense. Those of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mcq","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3153,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions\/3153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}