{"id":442,"date":"2005-05-31T11:29:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-31T18:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/?p=442"},"modified":"2005-05-31T11:29:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-31T18:29:00","slug":"losing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/2005\/05\/31\/losing\/","title":{"rendered":"Losing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Counting down<\/b><\/p>\n<p>So even though I&#8217;m totally sucking at counting the points daily, I&#8217;m still losing weight. This past week I lost 2 pounds, in spite of the fact that I bought some Jewel cupcakes in celebration of the holiday weekend. As I sit here eating a small bag of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taquitos.net\/snacks.php?snack_code=1827\">Vitner&#8217;s Sour Cream &#8216;n Onion potato chips<\/a> I can&#8217;t help but wonder&#8230;Is something wrong with their scale? I haven&#8217;t done a whole lot to change my eating habits, sure I&#8217;m trying the &#8220;drink more water&#8221; thing by having a 1 Quart (1 Liter for you metric folks) bottle of water at my desk and trying to drink the whole thing during the day&#8230;I&#8217;m trying to avoid eating out as much too. The boy and close proximity to every fast food and restaurant chain you can think of makes that rather difficult, I did manage to avoid going to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.longjohnsilvers.com\/\">Long John Silver&#8217;s<\/a> this weekend by pointing out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dwlz.com\/Restaurants\/longjohnsilvers.html\">the unhealthiness<\/a> of the fried fish to him&#8230;Although the other suggestion, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dwlz.com\/Restaurants\/lonestar.html\">Lone Star Steak House<\/a> would have been worse. He ended up stopping at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dwlz.com\/Restaurants\/burgerking.html\">Burger King,<\/a> but I prevailed by getting only a green colored cherry <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icee.com\/\">Icee.<\/a> (damn, those are good!)<br \/>My next step is to get back to exercising. The building management for where my office is located has set up a deal with a gym down the block, however, the class hours are sucky. They have nothing in the early morning and I&#8217;m not going there after work. Last thing I need is to be getting home after 10pm. There&#8217;s a gym on the way to the train station&#8230;kinda near the house, they are open 24 hours, but I get up at 5am&#8230;which is hard enough as it is after staying up til Midnight playing <a href=\"http:\/\/everquest2.station.sony.com\/\">EverQuest 2<\/a> trying to kill 500 goblins so that my new <a href=\"http:\/\/everquest2.station.sony.com\/en\/main.vm#racesFroglok\">Froglok<\/a> character can have &#8220;Hunter of Goblins&#8221; after her name. (Yes, I have no life&#8230;) And after work&#8230;well, as I pull in the driveway each day at 7pm I&#8217;m just so drained that the thought of running in place on a treadmill (or sitting on an exercise bike or doing any kind of exercise at all) totally doesn&#8217;t appeal to me. Really all I want to do is sit on my lovely couch and crochet or just watch the television. Although nothing good will be on until mid July when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifi.com\/battlestar\/\">Battlestar Galactica<\/a> starts it&#8217;s new seasion on Sci Fi.<br \/>But anyway&#8230; I found this lovely website that gives the point info for most every restaurant in the US and Canada. It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dwlz.com\/\">Dotti&#8217;s Weight Loss Zone<\/a> and I&#8217;m totally bummed to realize (although I already knew it wasn&#8217;t good for me) that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dwlz.com\/Restaurants\/dennys.html\">one of my favorite places<\/a> is somewhere I can never go again. My <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dennys.com\/en\/cms\/Breakfast\/40.html#B29\">Original Grand Slam<\/a> breakfast is nearly an entire day&#8217;s points (20 points to be exact). While I knew it was greasy and not that good for me, I had no idea how TOTALLY not good for me it is. Although my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dwlz.com\/Restaurants\/olivegarden.html\">other favorite<\/a> is a bit better, but I could make a meal based on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.olivegarden.com\/\">breadsticks<\/a> alone. Eating out is a horrible thing here in America. I really need to cook more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Counting down So even though I&#8217;m totally sucking at counting the points daily, I&#8217;m still losing weight. This past week I lost 2 pounds, in spite of the fact that I bought some Jewel cupcakes in celebration of the holiday weekend. As I sit here eating a small bag of Vitner&#8217;s Sour Cream &#8216;n Onion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}