{"id":4230,"date":"2011-01-04T14:08:03","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T22:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=4230"},"modified":"2011-01-04T14:08:03","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T22:08:03","slug":"diminished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=4230","title":{"rendered":"Diminished"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I've lost about 20 <abbr title=\"pound\">lb<\/abbr> (which corresponds to about 9 <abbr title=\"kilogram\">kg<\/abbr>) recently, moving to the center from the high end of the <q>normal<\/q> range for my height. (I'm about 5<abbr tile=\"foot\" style=\"font-size: smaller ; vertical-align: top ;\">ft<\/abbr> 10<abbr title=\"inch\" style=\"font-size: smaller ; vertical-align: top ;\">in<\/abbr>, which is just less than 178 <abbr title=\"centimeter\">cm<\/abbr>.)<\/p> <p>I'd not been weighing myself, but my clothes were tighter than I wanted, and I was unhappy with my appearance.  I guessed that I needed to lose about 10 <abbr title=\"pound\">lb<\/abbr>.  I got out a scale and weighed myself, it told me that I weighed about 168 <abbr title=\"pound\">lb<\/abbr> (which corresponds to 76.2 <abbr title=\"kilogram\">kg<\/abbr>).  Based on a table that I consulted, I decided to get down to 156 <abbr title=\"pound\">lb<\/abbr>, so I lost 12 <abbr title=\"pound\">lb<\/abbr>.<\/p> <p>But, looking at more tables, I was seeing that, pretty consistently, a weight of 15<em>1<\/em> <abbr title=\"pound\">lb<\/abbr> would be dead-center in the <q>normal<\/q> range.  I decided to retarget to that.  That would be another 5 <abbr title=\"pound\">lb<\/abbr>.<\/p> <p>Then, because my old, mechanical bathroom scale was acting-up, I got a new, electronic scale.  It consistently gave a reading of about 3 or 4 <abbr title=\"pound\">lb<\/abbr> <em>more<\/em> than did the old scale.  <span style=\"font-style: italic ;\">*sigh*<\/span>.<\/p> <p>Anyway, according to the new scale, I dipped below 151 <abbr title=\"pound\">lb<\/abbr> to-day. (That weight corresponds to about 68&#189; <abbr title=\"kilogram\">kg<\/abbr>.) My programme was basically just one of reducing my intake of food-stuffs.  I hadn't been eating a lot, but apparently my metabolism is pretty slow.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I've lost about 20 lb (which corresponds to about 9 kg) recently, moving to the center from the high end of the normal range for my height. (I'm about 5ft 10in, which is just less than 178 cm.) I'd not been weighing myself, but my clothes were tighter than I wanted, and I was unhappy [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[904,926],"class_list":["post-4230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-public","tag-weight","tag-weight-loss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}