{"id":9580,"date":"2014-01-10T14:14:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T14:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/?p=9580"},"modified":"2014-01-11T21:34:34","modified_gmt":"2014-01-11T21:34:34","slug":"about-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/about-weight\/","title":{"rendered":"About Weight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been meaning to write a post about body weight, mine in particular, for a looong time, particularly about my goal to &#8216;not gain weight&#8217; as opposed to &#8216;lose weight&#8217;.  <\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;ve shied away from it because, ugh, aren&#8217;t we all supposed to be striving to weigh less?  <\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I stumbled upon <a href=\"http:\/\/on.ted.com\/DietsDontWork\">this TED talk<\/a> in my Facebook feed, and by golly, the speaker says everything I wanted to say about weight-issues (as observed by me), just better.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/sandra_aamodt_why_dieting_doesn_t_usually_work.html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>An excellent companion to this video is my favorite ever news article, even though it&#8217;s terribly bleak with regards to sustained weight loss: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/01\/01\/magazine\/tara-parker-pope-fat-trap.html?pagewanted=all&#038;_r=0\">The Fat Trap, by Tara Parker-Pope (link goes to NYTimes.com)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And that is all I wanted to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been meaning to write a post about body weight, mine in particular, for a looong time, particularly about my goal to &#8216;not gain weight&#8217; as opposed to &#8216;lose weight&#8217;. But I&#8217;ve shied away from it because, ugh, aren&#8217;t we all supposed to be striving to weigh less? Yesterday I stumbled upon this TED talk<a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/about-weight\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read more<\/a><\/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-9580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-container col-md-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9580"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9583,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9580\/revisions\/9583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}