{"id":419,"date":"2012-07-25T19:47:54","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T19:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=419"},"modified":"2012-07-25T19:47:54","modified_gmt":"2012-07-25T19:47:54","slug":"weight-loss-and-new-clothes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=419","title":{"rendered":"Weight Loss and New Clothes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Run: \u00a050 min lifting at the &#8220;Y&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I began an\u00a0odyssey\u00a0about 2 1\/2 years ago to lose some weight. \u00a0It really was not a decision, it kind of fell into my lap. \u00a0I had been placed on some medication that at the time had caused me to gain a lot of weight and then go toxic on another. \u00a0A lose~lose situation! \u00a0But that toxicity made me lose quite a bit before I even realized it! \u00a0Cool Beans!!!<\/p>\n<p>So, I made the conscious decision then to continue on the weight loss journey. I am now at the one pound to go to reach my goal point! \u00a0Bells and Whistles!!! \u00a0But there has been one expensive drawback. \u00a0Clothing.<\/p>\n<p>In the past 2 1\/2 years, I have dropped from a size 22 to a (presently) 4. \u00a0Every couple of months I am back at my home away from home, JC Penney. \u00a0I so not know what I would have done without them. \u00a0My husband likes to grumble about the card balance because it seems like I am always buying a new outfit or two (actually, for each size I have worn, I have had a total of three outfits~I do a lot of laundry).<\/p>\n<p>Today, I realized that I needed new tops. \u00a0The ones I had been wearing were (literally) falling off of me. \u00a0So, JC Penney here I come&#8230;And came home again with seven new tanks to finish out the Summer. \u00a0They had their tanks on sale for $4.00 a piece! \u00a0Well, I could not just pass that up, could I?<\/p>\n<p>So, for our upcoming vacation, I will have new tops and the same old shorts and skorts. \u00a0But they will all go together!<a href=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/new-shirts-001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-420\" title=\"new shirts 001\" src=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/new-shirts-001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/new-shirts-001.jpg 1600w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/new-shirts-001-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/new-shirts-001-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/new-shirts-001-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Run: \u00a050 min lifting at the &#8220;Y&#8221; I began an\u00a0odyssey\u00a0about 2 1\/2 years ago to lose some weight. \u00a0It really was not a decision, it kind of fell into my lap. \u00a0I had been placed on some medication that at the time had caused me to gain a lot of weight and then go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,8,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":421,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions\/421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}