{"id":633,"date":"2009-12-21T07:32:36","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T12:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/?p=633"},"modified":"2009-12-21T07:32:36","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T12:32:36","slug":"i-dont-want-to-eat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/2009\/12\/i-dont-want-to-eat\/","title":{"rendered":"I Don&#8217;t Want to Eat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were days when I didn\u2019t want to eat anything.\u201d That is a good way to lose weight: walk 18 miles, ride a bike 18 miles, do it all in 85+ degrees heat, and don&#8217;t eat. Yes, you can lose weight that way &#8211; I don&#8217;t advise it, but it works.<\/p>\n<p>The idea that I wouldn\u2019t want to eat anything came as a surprise. One of the nice things about exercising a lot is that you burn a lot of calories. When you burn a lot of calories, you can take in a lot of calories and not gain weight. Hmm, sounds like a nice side affect of taking a walk.<\/p>\n<p>Well, the theory didn\u2019t hold much.<\/p>\n<p>I had heard of people who were \u201ctoo hot to eat\u201d and \u201ctoo tired to eat.\u201d I doubted those statements. I doubt no longer.<\/p>\n<p>I actually forced myself to eat on a few days. This was a mental exercise. I would sit and tell myself quietly to calm down, calm down, breathe slowly, breathe slowly, take a bite, chew, swallow&#8230;repeat.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes you learn unusual things while taking a wlk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips \u201cThere were days when I didn\u2019t want to eat anything.\u201d That is a good way to lose weight: walk 18 miles, ride a bike 18 miles, do it all in 85+ degrees heat, and don&#8217;t eat. Yes, you can lose weight that way &#8211; I don&#8217;t advise it, but it works. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[144,110],"class_list":["post-633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-food","tag-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":634,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions\/634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}