{"id":1903,"date":"2017-10-09T14:32:32","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T19:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=1903"},"modified":"2017-10-09T14:32:32","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T19:32:32","slug":"never-weight-3rd-quarter-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=1903","title":{"rendered":"Never Weight \u00e2\u20ac\u201d 3rd Quarter Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=1820\">2nd quarter update<\/a> I said that things were bad, I wasn&#8217;t blogging much, etc. Well September was <em>so much<\/em> worse, with quite a few all-nighters near the end of the month for a major grant, and I ended the third quarter up 12 pounds &#8212; putting me <em>over <\/em>the &#8220;never&#8221; point that started this whole goal. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s just bad, no sugar-coating that (<em>mmm&#8230; sugar-coating<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>On the bright side, the crazy busy period is just about over: I&#8217;ve got the long weekend here to finish up the changes to the book to get the 2nd edition out the door, and then things should be relatively quiet for the rest of the year [<em>engages in all the superstitious rituals<\/em>]. <\/p>\n<p>Considering my very modest progress before, just getting back to normal isn&#8217;t enough &#8212; I have to step things up. One thing that was working earlier in the year was to actually track everything that went into my junk-food hole (and I never should have stopped that). A commitment mechanism is another good way to go, but I&#8217;m not quite sure what to commit to yet: I could donate money to a cause I&#8217;m against, or let Netbug do my meal planning. What I think might be fitting would be to cut the price on stuff I sell: the course and e-book. I&#8217;ve created an exponential scheme for the course price to be cut and a linear one for the ebook depending on how badly I fail come the end of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 2nd quarter update I said that things were bad, I wasn&#8217;t blogging much, etc. Well September was so much worse, with quite a few all-nighters near the end of the month for a major grant, and I ended the third quarter up 12 pounds &#8212; putting me over the &#8220;never&#8221; point that started [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1903"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1905,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903\/revisions\/1905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}