{"id":258,"date":"2004-12-28T09:41:02","date_gmt":"2004-12-28T16:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=258"},"modified":"2004-12-28T15:09:29","modified_gmt":"2004-12-28T22:09:29","slug":"a-starting-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=258","title":{"rendered":"A Starting Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I generally get the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geo.ucalgary.ca\/~macrae\/timescale\/timescale.html\" target=\"_Blank\">scale<\/a> out on Tuesday morning before I get into the shower. The process is to get completely <a href=\"http:\/\/plagiarist.com\/poetry\/7048\/\" target=\"_Blank\">undressed<\/a> so there isn&#8217;t any <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npl.co.uk\/mass\/faqs\/miscellaneous.html\" target=\"_Blank\">miscellaneous<\/a> weight hanging around, punch the &#35;2 button, wait for the machine to go through it&#8217;s program, step on the scale and wait for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.countdown.org\/\" target=\"_Blank\">countdown<\/a>, look at the results, get off the scale, and press the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rolypolyusa.com\/franchise\/history.html\" target=\"_Blank\">history<\/a> button. The machine will then tell me the <a href=\"http:\/\/kwlarsen.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_Blank\">difference<\/a> between the last time I was on the scale and this time. The machine measures weight and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gettingit.com\/article\/571\" target=\"_Blank\">body fat<\/a>. It also tells me how many calories a day to eat to maintain the current weight.<\/p>\n<p>\nI haven&#8217;t been very <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ishn.com\/CDA\/Article_Information\/BehavioralSafetyItem\/0,3563,3646,00.html\" target=\"_Blank\">consistent<\/a> with the Tuesday morning <a href=\"http:\/\/victorian.fortunecity.com\/duchamp\/410\/seppuku.html\" target=\"_Blank\">ritual<\/a> in the past few months. However, with the impending New Year, I decided to establish the <a href=\"http:\/\/anthonyjhicks.com\/ajh\/weblog.nsf\/l\/2049404034FD4353CA256C8C000BF2EE\" target=\"_Blank\">baseline<\/a> this morning. While the actual numbers are being closely held, I can report on somewhat of a regular basis under this Body Stuff category what has changed. For the record, I neither gained nor lost weight since the last weigh-in, but I did lose 1.1% body fat! I&#8217;m sure that&#8217;s because we bought the new <a href=\"http:\/\/wfcb.ucdavis.edu\/www\/Faculty\/Joe\/treadmill\/\" target=\"_Blank\">treadmill<\/a> and I&#8217;ve been pretty good about <a href=\"http:\/\/secondlife.blogs.com\/prompt\/2004\/11\/segway_v_roomba.html\" target=\"_Blank\">strolling<\/a> along for about 25 minutes a day on the machine. Since muscle weighs more than fat, that must be the only possible explanation! Today I am +-0 pounds, 35.1% body fat which is 1.1% down from the last reading. I&#8217;m ready &#8212; bring on the New Year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I generally get the scale out on Tuesday morning before I get into the shower. The process is to get completely undressed so there isn&#8217;t any miscellaneous weight hanging around, punch the &#35;2 button, wait for the machine to go through it&#8217;s program, step on the scale and wait for the countdown, look at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=258\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Starting Point<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pnKxs-4a","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}