{"id":3583,"date":"2010-04-07T22:45:56","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T05:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=3583"},"modified":"2010-04-07T22:45:56","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T05:45:56","slug":"i-still-dont-like-helen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=3583","title":{"rendered":"I still don&#8217;t like Helen."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I kind of knew something awful was going to happen at the gym, and for some reason I just didn&#8217;t care that much. I figured I&#8217;d take the run easy, then I decided I&#8217;d do the kettlebell swings easy, and then I tried to stay on the pullups longer than I usually do. I finally broke the 10 minute mark on Helen today by doing something else quite simple: cheating. My last few pullups weren&#8217;t as pretty as they should have been.<\/p>\n<p>My new bathroom scale is a bad thing to have. I&#8217;ve been weighing myself every time I go to the bathroom, just to see if going to the bathroom makes me lighter. I think I weigh more than I thought, but I won&#8217;t really know until the morning when I&#8217;m good and dehydrated. My clothed weight and my unclothed weight are closer than I thought. The surprising thing is that going to the bathroom does make me measurably lighter. Going to the gym took about 1 pound off, so that means I lost about a pint of fluid even after I drank half my water bottle? Yeesh.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m afraid I&#8217;m going to have to hide the bathroom scale soon or it&#8217;s going to drive me nuts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I kind of knew something awful was going to happen at the gym, and for some reason I just didn&#8217;t care that much. I figured I&#8217;d take the run easy, then I decided I&#8217;d do the kettlebell swings easy, and then I tried to stay on the pullups longer than I usually do. I finally broke the 10 minute mark on Helen today by doing something else quite simple: cheating. My last few pullups weren&#8217;t as pretty as they should have been. My new bathroom scale is a bad thing to have. I&#8217;ve been weighing myself every time I go to the bathroom, just to see if going to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=3583\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I still don&#8217;t like Helen.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[],"class_list":["post-3583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3584,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583\/revisions\/3584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}