{"id":34,"date":"2010-04-26T13:37:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T13:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregruns\/?p=34"},"modified":"2010-04-26T13:37:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T13:37:00","slug":"making-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregruns\/2010\/04\/making-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it did take me a little while to really get started but I have been making progress. Since my <a href=\"http:\/\/gregruns.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/time-to-be-accountable.html\">post in January<\/a>, I didn&#8217;t really get serious until the end of March. But since then I have dutifully tracked every calorie and increased my activity. I am going to the gym about 5 days a week to do free weights and cardio on the elliptical machine. I&#8217;m also gearing up my running and have been able to manage long runs over 10 miles for each of the last 3 weekends. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The thing about losing weight is that it really is about calorie balance &#8211; what you eat vs what you burn. And it&#8217;s a simple formula. You have to burn about 3500 more calories than you eat every week to lose one pound a week. I&#8217;ve managed to maintain about and average 1300 calorie deficit for the last four weeks and it is showing the exact results one would expect with the math. I have lost about 3 pounds a week.<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 219px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_kufElHa-EkM\/S9WYTtXrteI\/AAAAAAAACC4\/SQzfz7sLnqo\/s400\/oimg.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464441187247830498\" \/><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_kufElHa-EkM\/S9WYT9J-G_I\/AAAAAAAACDA\/O0r00_DAELk\/s1600\/oimg-1.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_kufElHa-EkM\/S9WYT9J-G_I\/AAAAAAAACDA\/O0r00_DAELk\/s1600\/oimg-1.png\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 212px; \" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_kufElHa-EkM\/S9WYT9J-G_I\/AAAAAAAACDA\/O0r00_DAELk\/s400\/oimg-1.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464441191485283314\" \/><\/a>Compared to my photos from January, you can definitely see the difference1 2 pounds makes.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_kufElHa-EkM\/S9WYTYUCSOI\/AAAAAAAACCw\/T0OuAMmWg5g\/s1600\/Photo+on+2010-04-26+at+08.34+%232.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 351px; height: 400px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_kufElHa-EkM\/S9WYTYUCSOI\/AAAAAAAACCw\/T0OuAMmWg5g\/s400\/Photo+on+2010-04-26+at+08.34+%232.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464441181595388130\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_kufElHa-EkM\/S9WYII1U21I\/AAAAAAAACCo\/9PxLtNkC8sI\/s1600\/Photo+on+2010-04-26+at+08.34+%233.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 288px; height: 400px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_kufElHa-EkM\/S9WYII1U21I\/AAAAAAAACCo\/9PxLtNkC8sI\/s400\/Photo+on+2010-04-26+at+08.34+%233.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464440988461488978\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it did take me a little while to really get started but I have been making progress. Since my post in January, I didn&#8217;t really get serious until the end of March. But since then I have dutifully tracked every calorie and increased my activity. I am going to the gym about 5 days &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregruns\/2010\/04\/making-progress\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Making Progress&#8221;<\/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":[],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-weight-loss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregruns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregruns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregruns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregruns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregruns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregruns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregruns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregruns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregruns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}