{"id":1610,"date":"2008-03-06T13:48:28","date_gmt":"2008-03-06T20:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=1610"},"modified":"2008-03-06T20:56:38","modified_gmt":"2008-03-07T03:56:38","slug":"uncomforable-honesty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=1610","title":{"rendered":"Uncomforable Honesty&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3063\/2315241695_1fcf7598b4_m.jpg\" height=\"240\" width=\"125\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3190\/2315241507_23d35aa03a_m.jpg\" height=\"240\" width=\"106\" \/><\/p>\n<p>** Updated &#8212; It took several hours to get the nerve up to do it, but here it is. No make up. No fancy clothes, no talented photoshopping. \u00a0 Me. Right now. ***<\/p>\n<p>I want a change. I have wanted to change for as many times as I have opened up a magazine and something as innocent as a woman looking normal in a pair of jeans jumped out at me.<br \/>\nI want to be comfortable.  I don&#8217;t need to be thin, hot, smokin&#8217; MILF. I just want to be comfortable.<\/p>\n<p>So, I am going somewhere I have never gone before.  Posting pictures of my transformation, which I have limitted to no more than 120 days. I don&#8217;t want to spend the rest of my life trying to get where I need to be.<br \/>\nAfter talking to my doctor, getting my &#8216;frame&#8217; size, my health history and a battery of upcoming blood tests. My ideal weight would be 153 pounds.   I would love to say, &#8220;I want to weight that for my birthday&#8230;let&#8217;s stop eating!&#8221;  I&#8217;m smart enough to know that rapid weight loss isn&#8217;t healthy.  If I set my time line at 120, that means I am going to lose 7 lbs a months (that sounds SOOO slow) in a healthy way.<\/p>\n<p>People have suggested wanted to join me on my mission and OF COURSE, you&#8217;re welcome to. You don&#8217;t have to be as painfully as honest and open about it as I do.   No one is asking you to do what I am going to do.  I know, in my Flickr stream, you only see pictures of me that don&#8217;t make me look like I was raped by the Michelin Tire Man.  This is going to change.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m sure the &#8220;You&#8217;re Smokin&#8217; Hot&#8221; comments will be replaced with, &#8220;HOLY CRAP! HOW DID YOU HIDE ALL THAT??&#8221;<br \/>\nPLEASE, PLEASE&#8230;talk to a doctor, find your HEALTHY target weight, DO THIS RIGHT&#8230;don&#8217;t be stupid like I have been in the past with trying to lose weight.<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/obnoxiousaries\/sets\/72157604053820732\/\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a> is where I will keep a daily photo log of the 120 day transformation. I&#8217;m starting today (*gulp*) <strike>Today&#8217;s photo not uploaded yet.<\/strike>\u00a0 It&#8217;s Uploaded now. Follow my transformation over there.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m sure I will post SOME of the transformations I am going through, but for the most part it will be centered on my Flickr site under the pictures.<\/p>\n<p>*scary face* I&#8217;m nervous. It&#8217;s one thing telling you my weight, but SHOWING you?  wow.<br \/>\nI know I&#8217;m not alone though, and that makes me feel better.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and I can joke about my weight, you can joke with me..I&#8217;m pretty thick skinned (and I have a lot of thick skin! -hee he)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>** Updated &#8212; It took several hours to get the nerve up to do it, but here it is. No make up. No fancy clothes, no talented photoshopping. \u00a0 Me. Right now. *** I want a change. I have wanted to change for as many times as I have opened up a magazine and something as innocent as a woman looking normal in a pair of jeans jumped out at me. I want to be comfortable. I don&#8217;t need to be thin, hot, smokin&#8217; MILF. I just want to be comfortable. So, I am going somewhere I have never gone before. Posting pictures of my transformation, which I have limitted to no more than 120 days. I don&#8217;t want to spend the rest of my life trying to get where I need to be. After talking to my doctor, getting my &#8216;frame&#8217; size, my health history and a battery of upcoming blood tests. My ideal weight would be 153 pounds. I would love to say, &#8220;I want to weight that for my birthday&#8230;let&#8217;s stop eating!&#8221; I&#8217;m smart enough to know that rapid weight loss isn&#8217;t healthy. If I set my time line at 120, that means I am going to lose 7 lbs a months (that sounds SOOO slow) in a healthy way. People have suggested wanted to join me on my mission and OF COURSE, you&#8217;re welcome to. You don&#8217;t have to be as painfully as honest and open about it as I do. No one is asking you to do what I am going to do. I know, in my Flickr stream, you only see pictures of me that don&#8217;t make me look like I was raped by the Michelin Tire Man. This is going to change. I&#8217;m sure the &#8220;You&#8217;re Smokin&#8217; Hot&#8221; comments will be replaced with, &#8220;HOLY CRAP! HOW DID YOU HIDE ALL THAT??&#8221; PLEASE, PLEASE&#8230;talk to a doctor, find your HEALTHY target weight, DO THIS RIGHT&#8230;don&#8217;t be stupid like I have been in the past with trying to lose weight. This HERE is where I will keep a daily photo log of the 120 day transformation. I&#8217;m starting today (*gulp*) Today&#8217;s photo not uploaded yet.\u00a0 It&#8217;s Uploaded now. Follow my transformation over there. I&#8217;m sure I will post SOME of the transformations I am going through, but for the most part it will be centered on my Flickr site under the pictures. *scary face* I&#8217;m nervous. It&#8217;s one thing telling you my weight, but SHOWING you? wow. I know I&#8217;m not alone though, and that makes me feel better. Oh, and I can joke about my weight, you can joke with me..I&#8217;m pretty thick skinned (and I have a lot of thick skin! -hee he)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}