{"id":1099,"date":"2008-10-23T15:47:51","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T14:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beverlyrevelry.com\/?p=1099"},"modified":"2008-10-23T19:45:33","modified_gmt":"2008-10-23T18:45:33","slug":"slowly-but-surely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/?p=1099","title":{"rendered":"<b>Slowly, but surely<\/b>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We needed to pop by the vet&#8217;s office today to re-stock our supply of Asbj\u00f8rn&#8217;s diet food, so we decided to take him with us for an official weigh-in.\u00a0 He&#8217;s down three kilos (almost seven pounds), which is less than I was expecting but still good.\u00a0 It&#8217;s been six weeks since we started this plan, which means he&#8217;s losing an average of half a kilo a week.\u00a0 The experts all say that dogs lose weight slowly, so I suppose that&#8217;s probably a good rate.\u00a0 I really was expecting a more dramatic loss, though, because we&#8217;ve been pretty darn rigid about sticking to the program, deviating from it only a handful of times (and then only unintentionally &#8212; he&#8217;s a wily one, and no loaf of bread left untended will last for long around here).\u00a0 Not only that, but he&#8217;s been getting a lot more exercise these past few weeks than he&#8217;d been getting.\u00a0 So, a bit of a disappointment, but we&#8217;ll just have to push past it.<\/p>\n<p><em>Easy for you to say<\/em>, he thinks:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Asbj\u00f8rn\" src=\"http:\/\/home.tjerngren.net\/revelry\/images\/asbjoern23october2008.jpg\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We needed to pop by the vet&#8217;s office today to re-stock our supply of Asbj\u00f8rn&#8217;s diet food, so we decided to take him with us for an official weigh-in.\u00a0 He&#8217;s down three kilos (almost seven pounds), which is less than I was expecting but still good.\u00a0 It&#8217;s been six weeks since we started this plan,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/?p=1099\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Slowly, but surely<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}