{"id":3439,"date":"2016-10-19T19:25:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T19:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/?p=3439"},"modified":"2025-05-09T19:28:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T19:28:54","slug":"insight-2-health-fitness-challenge-a-week-of-backsliding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/2016\/10\/19\/insight-2-health-fitness-challenge-a-week-of-backsliding\/","title":{"rendered":"Insight-2-Health Fitness Challenge: A week of backsliding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Harry Colbert, Jr.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Managing Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Week four of the Insight-2-Health Fitness Challenge and I\u2019ve suffered a setback.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So last week I was feeling pretty good about myself. I was feeling lighter, I thought I looked slimmer and I was feeling fit. I was excited about my progress, so I decided I\u2019d go ahead and step on the scale to confirm my progress. I started the challenge at 180 pounds. My goal is 165. And my current weight is \u2026 179. Nearly four weeks in and I\u2019ve dropped a whole pound. All the exercise, the change in eating; and all I had to show for it was one measly pound. So I backslid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Discouraged, I decided to go ahead and munch on animal crackers and I had a Butterfinger (or two). Although I\u2019ve remained soda free, I didn\u2019t drink as much water as I had been drinking. I was feeling defeated. But in my \u201cdefeat\u201d I noticed something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Warning<\/em>&nbsp;\u2026 this may fall on the realm of T.M.I.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In three weeks of changing my dietary habits, something else changed. When I would have bowel movements they would come out lighter in color and with almost no odor. Hey, I warned you, this was the T.M.I. section. Anyway, when I went back to eating poorly, back came the color and back came the smell. I remember reading about a village in Africa that did not have plumbing and all the village\u2019s human waste was housed in one area. Travelers to the village noted that the waste area was remarkably without stench. This was attributed to the clean diet of the villagers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So in my case, I\u2019m surmising that there was obviously&nbsp;<em>some<\/em>&nbsp;benefit to my change in diet \u2026 even if it has resulted in the loss of only a pound. And maybe the loss would have been more significant if I were working out more. For the challenge the group meets four times a week to exercise. I\u2019m averaging two times a week. This week, because of a fluctuating schedule, I didn\u2019t join the group but once. Balancing this weight loss goal with my expectations is a tricky thing \u2026 especially when I\u2019m not doing the right thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All in all, I\u2019m just a little deflated \u2026 but not defeated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Harry Colbert, Jr. Managing Editor Week four of the Insight-2-Health Fitness Challenge and I\u2019ve suffered a setback. So last week I was feeling pretty good about myself. I was feeling lighter, I thought I looked slimmer and I was feeling fit. I was excited about my progress, so I decided I\u2019d go ahead and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1764,1116,2357],"class_list":["post-3439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-exercise","tag-insight-2-health-fitness-challenge","tag-travelers","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3440,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3439\/revisions\/3440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}