{"id":35,"date":"2003-03-18T19:19:43","date_gmt":"2003-03-19T02:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=35"},"modified":"2003-03-18T19:19:43","modified_gmt":"2003-03-19T02:19:43","slug":"bad-knees-and-losing-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=35","title":{"rendered":"Bad knees and losing weight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s difficult to workout on the elliptical machine for longer than twenty minutes at a time because it really hurts my knees. I don&#8217;t think that is normal &#8230; I just think I have weak knees or something. Ironically, if it wasn&#8217;t for that (constant) pain, I could go for an hour. My leg muscles have already adjusted to it because I&#8217;ve been working out at least four days a week. I try not to skip a day because whenever I do, it ends up turning into two or three days.<\/p>\n<p>Now I just have to get better at the good eating thing. Today I had a key lime (my new favorite flavor) yogurt for breakfast, a Healthy Choice teriyaki chicken tv dinner for lunch, and chicken with cheesy noodles, broccoli and cauliflower for dinner. Not bad, huh? Problem is, I keep hearing that one should cut back on the carbohydrates when attempting to lose weight, and I could eat crackers and bread all day. I loooove bread, especially with butter. Any ideas, suggestions, alternatives I should look into?<\/p>\n<p>Joe wants to try some &#8220;diet&#8221; pills. I really don&#8217;t want to go there. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, if there was something out there that was perfectly safe and would curb my appetite, I&#8217;d be all over it. Because I love to eat, and nothing sounds better than a big cheeseburger and some french fries. God help me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s difficult to workout on the elliptical machine for longer than twenty minutes at a time because it really hurts my knees. I don&#8217;t think that is normal &#8230; I just think I have weak knees or something. Ironically, if it wasn&#8217;t for that (constant) pain, I could go for an hour. My leg muscles have already adjusted to it because I&#8217;ve been working out at least four days a week. I try not to skip a day because whenever I do, it ends up turning into two or three days. Now I just have to get better at the good eating thing. Today I had a key lime (my new favorite flavor) yogurt for breakfast, a Healthy Choice teriyaki chicken tv dinner for lunch, and chicken with cheesy noodles, broccoli and cauliflower for dinner. Not bad, huh? Problem is, I keep hearing that one should cut back on the <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=35\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}