{"id":251,"date":"2008-03-04T17:51:41","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T22:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/03\/in-case-you-needed-another-reason-to-lose-weight\/"},"modified":"2008-03-05T09:16:57","modified_gmt":"2008-03-05T14:16:57","slug":"in-case-you-needed-another-reason-to-lose-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/03\/in-case-you-needed-another-reason-to-lose-weight\/","title":{"rendered":"In case you needed another reason to lose weight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Motivation to lose weight is a fragile thing.  In the diet industry, we call it &#8220;tension&#8221;.  Also known as that precise moment when you say, &#8220;Ugghh, I can&#8217;t deal with this weight anymore&#8221;, and you decide to do something about it.  Research shows us that tension doesn&#8217;t last very long; that&#8217;s the reason that when you call a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diets\/Jenny_Craig\/\" title=\"Jenny Craig\" target=\"_blank\">weight loss program<\/a>, they want you to come in &#8220;today&#8221; to get started, because tomorrow is another day.<\/p>\n<p>Think of it like a rubber band, that when stretched tight, represents when you are most motivated.<\/p>\n<p>Well, let&#8217;s just say I got my rubber band stretched when I read an article about insurance companies imposing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moneyhighstreet.com\/news\/18182527+Obesity+affects+life+insurance+premiums\/\" title=\"insurance premiums\" target=\"_blank\">higher insurance premiums<\/a> on people considered obese according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/celebritybmi\/\" title=\"BMI Calculator\" target=\"_blank\">BMI<\/a> measurements.  As someone who rides that line with the best of them, at 5&#8217;4&#8243; and either 147 lbs (summer) or 160 lbs (winter), I did the math and realized that my annual post-holiday &#8220;padding&#8221; could be costing me in more ways than one.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know about you, but that is all the motivation I need to hit the pool today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Motivation to lose weight is a fragile thing. In the diet industry, we call it &#8220;tension&#8221;. Also known as that precise moment when you say, &#8220;Ugghh, I can&#8217;t deal with this weight anymore&#8221;, and you decide to do something about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/03\/in-case-you-needed-another-reason-to-lose-weight\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3687],"tags":[749,31,7342],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adult-health","tag-bmi","tag-health-news","tag-insurance-premiums"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}