{"id":1105,"date":"2010-11-26T08:53:22","date_gmt":"2010-11-26T15:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?p=1105"},"modified":"2010-11-26T08:53:22","modified_gmt":"2010-11-26T15:53:22","slug":"its-not-you-the-diet-day-124","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?p=1105","title":{"rendered":"It&#039;s not you (The Diet, Day 124)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not you, South Beach Diet.  It&#8217;s me.  Truly, it&#8217;s not your fault, but we are going to have to part company now.  I&#8217;m sure you realize we&#8217;ve been drifting apart for weeks now.  This can&#8217;t come as a surprise.  You&#8217;re a good diet.  I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll be very good for someone else.  You did your best for me.  I lost weight.  You lived up to your promises.<\/p>\n<p>I want more, though.  I want to lose weight and feel great.  I don&#8217;t feel great.  I don&#8217;t know why.  I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s nothing you did, but I still feel it is time for me to go out in search of satisfaction elsewhere.  I feel tired all the time.  I hurt a lot.  I feel depressed.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure none of those things has anything to do with you, but I have to move on from you anyway just in case.  I want to eat apples and potatoes with impunity.  I have dreams about rice.  Maybe I misunderstood you.  Maybe I used and abused you.  But I still suspect you dragged me down a little.  My happy hormone levels need a boost.  So now I have to choose between you and a giant bowl of grapes, and the grapes are looking pretty good.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry.  I didn&#8217;t mean to lead you on like that.  I thought you were the one for me.<\/p>\n<p>Today I am cooking black beans and rice.  Yes, rice.  You heard me.  In deference to you, it will probably be whole grain rice, but don&#8217;t push me.  I have some white Basmati in the cabinet I&#8217;ve been hiding from both of us.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to make <a href=\"http:\/\/allrecipes.com\/\/Recipe\/spicy-sweet-potatoes\/Detail.aspx\">spicy sweet potatoes<\/a> on the side.  I&#8217;m going to cut up an apple onto my salad.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t yet know what diet I will try next.  I&#8217;m just looking around as I take a break for the holidays.  Meanwhile, don&#8217;t you worry.  New Year&#8217;s resolutions are only 35 days away.  You will find plenty of new people who discover they love you then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not you, South Beach Diet. It&#8217;s me. Truly, it&#8217;s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dieting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}