{"id":10460,"date":"2010-12-17T12:48:54","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T20:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=10460"},"modified":"2010-12-17T12:48:54","modified_gmt":"2010-12-17T20:48:54","slug":"ghosts-of-christmases-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=10460","title":{"rendered":"Ghosts of Christmases Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking through old photos always makes me emotional. It&#8217;s much more evident how far I&#8217;ve come when I see the photographic evidence right in front of me. Here are the last 5 years of my life:<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Christmas 2005, at 250 pounds:<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/20051.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10461\" title=\"2005\" src=\"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/20051-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/20051-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/20051-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/20051.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Christmas 2006, 228 Pounds:<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/xmas2006.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10462\" title=\"xmas2006\" src=\"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/xmas2006-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/xmas2006-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/xmas2006.jpg 604w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Christmas 2007, 180 Pounds:<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/xmas07.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10464\" title=\"xmas07\" src=\"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/xmas07-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/xmas07-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/xmas07-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10465\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/snowshoe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10465\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10465\" title=\"snowshoe\" src=\"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/snowshoe-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/snowshoe-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/snowshoe.jpg 453w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10465\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2008<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Christmas 2008, 144 pounds:<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/xmas08.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10466\" title=\"xmas08\" src=\"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/xmas08-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/xmas08-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/xmas08.jpg 604w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Christmas 2009, 159 Pounds:<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/xmas09.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10468\" title=\"xmas09\" src=\"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/xmas09-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/xmas09-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/xmas09.jpg 453w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Christmas 2010, 145 Pounds?<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/xmas10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10472\" title=\"xmas10\" src=\"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/xmas10-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/xmas10-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/xmas10.jpg 604w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I put the question mark there because I skipped the December weigh-in. The normal weigh-in date fell during a time when I just couldn&#8217;t deal with any more potential disappointments. I will weigh-in in January instead. That&#8217;s my Christmas present to myself!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>QUESTION: How do you feel when you look at old Christmas photos of yourself? Do you feel happy that you&#8217;ve come a long way?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking through old photos always makes me emotional. It&#8217;s much more evident how far I&#8217;ve come when I see the photographic evidence right in front of me. Here are the last 5 years of my life: Christmas 2005, at 250 pounds: Christmas 2006, 228 Pounds: Christmas 2007, 180 Pounds: Christmas 2008, 144 pounds: Christmas 2009, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,44,1880,1683,152,154,1243,248,258,298],"tags":[331,2102,2101,747,8662,2103],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10460"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10480,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10460\/revisions\/10480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}