{"id":891,"date":"2014-10-08T15:59:32","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T15:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/?p=891"},"modified":"2014-10-08T16:02:57","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T16:02:57","slug":"weight-loss-high-school-reunions-national-night-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/?p=891","title":{"rendered":"Weight Loss, High School Reunions &#038; National Night Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/2014-10-04THS20YearReunion001a.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-898 size-medium\" style=\"border: 2px solid #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/2014-10-04THS20YearReunion001a-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"2014-10-04THS20YearReunion001a\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/2014-10-04THS20YearReunion001a-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/2014-10-04THS20YearReunion001a.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>So, my twentieth high school reunion was this past weekend. \u00a0Had a BLAST! \u00a0Even though these were people I hadn&#8217;t seen in forever! \u00a0Thankfully, it&#8217;s pretty easy to keep up with most of them on Facebook! \u00a0Discovered a few more who live in the metroplex area, too. \u00a0We&#8217;re making plans for our next reunion in five years and mini-gatherings between now and then, too. \u00a0Should be fun!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>No one has &#8220;grown up&#8221; in twenty years, we&#8217;ve all gained like 30 pounds but otherwise look like ourselves in high school and no one cared at all what went on in high school! \u00a0I guess it was kind of an assumption that we just let bygones be bygones (if any) and move on. It was great!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/20141004-2014-10-04-THS-20-Year-Reunion-II-001-2.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-900 size-medium\" style=\"border: 2px solid #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/20141004-2014-10-04-THS-20-Year-Reunion-II-001-2-300x111.jpg\" alt=\"20141004 2014-10-04 THS 20 Year Reunion II 001-2\" width=\"300\" height=\"111\" srcset=\"http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/20141004-2014-10-04-THS-20-Year-Reunion-II-001-2-300x111.jpg 300w, http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/20141004-2014-10-04-THS-20-Year-Reunion-II-001-2.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, it&#8217;s time to get back on track with my weight loss journey now that the stress of the reunion has passed (I was on the planning committee). \u00a0I lost 2.4 pounds overnight, I&#8217;m sure just by making sure I was drinking fluids again, so I know my body was craving this again! \u00a0Now, to just get back on track with exercising&#8230;walking, at the least.<\/p>\n<p>Walking should be easier as we are in the middle of a &#8220;10,000 Steps Strong&#8221; walking program at work (Hey! \u00a0They gave us a free pedometer and a chance to win an iPad just for signing up and logging our steps at least once!). \u00a0At least the dress shoes are comfy! \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_20141008_104005a.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-895 size-medium\" style=\"border: 2px solid #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_20141008_104005a-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20141008_104005a\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_20141008_104005a-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_20141008_104005a-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_20141008_104005a.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Does your neighborhood participate in National Night Out? \u00a0NNO is pushed back to the second Tuesday in October as an option for neighborhoods in Texas due to the extreme heat in August (when the rest of the nation is likely celebrating it). Ironically, this year we hit a record, nearing 100 degrees! \u00a0Go figure!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, my twentieth high school reunion was this past weekend. \u00a0Had a BLAST! \u00a0Even though these were people I hadn&#8217;t seen in forever! \u00a0Thankfully, it&#8217;s pretty easy to keep up with most of them on Facebook! \u00a0Discovered a few more who live in the metroplex area, too. \u00a0We&#8217;re making plans for our next reunion in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[66,44],"class_list":["post-891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","tag-national-night-out","tag-weight-loss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=891"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":905,"href":"http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions\/905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}