{"id":61,"date":"2009-01-16T05:40:29","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T10:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.farmertales.com\/cb\/?p=61"},"modified":"2009-01-16T10:11:44","modified_gmt":"2009-01-16T15:11:44","slug":"cycle-2-upswing-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.farmertales.com\/cb\/?p=61","title":{"rendered":"Cycle 2 upswing begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m cautiously optimistic that today is my &#8220;turning the corner&#8221; day but it has yet to be fully realized.\u00a0 My stomach is feeling a little more steady and except for the sour milk I got at Waffle House this morning I feel pretty decent.\u00a0 I did manage to eat 3\/4 of my waffle and all of my sausage despite the milk incident.<\/p>\n<p>For this cycle I haven&#8217;t dropped below 180lbs (so far), so my new goal is to get well over 190lbs before the end of the first week of radiation which starts on January 28th.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll probably just be able to hold steady until early next week, but as soon as I&#8217;m able let the binging begin.\u00a0 My cravings right now are still for sweets, but I&#8217;m hoping they turn towards spicy solid foods like they did last time.\u00a0 We are going out to dinner Saturday night for my mom&#8217;s birthday at a Japanese restaurant and I&#8217;m looking forward to some shrimp and chicken.<\/p>\n<p>My hair is still really patchy on my head and face, but I haven&#8217;t lost any of my body hair or eyebrows, etc.\u00a0 I suspect that may happen towards the end of this cycle if it happens at all.\u00a0 I have gotten some compliments on my bald head and baby face, but I&#8217;m not sure if it will stay after all this is over.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll have to see how it grows on me in the next few months.\u00a0 Of course, 12 degree days like today aren&#8217;t helping the case to be bald.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m cautiously optimistic that today is my &#8220;turning the corner&#8221; day but it has yet to be fully realized.\u00a0 My stomach is feeling a little more steady and except for the sour milk I got at Waffle House this morning &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.farmertales.com\/cb\/?p=61\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.farmertales.com\/cb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.farmertales.com\/cb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.farmertales.com\/cb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.farmertales.com\/cb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.farmertales.com\/cb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.farmertales.com\/cb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62,"href":"https:\/\/www.farmertales.com\/cb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/62"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.farmertales.com\/cb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.farmertales.com\/cb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.farmertales.com\/cb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}