{"id":5572,"date":"2026-06-04T04:50:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T04:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=5572"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:31:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:31:15","slug":"end-of-sardines-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=5572","title":{"rendered":"END OF SARDINES DAY 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0Nothing much to report after the third day of sardines, but for the sake of continuity, I will write something.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The most surprising thing was this morning&#8217;s weigh-in. After beginning at 200, dropping to 197 after the first day, I dropped this morning to 192.4! But I was definitely dehydrated.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But even if the more realistic number should have been, say, 194, that would still be pretty surprising.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I should also note that I couldn&#8217;t avoid briefly breaking my fast today. I had a lunch appointment already scheduled with a friend at a restaurant and I was not going to open a can of sardines in front of him and the customers seated around us.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had a salad and two breadsticks instead. And it was all delicious.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Otherwise, I think I had four cans of sardines total throughout the day.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And hunger continues to be no problem.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Nothing much to report after the third day of sardines, but for the sake of continuity, I will write something. The most surprising thing was this morning&#8217;s weigh-in. After beginning at 200, dropping to 197 after the first day, I dropped this morning to 192.4! But I was definitely dehydrated.\u00a0 But even if the more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5573,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5572\/revisions\/5573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}