{"id":7208,"date":"2026-06-03T03:03:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T03:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=7208"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:31:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:31:15","slug":"end-of-sardines-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=7208","title":{"rendered":"END OF SARDINES DAY 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nothing too profound to relate about the sardine fast.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today I had two cans for lunch and two for dinner. With hot sauce.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sunday morning, I weighed in at 201 pounds &#8211; after overeating at several graduation open houses. Recently I have been bouncing between 196 and 199 most mornings.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After my first full day of nothing but sardines yesterday, this morning the scale said 197.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Obviously, most of that has to be water weight. But that does indicate to me that the amount of sweets I put into my body is likely trapping a lot of water in inflammation.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I will say this about the sardines &#8211; I didn&#8217;t wake up hungry today. And that&#8217;s saying something. For most of my adult years I have skipped breakfast. I&#8217;m just not interested.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But on my last trip to Ghana, we were served a BIG breakfast every single morning. And in Ghanaian culture, it is rude to refuse food. By the time I returned home, I had established a breakfast habit. Now I was hungry every morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This morning, though, no hunger at all. Maybe that&#8217;s because sardines are high in protein. I think when your body gets enough protein, the cravings for junk food greatly diminish.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And that&#8217;s a good thing, because a sardine for breakfast doesn&#8217;t sound all that appealing.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing too profound to relate about the sardine fast.\u00a0 Today I had two cans for lunch and two for dinner. With hot sauce.\u00a0 Sunday morning, I weighed in at 201 pounds &#8211; after overeating at several graduation open houses. Recently I have been bouncing between 196 and 199 most mornings.\u00a0 After my first full day [&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-7208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7208","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=7208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7209,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7208\/revisions\/7209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}