{"id":1024,"date":"2013-06-06T10:00:17","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T14:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=1024"},"modified":"2013-06-06T10:00:17","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T14:00:17","slug":"healthpersonalwriting-one-week-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=1024","title":{"rendered":"(health\/personal\/writing) One week in!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Day 7 of \u00a0going completely gluten-free and mostly sugar-free. \u00a0It&#8217;s been an interesting journey. \u00a0Weighed in this morning at 277.8 lbs, so up a little, but that&#8217;s okay.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been hard, I won&#8217;t lie. \u00a0Drank Coke on Saturday, had sushi with non-GF soy sauce on Tuesday, and an ice cream cone on Sunday. \u00a0But all in all, I&#8217;ve made it through successfully, and I am feeling better (despite a headache this morning, which might actually be allergies). \u00a0My brain isn&#8217;t foggy, and my joints don&#8217;t hurt. \u00a0I&#8217;m looking forward to maybe getting off some of the meds that I&#8217;m currently on.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of meds, I&#8217;m down to 15 mgs of Prednisone as of yesterday! \u00a0Very excited about this. \u00a0And despite yesterday (which was a terrible day, I was sick for most of it), I&#8217;m feeling pretty good.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pendragon continues to grow &#8211; I&#8217;ve just thrown a twist in that I didn&#8217;t realize I needed (yes, even outliners have twists show up on us) and I have to figure out what that means for the story. \u00a0I&#8221;m also looking at new projects for when this draft is done, as Midsummerland is not cooperating. \u00a0I like the story &#8211; it just doesn&#8217;t want to write, and I&#8217;m not sure why. \u00a0So it sits on the shelf, and I think I&#8217;m doing more of a fantasy next time. \u00a0What I&#8217;m trying to decide is do I want to jump into another series (I have an idea for a quartet of books) or do a one-shot (I&#8217;ve got a couple of ideas that could be only one book). \u00a0I&#8217;m also debating how much research I want to do, as one is a steampunk Venice setting, one is setting up to be Asian-flavored, and one might be Italian Renaissance. \u00a0Because I don&#8217;t do anything EASY, you know.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Okay, time to get moving on my to-do list for the day. \u00a0My tummy is grumbling, which means it&#8217;s time for breakfast. \u00a0I think today would be a good day to try those banana fritters I pinned to Pintrest a bit ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Day 7 of \u00a0going completely gluten-free and mostly sugar-free. \u00a0It&#8217;s been an interesting journey. \u00a0Weighed in this morning at 277.8 lbs, so up a little, but that&#8217;s okay. &nbsp; It&#8217;s been hard, I won&#8217;t lie. \u00a0Drank Coke on Saturday, had sushi with non-GF soy sauce on Tuesday, and an ice cream cone on &#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=1024\">>>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,23,41,44,74,12,11,22],"tags":[81,67,78,7,80,34,60,59,66],"class_list":["post-1024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-goals","category-health","category-midsummerland","category-pendragon","category-personal","category-worldbuilding","category-writing","tag-food","tag-goals","tag-health","tag-life","tag-midsummerland","tag-pendragon","tag-personal","tag-worldbuilding","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions\/1025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}