{"id":163,"date":"2013-02-11T15:13:04","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T15:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hownothavingweightlosssurgerysavedmylife.com\/?p=163"},"modified":"2023-08-25T09:18:10","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T09:18:10","slug":"feel-the-fear-and-do-it-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/?p=163","title":{"rendered":"Feel the fear and do it anyway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Know Yourself.<\/p>\n<p>When I was an active Freemason, one of the central tenets was to Know Yourself and now that I\u2019m on this healthy-living journey, this advice seems more relevant than ever. I\u2019m a worrier \u2013 always have been and probably always will be, but fortunately I know this about myself so I can manage the impact. Being such a scaredy-cat was quite an impediment growing up and I think I missed out on a whole bunch of exciting things because of it. Anyhow, among the many things I\u2019d worry about was my obesity but, true to form, I\u2019m now worrying that I\u2019m too underweight.<\/p>\n<p>My weight dipped below 82kg which, given that my dietician said 90kg should be my goal weight and that people as obese as I was typically carry between five and seven kilos in excess skin, that means I\u2019m actually about 75kg. Rather than worry \u2013 I\u2019ve had a whole bunch of bloods done to confirm that I am a picture of health and am seeing Judy Kotze to discuss my lightness on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brianberkman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/IMG_1242.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-230\" alt=\"IMG_1242\" src=\"http:\/\/brianberkman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/IMG_1242-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The great thing about overcoming challenges is that it gives me courage to take on even bigger things \u2013 whether I worry about them, or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Know Yourself. When I was an active Freemason, one of the central tenets was to Know Yourself and now that I\u2019m on this healthy-living journey, this advice seems more relevant than ever. I\u2019m a worrier \u2013 always have been and probably always will be, but&nbsp;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/?p=163\">&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[13,21,40,52,58],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weight_loss","tag-anxiety","tag-brian-berkman","tag-diet","tag-freemason","tag-healthy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2433,"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions\/2433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}