{"id":38,"date":"2012-10-05T11:14:26","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T11:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hownothavingweightlosssurgerysavedmylife.com\/?p=38"},"modified":"2023-08-25T09:07:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T09:07:40","slug":"affirmation-helped-me-reach-92kgs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/?p=38","title":{"rendered":"Affirmation Helped Me Reach 92kgs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brianberkman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/brian-berkman-new-age-interview-2-august-20122.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-39\" title=\"Brian Berkman New Age interview 2 August 2012\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/brianberkman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/brian-berkman-new-age-interview-2-august-20122.jpg?w=300\" width=\"240\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewage.co.za\/57936-12-53-The_power_of_the_perfect_diet\">article in The New Age Newspaper <\/a>helped me recognize for myself how much weight I&#8217;d actually lost. One of the reasons I am sharing my experience here is because the affirmation I receive from people, who feel inspired by my journey, reminds me how much I&#8217;ve achieved.<\/p>\n<p>Now, at 92kg, I feel the anxiety of what happens if I pick the weight up again? Although I&#8217;ve never lost this much, more than 60kg to date, before,<\/p>\n<p>I have lost 20kg before and picked it up again. Being reminded by the way you see me helps me internalize it. I&#8217;m still surprised when I see myself reflected in a full-length mirror.<\/p>\n<p>While I was obese I objected to people telling me what they thought about my body. Now I rather like it.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40\" style=\"width: 179px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brianberkman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/brian-on-beach-low-res1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-40 \" title=\"Brian on the beach.\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/brianberkman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/brian-on-beach-low-res1.jpg?w=224\" width=\"179\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Me at 92kg. Taken on Pringle Bay Beach. September 30, 2012.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article in The New Age Newspaper helped me recognize for myself how much weight I&#8217;d actually lost. One of the reasons I am sharing my experience here is because the affirmation I receive from people, who feel inspired by my journey, reminds me how&nbsp;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/?p=38\">&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":[14,21,99],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weight_loss","tag-anxiety-about-regaining-weight","tag-brian-berkman","tag-positive-affirmation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","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=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2415,"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/2415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}