{"id":153,"date":"2008-05-28T17:05:16","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T15:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/wordpress\/donate-my-weight\/"},"modified":"2015-02-14T17:37:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T22:37:00","slug":"donate-my-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/donate-my-weight\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Donate My Weight&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is really quite neat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Like millions of Americans, Ben Miller started dieting at the beginning of the New Year.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Over the years I went from 165 pounds in the Navy to my highest of 477 pounds,&#8221; says dieter Ben Miller.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ben&#8217;s goal -weight- is 230 pounds, but that&#8217;s not his only goal. For every pound he loses, he&#8217;s donating a pound of food to his local food bank.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n&#8220;I wasn&#8217;t willing to do it for myself, but I am willing to do it for other people.&#8221;\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ben&#8217;s message and his &#8220;Donate my Weight&#8221; website has attracted media attention which in turn, has attracted sponsors.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;We were inspired by Ben&#8217;s weight loss and we really believe in the Second Harvest Food Bank, so for us it was an absolutely natural fit. We said, you know what? We can make a difference here as well as inspire others to make a difference,&#8221; says Kathy Haines, the service area manager of Wegmans in Allentown, PA.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s certainly a novel way to stay motivated to lose fat\/weight too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is really quite neat.\u00a0 &#8220;Like millions of Americans, Ben Miller started dieting at the beginning of the New Year.\u00a0 &#8220;Over the years I went from 165 pounds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[533],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8588,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/8588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}