{"id":791,"date":"2009-11-20T06:08:06","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T13:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=791"},"modified":"2025-11-06T09:25:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T16:25:44","slug":"posture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=791","title":{"rendered":"Posture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">At the last conference I did a lot of just standing.\u00a0 Usually I pull my stomach in when I stand but I realized when I did that I hunched.\u00a0 NOT attractive.\u00a0 So I tried a new thing.\u00a0 I stuck my ass out&#8230; gave myself a little &#8220;back&#8221; if you will.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Amazing!\u00a0 My shoulders automatically straightened and I felt my stomach muscles tighten to support my torso.\u00a0 I did it again and again at the conference and every time it felt good.\u00a0 My lumbar arches automatically and trying to keep it tucked just made it ache.\u00a0 This way my shoulders were back, my butt was, well SEEN since it disappeared when I lost my weight, and I was exercising my abs.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">All those years of bad posture and my mother trying so hard to get me to &#8220;sit up straight&#8221; I was under the impression that I had to tuck my butt, suck my stomach in and throw my shoulders back.\u00a0 I was soooo wrong!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">So ladies that&#8217;s my tip of the day&#8230; give yourself some Booty!\u00a0 Try it&#8230; it might surprise you.\u00a0 OR&#8230; I could be completely crazy weird.\u00a0 Both are possible!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the last conference I did a lot of just standing.\u00a0 Usually I pull my stomach in when I stand but I realized when I did that I hunched.\u00a0 NOT attractive.\u00a0 So I tried a new thing.\u00a0 I stuck my &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=791\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-narcissist-secrets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=791"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":805,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions\/805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}