{"id":203199,"date":"2021-12-28T15:10:31","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T15:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/woman-loses-160-pounds-chases-dream-of-becoming-a-firefighter"},"modified":"2021-12-28T15:10:31","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T15:10:31","slug":"woman-loses-160-pounds-chases-dream-of-becoming-a-firefighter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/woman-loses-160-pounds-chases-dream-of-becoming-a-firefighter","title":{"rendered":"Woman loses 160 pounds, chases dream of becoming a firefighter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Penny Leaver was in college, she started gaining weight due to changing lifestyle habits. &#8220;I kind of slowed down my exercise and started eating things that I was not allowed to have when I was growing up,&#8221; Leaver, 43, of Farmersville, Texas, told &#8221; Good Morning America .&#8221; Three years ago, Leaver, who at the time weighed over 300 pounds, faced a life-threatening situation when she ended up in the emergency room after experiencing rapid heartbeats. A cardiologist told Leaver that she had supraventricular tachycardia (SVT), an abnormally fast or erratic heartbeat that affects the heart&#8217;s upper chambers, according to the Mayo Clinic . Symptoms of SVT can range from chest pain to shortness of breath, palpitations and lightheadedness. To prevent this rapid heartbeat and the symptoms that may come with it, some who have the condition may have to change their lifestyle by taking up regular exercise, cutting back on alcohol use, reducing stress and eating a balanced<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Penny Leaver, 43, said a heart health scare motivated her to lose weight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[191,6,242],"class_list":["post-203199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-fitness","tag-lifestyle","tag-weight-loss"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}