{"id":126,"date":"2007-12-23T09:33:14","date_gmt":"2007-12-23T09:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/23\/pre-christmas-body-fat-update\/"},"modified":"2007-12-23T09:35:21","modified_gmt":"2007-12-23T09:35:21","slug":"christmas-body-fat-calculation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/23\/christmas-body-fat-calculation\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-Christmas Body Fat Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I figure that things are inevitably not going to go well for the diet over Christmas, which is fine.  The Zone Diet has proved its efficacy and a week off to enjoy myself over the holiday seems like a just reward for a years hard work and effort.  So my pre-Christmas measurements are:<\/p>\n<p>Weight = 13 st 1 = 183 lbs &#8211; same as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/02\/zone-diet-monthly-update-half-a-stone-lost-in-a-month\/\">last months weight<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Waist = 36 inches &#8211; 1\/2 down of last month.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s where things get at a bit odd as compared with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/02\/zone-diet-monthly-update-half-a-stone-lost-in-a-month\/\">last months percentage fat loss calculation<\/a> although I&#8217;ve lost no weight this month, and only 1\/2 an inch off my waist, according to the body fat charts in the Zone books, <strong>I&#8217;m now 16% body fat, down 2% on last month!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s odder than that though, as my waist is on the border of being 35.5&#8243; which would give me a body fat percentage of 15%, which is my target.  Conversely if I lose just 1 more pound to 182, I move into a different row on the chart and go up to 17% body fat!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all rather confusing really.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I figure that things are inevitably not going to go well for the diet over Christmas, which is fine. The Zone Diet has proved its efficacy and a week off to enjoy myself over the holiday seems like a just reward for a years hard work and effort. So my pre-Christmas measurements are: Weight = [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"category-the-zone-diet"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}