{"id":127,"date":"2008-01-03T07:54:21","date_gmt":"2008-01-03T07:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/03\/christmas-waistline-aftermath\/"},"modified":"2008-01-03T07:55:16","modified_gmt":"2008-01-03T07:55:16","slug":"christmas-waistline-aftermath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/03\/christmas-waistline-aftermath\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Waistline Aftermath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I was 13st 7 (189 lbs) up from 183 when I checked my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/23\/christmas-body-fat-calculation\/\">body fat before Christmas<\/a>.  I&#8217;ve really noticed it in my waist mostly, and the tape measure shows that <strong>I&#8217;ve gained an extra inch there back up to 37&#8243;!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This puts my body fat percentage back up to 18%.  Bugger!<\/p>\n<p>The Zone Diet shall have to come to my rescue once more.  What does help is that the wife and I have <strong>decided to go tea total for a couple of months<\/strong>, at least till her birthday, and see how we feel after that.  I can&#8217;t say that isn&#8217;t going to be hard, cos it is but it needs to be done and will be interesting to see the effects it has on us.<\/p>\n<p>What doesn&#8217;t help is that <strong>I&#8217;m feeling pretty beat up at the moment<\/strong> and can&#8217;t workout as normal.  I hurt my elbow back when I went on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/24\/weekend-stag-do\/\">my brothers stag do<\/a> and it&#8217;s never properly healed.  In fact it&#8217;s been getting worse and now it hurts not only when I&#8217;m lifting weights, but doing mundane stuff round the house: like lifting a drink, or pickup up a book, or brushing my teeth.<\/p>\n<p>As a result I&#8217;ve been doing other stuff at Crossfit, but Monday&#8217;s leg and sit up intensive workout beat me up big style and I have a sore knee and sore stomach muscles as a result, and that was 3 days ago.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been wanting to see about going down to the new <strong>Awsome Walls climbing wall that&#8217;s upped up down the road<\/strong> from me, which is apparently one of the highest climbing walls in England.  But I can&#8217;t in my current injured state.  I&#8217;m also planning to take up Krav Maga this year too, but that is similarly going to have to wait.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to 2008, ho hum!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I was 13st 7 (189 lbs) up from 183 when I checked my body fat before Christmas. I&#8217;ve really noticed it in my waist mostly, and the tape measure shows that I&#8217;ve gained an extra inch there back up to 37&#8243;! This puts my body fat percentage back up to 18%. Bugger! The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-127","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-crossfit","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"category-the-zone-diet"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","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=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}