{"id":1820,"date":"2011-02-28T18:34:11","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T18:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/?p=1820"},"modified":"2011-03-01T08:50:03","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T08:50:03","slug":"feb-weightloss-update-hit-the-plataux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/28\/feb-weightloss-update-hit-the-plataux\/","title":{"rendered":"Feb Weightloss Update &#8211; Hit the plateaux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Curses!  February has not gone quite according to plan, take a look:<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1821\" title=\"Colin McNulty Weightloss 2011 Feb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Colin_McNulty_Weightloss.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"447\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Colin_McNulty_Weightloss.png 447w, https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Colin_McNulty_Weightloss-300x189.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 447px) 100vw, 447px\" \/>\n<p>It was all going swimmingly well and I&#8217;d been losing about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/01\/january-weight-fat-loss-update\/\">2lb per week throughout January<\/a>, until about the 7th Feb, then I hit the dreaded plateaux that so many dieters encounter, and in fact I hit the exact same thing at the same point <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/02\/zone-diet-update\/\">back in 2008<\/a>.  So what happened?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a fairly typical scenario:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>things are going well so you feel that the odd like cheat won&#8217;t hurt<\/li>\n<li>portion sizes increase a bit<\/li>\n<li>snacks between meals get a bit bigger<\/li>\n<li>cheat day gets blurred a bit with the preceding and following days<\/li>\n<li>you go out a few times during the week and have some things you wouldn&#8217;t normally.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And so it is.  In many ways,<strong> I blame the Zone diet for being too good! <\/strong>It almost encourages you to cheat, because losing weight becomes so easy when the weight just falls off, you&#8217;re eating good and tasty food and you&#8217;re rarely hungry.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at it another way, I&#8217;ve just switched to maintenance mode 6 lbs too soon.  In February I&#8217;ve:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>eaten out at restaurants<\/li>\n<li>had takeaways<\/li>\n<li>been to the pub<\/li>\n<li>drunk a bottle or 2 of wine at home<\/li>\n<li>had chocolate on more days than I can remember (oops, there goes the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/01\/2011-new-years-resolutions-and-general-life-update\/\">New Year&#8217;s resolutions<\/a>!)<\/li>\n<li>been to the cinema and eaten far too much pick &amp; mix!<\/li>\n<li>drunk full fat milk every day, several glasses of<\/li>\n<li>had cheese almost every day (I love cheese!)<\/li>\n<li>every Saturday has been cheat day<\/li>\n<li>had popcorn several times<\/li>\n<li>had sticky toffee<\/li>\n<li>eaten fatty foods like sausages, lamb, chorizo, peanut butter, coconut cream, crisps and cheese dips, roast pork, meat balls, double cream<\/li>\n<li>the list goes on&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And yet&#8230; I&#8217;ve still lost weight in February, and whilst I&#8217;ve hit a plateaux, I&#8217;m not putting any weight on. Which is pretty amazing considering the list above!<\/p>\n<p><strong>EDIT:<\/strong> if it doesn&#8217;t translate into American, this is &#8220;Pick &#038; Mix&#8221;:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Pick-Mix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Pick-Mix.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Pick &amp; Mix\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1843\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Pick-Mix.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Pick-Mix-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So really I need to decide: <strong>am I happy with my weight <\/strong>and the balance of food that I am eating (yes to both by the way), or do I renew my efforts to get to the 12st7 (175lbs \/ 80kg) I originally had in mind?  Remember it was an arbitrary target.  I have already lost 2.5 inches off my waist and 5.25 inches altogether, although another inch or 2 off my waist wouldn&#8217;t hurt.<\/p>\n<p>I think on balance I would prefer to lose that last 6 lbs, I just now need to think over what time scale?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curses! February has not gone quite according to plan, take a look: It was all going swimmingly well and I&#8217;d been losing about 2lb per week throughout January, until about the 7th Feb, then I hit the dreaded plateaux that so many dieters encounter, and in fact I hit the exact same thing at 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":[1,7],"tags":[244,129,183,205,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-1820","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"category-the-zone-diet","8":"tag-colin-mcnulty","9":"tag-fat","10":"tag-resolutions","11":"tag-weight-loss","12":"tag-zone-diet"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820","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=1820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}