{"id":1930,"date":"2011-03-28T20:03:52","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T19:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/?p=1930"},"modified":"2011-03-28T11:16:25","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T10:16:25","slug":"weightloss-target-achieved-a-week-ahead-of-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/28\/weightloss-target-achieved-a-week-ahead-of-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"Weightloss Target Achieved &#8211; a week ahead of schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I decided in the New Year to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/08\/down-5lbs-in-7-days-new-years-diet-update\/\">lose the weight<\/a> I&#8217;d stupidly allowed myself to put on last year, and get back to a more manageable weight.  I set <strong>an arbitrary target of 12st7 (175lbs \/ 80kg) <\/strong>to achieve in 2 months.  Well the end of Feb arrived and I&#8217;d hit the dreaded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/28\/feb-weightloss-update-hit-the-plataux\/\">weight loss plateaux<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So I reset my expectations and set a new target of the end of March to achieve my goal.  <strong>I&#8217;m pleased to say I&#8217;ve hit and sustained 175 lbs<\/strong> with a week spare.  I&#8217;ll post up in the coming week some more details about inch loss and physique change (possibly with more revealing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/15\/before-and-after-the-zone-diet-crossfit\/\">before and after pictures<\/a> if you can handle the horror), but for now, you&#8217;ll have to make do with a pretty graph:<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/colin-mcnulty-diet-2011-March.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/colin-mcnulty-diet-2011-March.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"colin-mcnulty-diet-2011-March\" width=\"451\" height=\"287\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1931\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/colin-mcnulty-diet-2011-March.png 451w, https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/colin-mcnulty-diet-2011-March-300x190.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>I&#8217;ve kept <strong>a food diary<\/strong> of the last 3 months, recording pretty much everything I ate, including with photos.  That might prove interesting reading, so I&#8217;ll see what comes out of that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided in the New Year to lose the weight I&#8217;d stupidly allowed myself to put on last year, and get back to a more manageable weight. I set an arbitrary target of 12st7 (175lbs \/ 80kg) to achieve in 2 months. Well the end of Feb arrived and I&#8217;d hit the dreaded weight loss [&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":[129,205,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-1930","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"category-the-zone-diet","8":"tag-fat","9":"tag-weight-loss","10":"tag-zone-diet"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930","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=1930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}