{"id":2694,"date":"2012-01-14T10:50:13","date_gmt":"2012-01-14T10:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/?p=2694"},"modified":"2012-01-14T11:13:03","modified_gmt":"2012-01-14T11:13:03","slug":"ive-lost-7lbs-12-stone-in-11-days-hows-your-christmas-mince-pie-flab-doing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/14\/ive-lost-7lbs-12-stone-in-11-days-hows-your-christmas-mince-pie-flab-doing\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve Lost 7lbs (1\/2 stone) in 11 Days, How&#8217;s Your Christmas Mince Pie Flab Doing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What a good start to the New Year&#8217;s efforts to loose the Christmas flab!  This morning saw me break the <strong>1\/2 stone (7 lbs \/ 3 kg) loss mark<\/strong>, since I started being good again on Tuesday 3rd Jan, which is 11 days ago at the time of writing.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s even better is that includes a cheat day last Saturday, and as it&#8217;s Saturday again today, that&#8217;s another cheat day.  Excellent! \ud83d\ude42  To be clear here, that&#8217;s done without food restriction, without hunger, without low fat diet bars or shakes, and <strong>I&#8217;ve been eating 3+ times per day.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/01\/how-i-lost-my-beer-belly-its-easier-than-you-think\/\" ><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/images\/food-diary\/animated_b_small.gif\" alt=\"How I lost my Pot Belly\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s one of the things that in some ways makes me wonder if it&#8217;s a good thing: eating mostly Paleo food, in Zone proportions, is such an effective way of losing weight, <strong>it can make you complacent<\/strong>.  This happened to me last year, and after amazing losses over the first 3 weeks, I hit the dreaded plateaux.  Fortunately it&#8217;s easy to over come that, but all that&#8217;s dealt with in my food diary from last year, which you can get on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/01\/how-i-lost-my-beer-belly-its-easier-than-you-think\/\" title=\"Click here for my food diary\">How I Lost My Pot Belly post<\/a> from last week, which includes details on handling cheat days.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also the reason I have the weight to lose in the first place.  Knowing that I can easily drop the pounds, with minimal effort, means that I don&#8217;t really care about not having what I want at Christmas.  Whereas others may still be restrained, not wanting to balloon come Janurary, I know I can tuck into whatever I like (chocolate is my weakness, <strong>I must have eaten several large Toblerones all by myself!<\/strong>) and drop the excess without concern.  To be honest, it&#8217;s probably not as healthy as just being good at Christmas&#8230; but where&#8217;s the fun in that!  \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a good start to the New Year&#8217;s efforts to loose the Christmas flab! This morning saw me break the 1\/2 stone (7 lbs \/ 3 kg) loss mark, since I started being good again on Tuesday 3rd Jan, which is 11 days ago at the time of writing. What&#8217;s even better is that includes [&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":[81,174,205,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-2694","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"category-the-zone-diet","8":"tag-diet","9":"tag-paleo","10":"tag-weight-loss","11":"tag-zone-diet"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694","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=2694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}