{"id":62,"date":"2007-07-01T08:33:03","date_gmt":"2007-07-01T08:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/01\/monthly-fat-loss-update-on-the-zone-diet-plan\/"},"modified":"2007-07-01T08:33:03","modified_gmt":"2007-07-01T08:33:03","slug":"monthly-fat-loss-update-on-the-zone-diet-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/01\/monthly-fat-loss-update-on-the-zone-diet-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Monthly Fat Loss Update on the Zone Diet Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the 1st of July and time to weigh and measure again.   As I expected, this month I have not maintained the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/01\/monthly-zone-diet-and-fat-loss-update\/\">weight loss and fat loss momentum of previous months<\/a>.  I&#8217;ve lost just 2 lbs and if I&#8217;m a little generous, 1\/2 an inch off my waist, making it 38 inches at the belly button.  This gives me a new body fat percentage calculation of 20%, just down from 21% last month.<\/p>\n<p>So, why when I lost 4% last month, have I only lost 1% this month?  The answer is simple complacency induced cheating.  For most of June I&#8217;ve Zoned faithfully during the day, and cheated every evening.  On average I&#8217;ve probably had 3-4 chocolate bars per week, and most evenings more wine than I care to mention, more than any diet could reasonably cope with.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose it&#8217;s actually a testament to the zone diet that I managed to lose anything at all considering my abuse of the program!  Still, that was the choice I made, and I&#8217;m hoping that in July, I will make different choices&#8230;.  we&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the 1st of July and time to weigh and measure again. As I expected, this month I have not maintained the weight loss and fat loss momentum of previous months. I&#8217;ve lost just 2 lbs and if I&#8217;m a little generous, 1\/2 an inch off my waist, making it 38 inches at the belly [&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-62","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\/62","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=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}