{"id":844,"date":"2009-11-09T21:06:34","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T21:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/?p=844"},"modified":"2009-11-09T21:07:14","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T21:07:14","slug":"can-i-lose-12-stone-in-12-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/09\/can-i-lose-12-stone-in-12-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Can I lose 1\/2 stone in 12 days?!?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So this time last week, I had 1\/2 stone (7 lbs or 3 kg) to lose in order to get down to my required weight for the Yorkshire Open weightlifting competition on 21st Nov. I&#8217;m lifting in the 77kg (169 lb or 12 stone 1) category, but was tipping the scales at 80kg (176 lbs or 12 stone 8).  <strong>1\/2 stone in 3 weeks seemed like it was doable<\/strong> so I wasn&#8217;t too worried.<\/p>\n<p>Last week started well and I lost 3 lbs from Mon to Friday (mostly water I imagine) leaving just 4 lbs over 2 weeks.  However a combination of a fireworks party at home on Friday, followed by a night on the razz in Manchester with the boys from Crossfit Manchester, and <strong>I put that 3 lbs straight back on<\/strong>.  It doesn&#8217;t sound too bad, until you see the graph:<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/DrawPagel.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/DrawPagel.png\" alt=\"Colin McNulty weightloss goal\" title=\"Colin McNulty weightloss goal\" width=\"750\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-846\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/DrawPagel.png 750w, https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/DrawPagel-300x80.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>That&#8217;s not good!  So for the next 12 days I&#8217;m zoning for all I&#8217;m worth.  I&#8217;m also reducing my fat intake to about a half, dropping the pint of milk I normally drink each day, and <strong>cutting my intake to 12 zone blocks per day<\/strong>.  Hopefully, that should do it.  We&#8217;ll see&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So this time last week, I had 1\/2 stone (7 lbs or 3 kg) to lose in order to get down to my required weight for the Yorkshire Open weightlifting competition on 21st Nov. I&#8217;m lifting in the 77kg (169 lb or 12 stone 1) category, but was tipping the scales at 80kg (176 lbs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,115,7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"category-olympic-weightlifting","8":"category-the-zone-diet"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844","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=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}