{"id":1355,"date":"2004-09-15T21:51:50","date_gmt":"2004-09-15T21:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1355.html"},"modified":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","slug":"atkins-and-kilts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2004\/09\/15\/atkins-and-kilts\/","title":{"rendered":"Atkins and kilts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite having sworn never to do Atkins ever again after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunpig.com\/martin\/archives\/2003\/04\/20\/atkins_after_the_first_week\/\">last year&#8217;s experience<\/a>, I find myself on a low carb diet once more.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not <em>just<\/em> that I&#8217;m overweight (although I am back up at 77kg again)&#8211;it&#8217;s that I&#8217;ve got my cousin Cameron&#8217;s wedding to go to in just under a fortnight&#8217;s time, and I discovered on Monday evening that I don&#8217;t fit into my kilt any more.  It may be a recipe for misery, but I don&#8217;t know of any other way to lose 5kg in two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>I started the diet on Monday, and the bread cravings haven&#8217;t kicked in yet.  I had a pretty strong urge for bananas this afternoon, though.  Maybe I&#8217;m more mentally prepared for the torture of bread-free living this time round&#8230;but don&#8217;t count on it.<\/p>\n<p>So anyway, if I seem a bit grumpier than usual over the next couple of weeks&#8230;now you know why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite having sworn never to do Atkins ever again after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunpig.com\/martin\/archives\/2003\/04\/20\/atkins_after_the_first_week\/\">last year&#8217;s experience<\/a>, I find myself on a low carb diet once more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food_and_drink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}