{"id":434,"date":"2002-11-26T22:44:14","date_gmt":"2002-11-26T22:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-434.html"},"modified":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","slug":"food-must-eat-more-food-then-sleep-for-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2002\/11\/26\/food-must-eat-more-food-then-sleep-for-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Food&#8230;must eat more food&#8230;then sleep&#8230;for months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/atkinscenter.com\/\">Atkins<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lowcarb.ca\/\">diet<\/a> has been getting lots of publicity recently.  That&#8217;s the one where you cut out most of the bare carbohydrates, and stick to eating foods that are high in protein.  It&#8217;s not quite as simple as sausage, steak, and bacon, but it does allow you to eat lots of stuff you&#8217;d think you&#8217;d have to turn down if you wanted to lose weight.  I think I&#8217;d have trouble living without bread.<\/p>\n<p>Whenever Abi and I try to slim down, we go for a simple calorie-controlled diet:  1500 calories a day.  We eat whatever we like, only less of it.  It means I get a packet of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hulahoops.com\/\">hula hoops<\/a> and a finger of fudge each day :-).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m back up to 74kg again, and I&#8217;d like to lose some of that before Christmas rolls around.  I&#8217;m finding it hard to get the motivation together, though.  As we descend into the depths of winter, my body keeps saying &#8220;bulk up&#8230;eat more fat&#8230;hibernate.&#8221;  And there&#8217;s all of the festive season thing going on with visitors (hi <a href=\"http:\/\/www.6x7.org\/andy\/\">Andy<\/a>!), birthdays, gaming days, work dinners, etc.  Sigh.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;ll get better after the solstice.  Or at least, after New Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atkins diet has been getting lots of publicity recently. That&#8217;s the one where you cut out most of the bare carbohydrates, and stick to eating foods that are high in protein. It&#8217;s not quite as simple as sausage, steak, and bacon, but it does allow you to eat lots of stuff you&#8217;d think you&#8217;d &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2002\/11\/26\/food-must-eat-more-food-then-sleep-for-months\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Food&#8230;must eat more food&#8230;then sleep&#8230;for months&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","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=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}