{"id":614,"date":"2003-04-27T18:00:17","date_gmt":"2003-04-27T18:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-614.html"},"modified":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","slug":"diet-end-of-week-two-end-of-atkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2003\/04\/27\/diet-end-of-week-two-end-of-atkins\/","title":{"rendered":"Diet: end of week two, end of Atkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I stood on the scales this morning they said 71.5kg.  Two weeks ago I was up at 77kg.  The Atkins diet may have lost me 5.5kg (12lbs) in just two weeks, but it has been really difficult.  The bread cravings weren&#8217;t quite so bad in the second week.  The nausea before mealtimes also mostly disappeared, only to be replaced by a complete lack of appetite.  And I still got no joy from any of the food I ate.<\/p>\n<p>I said I would stick with Atkins for the two weeks of the &#8220;induction&#8221; period, and I have, but that&#8217;s quite enough.  I&#8217;ve switched to a low calorie diet now instead.  If previous experience is anything to go by, 1500kCal per day should lose me about 0.5kg per week.  I don&#8217;t expect to lose much this week, as my body will be adjusting to taking in carbohydrates again.  If anything, I&#8217;ll probably go up a bit.<\/p>\n<p>My goal is to get to 67kg.  I&#8217;m pleasantly surprised that Atkins has got me half-way there in just two weeks, but that&#8217;s just not sustainable.  On a low calorie diet I can eat everything I enjoy most (bread, rice, bread) and still lose weight.  It may take longer, but I&#8217;d always expected to be in this for the long run.<\/p>\n<p>Being able to have bread at lunch today was a joy beyond words.  Forget chocolate.  Give me a couple of slices of wholemeal, and I&#8217;m a happy man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I stood on the scales this morning they said 71.5kg.  Two weeks ago I was up at 77kg.  The Atkins diet may have lost me 5.5kg (12lbs) in just two weeks, but it has been really difficult.  The bread cravings weren&#8217;t quite so bad in the second week.  The nausea before mealtimes also mostly disappeared, only to be replaced by a complete lack of appetite.  And I still got no joy from any of the food I ate.<\/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-614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food_and_drink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614","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=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}