{"id":240,"date":"2009-03-04T23:44:06","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T06:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/?p=240"},"modified":"2009-03-05T23:49:06","modified_gmt":"2009-03-06T06:49:06","slug":"the-v-diet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/?p=240","title":{"rendered":"The V-Diet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s called the <a title=\"Painful.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.t-nation.com\/programs\/vdiet30\/vDietProgram000.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">Velocity Diet<\/a> from the good folks at <a title=\"Great workout site.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.t-nation.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Testosterone Nation<\/a>, and it&#8217;s what I apparently need to do to finally get the last of my belly fat off for good.\u00c2\u00a0 You can read about it, but here are the highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Two parts:\u00c2\u00a0 the diet plan and the exercise plan<\/li>\n<li>4 weeks, followed by two weeks of transition<\/li>\n<li>Diet:\u00c2\u00a0 First 4 weeks is 5 specially engineered protein shakes a day, with one &#8211; ONE &#8211; HSM or &#8220;Healthy Solid Meal&#8221; per WEEK.\u00c2\u00a0 For me, it&#8217;s around 1600 calories a day.\u00c2\u00a0 First week of transition changes to an HSM every day, second transition week is 2 HSMs a day.<\/li>\n<li>Training:\u00c2\u00a0 3 workouts a week dersigned specifically to burn a lot of fat and limit the muscle loss.\u00c2\u00a0 Daily NEPA (non-exercise physical activity) such as 30 minutes of brisk walking.\u00c2\u00a0 Then the &#8220;V-Burn Challenge&#8221; on the weekend &#8211; a set of body weight exercises done non-stop in circuits.\u00c2\u00a0 This part looks brutal, but interesting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The idea is that you are trying to do something that will so radically alter your metabolism as to jump start fat loss very, very quickly.\u00c2\u00a0 Lots of people are doing it (and <a title=\"Buddy.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.davidgagne.net\" target=\"_blank\">David<\/a> is doing it with me), and report losing as much as 25 pounds of fat in the full six weeks.\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s what I need.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s going to happen.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:\u00c2\u00a0 A lot of questions via IM, generally starting with &#8220;Dude &#8211; that&#8217;s CRAZY&#8221; &#8211; so a few additional notes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The diet is 1700 calories on non training days, 2000 on training days.\u00c2\u00a0 Hardly starvation.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s not just whey protein powder, it&#8217;s a lot of things.\u00c2\u00a0 Superfood (12 fruits and vegetables with the water removed), milled flaxseeds, CLA\/DHA pills, fiber pills, Leucine.<\/li>\n<li>The exercise program is very focused, but not impossible to do with so much less fodd than I normally eat.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks for the concern &#8211; but I&#8217;ll be healthier than I have ever been when this is over.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ll post pictures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s called the Velocity Diet from the good folks at Testosterone Nation, and it&#8217;s what I apparently need to do to finally get the last of my belly fat off for good.\u00c2\u00a0 You can read about it, but here are the highlights: Two parts:\u00c2\u00a0 the diet plan and the exercise plan 4 weeks, followed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions\/242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}