{"id":250,"date":"2009-05-04T00:03:18","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T07:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/?p=250"},"modified":"2009-05-04T00:03:18","modified_gmt":"2009-05-04T07:03:18","slug":"velocity-diet-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/?p=250","title":{"rendered":"Velocity Diet &#8211; complete!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s done.\u00c2\u00a0 I just finished my last shake.\u00c2\u00a0 Stats:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>6 weeks<\/li>\n<li>185 protein shakes<\/li>\n<li>25 Healthy Solid Meals<\/li>\n<li>18 pounds lost (likely all fat)<\/li>\n<li>3 inches lost off belly<\/li>\n<li>2 additional belt notches required &#8211; rendering some belts non-functional<\/li>\n<li>Blood glucose numbers not outside of normal range for over 3 weeks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And as an added bonus, I have rediscovered all the cleanest eating habits.\u00c2\u00a0 When this started, I dreamed of a day I could have fast food again, or candy, or other junk.\u00c2\u00a0 Now it doesn&#8217;t sound nearly as good as really, really healthy food.<\/p>\n<p>Over the next 4 months I&#8217;m going to continue cycling carbs to slowly cut some more fat, and get back to building more muscle with a solid plan from Chad Waterbury&#8217;s book, <a title=\"Mmmm.  Muscles.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mens-Health-Huge-Hurry-Stronger\/dp\/1605299340\" target=\"_blank\">Huge in a Hurry<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 I don&#8217;t want to be a full tilt bodybuilder &#8211; but I do want to be a bit more defined and bigger in general.<\/p>\n<p>In short, I&#8217;d recommend this diet to anyone who needs a really serious change in their diet, and wants to lose some weight fast.\u00c2\u00a0 I won&#8217;t kid you &#8211; it&#8217;s not easy.\u00c2\u00a0 But it teaches you SO much about proper nutrition, and about the TIME involved in eating in general, that you will stop living to eat, and start eating to live.\u00c2\u00a0 If anyone out there wants help getting started in this, shoot me an email.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;d be happy to help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s done.\u00c2\u00a0 I just finished my last shake.\u00c2\u00a0 Stats: 6 weeks 185 protein shakes 25 Healthy Solid Meals 18 pounds lost (likely all fat) 3 inches lost off belly 2 additional belt notches required &#8211; rendering some belts non-functional Blood glucose numbers not outside of normal range for over 3 weeks And as an [&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-250","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\/250","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=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions\/251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}