{"id":1321,"date":"2013-02-07T01:56:09","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T06:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=1321"},"modified":"2013-01-31T11:26:05","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T16:26:05","slug":"more-thoughts-on-weight-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2013\/02\/more-thoughts-on-weight-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"More Thoughts on Weight Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>Since I am skinny, and no one yells at me about what I write here, I will write some more about weight loss.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now to a more specific diet. This is taken in part from the movie <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fat_Head\">Fat Head<\/a>. Henceforth, when you see <em>Burger King<\/em> you may substitute <em>McDonald&#8217;s <\/em>or <em>Wendy&#8217;s <\/em>or something else. When you see <em>Whopper <\/em>you may substitute <em>Quarter Pounder<\/em> or <em>Single <\/em>or something else.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here is a diet that almost guarantees weight loss.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Breakfast: a Whopper and a no-calorie drink<\/li>\n<li>Lunch:\u00a0a Whopper and a no-calorie drink<\/li>\n<li>Dinner:\u00a0a Whopper and a no-calorie drink<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>A no-calorie drink, in order of preference, is:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>water<\/li>\n<li>unsweetened tea<\/li>\n<li>coffee<\/li>\n<li>diet soda<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As best as I can determine, the Whopper has 630 calories, so the above diet provides 1,890 calories a day. The average American, by the way where is that person, consumes much more than that daily. I think most of us would lose weight eating 1,890 calories a day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Balanced diet?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I know the reply to this diet as I have heard it many times:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>but this isn&#8217;t a balanced diet<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Okay, you live in an air-conditioned home, drive an air-conditioned vehicle, probably work in an air-conditioned workplace, drink clean water, use indoor toilets, bath every day, wear clean clothes, sleep in a bed every night, and so on and so on with the health benefits of modern life.<\/p>\n<p>The preponderance of these modern life benefits far outweigh the concerns of a balanced diet. At least for the six months that you will use this diet to lose weight.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, now everyone can be angry with me, but only for an hour. After all, I am &#8220;skinny&#8221; and the average American is not.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Since I am skinny, and no one yells at me about what I write here, I will write some more about weight loss. Now to a more specific diet. This is taken in part from the movie Fat Head. Henceforth, when you see Burger King you may substitute McDonald&#8217;s or Wendy&#8217;s or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[215],"class_list":["post-1321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diet","tag-diet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1322,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions\/1322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}