{"id":130,"date":"2007-05-06T17:45:06","date_gmt":"2007-05-07T01:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irasnyder.com\/wordpress\/?p=130"},"modified":"2007-05-06T17:45:06","modified_gmt":"2007-05-07T01:45:06","slug":"new-diet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irasnyder.com\/wordpress\/?p=130","title":{"rendered":"New Diet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, as any of you that have seen me in the past few months or so know, I’ve been on a diet for quite a few months now. It has worked out very well for me; I’ve gone from about 235 pounds to roughly 175 pounds. I may weigh less than that now, but I’m not sure, I haven’t had access to a scale since I moved to Colorado.<\/p>\n

My original diet was The Hacker’s Diet<\/a>. It’s basically nothing more than a calorie-restrictive diet with an exercise plan. Nothing too revolutionary, but it got the job done.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately there is a problem with long-term use of calorie restriction to lose weight: your body will down-regulate itself to compensate for the reduced calorie intake. I’m pretty sure this has happened to me over the past two months or so, because I’ve only lost a few (maybe 5) pounds over the whole time period. So I’ve decided to do something different, since I think it just might work.<\/p>\n

What I’m switching to is a slow-carb diet, not to be confused with the most popular low-carb diet around: the Atkins Diet. The idea behind the slow-carb diet is that you eat things that are more difficult for the body to break down. It’s also known as a low Glycemic Index diet. I got the idea from these two blog posts by Tim Ferris:<\/p>\n