{"id":680958,"date":"2010-03-03T09:00:50","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T14:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinmullaney.com\/?p=612"},"modified":"2010-03-03T09:00:50","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T14:00:50","slug":"the-unprocessed-food-diet-%e2%80%93-the-first-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/680958","title":{"rendered":"The Unprocessed Food Diet \u2013 the first month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About a month ago, I <a href=\"http:\/\/kevinmullaney.com\/tag\/unprocessed-food-diet\/\">changed my eating habits quite drastically<\/a>. This is an update on how it&#8217;s going. <\/p>\n<p>First off, I&#8217;m mostly over my cravings. I no longer feel like I did when I was quitting smoking. In the first week, I was a bit obsessed with food, and I never felt satiated. Now, I&#8217;m feeling much more in balance and less obsessed. If there is a sugary treat in front of me, I do find it hard to resist, but if none is around, I&#8217;m not thinking about it. <span id=\"more-612\"><\/span>Secondly, I&#8217;m feeling much fuller when I eat then I did before I started this. I can eat a serving of spinach and a poached egg and feel very satisfied for several hours. When I eat an average sized meal, I will often feel stuffed. I&#8217;m having no trouble feeling satiated by simple vegetables, meat, whole grain bread and brown rice. I&#8217;m still having butter on my toast and drinking whole milk, but I don&#8217;t need it to feel full.<\/p>\n<p>I have continued to lose weight, almost 10 pounds since I started. I think I would have lost more by now, except that every weekend, I&#8217;ve ended up going off the diet for a meal or two and gaining some back. I lose weight all week only to bounce on the weekend from some restaurant meals or a house party. Still, by mid week I seem to be on track again. I anticipate having less trouble with this over the coming weeks, since my Saturday plans will not be including many parties or meals at restaurants.<\/p>\n<p>I would definitely recommend this approach, however, you most likely will have to stay on the plan indefinitely to keep the weight off. I think you would be able to indulge in the occasional treat, but the bulk of your eating would have to remain, whole, unprocessed foods, simply cooked. <\/p>\n<p>This is not a short cut. That&#8217;s fine with me. And I think it allows for occasionally eating more indulgent meals. I&#8217;m not sure how much I want them though. Yesterday, I had a lovely piece of chicken, some asparagus and some brown rice for dinner. It tasted great.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tickerfactory.com\/weight-loss\/wuLk99H\">Unprocessed Food Diet<br \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tickers.tickerfactory.com\/WeightPlot\/wuLk99H.png?w=780\" alt=\"Weight Chart\" title=\"Weight Chart\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a month ago, I changed my eating habits quite drastically. This is an update on how it&#8217;s going. First off, I&#8217;m mostly over my cravings. I no longer feel like I did when I was quitting smoking. In the first week, I was a bit obsessed with food, and I never felt satiated. Now, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2603,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-680958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2R9c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2603"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}