{"id":133806,"date":"2017-07-06T09:09:08","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T15:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/06\/yes-its-diet-time-again.html"},"modified":"2017-07-06T09:09:08","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T15:09:08","slug":"yes-its-diet-time-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/06\/yes-its-diet-time-again.html","title":{"rendered":"Yes, it&#039;s Diet Time again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My weight has been edging upward for the past several months, for a variety of reasons, and has reached a point where I want to rein it in and move in the opposite direction. <\/p>\n<p>My most successful past efforts have been with calorie counting &#8212; it&#39;s by no means an exact science, but it both lets me play with numbers <i>and<\/i> (most importantly) makes me conscious of what (and how much) I&#39;m eating. That, in turn, gets me back into good habits, like not taking seconds, etc.  <\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s the habit stuff that I think makes weight loss sustainable over time &#8212; crash diets and &quot;let me give up all the things I really like&quot; diets tend (according to both research and my own anecdata) to fail sooner or later.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#39;m firing back up the MyNetDiary app [<a href=\"http:\/\/mynetdiary.com\" class=\"ot-anchor\">http:\/\/mynetdiary.com<\/a>] on all my various devices, and having at it. I won&#39;t be posting extensively about the whole thing (because I don&#39;t want to be one of <i>those<\/i> dieters), but making public mention now and again will hopefully keep me honest.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6439675312899677905\/6439675315802238754'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-nrGcllZK3ww\/WV5SlLM-byI\/AAAAAAAEaxc\/mxEzT2XujYQzqs7ZxbM_6oImxQBQXeD8ACJoC\/diet%2Bcounting%2Bcarbs.png?imgmax=660' style='max-width:650px;' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/MG2iarKKbsd'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My weight has been edging upward for the past several months, for a variety of reasons, and has reached a point where I want to rein it in and move in the opposite direction. My most successful past efforts have been with calorie counting &#8212; it&#39;s by no means an exact science, but it both &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/06\/yes-its-diet-time-again.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Yes, it&#039;s Diet Time again&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":133807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/diet+counting+carbs.pngimgmax=660.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13950,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/02\/27\/the-geek-diet-should-work.html","url_meta":{"origin":133806,"position":0},"title":"The Geek Diet should work","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 27-Feb-09 8:11pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Amongst all the various fad diets mixing and matching proteins (lots or little), carbs (ditto), fat (generally low), a big study just published at the New England Journal of Medicine confirms that the results ... ... are all pretty much the same, and the same as simply cutting back on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Health Science&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Health Science","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/health\/health-science"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":132204,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/10\/so-maybe-its-time-to-switch-back-to-regular-soda.html","url_meta":{"origin":133806,"position":1},"title":"So maybe it&#039;s time to switch back to Regular Soda","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 10-Dec-16 11:37am","format":false,"excerpt":"Yeah, people have been kvetching about Aspartame (the only artificial sweetener that I can stand) since it was first introduced, but I've always thought, \"It's better than the calories. 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