{"id":10470,"date":"2005-07-20T21:45:32","date_gmt":"2005-07-20T21:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/samhilliard.com\/wordpress?p=10470"},"modified":"2005-07-20T21:45:32","modified_gmt":"2005-07-20T21:45:32","slug":"atkins-day-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2005\/07\/20\/atkins-day-three\/","title":{"rendered":"Atkins Day Three"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two-thirds of today was a mash of blurred vision, headaches and cramps.   Less of a day, and more  like a twelve hour nightmare.  Then at at five PM, a switch clicked and the fatigue disappeared.   I went from surly Atkins acolyte to happy camper.   The shift, profound and noticeable, came with lots of energy.   Like whole lots.  A workout schedule for Thursday was bumped up to tonight, because any more inactivity became unthinkable.<\/p>\n<p>This may mean I crossed into ketosis, a state where the body can burn it&#8217;s own fat stores for energy.  Then again, maybe this is but sweet delirium.  Strength in some weight lifting movements has improved over last week.   A encouraging sign.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m roughly the same weight as three days ago, which is excellent.    My experiment in Atkins is to test the claims of fat reduction, not weight loss.<\/p>\n<p>Also, since the shift, writing is possible.  Overall concentration levels decreased for a day or so.  Now it&#8217;s back to the jungle!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two-thirds of today was a mash of blurred vision, headaches and cramps. Less of a day, and more like a twelve hour nightmare. Then at at five PM, a switch clicked and the fatigue disappeared. I went from surly Atkins acolyte to happy camper. The shift, profound and noticeable, came with lots of energy. Like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atkins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}