{"id":163,"date":"2006-12-27T22:14:18","date_gmt":"2006-12-28T02:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/27\/poverty-diet\/"},"modified":"2006-12-27T22:14:18","modified_gmt":"2006-12-28T02:14:18","slug":"poverty-diet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/27\/poverty-diet\/","title":{"rendered":"Poverty Diet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Best diet I&#8217;ve ever heard of.  It worked well, steady weight loss over time, kept it off well too.  The secret?  Not having enough money to buy food.  Pay the shelter bills first &#8211; hopefully you&#8217;ve enough for those.  Next: feed the kids &#8211; peanut butter, pasta, tomato sauce, and dried beans from the food bank.  The parenting centre would let me scan their shelves for foods my kids liked.  Other places I&#8217;d be handed a pre-packed brown bag. Grow a garden for vegetables. In the winter grow sprouts.<\/p>\n<p>No food = no eating = get skinny.  No exercise required, though since I didn&#8217;t have a car or bus money walking everywhere probably speeded up the process.<\/p>\n<p>This method worked for me and my friend, another single mom.  Of course there are side effects: no energy, depression, and hopelessness.  And clothes get droopy.  But isn&#8217;t it worth it to be thin?<\/p>\n<p>Ahhhh those were the days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Best diet I&#8217;ve ever heard of. It worked well, steady weight loss over time, kept it off well too. The secret? Not having enough money to buy food. Pay the shelter bills first &#8211; hopefully you&#8217;ve enough for those. Next: feed the kids &#8211; peanut butter, pasta, tomato sauce, and dried beans from the food [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,17,44,39,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}