{"id":780,"date":"2021-04-30T17:17:34","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T17:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-583903-1890774.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=780"},"modified":"2021-07-28T12:58:16","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T16:58:16","slug":"this-man-lost-150-pounds-in-lockdown-how-he-did-it-is-inspiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/2021\/04\/30\/this-man-lost-150-pounds-in-lockdown-how-he-did-it-is-inspiring\/","title":{"rendered":"This Man Lost 150 Pounds in Lockdown &#038; How He Did It is Inspiring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than a year into the pandemic, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/04\/19\/well\/mind\/covid-mental-health-languishing.html\"><strong>many of us are languishing<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 we&#8217;re exhausted, lethargic, and feeling guilty for spending so much time doom scrolling through social media and streaming apps.<\/p>\n<p>Kyle White, on the other hand, has never felt better.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/newfoundland-labrador\/nl-man-drops-150-pounds-1.5985243\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Canada&#8217;s CBC reported last week<\/strong><\/a>, White has lost 150 pounds since going into lockdown about a year ago, completely overhauling his habits, health and lifestyle in the process.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.cbc.ca\/i\/caffeine\/syndicate\/?mediaId=1888037443964\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A little over a year ago, I stepped on the scale and I was around 430 pounds,&#8221; White told the CBC. It was at that point that he vowed to make a change.<\/p>\n<p>He started small by committing to walking his dog each day, extending the walks a little further each week, and eventually getting into hiking.<\/p>\n<p>But the biggest change has been to his diet, which he says is now &#8220;about 98 per cent free of animal products.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It takes a lot of hard work, but the conditions that we had the past year kind of gave us the time, which was, maybe, a hidden benefit in the mess that was 2020,&#8221; he told the CBC.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the video above to learn more about how White lost &#8220;a whole person&#8221; worth of wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than a year into the pandemic, many of us are languishing \u2013 we&#8217;re exhausted, lethargic, and feeling guilty for spending so much time doom scrolling through social media and streaming apps. Kyle White, on the other hand, has never felt better. As Canada&#8217;s CBC reported last week, White has lost 150 pounds since going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":799,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions\/799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}