Meals - Saturday 28 June

Breakfast: Dorsets and espresso

Lunch: at Satsuma - edamame and beef yaki udon

Dinner: at Browns (before seeing the awful film The Happening) shared antipasti plate of salami, ham, olives and aubergine. Glass of indifferent white wine.

Dinner, Friday 27 June

At Two Brydges: calamari and lemon tartare sauce, followed by venison and cranberry pie with mustard mash. A bit of birthday cake. 3 x glass champagne, 2 x glass red wine.

Breakfast & Lunch, Friday 27 June

Breakfast: Dorsets and espresso

Lunch: a rather nice feta, spinach and pine nut pie from Higgeldy Piggeldy - whoever they are.

Steady state training at Reebok

Total = 1,732 kcals

Main session -

new weight, new low

And the result from the weigh-in is... 92.4kg / 30.5% body fat.

While I still have a way to go to get to 81kg or thereabouts, I have moved down a number of jeans sizes and it feels much more comfortable. (As a terrible hoarder, I probably have Levi 501s in sizes 32" to 42" in my wardrobe). Current jeans are feeling roomy, so maybe it will soon be time to move down the that drawer full of even smaller jeans...

Yay me.

Meals - Thursday 26 June

Breakfast: Dorsets and espresso

Lunch: left over felafels, peanut butter on toast x 2

Dinner: cheddar and bacon quiche, tenderstem broccoli, roasted peppers and tomato

Steady state training at Reebok - Wednesday

Total = 1,519 kcals

Main segment -

Dinner Wednesday 25 June

At The East Room: very nice steak, watercress, vine tomatoes, broccoli. 1/2 bottle of wine. Shared cheese plate.

Monday steady state session at Reebok

Total = 1,854 kcals

Main segment -

Breakfast & lunch, Wednesday 25 June

Breakfast: Dorsets and espresso

Lunch: falafel, salad and humous

Tuesday 24 June

Breakfast: Dorsets and espresso

Lunch: at Avellino's with Nity and Camille - veal ascalope with cheese, spinach and green beans

Dinner: home made chilli con carne (pork) with brown and camargue rice

Monday 23 June

Breakfast: Dorsets and espresso

Lunch: chicke breast and salad

Dinner: shish kebab in lavash bread

meals - Sunday

Breakfast: Dorsets and espresso

Lunch: at Leon with Stef - grilled chicken with brown rice pilaff and slaw

Dinner: Neil cooked roast chicken, roast potatoes, red cabbage, mangetout

Dinner, Saturday 21 June

With Stef at Zizzi: mixed salad to start, followed by pepperoni, goats cheese and rosemary pizza. To finish, a disgusting pannetone bread an butter pudding - more like pannetone in scrambled eggs - yuk. 1/2 bottle of wine followed by 1/2 bottle of Moët. Yum.

Steady state session at Reebok

Total = 1,703 kcals

Main segment -

Breakfast & lunch, Saturday 21 June

Breakfast: Dorsets and espresso

Lunch: I'm a very bad boy - due to timings, I skipped a proper lunch, but did have some banana and raisins before the gym.

Dinner, Friday 20 June

Before we watched The Valley of Elah: harissa roasted chicken leg with broccoli and carrots.

Breakfast & lunch, Friday 20 June

Breakfast: Dorsets and espresso

Lunch: brown pasta, carrots and roasted pepper, tomato sauce

Taste London Festival

Matthew can breathe a sigh of relief - Taste London did not turn me into a Mr Creosote food and booze crazed eat-maniac. A combination of the group continually splitting up and a disastrous Laurent-Perrier tasting session meant that I was a vision of restraint. All below are tiny taster portion sizes:

• 3 x glasses of champagne, 1 x Peroni beer, 1 x G&T
  
• 1 x rock oyster, 1 x teeny tiny wild salmon blini (the L-P tasting)
  
• slow roasted beef with gratin dauphinoise (Le Gavroche)
  
• 7 hour roasted lamb with balsamic onion and mash (Tom's Kitchen)
  
• lamb Xiacuti with rice (Café Spice Namaste)
  
• twice baked goats cheese soufflé (Fortum & Mason's)
  

Training session solo

Must have gone a bit overboard yesterday as my legs gave out on my third portion today, so total = 1,313 kcals

Main session -

Breakfast and lunch Thursday 19 June

Breakfast: Dorsets and espresso

Lunch: chilli lime chicken strips and salad

Dinner Thursday 18 June

Crusted lamb with red cabbage, broccoli, spring greens, carrots and baby potatoes.

Steady state session at Reebok

Total = 1,840 kcals

Main session -

lunch Wednesday 18 June

Carrots and couscous.

Weighing myself, I have a new low - 93.2 kg / 30.5% bodyfat. Yay me.

Dinner Tuesday 17 June

Neil made a very nice roast pork loin thing from Waitrose and salad.

Training session with Matthew at Reebok

Session total = 1,426 kcals

Main session -

Dinner, Monday 16 June

After the screening of The Night James Brown Saved Boston at the Meltdown Festival: 4 x vogel-toast and peanut butter.



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Breakfast & lunch, Monday 16 June

Breakfast: Dorsets & espresso

Lunch: with the lovely James at Wagamama - ginger chicken udon, shared edamame and tori kare age

Steady state session at Reebok - Saturday

Total = 1,692 kcals

Main session -

Post-gig snackette

2 x Vogel-toast and Vegemite

Breakfast and lunch Sunday 15 June

Breakfast: Dorsets muesli and espresso.

Lunch: at The Rivington Grill in Greenwich. Salt beef and green beans to start, followed by roast chicken, roast potatoes, carrots, sage stuffing. Three cheeses to follow. Still no booze.

Food Saturday 14 June

Breakfast: Dorsets muesli and espresso

Lunch: cous cous

Dinner: at Addis in Kings Cross - aubergine salad followed by chicken kebab, rice and salad. Still no booze.

Dinner Friday 13 June

Pork medallion (lean!) with broccoli, green beans and carrots. Rice pudding.

Lunch Friday 13 June

Leon: grilled chicken with chilli, brown rice and slaw. Lemon, ginger and mint drink.

Training session with Matthew at Reebok

Total = 1,472 kcals

Main session -

Breakfast Friday 13 June

Dorsets muesli spelt stuff. Espresso.

Dinner Thursday 12 June

Pizza Express before the Philip Glass: 1/2 mixed salad, pizza Romana Etna. Water, apple juice

Lunch Thursday 12 June

Itsu: 4 salmon nigiri, 4 salmon avocado maki, rocket & pumpkin seed salad. Ginger and lemon detox drink.

Breakfast Thursday 12 June

Breakfast: Dorset's Cereal muesli stuff. Espresso.

Steady state session at Reebok

Session total = 1,630 kcals

Main segment -

Dinner Wednesday 11 June

Dinner: harissa roasted chicken with salad and fine asparagus

Breakfast and lunch, Wednesday 11 June

Breakfast: Dorsets cereals, espresso.

Lunch: wholemeal penne pasta with roasted pepper sauce.

Dinner Tuesday 10 June

I was very bad - chicken shish and chips. But think of all the salad!

Session with Matthew at Reebok

Total = 1,333 kcals

Main session -

Breakfast & lunch, Tuesday 10 June

Breakfast: finished the Weetabix Minis. Espresso.

Lunch: leftover harissa chicken from last night with brown rice.

Dinner Monday 9 June

Harissa chicken leg with broccoli, carrots, brown rice

Breakfast and lunch Monday 9 June

Breakfast: Weetabix Minis, espresso.

Snack: pack of Sun Maid raisins.

Lunch: Itsu salmon nigiri x 3, salmon alvocado maki x 3, rocket and pumpkin seed salad. Ginger and lemon detox zinger drinkie thing.

Breakfast & lunch, Sunday 8 June

Breakfast: weetabix minis

Very, stupidly late barbeque lunch: doritos and reduced fat hummus, lamb skewers, chicken breast, sausage, rice salad and salad

Dinner Saturday 7 June

Wagamama: chicken chilli men, edamama, chicken tore age, ginger cheesecake

Steady state training at Reebok

Walk + 30 mins bike + 15 mins nordic thingie + 15 mins bike + walk = 1,635 kcals

(main part of session)

Breakfast and lunch Saturday 7 June

Breakfast: Weetabix fruit and nut minis. Espresso.

Lunch: an entire Soreen loaf. Oops.

Dinner Friday 6 June

Lamb steak with sweet potato and corn on the cob.

Breakfast and lunch Friday 6 June

Breakfast: Weetabix Minis and espresso. Looked at the ingredients for the minis and their second ingredient is sugar, so I need to get my fix of Dorset's muesli sharpish.

Lunch: 2 pieces of peanut butter on toast. Lentil soup.

Snack-ette: 2 more pieces of peanut butter on toast.

Dinner Thursday 5 June

Lazy - ham and ricotta capelletti with chilli tomato sauce.

training session with Matthew

Total = 1,552 kcals with max HR of 180 bps, apparently. That would be the interval training then.

Breakfast and lunch Thursday 5 June

Breakfast: Dorsets muesli (the last one - eek!) and espresso.

Lunch: at Avellino's in Glamoursmith with Camille. Chicken Cacciatore with spinach and french beans - very good. But disgusting coffee.

dinner Wednesday 4 June

Pork loin steak marinated in garlic and chilli, couscous and tenderstem broccoli.

Lunch Wednesday 4 June

I'm a very bad boy as I skipped breakfast today.

Lunch was at Wagamama with the lovely James: edamame, ginger chicken udon and apple/lime juice.

Session at Reebok - Tuesday 3 June

I may have missed my first interval training session, but I did go do some cardio tonight.

30 mins bike, 15 mins nordic fallover machine, 15 mins bike

total = 1,587 kcals

Dinner Tuesday 3 June

I did buy some nice pork steaks for tonight, but back from the gym so late I decided to just stick with some pasta and tomato with roasted peppers.

Breakfast and lunch Tuesday 3 June

Breakfast: Dorsets muesli stuff. A banana, espresso.

Lunch: Leon's chilli con carne with brown rice and slaw. Real lemonade.

Before the gym - another banana and some raisins.

Monday 2 June

Today has been a bit of a disaster. Woke up at 4am (and then every hour on the hour...) with all the symptoms of good old fashioned food poisoning.

Eventually I had some toast, some couscous and some chicken soup. And lots of water. Bleurgh.

Sunday 1 June

Breakfast was Dr Vogel toast and philly cheese x 2. Espresso.

Lunch was chicken caesar salad at the Terrace Cafe, Somerset House.
Followed by blueberry cheesecake.

We then repaired to Gordon's Wine Bar on the Embankment where we had a
couple of bottles of white wine. Olives (not nice).

Snack upon return home was a packet of mixed organic nuts. And lots of
water.