Day 3 - Lunch: False Promise

The inside information which you received yesterday regarding the possibility of wraps today was unfounded, however do not despare - yet another lovely homemade salad was prepared which was consumed together with a couple of bits of bread as demonstrated in our lovely picture. Lunch also included the now obligatory diet coke, an apple and our usual handful of red and green grapes.

This afternoon as as a snack we have had some raisins, another instant coffee with skimmed milk and a go-ahead bar type thingy (160 cals and 3.6g of fat). Dont think this is particularly good value for my calories and fat - may need to rethink...

I was just thinking, what we really need hear is a food expert of sorts or indeed a panel of food experts and possibly chefs who can rate each days consumptions and give nutritional advice and comment to our intrepid dieter. Anyone out there?

Alternatively we could just have some encouragement, words of support, I suppose even abuse would be nice to know someone is out there.

Anyway, having checked the mirror again in the bathroom at work it appears I am still not yet thin so i think that we will need to do this more scientificly. Think we will have a weigh in tomorrow to start the ball rolling and update this each friday as a treat for all of you.

Big mission for the weekend is to do some exercise and post exhaustive (get it?) details of this here for your review and dissemniation.

Adios

Day 3 - Breakfast: Another quickie

The dreaded Instant Coffee and Skimmed Milk

Porridge with Skimmed Milk: "Exclusively grown and milled in Scotland"

Pear - Like a Bear but with a "P" and less hairy - and a photo - for no reason other than I can.

Day 2 - Dinner: No preservatives!

A quick one this evening only as I have now eaten 9 consecutive meals in the office and would dearly like to go home soon.

Dinner was a M&S "Eat Well" Beef Stroganoff, long grain rice & a creamy mushroom and Brandy - not terrible nutriotional value at 460 calories and 10.4g of fat for the job lot.

Also, very nice to see that you can buy a ready meal that includes no artificial colourings, preservatives, E Numbers or anything else untoward whatsoever. All ingredients are as you would expect, rice, beef, onions, ground bay leaves, leeks, garlic puree, tomato puree etc.

Compare this to my raisins from earlier. Now we would expect that a packet of raisins would just include raisins, right? Sadly not, my packet of raisins contained both Seedless Raisins and Vegetable Oil as a Glazing Agent. What is the world coming to!

See you tomorrow!

Day 2 - Lunch: More Home Made Goodness

Another lunch, another salad.

My fiancee (who was responsible for my lovely salad) has kindly pointed out that I keep on referring to her as my fiance which would make her a chap. Nothing wrong with that of course but nonetheless I will watch my spelling going forward

Homemade Salad with grated low fat cheese and cous cous - A lot better for me than any of the various offerings from Pret, Eat etc however probably not quite as healthy as my cottage cheese extravaganza from yesterday. I have inside information that tomorrow may involve wraps!

Apple

Pear

Coke Zero - Mizing it up after yesterdays Diet Coke excitement

And a further bag of Snack A Jacks (Salt & Vinegar) this afternoon - These are a very hip snack indeed, the back of the packet refers to "The low down...." in very cool writing as opposed to the usual Nutritional Information. For those that care 89 calories and 1.6gees of fat.

To avoid the temptations of the vending machine I have in place another Tesco Low Fat Yogurt which thankfully does not contain any Beetroot and a childs pack of Raisins.

Day 2 - Breakfast: 24 Hours in...

Well well well, did any of us think we would end up here. 24 Hours down and going strong!

I must admit, given my super job yesterday I was expecting to be thin this morning but when I finally fully checked myself out in the mirror it would appear that I am still fat. Nonetheless on we plod, I expect I will be thin by tomorrow but we will just have to see and in any event we have 364 fun filled days to go.

364 days left, it almost feels like we don't have enough time left together!

Anyhoo, back to business...

Porridge with Skimmed Milk: Warming!

Instant Coffee with Skimmed Milk: This is getting desperate, tempted to treat myself to an espresso later.

Banana: Not sure what to say really, its a banana - nature's favourite practical joke.

Day 1 - Dinner: Asian Night!

As we bring Day 1 to a close I have to say it has been a true pleasure updating you today. Even though clearly noone is reading this, and possibly ever will, I feel a bond to you, my imaginary followers and hope that tomorrow our voage of discovery and hunger will continue.

Asian Themed Delicacies for this evening courtesy of my long suffering fiance!

Homemade Vegetable Stirfry - another picture! god bless technology

Edamame Beans - fun to say and fun to eat! and another picture, you lucky devils

And to finish, an apple a pear and a big bottle of water!

Night night

Day 1 - Lunch: Vending Machine Stereotypes

Homemade Salad with Cottage Cheese - No Really, see the lovely picture

Handful of Grapes - Both red and green, how very diverse of me

Tescos Low Fat Strawberry Yogurt - Worryingly this contains Rice Starch and Beetroot Juice from Concentrate!

Diet Coke - A necessary evil

I was all ready to celebrate the momentous occasion of having managed to eat sensibly for two consecutive meals by indulging in a diet coke so off I plodded to the scene of so many of my failings, the office vending machine. I had my 50p piece ready and proudly inserted this into the machine knowing that whilst diet coke wasn't exactly natures finest it was certainly better than a bounty or a packet of crisps. Alas - my shiny silver hexagon would not be accepted and whilst I scrambled to find some alternate currency someone else sneaked into the coffee area and looked over to see me scrambling for coins at the vending machine. With a knowing glance they nodded and picked up their drink and wandered out secretly feeling sorry for me and my chocolate grabbing ways. Having by this point obtained my cursed beverage I was sorely tempted to run them down, sit on them, proudly display my diet coke and explain that I wasn't indeed buying chocolate or crisps or even full fat coke however this would probably be considered "inappropriate office behaviour" and therefore I trudged back to my desk crestfallen.

Just finished the yogurt which thankfully didnt taste of Beetroot or Rice or strangely enough Strawberry.

Day 1 - Breakfast: Is Skimmed Milk just White Water?

Walking from the train to work I shuffled past pret, starbucks, mcdonalds et al looking at my feet lest my old friends tempt me with their savoury wares.

Instant Coffee with Skimmed Milk - Better than a venti latte with hazelnut syrup

Instant Porridge with Skimmed Milk + an Apple - Better than any type of muffin, sandwich, fried breakfast, coco pops, etc

Is Skimmed Milk really milk or is it actually just white water? I have my doubts...

Also does anyone (not that anyone reads this - Hi Mum!) - think that its weird that we drink the milk of another animal on a daily basis? just a thought...

See you at Lunch!