An Glugaire: 30kg to go

Breakfast: Brown roll
Tomato
Ham
No spread
2 coffees

Lunch: 2 Muller Light yogurts
1 litre diet 7up
1 litre sparkling water
2 Nutrigrain

Breakfast: Brown roll
Tomato
2 slices of ham
Banana

Lunch: 2 Muller light yogurts
2 Nutrigrain
1 coffee
1 Panini

Supper: 1 litre diet coke
1 bread roll
Ham
Tomato
No butter
1 Muller Light yogurt
2 Nutrigrain
1 litre sparkling water

Exercise: None

Breakfast/Lunch: 3 slices of wholemeal brown bread
Turkey
Tomato
No spread

Break: cup of coffee
3 biscuits

Dinner/ Supper: 100g of popcorn
1 litre diet coke
1 Muller light yogurt
500 ml diet orange
500 ml sparkling water

Exercise: None

Breakfast: Cup-A-Soup
Brown roll
No spread
2 slices of turkey
1 tomato
1 litre of water

Break: 300ml diet 7up
1 15g pack of popcorn

Lunch: 2 Cup-A-Soup
2 medium rolls
2 slices of ham
1 tomato
1 Nutrigrain

Dinner: Chicken Korma
Peas
Mushrooms
2 330ml cans of Coke
1 Nutrigrain bar
30g popcorn
Supper: 1 yogurt
1 Nutrigrain
2 litres of water

Exercise: None

Weight: 108.2kg (lost 5.8kg)

Breakfast: 4 Weetabix
low fat milk
300ml Tropicana grapefruit juice

Lunch: Brown baguette
Tomato
Ham
Cucumber
No spread
Small coffee

Dinner/ Supper: 1 Yogurt peanuts
1 Popcorn
1 Nutrigrain
1 Yogurt
1 litre Diet 7UP

Exercise: 10km plus climb through the Wicklow mountains in Gleann Dá Loch. I am so unfit. Really annoyed with myself. But I finished it, albeit like a drowned rat. Will probably have a very bad flu this week as a result. Too tired to make a proper dinner so eating the above now.

Breakfast: 4 Weetabix with minimum amount of low fat milk (just to wet them)
300ml Tropicana grapefruit juice

Lunch: 6 dark Ryvita
No butter or spread
2 slices of lean Turkey
Tomato
2 mugs of coffee

Break: Muller Light yogurt
Nutrigrain bar

Dinner: Spaghetti Bolognese
Peas
sweet corn
(couldn’t finish even half of the plate and, amazingly, I left it)

Throughout the day: 1 litre of sparkling water
1 litre of diet Coke
1 ice cream

Exercise: None

Breakfast: 4 weetabix with low fat milk.

Lunch: 6 slices of Ryvita
2 slices of turkey
1 tomato
No butter
2 mugs of coffee
300ml Tropicana orange juice

Dinner/Supper: Large Popcorn and 2 large Pepsi Max (cinema)
Muller Light yogurt
Nutrigrain
500ml diet 7up.

Throughout the day: 1 litre of Riverrock sparkling water

Exercise: Walked from Baile an Bhóthair to COBÁC. 30 minutes.

Breakfast: 4 Weetabix with low fat milk.
250ml Tropicana grapefruit juice

Lunch: 1 Cup-A-Soup vegetable (low cal)
1/2 brown roll (I’ve lost it; never before have I had half a roll!)
500ml diet Coke

Dinner/Supper: 2 Cup-A-Soup (low cal)
1/2 brown roll with banana
1 bag of Honest popcorn
1 Nutrigrain bar
1 litre of Diet Coke

Throughout the day: 3 litres of Riverrock sparkling water.

Exercise: Walked for a full hour with Yan from COBÁC to Stig Lorcáin.

Breakfast: 6 dark Ryvita (only 27 calories each)
I Banana
No butter or anything
Two mugs of coffee

Lunch: 6 coctail sausages
6 small onion rings
500ml still water *

Dinner: Large popcorn and large 7up Free * (Féach ar ‘Mo Mhothúcháin’)

Supper: 2 Muller Light yogurts- toffee and cherry. Lovely, and extremely low fat- must be bad! Had a Nutri-grain, also low fat but not too low.

Throughout the day: 3 more litres of Riverrock sparkling water

Exercise: None.

Breakfast: 400ml Tropicana grapefruit juice
4 Weetabix
1 apple

Lunch: Two slices of fruit and fibre bread with ham, cheese and Benecol.

Break: Packet of Honest popcorn
Strawberry Nutri-Grain

Dinner: 4 tortillas
Fillet steak grilled
Mushrooms, onion, peppers and sweetcorn mix fried in Extra Virgin Olive Oil (apparently heat removes the Extra Virgin taste so I’d be better off with simple Oliver Oil if I am going to fry it)

Throughout the day: Two mugs of coffee
1500ml Diet Coke
1500ml Riverrock Sparkling Water

Exercise: Cycled to and from Aisling’s first thing this morning.

Breakfast: Two Benecol 67.5g yogurts (tiny things!)
4 Weetabix with low fat milk (Haven’t had cereal in a couple of years; it was refreshing)

Lunch: One Benecol 67.5g yogurt
Turkey and tomato on ordinary size white roll. Added pepper, and no butter etc. Didn’t miss it either.

Supper: Two Benecol 67.5g yogurts

Throughout the day: 2-3 mugs of real coffee with low fat milk
1litre of Diet Coke
2-3 litres of Sparkling Riverrock water

Exercise: Walked for 90 minutes with Yan to Domhnach Broc and back. Enjoyed it with my big round hat (which Aisling says makes me look fat, and last night she asked me to take it off because it was, and I quote, “disturbing”) Need to do it every day.

Feel: Hungry, and conscious of the big task ahead of me. How did Terence McSwiney last 74 days without any food at all? And what felicitious words he spoke: ‘it is not those who inflict the most but those who endure the most who ultimately triumph’.

Start Date: 9 January 2006
My Height: 183cm
My Weight: 114kg
My BMI: 34

My Overall Target:

Healthy BMI: (up to) 24.9
Healthy maximum weight for this BMI: 83kg
Must lose: 31kg (Yikes!)

My Target for Stage One:

Go from 114kg to 100kg in ten weeks: March 13th 2006.

My Target for Stage Two:

Go from 100kg to 90kg in ten weeks: May 24th 2006.

My Target for Stage Three:

Go from 90kg to 83kg in ten weeks: 2nd August 2006

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