DAY ONE

Started the day with 40 lengths at the local pool, followed by cardboard flakes and skimmed milk, with bananas, which was in the end actually tasty. I have heard that exercising before you eat means that your body has to burn off stored fat, rather than sugar from your meal. It could be a load of ol' crap, but it meant that I felt like i really was hungry by the time i got back for breakfast. Weighed myself at the Swimming pool - 93 kg - 14 st 8.6 lb.

Lunch was Tuna Nicoise wrap with oolong tea.
dinner - pasta.

it took me about 50 minutes of pure swimming to do the 40 lengths, after the swimming i felt completely knackered. Surely I can't be that unfit. Next time i think i will try and do it in 45 minutes to get a sense of progression and achievement. When I was in the pool there was a lady about 40-ish, swimming along with her mouth open, which was really off putting, i couldn't help but imagine all that chlorine, that had been around my feet in her mouth, ergh! I am sure some people would pay good money for that sort of service, 'essence of young lads sweaty foot bathed in clorine'. Maybe she knows this and was very clever about the whole thing and worked out that if she goes along to the swimming pool at 10am she can get the whole thing for free.

Apologies, if you are open mouth lady and you actually have a medical problem. If you don't then you should be ashamed of yourself, or at least bung me a fiver when you get out of the pool.

going down the pub in a mo, but i will keep to diet coke and vodka, is that what dieters get pissed on? Maybe i will just have a little tipple, not go mental.

"Rum and Diet Coke is the appealing choice for weight-watchers at about 110 calories. Rum and Coke has 240 calories" (nicked from http://www.travellady.com/Issues/Issue69/spirits.htm)
I think its really nice of coke to re-brand diet coke, for men like me who couldn't possibly buy a can of diet coke, but coke 'Zero', now thats manly and cool and all my friends won't laugh at me for drinking it. I wonder if they will provide this service in a pub so i can continue to lose weight with out feeling like a middle aged female office worker, on a diet coke break. They could even put it through the same pipe, from the same box at no extra charge. No need for messy extra buttons! profits up!