You Win Some, You Lose Some, You Give Some Away

Day 35 - 41

The Stag Weekend

We tried the local cuisine, KFC for breakfast, true Stagg doo class. I haven't had a KFC for ages, and it wasn't very satisfying, just a really fluffy sort of feeling, like they had pumped air into it, AERO style. Absolutely no healthy options there, not sure they even had any veggie options, but then what does one expect from a restaurant, which has both, 'fried' and 'chicken in it's title. I don't think fast food outlets have the same pressure on them to 'go 'el-feey' as they do in the UK. but then with a stagg sized head ache, salad would not suffice. When ever I see people eat KFC it always looks like a vultures eating their prey, I really like it for that reason, no pretense, just straight forward, mastication. salad nicoise anyone?

Went into a restaurant, and one of the party says in english and I quote,"oi, mate, have you got any real food, like a full english?", the poor waiter had no idea what he was on about, needless to say, our mate orders lamb chops and chips. I thought I would go for the healthy option, a veggie paella, but when it came it was it was swimming in oil, blergh. It was like the time I was round a friends house and his mum cooked me some burgers (mum's gone to Iceland!), and they were so full of fat that when i bit into it the shock of all this hot grease hitting my lower lip, nearly made me puke, so i through it over the next door neighbors garden and got a right telling off, naughty me.

Went to a great kebab house simply called 'Pitta' a very nice kebab house, not as greasy as a proper english kebab.

For some very strange reason it was decided that to get to the bar quicker (a few of us got off at the wrong stop) we would jog, 'soccer training' style to the bar, "one is touch the floor with your left hand, two is touch the floor with your right, three is do a header" all whilst running along. still not sure quite why, it just felt right.

Manage to avoid the general stick from the guys about being on a 'diet' whist consuming pints, there were far more interesting things happening like people getting pick pocketed by prostitutes, or people puking on the tube. fank gawd. I imagine if it was a slightly more serene holiday, my non-dieting activities would have come more under the spot light.

I had a dream of going swimming during the weekend to burn off some of the booze, I didn't manage to much swimming as the water was bloody freezing! I lasted about 2 minutes, in there.

anyway, back to normal now, fruit, 'lite' drinking, branflakes, etc etc.

my original aim for the end of week 5 (next saturday) is 89.5kg, according to my plan in my first post all those many days ago, I am not sure how likely that is, due to the stagg weekend, but will see how the excercise and (the belly) goes.

Went swimming and weighed in at 90kg on wednesday before the stagg, awesome!

Weighed myself Friday before the Stag weekend as I was about 90 - 91kg, (was using a friends scales, and they weren't very accurate they are, lean one way and your 12 stone the other way 14 stone, you get idea).

After the weekend I felt a little bloated, but I think it will be quite easy to lose the weight as it is primarily booze belly, rather than hardened fat.