Oktober

[El Gordo]

By way of contrast, here's me yesterday:

Breakfast -- porridge with raisins, banana and bran; glass of smoothie, green tea

After 4 mile run, lunch of chicken leg and home-made salad concoction (beans, chopped onion, grated carrot, red pepper, mushroom)

Late afternoon: fruit

Evening: baked potato with tuna and green salad.

Green tea and water throughout the day.

Probably sounds awful but it was delicious. Seems to be gradually melting the worst of the lard as well.

The surprising thing about having a healthy spell is that you seem to lose your cravings for the roast dinner, bread and butter pudding and Guinness diet. I should be salivating over your day, but strangely, I'm not. B and B pudding is a former weakness of mine too, especially M's mum's version, but at the moment, it holds no appeal. I'm sort of enjoying the change, and enjoying how it's making me feel.

Oh dear, this all sounds a bit sanctimonious, doesn't it? Isn't meant to, honestly. Wonder when I'll crack. It's normally happened before now. Usually a fortnight off the booze is enough to send me nuts, and I run back to the pub with my tongue hanging out. It's been 4 weeks +, and no sign of caving in just yet. I hope to continue as far as Brighton at least, and will see how I feel then. Next obstacle after that is Christmas, then another month to Almeria. What happens if I get to Almeria without having surrendered? Surely I wouldn't consider a booze-free Almeria?