Day 12 - The Rainbow

Somebody who reached 100 years old said that his secret, among others, was watching the rainbow on each dish he ate.

The plate to your left, wifey eating her rainbow (and a cauliflower to go on top still cooking) The bowls to your right, yes, RICE and BEANS! (Welcome back beans, those who are about to die salute you!)

Because of the cloud of smug in the air today, it is not recommended to get into "extenuating" workouts. ... I am afraid I won´t be able to follow the advice, so let´s hope that by Sunday the wind has taken away all the smog.

Is it true that it is only 2 days left?

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Day 11 - 1.2 BILLION below the line every day

Today it was the number of the beast: 66.6Kg. That is an all time record, so decided cook the rest of the chicken and recover a bit...

And the result deserves a full picture...

Wifey - I am speechless... Onion, salt and a stock cube. And the rest of the chicken... Awesome dinner...
After this my legs should be grateful and be prepared for the weekend! No chippy smells today!

Tomorrow back to carb world to ramp up for the weekend...

I was just thinking today what it must be like to live with the obsession of putting food on the table, let alone all the rest. I have not been starving during this 11 days, but at times I have felt really anxious about not being able to eat anything else and being conscious that I need to have enough to finish these two weeks and hence being conservative to start with...

1.2 BILLION people live below the line every day. 5,500 children die of malnutrition every day.
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1.2 billion people live below the line every day. Could you?©UNICEF

Day 10 - Chicken Galore

Oh well, run out of time today, so very quickly...

I am well.

Rice for lunch. Tried to take the pictures as an state agent would to make it look like a huge swimming pool of rice, with all the mods and cons...

As I said, plenty of chicken left, so fried 800g of it to recover those muscles. My kitchen looked like a chippy's today, wifey not happy... I may use the oven tomorrow...

And the aftermath... that was a good dinner... :)

Just like Son Goku...

Good night everyone and thanks for being there! :)

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Day 9 - Planning time

Ok, enough of self-pity. I am well. My legs pretty stiff as expected, tomorrow they will be far worse, but before the end of the week I will be asking for more :)

Weight today 67.4 - consistently low. No intention to beat any records here.

"I never saw a wild thing 

sorry for itself. 

A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough

without ever having felt sorry for itself."

DH Lawrence.

By the way, DH lawrence taught in the same street where I live, just 100 years ago. Right about the time when all these houses were new!

In a less romantic note, I learnt about this poem in the film "GI Jane" Hahahaha :) Nevertheless, I haven't seen that many groups of 4 sentences as powerful as these.

So... Planning time!

So I have overeaten beans and rice... But, I have a whopping £1.82 to spare, so someone has been shoooopppiiiinnngggg :)

So that makes so that is 50p worth of beans and 40p worth of rice. I may also trade some of the rice later on because I don't think I will eat a whole bag of it anyway.

92p left... I need to save for all those little "tiny" extras, which are not free although I can't measure them (some tabasco tears, cheese dust, sugar and salt...)

That should drive me through the rest of the week. And I still have a lot of chicken left!

	Gone	Left
Elapsed time	64%	36%
Bread Basics Wholemeal	64%	36%
Sains Pasta Shapes 500g	50%	50%
Rice Basics 1Kg	75%	25%
Frozen Chicken 2.5Kg	57%	43%
Coffee Basics	64%	36%
Milk Semi 3.4L (6P)	55%	45%
Porridge Oats 500g	64%	36%
Baked Beans	67%	33%

So if the % left is less than the elapsed time, that means I have been overeating. Nice, uh? :) 

 Now with the dishes of the day. PASTA for lunch, and rice with pixie cheesy dust for dinner.




The pasta dish is called "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" :)
The rice dish is called "Captain Hook ship sprinkled with Pixie Cheese dust"

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Day 8 - Croydon Half - Daughter carrying competition

It was a lovely bright start in Croydon. Things were looking up after the night lost an hour and hence we ended up sleeping less than 5 hours, not bad for a Sunday (...)

I started warming up as if this was a conventional "daughter carrying" race

As you can see, she was getting used to the idea pretty quickly... :)

But it ended up being a bit more conventional and pretty hilly. Here, with the bad boys at the front, with the eye in the watches about to get going!

And, an hour and 28 mins later, riding like a blue unicorn after some goddamn ups and downs around Lloyds park and Sandilands... Mission accomplished :)

 The picture of the finisher and his lovely daughters :)

And the upside down daughter competition continues...

In another note, yummy chicken for lunch today, deep fried protein to recover those muscles in the daughter lifting contest :)

And my 3 Michelin Star dinner of the day. This is call "Mickey Mouse with Pinocchio nose"

Ok, I am knackered... ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzz

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Day 7 - Neptune, may I?

So here we are, in the equator of this journey asking Neptune permission to cross the Equator. I guess he will answer tomorrow when I cross the finish line in Croydon Half.

The day started badly today. 67.1Kg is almost an all time record low. But since the efects of last night´s tabasco came a bit later it is possible that I will be below 67 tomorrow in the morning. That is more than 3Kg less than last Sunday morning. As I said this may not be totally a disaster from a racing point of view, but we'll see what else am I missing tomorrow...

Today I've binged on coffee - 3 double ex... The day has been significantly less painful I must say.

So it is carbs load up Saturday, so mountain of pasta for lunch plus a few sprinkles of cheese on top. This makes a couple of extra nothings in the last couple of days so I will have to make sure that there is something in the leftovers of the budget to cover some of these nothings... The wooden flower is not edible, shame :)

 I haven't put names to lunch yet... how about... "Same sh*t* with Cheese" :)

And dinner the same as yesterday, without the tabasco. I call this one "Where is the limit of rice and beans dinners?" as in the green bangle in the picture :)
Oh, and that is my foot and my slipper, dammit!

















Well, tomorrow is another great day. If I don't update this blog anymore is because I did not listen to the marshals and I decided to cross the road when the tram was coming!

Good night!

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Day 6 - Whimsical Rice and Beans alla Lalaloopsy

Weight seems to have stabilized, finally. I was starting to think that I was going to get rich with the "white label diet"... Still 67.8 Kg.

Apologies for writing a day later but this week I have been sleeping just 5 hours a day and I just run out of energy...

The day has been tough and I think those 5 hours of sleep play and the reduction in caffeine pay an important part on it... and then lunches are not happy so the days are loooooooonnnngggggg

I tried to take a picture of my hand to make it better but it is till a bowl of rice on its own (not because I am hiding a piece of chorizo underneath :)). A Spaniard eating without bread, that deserves a price on its own...

Loads of hours on water, no coffee, no nothing else later I drag myself into dinner... And since I am running in less than 48 hours I decide to invest an additional tin of beans. This is going to mean that I will have to buy more beans this week out of the remaining budget.

I call this one "Whimsical Rice and Beans alla Lalaloopsy". The Lalaloopsy run away when I added a few too many drops of Tabasco to make the dish Friday night special. No beer, just goddamn water.

Those drops of Tabasco were about to be THE mistake of this first week. In the morning that made me go below the 67Kg mark...

In a bit the summary for today ;)

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