Day - 18

Entry for  --  03/06/2014..... Slept alright last night, but for some reason woke up around 8.30am... went to office 2.5hrs early for my swim... Before the swim had a breakfast of 3 small IDLI (a steamed bun of sorts made from Rice flour and black lentil flour) and 1 small wada (black lentil paste deep fried in vegetable oil)... A lil heavy but wanted to have a good breakfast... swam for 1hr 45mins... and completed 52 rounds lengthwise... was a good effort... had a lunch of Veg HOT and SOUR soup and 1flat bread with mixed veg curry.... also had a piece of another flat bread, may be 25% of it... had a green tea in evening.... around 5pm went for a farewell party of one of my friends from office... so ate a little bad stuff.. a sliver of chocolate cake, brownie, some bread... some cheese was also there... 8pm was feeling hungry so had a biscuit packet which had may be 8 or 9 cookies... didn't have anything else... bit of a bad day in terms of food... really looking forward for good day tomorrow/... not too unhappy about today though... weighing after swim, seems like I may be lost another kg... wont check until I feel I have gotten into 80s... waiting for the swim tomorrow.

Day - 17

Entry for 03/05/2014  --  Slept around 1:00am last night, woke up at around 9am... 8hrs of sleep, still didn't seem enough today.... anyway had to go out with a friend of mine to help her with something, so no swimming, no breakfast as well... by the time it was all over it was 2.30pm and I was damn hungry... it had been almost 19hrs since I ate anything... so I ate a more than usual lunch... but didn't stuff my self too much... had 3 flat breads with some rice and yellow lentil stew... also with some potato curry, mix veg curry, and a small piece of a sweet... sounds like a lot, but all are in small quantities... had 2 green teas in the evening... then in the evening had a lot of work to do, and I needed a normal tea, so had one... dinner had some rice in lentil stew and with some soya beans in curry sauce... so lot of work, little more food than I would have liked, no exercise and a lot of work... looking forward for my swim tomorrow...

Day - 16

Entry for 03/04/2014 -- Slept very very very late last night... around 5am... problems of the heart again... but anyway woke up on time rushed to office... went there at 10.30am... had a breakfast of double egg omelet with some bread... lunch had some rice with yellow lentils and some beans and few potatoes... evening had a green tea with honey... around 7pm, had a upma (semolina flour dish boiled in water) ... nothing else in the night... In the morning went for the swim from 11.30am to 1pm... did 44 rounds so a little more than 1km... Not a bad day... but need some sleep... its already 1am... so have to hit the bed now...

Day - 15

Entry for 03/03/2014  -  After that amazing swimming session yesterday, I was feeling great.... and slept till late... had a bad thought of celebrating that effort and I did that in the worst way... I didn't have breakfast Pool is closed on Mondays so no swimming...  and went out for lunch with my buddies... and as much as it pains me... I must list all the shit I ate... that's the point of this blog... I need to admit to myself what I've done wrong... so here it goes... The restaurant is a nice one in front of my office, pretty diverse menu... had a soup to start with, Sea food soup, starter had a sesame chicken, fried pieces of chicken rubbed in sesame seeds, then had 5 chicken wings covered in sweet BBQ sauce... for main course had some burnt garlic fried rice with Burmese curry, had some Szechwan Noodles.... then the restaurant offered a Lebanese dish kind of a wrap with chicken stuffing as a complimentary dish... so that's the lunch...  its just a keyhole peep into what I used eat for lunch regularly for quite a few years... at least 2 or 3 times a week... That should have screwed up my yesterday's swimming efforts and the calorie loss... But I'm not too sad... tomorrow I'll swim again and will fight the habit again... that's just how it goes for an addict... I always believed that gluttony is also an addiction... so the root cause I guess is the screwed up reward mechanism in my head... anyway enough of rambling... didn't eat any dinner... rather couldn't eat any... I'm not too disappointed about today... I guess its alright... one day of stupidity... looking forward to swimming tomorrow...

Day - 14

Entry for 03/02/2014  --  Slept late last night, after some heavy phone call running into hours... little bit of heart problems again... anyway that caused the slip up last night... Today is a fresh day... slept long into the day... almost till afternoon.... Lunch had a very late one, around 3.30pm... had a veg hot and sour soup, then 2 flat breads, a dry curry of cauliflower and potato, left out most of the potatos and had cauliflowers.... Had a buttermilk to finish off... then swam for 2hrs and 45mins... did count properly today and drum rollllll I did 66 rounds length wise... and 4 rounds width wise... so in total swam 1.6 kms.... yeeehhhaaaawwww.... For the first time my hand muscles feel sore... that's a good thing I guess... enjoyed the swim very much... tomorrow the pool is closed as its Monday... So after and before the swim had a green tea with honey... dinner had a salad of lettuce, tomato, peppers and chicken... loved the healthy dinner... so all in all a good day... have to make sure I eat breakfast also, will try to do that from tomorrow... lets see... 3 good days... feeling great... Ohhh also been checking my weight, I'm at 92 now... lost 2kgs... just 2 kgs away from my short term target of getting into 80's... sure I can do it soon....

Day - 13

Entry for - 03/01/2014  --  After yesterday, I was really looking forward to the Saturday swim, usually I spend 3hrs, but there is a lot of idle time, so I wanted to see how much I can push my self... also today is another best friend's b'day so there was a lunch party and I had a heavy heavy lunch... tried white wine, two sips... it was yuuuuuukkkkkkkkkkk.... so that's my first real tryst with alcohol... I guess I'm not going to try that eveeer again... Food food... foooddd... there was plenty... Had some Malacca street dish made of chicken and wrapped in a beetle leaf... Then had few pumpkin chips... then tofu fried... Then chicken fried rice, veg fried rice and a delicious noodles in a curry sauce called Burmese noodles... then a chocolate mouse cake of some sort for dessert... so a grand number of calories... Then swam for 2.5 hours... again did length only... 6 or 8 width wise rounds only rest over the length... but lost count after 22, I probably did about 45 to 50 rounds... enjoyed the swim, breathing technique isn't perfect yet, but its getting there, slowly... Dinner had very very thin flat bread with potato and lentil curry... But got hungry in the night as I was awake late into the night, so had ready made noodles... that's a slip up... looking forward for tomorrow...

Day - 12

Entry for 02/28/2014  -- Went to office excited about swimming... went there 2.5hrs early... For the first time I wanted to count the round I was doing and wanted to do as many as I could... So I started the count and also measured the length of the pool, it was 24meters long... nearly.... So I managed to do a total of 32 rounds in ( 16 if you count to and fro as one round) ... I did 8 rounds width wise... so in total I did around 800 meters... of course I would take a break after each round to steady my breath... I spent in total about 1hr and 45mins... Really happy with how it all went down... Ok food, breakfast had a stuffed pan-fried flat bread called Paratha, the stuffing was vegetables and some mint... After the breakfast did the swimming, lunch - went out to the restaurant, but controlled my intake, had vegetable hot and sour soup with mushrooms and vegetables, it was pretty spicy... also had one flat bread with a spice coated fish cooked on direct fire in a special oven called tandoor, evening, had a green tea and a plate of fruits, Dinner only soup was different, it was chicken manchow soup, flat bread and the fish stayed the same... ate quite a bit, but I guess its not too much... happy with the day... hope to keep the momentum...