Day 5 : "Friday night - so far, so good!"

First of all, I must sincerely apologise for leaving you on a cliffhanger yesterday evening.  I'm sure you didn't sleep.  You no doubt couldn't concentrate all day today, on whatever it might have been that you were wanting to concentrate on.  Maybe you've been checking in all evening to see if I've posted anything yet, waiting impatiently for the answer.  Your fingernails are probably ragged.

It was mackerel.  I had mackerel on my salad.


After the Ginsters trial yesterday, I was confronted with similar temptation in Cardiff this morning.  I decided to get the train there, and like a good boy ate my banana and apple for breakfast, and drank some water.  It didn't fill me up enough, and I got off the train still feeling a bit peckish.  What I encountered next didn't help.

Did you know that if you walk from Cardiff Central train station to Working Street, where my office is, you have to walk past:

- a Burger King;
- a MacDonalds;
- a Greggs;
- and at least two pubs open early in order to serve full English breakfasts?

I'd never really noticed before.  Believe me, I did today.  It was a torturous experience that I could have well done without on a Friday morning.

But I resisted.


The Friday night shoulder-demon is at bay so far this evening.  I've been to the gym - a back workout and 30 minutes on the exercise bike - and as of this moment have no particular craving for curry or alcohol.  That half bottle of red wine is still in the fridge from last weekend.  It's Friday night, and it probably thinks it's coming out to play.  So in a moment I shall sneer at it and then laugh in its face as I open the fridge door, reach past it, and take my lettuce out instead.


My diet today has consisted of:

- Breakfast:  An apple and a banana.  And I smelt some MacDonalds.
- Lunch:  My second healthy pub lunch of the week: a shredded crispy duck salad (the only salad on the menu - probably the most fat I've had this week in the bit of duck they sprinkled on it, but it's protein too, ennit?) and a diet coke.  (Inspired over lunch by my friend Ian who's just run a half marathon and is going to do the London marathon next year.  Would love to say I'll join him.  But I won't.)
- Dinner: About to have a salad.  And just so you can sleep tonight... Salmon.