Author: Peter Charleston

Didn’t sleep well. Woke at 02:00 with allergies, needed an antihistamine to get back to sleep.Ate at 11:00 — mogo chips, eggs, steak and gravy, tea, two biscuits.16:45 — eggs, steak and gravy, sausage and liver.Stomach has been uncomfortable the last few days. Tired. Stressed. Not a good day.Didn’t write STOP on my hand this…

A couple of teas in the morning.Ate at 12:30 — beef and roast potatoes, olives, gherkins, sauce and gravy. Lunch with my son.A good day. We did a 4km walk in the woods after lunch plus a walk into town together in the morning.Needed to work later in the evening and was tired and a…

One tea this morning. Nothing else until 14:15. 14:15 — vegetable bolognese pasta with two small garlic breads, then a cheese and ham omelette, tea. Worked late today. A few times after finishing, the automatic behaviour appeared — the pull towards biscuits. Not hunger. Just habit. The hand is there for exactly that moment. STOP…

Woke early at 06:00. Thought about food. Had a tea and carried on. Swam — 15 minutes. Sauna 15 minutes after. STOP is on the hand. There to remember why I’m here and what I’m doing. Had a bacon sandwich in mind for lunch. Then a large bacon and egg sandwich crossed my mind. In…

Two teas this morning and water with salt.Felt better today but at times a bit drained. Swam at 12:00. 20 lengths, 33 metre pool which took 15 minutes. 13 minutes in the sauna after. 14:15 — four boiled eggs, two small toasts with butter, two avocados, four olives, hot sauce, tea. After eating, thought about…

Woke at 02:00. Stomach pains. The body was doing its housekeeping — clearing everything out. Back to bed. Sleep on and off until 07:20. Up and out. 40 minute fast walk to school for drop off and back. Nose breathing up the hill. Felt it working. Felt fine the rest of the morning. 12:00 —…

Morning and afternoon — fine. One tea. Didn’t think about it. After 14:00 the tiredness started to come in. After 15:00 it was up and down — alert one moment, zoning out the next. Fish and chips popped into my mind at one point. Noticed it. Let it go. Salt in the water today. Lots…

Breakfast at 9:50. Two fried eggs with garlic, two slices of brown seeded bread with butter, two avocados, a couple of spoons of baba ghanoush, and one chocolate pastry. Good breakfast. Lots of water through the morning. Supplements done. Evening meal at 18:30 with my wife, daughter and Brother and sister in law— Dosa from…

Last night at 22:15, as I was about to watch some TV, I felt the urge to eat. I was not hungry. It was a familiar compulsion. I looked at my hand and read STOP and carried on. I felt empowered. I drank some water and felt good. 32 years of that same compulsion. Last…

Two teas this morning. Nothing else until 1:15. Then — four boiled eggs, four rashers of bacon, two brown toasts with butter, tomato sauce, hot sauce. Beautiful. Sat and ate it properly. Evening — vegetarian spaghetti bolognese with garlic bread and a vanilla ice cream with chocolate sauce. Ate with my wife and two of…