Author: Peter Charleston

Swim. Sauna. Eat. Notice the pull. Begin again. 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…

The body did its housekeeping at 02:00. The work is real. 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…

The tiredness came. The urge passed. Both noted. 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…

Doing it properly. Food and family and supplements and all. 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…

22:15. The urge came. The hand said no. 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…

Wait until 1:15. Then eat well. That’s the shape of this. 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…

Today I chose. That’s the whole story. Today I did it. All of it. I didn’t eat until 1pm. Not because I couldn’t — because I chose not to. That’s the difference. Before the pool I had one banana. That was it. I went to swim on one banana and it was fine. 20 lengths.…