Day 1 of 14: June 3, 2004

Breakfast: coffee, slice of baked ham, chedder cheese chunks.

Lunch: 150 g cabbage salad and 150 g spicy chick pea salad from Pan Chanco.

Dinner: can of tuna, beef sandwich meat, spoon of peanut butter, tomato / white bean sauce, chedder chucks, V8 juice.

Night: 3 handfulls of peanuts - shook off as much of the sugar coating as possible.

Comments: No morning or afternoon snacks. After supper I feel full but not loaded. I probably have done my first day in my life without a grain. Probably the first in my genetic line for 2000 years. I am not impressed. 54 inches at biggest of the belly. Good Lord.

Day 2 of 14: June 4, 2004

Breakfast: 2 eggs, ham slices, cheese, white bean, pesto microwave scamble. Woke not hungry, slept well.

Morning: 2 mugs coffee with 3% milk.

Lunch: 150 g pork fricasee (pork tenderloin yellow and red peppers, capers, asparagus), 200g carrot salad (shredded carrot, olive oil, garlic) from Pan Chancho. I must learn to do these for myself over the weekend. Refused an offered mini OHenry! bar. I am slipping into a form of madness I have never known before.

Supper: ham slices, tomoto juice, pork stir fry (pork, onion, red pepper, mushroom, white beans, sherry and blackbean sauce, orange zest). Soccer. Did not go well. Several drinks and three handfuls of peanuts. (I'm sure they meant to include cocktails...)

Day 3 of 14: June 5, 2004

Breakfast: about a cup and a half of last night's pork stir fry. XL Tims (with a zap of cream probably).

Lunch: a pile of sliced Polish pork tenderloin.

Dinner: almost one pound of broiled rib-eye steak, veggie stir fry (onion, celery, sweet red pepper, fish sauce, hot sauce), G+T heavy on the T and one 330 ml Floris Nenkeberry Belgain fruity flavoured wit by Huyghe-Melle of Gent, 3.5%.

Day 4 of 14: June 6, 2004

Breakfast: coffee, eggy microwave thing (olive oil, pesto, onion, pork tenderloin, hungarian hot dry sausage, 2 eggs, milk, mini-tomatoes, hot sauce). My gut measured 53 inches this morning at the widest girth...one inch gone already.

Lunch: 750 ml miso soup (homemade - kombu, tuna, mushroom, dry pepper, miso), cheese slice.

Snack: three handfuls of peanuts. Good swimming session.

Dinner: hungarian sausage and green bean surprise - fry onion and chick peas in olive oil, add green beens, chunked hungarian sausage, mini toms, feta cheese. Had it with pickled mushrooms. First major error (I planned the ales Friday night after soccer.) Tonic water is loaded with sugar. I had thought it was all the quinine. Drank 2 litres. Oh dear. I will survive and switch back to club soda. I may get a bit of gin into the cin-cin with soda if the muscles ache too much - I am sure it will all work out ok.

Later: more dry roasted peanuts. I find I am not fighting this much at all and am putting things down I put to my mouth. I have dug out running shoes. I may try a short run in the morning, hat shoved down about my ears.

Day 5 of 14: June 7, 2004

Breakfast: coffee, cottage cheese, pork tenderloin slices, ran 17 flights of stairs at 7:20 am to get some wind going.

Snack: cottage cheese. Refused a Cards Bakery run. I do not know me.

Lunch: chick peas, celery and mini-toms, tuna salad (can tuna, celerey, one scoop mayo), V8 juice.

Dinner: scoop of peanut butter, eggie micro-bake (onions and celery in olive oil, chicken slice, chedder, 2 eggs and milk, hot sauce), V8.

Day 6 of 14: June 8, 2004

Ran 17 flights up and walked 5 down.

Breakfast: cottage cheese, mini-toms, chicken slice, coffee.

Lunch: 160 g of carrot salad and 140 g greek salad fro Pan Chanco. I start this eating hungry. I think today I want a big feed.

Dinner: club sodas and...then baked fish and chick pea, onion, sauce of fish sauce and hot sauce and etc. Ate some peanuts later after a half hour swim. Tried to cheat.

Day 7 of 14: June 9, 2004

Breakfast: coffee, orange soy milk, ran 17 flights of stairs and 5 down. Decided to cheat on a Cards Bakery apple (rather than cinnamon) roll. It was not quite an unhappy process but it certainly was more like baked wallpaper and glue than I imagined.

Lunch: 150 g Asian tofu and 120 g green bean, mushroom and red pepper salad. I am getting comments like "so healthy" from pleasant Pan Chancho staff yet I leer only at breads. Also, a second glue bun.

Dinner: the breakdown continues. Went to the Rose and Crown with the lad and had baked haddock with a caeser salad, bread and a Tetley's Ale. Ate a few of the lads fries. Backsliding. I am meant to be a backslider. Born to be. Later a pint of Fruit Beer and peanuts.

Day 8 of 14: June 10, 2004

Breakfast: coffee, orange soy milk, ran 20 flights of stairs.

Lunch: tuna salad, lettuce, tomato, califlower, feta, tomato juice.

Dinner: raisin, walnut, peanut, caulifloor, red pepper, green bean, chick peas, lemon juice, sesame oil. Later cin-cin and soda and peanuts.

Day 9 of 14: June 11, 2004

Breakfast: cottage cheese, hungarian sausage, soy milk and coffee.

Lunch: 200g ginger garlic tofu (with sushi wrap chopped), 120 g red cabbage salad. Is there any people other than the Japanese and those who lived near the Bay of Fundy at some time in their life that say "umm...seaweed".

Dinner: lettuce with steak and portabello. Belly issues. Later, after game two of the soccer season, wit beers and cin-cin-gin-soda. [Late bailing - 1/4 cheese bagle and carrot]...then, some cheese...and later a big can of Habitant pea soup veggie type, I have loved Habitant pea soup my whole life. I want to eat it on the day of my demise. I crashed at 2:30 am.

Day 10 of 14: June 12, 2004

Breakfast: I woke worn out from last nights fitba at 1 pm so no breakfast.

Lunch: can of tuna, celery, mayo.

Dinner: Pint. Roast chicken, a few fries, raw veggies. Some pork tenderloin slices at some point. Late night pop corn. I so bad.

Day 11 of 14: June 13, 2004

Breakfast: coffee, soy milk.

Lunch: cheese, pork slice, veggie chunks.

Dinner: roast chicken, roast walnuts, lettuce, tomatoes, veggies, pork slice, cheese. I am bored with eating like this. I want Triscuts not because I crave them but because I am too eating too few things. ZZZZZ. Swim and an hour in the park.Day 12 of 14: June 14, 2004

Breakfast: coffee. Ran 17 flights, first stop at 12th floor.

Lunch: raw veggies, one pita, polish soft cheese and pork slices.

Dinner: havarti, ginger bok choi stirfry with chicken and egg, a whack of ice cream. Belly issues. Cin-cin.Day 13 of 14: June 15, 2004

Breakfast: coffee, two wheetabix and soy milk. Ran no flights.

Lunch: cheese and onion foccachio, thai cuke salad, tomato and feta salad. Moving off no carb to reasonable carb now. If I have achieved anything, I suppose that it is about portions rather than, say, sweets. Off to a hotel in Brampton by train. I will see how it goes though a stop on return at the Irish Embassy is likely. Guinness is low carb, it is low carb.

Dinner: breaded calamari, bear and butter, grilled tuna and veg with baked spud. I think I am done this diet.

Day 14 of 14: June 16, 2004

Breakfast: hotel coffee, one sausage, two bacon, some egg, fruit salad.

Lunch: lamb burger, fries, guinness at the Irish Embassy watching Portugal v. Russia

Dinner: mahi-mahi, bun, smoked salmon tidbit on VIA 1. Club soda. Cin-cin after doretos at Canada-Belize. What have I learned?

Day 15 of 14: June 17, 2004

Breakfast: coffee, soy milk. 17 stair flights with 2 rests. At work a cinnamon roll and coffee.

Lunch: cheese and onion foccachio and asian tofu at Pan Chancho.

Dinner: Havarti buttered toast sammy. After kids soccer, a regular blizzard then 500 ml Fiddler's Elbow.