Curry countdown, 9 days to go.

Yesterday neither of us lost any weight, but the good news is that neither of us gained any weight either. 9 days left on this Marines diet, it seems to be working so far and the diet is not too bad. I found it hard at first, but I have learnt a lot about how to appreciate smaller quantities of food that is full of flavour and also about food that has no flavour or tastes rank. I know there are some things I will definitely not be carrying on eating after this diet and celery is one of them. Normal Marine diet start to the day with one poached egg and a black coffee with sugar at 7:15. 8:15 I went to the canteen to get my poached eggs and dry toast for lunch time and they had no eggs ready, so I had to wait, in front of all the bacon eggs, black pudding, hash browns, fried bread, chopped tomatoes, beans, scrambled egg, teacakes, fried mushrooms etc. while the other people filtered past me taking their selections. That was torture. I had the money in my hand and could have quite easily ordered in some bacon with all the trimmings, but I resisted. This was a true test of my commitment I believe. I also had a black coffee with sugar. I have already planned our first 3 days of food for when we have finished the Marine diet and it is not based on big portions of anything. I am going to call this the curry countdown. I love curry and basically any food from our local Indian (there are actually about 3 Indian restaurants nearby). So I shall have this on the Friday 29th. I expect there will be some left-overs for Saturday lunch. Mary will probably opt for KFC. Saturday night will be a ramekin of beef and tomato soup, poached egg and cheese with a little blob of mayo for starters followed by my own recipe chicken supreme (cream and garlic mainly) with boiled golden vegetable rice, again my own recipe. To finish a small portion of coconut ice cream. I haven't tracked this down yet. Sunday will feature a meat buffet barbecue. This is basically a tray of raw meat that has been chopped into kebab size pieces. You take a skewer and load it with meat and then cook it on the barbecue, straight onto the plate and eat. This reminds me of the "hot-stone" meals I used to enjoy in Germany. Basically you get a square stone on the table that is blistering hot in front of you and pick raw meat onto it, when cooked, you eat it straight off the stone. With a nice salad selection, it was gorgeous. 11:30 lunch was 3 poached eggs and dry toast that I had got in the morning with a cup of black decaf. Dinner at 5:30, steak with tomatoes and cottage cheese, not forgetting the celery. I ate this first to get it out of the way so I could enjoy the rest of my dinner. Took the dog for a walk then had our weigh in. I had stayed the same again and Mary had lost 2 pounds, so she has caught me up now. Since starting this Marines diet we have both now lost 12 pounds.