Friday night... Its two for one!

Getting into the healthy breakfast habit with the porridge. Still struggling not to overeat at Lunch and dinner. Limited choices with canteen food but really need to do better.
Alas, another exercise free night as I went out for a drink... well 6 drinks - Vodka and Cranberry. Healthy except for the double vodka in each one.

Day Six: Thursday

I had a couple... a few glasses of red wine with the film. A bit of a struggle this morning but got back into the swing after some coffee and the usual handful of pills.
Breakfast was bacon and eggs which was a mistake and lunch was an unchewable curry while dinner was some sort of chicken dish with mashed potato that you could use to grout tiles with.
Not the most auspicious day for the canteen but these things happen. I did manage to get out and exercise though. There was a big storm coming in so i stayed close to home but still managed the usual distance and time.
After the night off it didn't feel so good and it took an age for the muscle on the front of my calf to stop cramping while i was walking.
Exercise Completed: 3 Kilometre (Walk/hobble)

Day Five: Wednesday

Dragged myself from my pit at 6:30 this morning. Can't cope with staying up until midnight and then trying to get up at 5:30... Must get an early night tonight.
Food:
Breakfast - Dorset Cereals Porridge (7am)
Lunch - Lamb Curry with Rice (11:30am)
Dinner - Southern Fried Chicken with Rice (5pm)

Tonight will be exercise free as it is Film Night.
Not good for the body but good for the mind. I will no doubt regret that tomorrow.
Exercise Completed: None

Day Four: Tuesday

Food:
Breakfast: Eggs/Bacon and Hash Browns at 6:10am (woke up late due to sleeping so heavily after the walk - This exercise will cure me or kill me)

Lunch: Pork and Mashed potatoes at 11:30am

Dinner: Tacos and potatoes at 5:30pm

The walk was good tonight. They were out 'fogging' to keep the mosquito population down so breathing deeply was a challenge in some areas. A friend came with me for the second time. She is considerably fitter and spent most of my walk running on ahead and circling back. It was a little dispiriting to see but it was good to have some company though.
I made the mistake of sitting down to watch a film after the walk and didn't get to bed till late... tomorrow will be a challenge.

Exercise Completed: 3 Kilometres (Walk)

Day Three: Rainy Days and Mondays

Not a great day for the food:
Bacon & Eggs to start. Forgotten lunch and Lasagne for dinner.
On the plus side I did the full circuit again.
Exercise completed: 3 Kilometre (Walk)

Day Two: Sunday Bloody Sunday

The ankles and toes hurt and the knees are a bit delicate but all in all I feel great. I slept so well after the walk that I feel fresh and alert which is a rare feat at 5:30 on a Sunday morning.
I realise that I should also be using this as a food diary but as i write this on Monday evening I realise that I have little recollection of what passed my lips on Sunday.
One of the issues of working on a compound in the middle of the jungle is a lack of personal cooking facilities. The intent is for all rotational staff to eat at the company canteen for three meals a day.
Prior to starting this quest, my usual day of food while at work would look something like this:

5:45am - Breakfast
Eggs, Bacon, Sausage, Hash Browns
Water

11:00am - Lunch
Meat (Chicken/Beef/Pork), Potatoes/Rice, Gravy, Mayonnaise & Ice Cream
Water

5:00pm - Dinner
Meat (Chicken/Beef/Pork), Potatoes/Rice, Gravy, Mayonnaise & Ice Cream
Water

You can see why I am the weight I am can't you...?
All this food and little or no exercise has led me to this.
With my being fresh and alert on Sunday, I got a little carried away at work and didn't get to dinner until after 6pm. The smart ones amongst you will realise that this means that I would be trying to exercise on a full stomach.
This proved to be my undoing and i had to retire after only 1.5km.

Exercise completed: 1.5 Kilometres (Walk)

And so it begins.

Unlike Paul Jeffreys I am not in a position to give up my job and just focus on this. I work a rotational job for an oil company which means I spend 28 days working 12 hours a day on a compound in Central Africa, and then spend the following 28 days back in the UK on time off. A disjointed life but one that should lend itself to this quest. The challenge in both locations will be motivation.
I have just started my 28 days at work. Everyday begins at 5:30am and finishes at 6:30pm if everything goes according to plan. The first decision is when to exercise. Realistically mornings are out as getting up at 5:30 is painful enough without getting up even earlier to exercise. So the evening... Days at work are long but as long as I can get in the door, change clothes and get out without my arse sinking into the sofa, I should be OK.
Last night, no problem. In the door, changed, Ipod on and out again.
The compound is large, encompassing accommodation, offices and gas plants. Previous attempts at exercise have always involved going round and round the accommodation area; boredom always set in quickly and TV always beckoned.
A new route then: Through the accommodation blocks, past the offices, round the canteen and back again with a quick circuit of the housing to finish.
It was hot, very hot. I was just walking and not particularly quickly but the sweat was pouring off me. The music kept the pace consistent. There was a panicky moment going past the old canteen, where it is pitch dark; My imagination threw up images of snakes and dogs coming out of the darkness but the reality was kinder.
A couple of hills really took it out of me; I am catastrophically unfit. Panting for breath walking up a hill is not the sign of a healthy man. This is the right thing to do.
Getting back to my room with sweat pouring off me, it was all I could do to open a bottle of water and stretch as my muscles twitched and shook.
The shower was a sanctuary and the sofa merely a place to pause before going to bed. I had only walked 3km and was exhausted.

Exercise completed: 3 Kilometres (Walk)