It is. Keep a food diary for one week.. I’m interested.

Btw, 84.5kg for me this morning – get in! That’s basically what I weighed the first season I trained when I was training for 24 hour solo. I should be easily on course for a new PB at Cwmcarn when I get home in August.

Next stop 82.8kg which is my all time post 2002 record for one day only, and is just about 13st.

Chapeau!

I’ll be up for racing you round Cwm Carn 🙂

Great 🙂 August onwards, sprogs notwithstanding.

STW lap challenge™ ?

Interesting… do we all have to be ridiculously overbiked and wear body armour?

I will most definitely be turning up in a VAG group vehicle.

Will there be a Cotton T-shirt category?

Re’ the VAG group vehicle, DeadlyD, any more cash for me? I need a Bentley.

Yes Darcy I believe there will.

There will be time penalties for not posting on here at least every 5 mins from your iPhone whilst riding too. Riders hitiing 0.8 posts per minute will get time credits.

I’ve heard rumours that your camelbak must be of a certain minimum weight. Whether or not this weight is proportionate to rider weight has yet to be confirmed.

Re’ the VAG group vehicle, DeadlyD, any more cash for me? I need a Bentley.

Yes dude. Email me that offshore account number…a lot of dieters have been falling of the wagon since the weather improved. I think it’s all those white burger buns that have been consumed. Hence, the direct debits have increased dramatically this month.

Did you not fancy holding out for a Veyron?

I will also be in a VAG group vehicle, and a grey one at that.

I do not own body armour, but I do wear a camelbak and ride an Orange 5 🙂

By an interesting* coincidence my 5 is exactly the same colour as my car, despite buying both off the shop floor so to speak, with no colour choice.

* or not

Hmm. I was sat at the dining room table this morning with no shirt on, eating breakfast and Mrs Grips came in. She said ‘Oh my God you’re so sexy!’ and gave me a big hug.

😆

I just did a little bit of sick in my mouth.

Just wait til you see the after pics.

I spat it out. All helps with the diet.

I had a bowl of cereal this morning tho. I’m doomed. Although I was closer to 84kg shortly before 🙂

That gram flour flat bread is ace. Plus I used gram flour to make some onion bajis! mint. When’s the ‘after’ photo then MG?

Still trying to find gram flour here. Must look harder.

The after photo will come when I’m satisfied there’s enough difference 🙂 Maybe when I get to 83kg, as that’s a landmark.

try turkish/asian supermarkets?

Not many of those in the burbs. Next time we venture into the mayhem that is central Munich I’ll have another look 🙂

This is from sainsburys, and is available in 1kg bags too. They also have quinoa which we bought yesterday, but haven’t tried yet, took 3 customer services people to find it for us!

Edit: are you in Germany? Just remembered you saying something about it. In which case go to Das Sainsburysgevert.

Yes, it’s widely available in the UK with its large Asian population, thanks for that tip 🙂

Yes Germany. Naff all Indian available here. In fact not much of much. It’s like the 1970s in many ways.

Got a large bag of that very stuff yesterday. My wife’s flat breads and onion bhajis filled a large hole 😀

I’ve been resisting for months – but have realised that being heavy and active in old age are mutually incompatible so having found a bag of gram flour and a box of flour-free falafel mix (yes, I usually make it from broad beans, but what the hey?) in the ethnic aisle in Tesco I’ve been giving it a go this week. But I can’t do 6 days a week, so we’ll have to see if a Mon-Fri slackerDave one works.

I still can’t figure out if Tomatoes are allowed, and if I can put lemon or lime juice in my ceviche and houmous.

BigJohn, will reply to your email later, I have a cunning plan….

Are stuffed olives allowed?

As long as they’re stuffed with dust.

Mr grips you can make your own gram flour using oven roasted chickpeas and a mortar n pestle once they’ve cooled.

Seeing as I’m fairly close to the Idave diet anyway I’m going to come play as I meed to get my fat tumkin under control

No, stuffed with piemento chillis.

You’re the only one full of dust around here Yeti. Hot, shitty dust.

Hell yes to stuffed olives – see deadly, it’s not so bad in MiWorld…

Pah, iResent that statement Darcy, I’m full of the finest A-grade bullshite I’ll have you know!

That and the chickpea, lentil and chorizio stew I ate for lunch.

Yay.

*opens stuffed Olives packet*

I had coffee and walnut cake for lunch…is this why my belly is bruised from my thighs hitting it when I’m on the drops?

BigJohn, will reply to your email later, I have a cunning plan….

Well well well, and there’s me thinking I was just being a weak-willed half-hearted dipstick.

Too late anyway, I’ve already marinated the salmon & tuna in lime juice.

(except dipsticks are skinny)

Don’t get too excited…

Why not – it’s going to be the best salmon and tuna salad EVER

Mr grips you can make your own gram flour using oven roasted chickpeas and a mortar n pestle once they’ve cooled

That doesn’t sound like much work at all!

Re lime juice, I sprinkled a few drops on my white chilli to make it taste of something…

iDave – Member
That gram flour flat bread is ace.

Throw a desert spoon of onion seeds into that mix – ace +1.

one week in here, 4lb down. Taking it steady when I’m training, but I haven’t seen 11st8 in a long while…

just answered my own question 🙂

Green, yes. Red, no. Orange – only if to stop would cause an accident 😀

Just thought, in the world food section (near all the spices and where gram flour is) they do chickpeas coated in chilli powder, as a sort of crisps type thing. Quite spicy but very nice indeed if you find you want something snacky.