Lick The Lard

Today’s weight: 75.9kg

The last month, I’ve been re-educating myself about food - reminding myself what I can and can’t eat if I am to maintain my weight, rediscovering what’s good for me and what’s not.

The effects of that re-education were no more evident than last night when, for the second time in the last month, I went to one of my favourite bars in Tokyo and had absolutely no desire to eat anything. Seeing a menu filled with pies, quiche, sausages, bacon baguettes, and chips - food where the only “green” is a bit of boiled cabbage on the side - the only thing I could image was the truth: that every mouthful would be like eating a chunk of lard.

Amazing that the bar in question used to be one of my favourite places to eat. You can see why I hit emergency level.

In the end, after 2 hours of pondering, I did order something - not because I wanted to eat it, but because I didn’t want to continue drinking without food inside me, nor did I want to cut the night short and leave the friend I was with. So I decided to choose the thing that I had the highest chance of liking - which was steak pie and chips. After receiving cold chips and hot pie, sending it back and getting cold pie and hot chips, I did finally get back hot food - and as I do like chips, it’s wasn’t so bad.

The combination of eating that food, and eating it late at night - that’s why my weight was up this morning. I could still feel myself with a belly full of pie this morning, so hopefully I’ll return to normal tomorrow and there wont be too much long term impact from one isolated bad eating night.