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"Y tardé en aprender a olvidarte 19 días y 500 millas."

What I ate yesterday.

Given that this is the first day of my experiment and well, I don't have any readers I don't think publishing here data that not even I care much about will harm my impact. Anyway, this is my figure today nearly 4000kcal which is alright and I guess representative of my diet for the last month. It would be even be healthy, I think, if I hadn't had the yogurt coated pineapple and the cheese twists, but in my defence I have to say that I only ate them today to avoid future versions of myself any temptations(but I shall not discuss why I bought them in the first place).

By the way, before you start calling me fat, I also had a nice run(actually hard as hell) that cost me, according to my wonderful Garmin Forerunner 305 >), about 981Kcal. Although the heart rate monitor strap is doing funny stuff, as according to it, I've been running for nearly an hour at an average of 208bpm and a maximum of 246bpm which seems quite impossible. Although hopefully, changing the batteries will solve it.

Foods	Calories	Carbs	Fat	Protein	Cholest	Sodium	Sugars	Fiber
Breakfast
Tesco - Crunchy Oat Cereal With Coconut, Sultanas and Almonds, 100 g	450	61g	19g	10g	0mg	100mg	22g	7g
My Protein - Impact Whey Protein (Unflavoured), 50 g (1 scoop)	197	3g	3g	41g	1mg	0mg	0g	0g
Tesco - Low Fat Natural Yogurt, 210 g	147	16g	3g	12g	0mg	210mg	16g	0g
Tesco - Strawberry Jam, 3 tablespoon	120	29g	0g	0g	0mg	0mg	26g	0g
Tesco - Semi-Skimmed Milk, 300 ml	150	14g	5g	11g	0mg	132mg	14g	0g
Lunch
Tesco - Chilli Con Carne (400g Can), 1 Can	440	26g	23g	31g	0mg	1,000mg	10g	19g
Generic - Baked Potato, Microwaved, Flesh & Skin, 250 g	263	60g	0g	8g	0mg	28mg	3g	5g
Tesco - Gala Apple*, 1 Apple (133g)	71	16g	0g	1g	0mg	0mg	16g	2g
Dinner
Wheatfield Bakery - Wholemeal Farmhouse - Soft Batch, 1 slice (50g)	105	18g	1g	5g	0mg	0mg	2g	4g
Snacks
Produce - Medium Banana, 236 g	180	54g	1g	3g	0mg	2mg	29g	6g
Tesco Bakery - Cheese Twist, 2 twist (80g)	712	78g	39g	12g	0mg	160mg	32g	7g
Neal's Yard Wholefoods - Yogurt Coated Pineapple Pieces, 150 g	770	106g	31g	5g	0mg	15mg	73g	3g
Post-Workout
Myprotein - Impact Whey Protein (Unflavoured), 13 g (1 Scoop)	51	1g	1g	11g	0mg	0mg	0g	0g
Tesco - British Semi-Skimmed Milk Uht, 600 ml	300	29g	11g	22g	0mg	1mg	29g	0g
TOTAL:	3,956	511g	137g	172g	1mg	1,648mg	272g	53g

Fine tuning, aka, calorie counting.

I reckon that in some aspects last year has been possibly the best in my life. I have found again an important part of myself that I seemed to have lost during my degree. The active guy inside me, the one that didn't have a problem when workout time came, mainly because it was the thing to do, there was no other option(ok, from time to time I tend to skip a workout or like this morning, reschedule it for the afternoon, but overall I'm basically a new person if you compare me with the 4 years ago me). Also, I have found an improved version of it, less lazy, more willing to push(although I'm still working on pushing myself even more :) ). So, it only comes natural that this period of happiness and good times has to come to an end. I mean, I've been building some endurance and getting back in shape. Now I am in some sort of shape, which I still want to improve a lot, but I can start thinking about fine tuning bits of it. And the first one that comes to mind is my diet. I say this period of happiness has to end cos I'm going to put a bit of care on how much I eat(I already care about the what). Up until now I've basically eaten as much as I wanted or as much as I could find in my fridge shelf(that has happened many times). I generally eat a healthy, if somewhat no very varied, diet based on carbs, roasted chicken and fruits but I'm going to start controlling the amounts or at least during a couple of weeks, I'm going to keep track of everything I eat and I will even try to only eat 3500kcal a day :). It should be enough to keep me running(and swimming and climbing) and see how this food depletion turns out.

PS: Calorie counting is a pain in the ass... Although I'm using a website that makes it much easier as it has info from most of the food I can find in Tesco :).

Functional English speaker

Some days I feel quite optimistic about my English, I mean that I feel like I have a good grasp of it, beyond the fact that it has certainly improved by a couple of orders of magnitude(in an arbitrary scale defined as one that would match my improvement as equivalent to a couple of orders of magnitude :P) since I arrived here nearly three years ago. But then, I go back to my native language and I find things like this:

Sabina is a master of language, the depth and beauty of his lyrics are far beyond anything I can dream of putting down into words, no matter how intense my feelings may be, I will simply not be able to tame sentences in anything that may even have a hint of his craft. But that's fine, I also know that I won't be able to run a sub 2:30 marathon(although I may give that one a go :) )(and yes, note that sub 3, which is tremendously hard, I have not ruled out :) ). Actually what I wanted to say is not how good he is and how much I lack his skill but that I still haven't found a similar thing in English, which I am sure exists(I believe there was a guy called William something who was good at it...), it's just my English is not that good and I believe it to be far from it. I am at the point where stand-up comedy is funny, but I guess that's mainly because I have a cultural background more than because of the lyrical skills displayed by comedians(other than his masterful mind Tim Minchin!)

So, I guess I have just achieved a practical level of English but I am far from mastering it. I guess it will take to read many more books and possibly many years.

PS: I have the feeling that I suffer from premature posting, I mean, I have what seems like a good idea about what I want to write and the message I want it to convey, then, all the energy goes away with the first paragraph and I end up feeling like I didn't perform well and the rest is just a bigger piece of shit than the first one. But I guess I'm not up for saving it and rewriting it sometime later. :S