Diet with Dickie!

Richard is keeping a food diary to see if you can lose weight on LE2JOG!

So here goes:

Pre ride weight 83.5kg in birthday suit

Race Day -1 Monday - Evening meal

2 slices cheesy garlic Bread

Beef madras

3 pints Guinness

Sticky toffee pudding & custard


Race Day 1 - Tuesday

Breakfast:

Alpen with full fat milk

2 slices of bacon, 1 fried egg, grilled tomato

1 pot low fat yogurt

Mid morning snack:

2 cappuccino

3 chocolate digestives 250 cals

Lunch:

Cottage pie and beans

Cranberry flapjack 

Full fat coke 500mls

Pre-Dinner:

2 pints beer and 1 bag of crisps in bar

Dinner: 

1 bread roll

Steak and chipped potatoes & veg

Chocolate munch cake with clotted cream

CALORIE BURN TODAY 7,300.


Race Day 2 - Wednesday - "Eating for Victory"

Breakfast:

Alpen with milk

Yogurt pot

Scrambled egg, 2 slices bacon, mushrooms

Mid morning:

White americano

Cereal bar 

Lunch:

Macaroni cheese and garlic bread

Dinner:

Fish & chips, mushy peas

4 pints Guinness

CALORIE BURN TODAY 7,100.

Race Day 3 - Thursday - "

An empty sack won't stand up

"

Breakfast: 

Fruit & fibre with milk

Beans on toast (1 slice)

Orange juice

Flapjack

Cereal bar

Lunch

Strawberry milkshake

1/4lb cheeseburger & chips

Dinner

Mushroom and spinach spaghetti

2 bread buns

3 blobs ice cream

3 pints of pale ale 

CALORIE BURN TODAY 7,400.

Friday 26 August

Crunchy nut cornflakes

Cooked breakfast

Steak & kidney suet pudding & chips

2 pints orange & soda

Cafe Latte

Rocky road

3 poppadoms

Curry & rice (takeaway)

3 cans guinness

Total calorie burn 5,600

Saturday

Muesli with milk

1 crumpet

1 English breakfast muffin & jam

2 sausage sandwiches

1 cream horn

Pasta with chicken & bacon

Huge coffee late

Caramel shortcake

Elevenses bar

Shared platter

Burger and chips

4 pints Guinness

Total calorie burn 7,400

Sunday 28/8

Breakfast:

Muesli

Orange juice

Yogurt

Croissant & marmalade

Pork pie

Marathon

Bag of crisps

Bottle of lucozade

Chicken burger (McD's)

Chicken Caesar salad

Fish & chips

3 pints Guinness

TOTAL CALORIE BURN 5,500 (ignores extreme headwind)


Monday 29 August

Cornflakes with milk

Yogurt

Full English

1 croissant

Soup & chicken & sweetcorn baguette

Mars bar

Snickers bar

Poppadoms

Curry, boiled rice, peshwari nan

2 pints San Miguel

3 pints Guinness

Total calorie burn 5,800

Tuesday 30 August

Frosties & milk

2 yogurts

Full English

Currant slice

Cereal bar

Twix

Cornation chicken Baguette

Mars

Marathon

Banana

lentil soup & bread

Pasta arrabbiata

Creme brûlée

1 pint bitter

1 pint stout

Single whiskey

Orange& soda

Total calorie burn 6,300

Wednesday 31 August

Cereal and milk

Yoghurt

Cooked breakfast

Carrot cake

Latte

Red pepper soup

Cheese & ham toastie

1 pint lager

1 pint Guinness

Nachos with sour cream & cheese

Caithness steak pie with potatoes and veg

3 pints Guinness

Various chocolate bars and cereal bars while riding

Thursday 1 September

Cereal & milk

Yogurt

Full English

Cafe latte

Scone with jam and cream

Macaroni cheese & chips

Numerous chocolate bars and cereal bars to keep me going on the bike.

Whiskey & champagne

Latte and banana flapjack

1 pint guinness

Vegetable soup

Chicken in a whisky cream sauce with potatoes and chips and veg Champagne

2 whiskeys

4 pints Guinness