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Hello! My name is Peter C. Hayward, and for the month of February, I’m only eating raw food that was prepared on the body of an virgin. I hope I do not die!

68.8kg - same weight as yesterday.

I have neither gained nor lost weight since yesterday.

How uneventful.

If I were a weightologist, I'm sure I could find a pattern. I'm not, and I can't.

I found my weight from a few weeks before I started the project; I gave blood on January 6th, and documented the process for a Facebook album. The first thing they do is weigh you:

I was wearing matching socks that day! How come the opposite of "odd socks" isn't "even socks"?

Now, when you’re weighing yourself to give blood, they don’t require you to strip down. So I went and put on the clothes that I was wearing that day, and weighed myself once with them, and once without them – the difference was 0.9kg. I don’t have to add the weight of the camera, because I was holding it at the time I took this photo, just like the daily weigh-ins here.

Assuming that I didn’t gain or lose a significant amount of weight in a month (which is, I admit, quite a large assumption) we can estimate my starting weight for this project to be around 74.7kg.

I won’t be putting this on any graphs, because it’s horribly unscientific, but it’s interesting nonetheless. I really regret not weighing myself on the first day!

Today I accidentally made much less rice than usual – I wasn’t paying attention while I was pouring it into my trusty rice cooker, and by the time I realised, it was time to go. I’ve started improv classes with Impro Mafia (in addition to the classes I’m currently taking with Edge Improv.) I did okay in class; at one point, we were supposed to do an activity where we ran around the room being extremely excited by everything, but I couldn’t really muster up the energy. I pretended, but my heart wasn’t really in it.

After the class, I went and saw a couple of movies with my cousin (Ghost Town and Zack and Miri Make a Porno - both extremely funny films.) He, not participating in a ridiculous experiment this month, bought a packet of M&Ms, and I was reminded again how much my sense of smell has improved this month. I should join the police force and track down chocolate-thieves.

I once more didn’t eat my full quota of 8 slices of bread today. I find myself toasting about half of my bread each day, because toasted bread doesn’t need butter. I am fast running out of butter.

Next month’s project:

I have, as mentioned yesterday, decided to postpone the project I had planned for next month. (eating a different meal three times a day for a month, not repeating any meals.) This is for three reasons:

1. At the end of this month of extremely limited eating, I don’t really want to dive straight into another experiment which limits my diet. For the next month or two, if I want to eat something, I’m going to eat it. Limiting myself to three different foods/day means that I can’t eat nothing but spaghetti bolognaise for a week if I want to.
2. I went straight from StinkyPete, which updated daily, to 28 Days, 28 Dollars which updated  daily…I want a break from updating daily for a while.
3. I really like the name Gour-May.

So in May of this year, I’ll be doing the Gour-May project!

I’ll continue to update this website, but not with a set project – it’ll be whatever’s on my mind at the time. Webcomic reviews, writing theory, maybe more about Serial Killers. I will also be hosting a guest experiment. More on that closer to the date!

Tomorrow: Daily update!

(total money spent so far – $24.46. Remainder – $3.54 - enough for three loaves of bread, with 27 cents left over!)

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