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Hello! My name is Peter C. Hayward, and for the last 27 days, I have only spent $27.43 on food. I have lost 5.4kg, and eaten way too much rice. In 24 hours, it’s all over.

I hope I do not die!

The same weight as yesterday!

67.9kg! I haven’t lost or gained any weight since yesterday, as you can see on this convenient graph:

I suspect that by the end of next month, I will have put all of this weight back on, and considerably more.

Daily Cheesecake:

I love these boxers. They are new!

Today I ate more than my quota – tomorrow at midnight, I’m going to be chowing down on all of my favourite foods (well, two foods I quite like, anyway) and so I spoiled myself a bit today. I had 7 slices of bread, and 6 chocolate biscuits! (but only one slice of devon.) It was like all my Christmases had come at once.

I didn’t even bother cooking up rice today. With one day to go, it doesn’t seem worth it. I could quite happily never eat rice again, to be honest.

I was reading through a Calorie-counting book that friend-of-the-blog Em lent me, and for the first time, I noticed this on the rice page:

White Rice:

Raw: 1/2 cup, 100g: 355 calories
Cooked: 1/2 cup, 80g: 105 calories

I’ve been eating the rice cooked (obviously). I put in about half a cup, and then cook it…does this mean that it then turns into only 80g worth of rice, and loses two-thirds of its galleries? Do you have to re-measure the rice when it’s cooked? Or does “raw” just mean “half a cup when it’s raw, with the same calories when it’s cooked”?

Perhaps it’s my fuzzy, fuzzy brain, but I don’t understand this at all. Is anyone able to decipher this?

From the comments:

“Katydid”:

For the record, there’s a precedent of throwing up in the Pancake Manor bathrooms – my sister did it two New Year’s Eves running.

I have nothing to add to this, just thought that it was amusing enough to re-post. I really don’t think I’ll be throwing up, but if it does happen, I’ll have people with cameras on-hand to record the experience.

My sister Elizabeth (you may know her better as MeatGirl, from StinkyPete 1.0) disagrees with the way I have been distributing my butter (I only use it on bread, because toast doesn’t require it)

You have it all wrong! White bread can be eaten plain (though is delicious with butter!), toast, irrespective of type, is far too dry to be eaten plain!

She is so wrong that I had to make a video, showing the correct way of eating toast. (I actually made this last night, but I didn’t want to wait up while it uploaded.) Watch and learn:

How I feel:

I’ve been okay today. A bit hungry from time to time, and my brain’s really fuzzy at the moment…I have rewritten almost every sentence in this post three or four times. That could be because it’s 3:30am: I  went to my friend’s 21st birthday party tonight:

It was quite a lovely party, with a lot of delicious food...that I couldn't eat.

It was a cocktail party, so there was a generous array of alcohol laid out:

You can see my cousin Gavin there, behind the drinks.

I’m not really much of a drinker, but I do enjoy the occasional cocktail. Throughout the night, my friends invented all manner of delicious-sounding drinks…and of course the more they drank, the more that they forgot that I wasn’t allowed to have any. I turned down more food and drink tonight than I have for the rest of the project put together, mostly from people who already knew about the experiment.

I got a few compliments about the beard, and also several people noted that my skin had cleared up. I suspect that this is because my diet lately has been “rice” and “bread”, and very few greasy or sugary products. Weight-loss and clearer skin – maybe I should sell this experiment as a diet. It has everything you want, except…well, except food.

One more day to go! One more god-damned day.

Watching every bite of every meal I eat has become second nature to me now. I predict that it will take a few days to switch back. I’m going to be mentally keeping track of every cent that I spend on food for a while now (this isn’t necessarily a bad thing.) I can still quote exactly how much every piece of food I have eaten this month has cost.

Tomorrow there will be three posts:

1. Immediately after I’ve weighed myself and taken the daily cheesecake, those will go up.
2. I have impro classes in the afternoon, but after I’ve finished that, the first post of next month’s project – “Celibate Sarah” – will go up.
3. After I get home from the pancake manor, in the wee hours of the morning, I’ll try to put up a post with some of the pictures and video from that. This may have to wait until after I’ve had some sleep.

If you want to come along and celebrate the end of this project with me tomorrow night, it’s at the Pancake Manor, Brisbane City, at 11:30pm. We’ve booked a table under the name “Peter”, and you are invited to come and join us! I will be carrying a giant penguin, and wearing an extremely loud blue and green shirt.  (Facebook event.)

I still have 57 cents left over, so if I see anything food-related for less than 60 cents tomorrow, I’m definitely going to buy it.

Tomorrow: The end of the project!

(total money spent so far – $27.43. Remainder – $0.57 – enough for at least a dozen grapes!)

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