Dateline: Wuxi, China, Monday, October 1, 2012

Oatmeal porridge and a banana for breakfast this morning.

Dripping sweat as I type this.  Six more minutes to go on the machine.  Must get back to it.

574 calories on the elliptical trainer in my 31 minutes this morning.  While learning the words to Zhong Guo Da.  Coming along nicely.

Okay, the gin and tonic certainly wasn’t on the program and it hit me like a hammer to the head.  Ruth made a wonderful dinner – marinaded chicken breast, broccoli, green beens, leftover tomato, brown rice.  If I hadn’t had the gin, this would have been a good day being strict on the program.

Oh well.  It was National Day in China.  I had to celebrate.