So far so good. This is a cholesterol-reducing rather than a weight-reducing challenge, however, I'd better mention that my starting weight (two days ago) was 59.5 kilos, two and a half over that ideal jockey weight...

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Pre-dinner snack yesterday: a blood orange
Dinner: (I invented this on the spot and it was good!) Salmon fillet marinated in chopped fresh ginger, garlic, coriander, olive oil and lemon juice, wrapped in foil and baked in a hot oven for twenty minutes, served with green beans and a salad made of lamb's lettuce (do you use that much in the UK?), roquette, beetroot and tomatoes, with a home-made vinaigrette dressing. Dessert: low-fat yoghourt. The usual glass of wine and mugs of herbal tea.

Breakfast and lunch muvch the same as yesterday, but I drank a litre of soya milk. Dinner this evening will be a variation on the vegetable cous cous recipe I've just posted - the variation being that I used leeks, and no pepper (apart from a chili) or courgettes. Dessert: well, that's always oranges or low-fat yoghourt.

Tomorrow's lunch: a tuna, potato and green bean salad.

Dinner: I'm hoping we'll go out for sushi!