NORMAL LIFE: Detox - I Fell Off The Wagon

In my defence, it was out of my control. We had very important customers on-site at work yesterday and I was left to host them. Just by coincidence, the Global Director of Marketing was amongst them and, in a one-to-one after a four-hour meeting, I told him about my future plans to work for one year in Australia. He was very supportive, even going so far as to reveal that they are actually seeking additional headcount in Australia this very Spring!

So it was when they invited me out to dinner, how could I refuse? Who knows what impact a refusal to socialise may have made on a potential employment offer. Evening came and I dined on salmon to start, whitefish for mains and fruit marinated in rum for dessert. This was washed down with lots of water and two small glasses of red wine which, surprisingly, managed to make me feel a bit woozy.

It was a well-earned treat, after 25 days of stead-fast culinary discipline. Having lost around 5kilos (11lbs) relatively easily, I assured myself that my actions need not be punished. Indeed, later in the evening, my body would punish me by refusing to let me sleep from midnight all the way through to 7am. It seemed that every lashing of extra energy my body had luckily got its hands on last night was humming through my veins. I have never quite experienced anything like it as my body had salt, sugar and alcohol coarsing through it for the first time in nearly four weeks.

Just four more days to go!