300 Ship 02 16.5.2019

Yes, day 300…
I used my too early awakening for catch up yesterday’s Feldenkrais session before breakfast. In my luggage, I had found another chocolate from Taiwan that was totally mouldy, and I brought it down to the kitchen where they have a place for waste separation. The Bosun took the disgusting completely mouldy chunk out of the box with bare hands, which was at least surprising. But the next thing he wanted to do without washing his hands after this action, was giving toast bread for me in the toaster. He is a nice guy, but I would prefer to take my own bread with my own fingers in general and in such a situation in particular.
I will survive.
Today, I got a ship-email-address, but until Freemantle or even a bit more northward, I will have connection from time to time, because we are sometimes near the coast (ok, even at the coast, you don’t have connection all the time, it must be near a town) and we will have stops in Melbourne, Adelaide and Fremantle (named after Captain Charles Fremantle, who established a camp there in 1829. Sometimes called Freo and in an area called Walyallup (in Nyungar, a language with only a few individuals still able to use its full resources)).
At the gym, I had started my running program yesterday and wanted to cycle today, but the batteries are gone, so my complicated system of increasing tempo and duration is difficult to monitor. But I found a personal scale, stepped on it and saw something like 5kg over my original weight before leaving Vienna. This is more than I can lose during cycling those 1400km back home and no wonder after being so lazy the last weeks and eating lots, especially chocolate. Since I entered the ship, I hadn’t eaten any chocolate, but still always a lot. This lunch, I wanted to eat less, but the bosun brought an extra plate with rice and I feared he would throw the rest if it seems too little to keep it, so I again ate more than I needed and even 4 hours later felt very full (2 hours before dinner…) But I will try to eat less from now on and maybe in combination with some exercise I can get rid of 1 kg on during this trip, 1-2 until reaching France and the rest until being back in Vienna. Normally, I have a tolerance of 1-2kg, before eating less chocolate and other sweet stuff and when it is 3+, I become stricter, but in general, I still eat when I am hungry. Now I would try to reduce in general, but mainly in the evening, (like at home, when I normally don’t eat after lunch) and in the morning, I want to skip the less healthy stuff, like white bread, jam, Nutella, crepes.
I asked for a smaller portion for dinner, not sure if it was, and although I was not hungry, I easily could eat all of it, because of the taste.
Then, I went to the “Owner’s recreation room” (Btw, I live in the “Owner’s room”, but it is less comfortable than the passenger’s rooms on the previous ships, maybe because this ship is some years older and smaller than those?) to see what books they have. There are some French, Russian, English and even German books, but they are not appealing for me, luckily I could say, because then I don’t need to read one of them and lose my precious working time or training time – strange thoughts…