to put the headline in context, each member in the team loses about 4-8kg each time we come back from any mountaineering expedition (that’s about 5-7% of our body weight).

so in the face of everest in less than 3mths, we all need to bulk up. here’re some ideas/suggestions given:

– drink oil (literally)
– eat mayonnaise (1kg every day for 10 consecutive days can gain you quite a bit)
– eat one tub of ice-cream everyday for 2 weeks, just before we sleep
– drink those GNC weight-gainers
– wolf down one snickers bar every night before we sleep
– for tea breaks, consume about 5 donuts

we’re not skinny. trust me, none of us in this team can be described as skinny. and we already eat A LOT (i believe during our Cho Oyu expedition, we scared the chinese waitresses with our immense appetite. before she could bring out the next dish on the table, all the plates were already cleared – into our stomachs).

so much as this is a happy problem for us to solve, we’re finding it a tad difficult to stomach all that extra food, on top of our already pretty full-on diet. especially so when we’re training like mad, so those extra calories are hard to stay on.

we thought about having a weekly buffet session for the team, but then we already see one another more than we meet our families, so that’s a no-go.

well, this eating/weight-gaining issue is going to be yet another obstacle we shall have to overcome. so excuse me while i go for my millionth donut…